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by mrgordon 8y ago
Actually it is more widespread than the blogging would have you believe as most people don't blog. They just take the computer in and pay for it to be fixed and go back to life. If your keyboard ever breaks and you find yourself unable
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Wanting a functional keyboard on a laptop is a niche opinion? Wowwwwww. The reality distortion field is strong. I've used every MacBook model and the new ones have unacceptably bad keyboards. I am in an office with dozens of broken one
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Without kids, this is a bit ridiculous. They probably have poor financial planning.
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by mrgordon 8y ago
This is not an accurate price. A smart renter with a little patience would pay more like $2000-3000 unless they needed a brand new condo with a gym and a doorman.
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by mrgordon 8y ago
It’s insane that some people only pay $2000-3000 for a small apartment? Most of the rent controlled prices aren’t cheap but compared to the rest of the country unless you’ve been in the same place for a looong time.
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by mrgordon 8y ago
San Francisco has caught Nevada and New York sending people on buses to get rid of them. This is supposed to only be legal if the person has family in California they are meeting, but they just dump mentally ill people on Market Street and
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by mrgordon 8y ago
The 8 Plus also scratches much easier than earlier iPhones
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Haha good luck running your own secure email server
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by mrgordon 8y ago
I never said I supported what they did or that it was someone else’s fault. But if the main argument is that they ran a few vacation rentals at once but did nothing else wrong, then “sketchy” isn’t exactly the label most people would apply.
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by mrgordon 8y ago
In many cases you cannot get a license to operate a bed and breakfast out of your property because they issue very few licenses and require various things like serving breakfast which most hosts don't do. That doesn't make vacatio
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Which laws are these? Most hosts are sole proprietors and Airbnb usually takes taxes out automatically during booking. Any income from Airbnb would be paid directly into the users' bank account which leaves a very clear trail of money
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Sounds like you should have reported that rental instead of taking it out on all vacation rentals. I can send you pictures of very sketchy hotels that I've stayed in where the bathroom was literally unusable. I still don't want to
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Actually I responded directly to the claim that the professional properties are "usually not-well-cared-for" which was an unsubstantiated claim that is clearly way too broad of a generalization. As far as nuisance guests, I'v
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by mrgordon 8y ago
This is a gross generalization. I've stayed at many properties where the person was truly into hospitality and created a much better experience than I would get staying in someone's spare bedroom that they've never rented out
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by mrgordon 8y ago
The marginal supply of housing argument is often a bit ridiculous. Many cities will give their best real estate to hotels and create entire neighborhoods where locals can basically not find housing. Meanwhile some Airbnbs interspersed throu
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Well its a bit of a chicken and egg problem then, right? If you say they pretend not to be a superhost, then that seems to imply they have multiple accounts. The only reason they would do this is because their city has put in place strict r
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Sounds like it created a lot of jobs in the local community. How is that a problem exactly? You would prefer if they didn't hire assistants?
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by mrgordon 8y ago
I'm curious why a superhost renting a bunch of properties is "sketchy" while a corporate hotel brand with many properties is to be trusted. What if the hosts registered LLCs and listed their friendly sounding corporation name
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by mrgordon 8y ago
It is useful in some apps although I wouldn't have gone out of my way to pay extra for it. Having Touch ID on a corporate laptop with strict requirements to change passwords often is amazing though.
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by mrgordon 8y ago
You can still get Apple to replace the battery right? Seems like a small issue if the rest of the computer works well.
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by mrgordon 8y ago
I have broken v1 and v2 MacBook Pro keyboards from normal use. Confirmed defective / useless. Really disappointed.
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by mrgordon 8y ago
From the "Special CAT II and CAT III operations" you linked: Some commercial aircraft are equipped with automatic landing systems that allow the aircraft to land without transitioning from instruments to visual conditions for a no
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by mrgordon 8y ago
I don’t totally disagree with you but I will point out that planes land everyday in white out conditions with no visibility due to level 3 landing systems. The pilot can’t see anything and thus can’t help really even if they are awake. They
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Yes they made Storm for this
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by mrgordon 8y ago
CrowdFlower / Figure Eight works with a lot of annotators who have signed NDAs and work in secure locations where they can't duplicate materials etc.
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Yes I think some of the coins caught onto this with DPOS. Have a couple dozen block producers who will run fast servers and can be voted out. Then don’t worry about total decentralization and your performance is 100x the competition.
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Actually Verge does the algorithms in order so it’s more predictable. x16r aka Ravencoin is what the poster was describing
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by mrgordon 8y ago
You just described x16r aka Ravencoin, developed by Overstock.com for ASIC resistance
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Great paper!
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by mrgordon 8y ago
Several of the top CS programs specifically do not teach details like configuring a load balancer as with a proper background in computer science it is assumed that you can figure out the latest programming languages and the install instruc

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