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by mrep 7y ago
If they changed it by like 2 hours or more, you are entitled to a refund. Call them. I had a flight scheduled for tomorrow that got changed and I called and got a refund for it (I'm not even in the state so i lucked out there as I wa
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by mrep 7y ago
The travel vouchers are essentially 0% interest loans that expire worthless if not used in 9 months. That is by far worse than cash. I don't even know why this is controversial. I paid for a service, they cancelled it and now I shou
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by mrep 7y ago
Pretty much any career that has an up or out policy with the promise of riches if you don't get pushed out of which there are plenty. For example, many consulting companies work this way where they will pay you a fraction of your bill
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by mrep 7y ago
No need to predict, that is a precondition for the US airline bailouts: "Airlines receiving aid will also be prohibited from buying back shares of their own stock for a year after the loan is fully paid off and bars them from issuing d
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by mrep 7y ago
Starlink is planning on adding laser links to the satellites so that when one satellite is out of range of a ground station it can beam packets to other satellites that are in range of a ground station.
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by mrep 7y ago
Apparently the possible utility of chloroquine was discovered because SLE patients on it in China weren't getting Covid-19 during the outbreak [0]. [0]: https://www.jqknews.com/news/388543-The_novel_coronavirus_pn.
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by mrep 7y ago
From the doc [0]: "At day6 post-inclusion, 100% of patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin combination were virologicaly cured comparing with 57.1% in patients treated with hydroxychloroquine only, and 12.5% in the co
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by mrep 7y ago
The big companies have millions of servers. At that scale, they have software teams monitoring every part of the datacenter from temperatures on each server/rack down to where every drive is at and their health. It is also highly aut
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by mrep 7y ago
But at google scale, you'd think they would have something for that. At a previous company I worked at, we had a guy whose entire job was to monitor temperatures throughout all of our data centers. He built a service that collected m
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by mrep 7y ago
Granted, I've only interviewed at public companies, but I've never signed a NDA in my life.
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by mrep 7y ago
Those competitors can sell cars with the same rebate as Tesla though.
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by mrep 7y ago
Not op, but this is from 2 days ago: https://imgur.com/ImZhrlj
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by mrep 7y ago
Ah, that's why this looked familiar. That link was posted 2 days ago and made front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22500063
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by mrep 7y ago
Half of that is from unsold planes that they built after it got grounded. So for those, their options are retrain pilots and make 40 billion in sales vs not retraining pilots and scrapping the planes/reusing what you can. Pretty sure
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by mrep 7y ago
Still would be a lot cheaper than scrapping 80 billion dollars worth of planes already built.
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by mrep 7y ago
Hm, I'm seeing the title "Bond Markets Shred History Books During Furious Fear Trade". Also, kinda silly to focus on just dividends considering buybacks are now greater than dividends [0]. [0] (pdf): https://www.ya
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by mrep 7y ago
If you are in illinois, it is 14 by law [0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-range_parenting#Restricti...
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by mrep 7y ago
Since we are talking about 24, in season 6 Morris O'Brian gives the bad guys a working detonator for the nuclear bomb that goes off after getting tortured.
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by mrep 7y ago
Ending up with useless coins is also super prevalent in the states because tax isn't included in list price and everyone prices things as $X.99 so you always end up with useless change. Super annoying and I wish they would change the
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by mrep 7y ago
The main seattle outbreak happened at a nursing facility and older people are at higher risk. "Four coronavirus-related deaths have been linked to the nursing facility. 50 people at the facility are being tested for the virus" [0
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by mrep 7y ago
Google photos was developed in house, launched in 2015 and hit 1 billion users last year. Not sure if it was a 20% project but I doubt it.
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by mrep 7y ago
Depends on the school. All of my math classes and most of my CS classes at purdue were bell curved around like a C+/B- and you had to get a C to pass the class. Thus, a portion of each class would not pass and be effectively forced t
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by mrep 7y ago
It's €2,644 and then €19.99 a month [0]. Super misleading. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22438418
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by mrep 7y ago
So has google for the most part: "it has restricted its employees from traveling to Iran and parts of Italy. In March that will expand to Japan and South Korea. The company had already prohibited travel to China, except for employees r
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by mrep 7y ago
> First of all, no one said renters are paying less than property tax? You just said "If the landlords can pass on 100% of the property tax, then the supply is way out of sync with the demand". For growing areas, why would any
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by mrep 7y ago
What? How? If the renter is paying less than the property tax, then the owner is losing money just on the property alone and not accounting for the likely mortgage payments. Nobody would ever rent out a place if that was the case.
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by mrep 7y ago
So true on useless questions in turbo tax. I used credit karma this year and it was way easier than turbo tax simply because i didn't have to answer a million questions.
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by mrep 7y ago
My max out of pocket spending is $2,600 a year and I can put $3,500 pretax money into my HSA every year which I do. What I am supposed to worried about?
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by mrep 7y ago
Not op, but you got me curious so I checked my W-2. $8,800 for me and I think mine is top notch (2,600 is my max out of pocket per year limit)
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by mrep 7y ago
Yeah, for a take home income of 2,200 per month in santa cruz, your before tax income would be about 2,666. 1,700 of that is 77% pretax and 64% after tax.

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