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by mrgordon 9y ago
Ah looks like the lobbyists came to share some downvotes for information they didn’t like (or maybe a normal user from oil country?) I can’t imagine why someone would downvote factual information that adds to the discussion. The downvote op
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Well to be fair if you drill for a little while in an area and start experiencing earthquakes then one might naturally wonder whether more drilling will lead to even more problems. The roads in most of the fracking areas are terrible and it
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It can vary. When earthquakes happen due to the drilling and reinjection, it can obviously displace the ground which could destroy the roads or buildings located there. Below the surface, the earthquakes and changes in pressure from adding
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In areas with heavy fracking (e.g. northern Pennsylvania around Dimock) there are trucks from companies like GeoKinetics and Halliburton everywhere and they are purposely trying to create mini earthquakes to get access to the shale. It is p
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by mrgordon 9y ago
It’s simply unrealistic that the barriers to entry for new ISPs will be low enough any time soon for the free market to sort this out. There are many different reasons for this including: 1. Very, very high costs to get started 2. Exclusive
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White Castle also isn't present across most of America either. Subway is the largest fast food chain in the world so it would be more interesting to hear what sort of presence they have.
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Not sure about the downvotes but whatever floats your boat
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More like net favoritism
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Not a great argument. Most of Trump's policies like expanding use of coal and not taking actions to prevent flooding and other consequences of global warming will be felt in 10, 20, or maybe even 50 years. By reversing course and buryi
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Many people hated Thiel before Trump and the Gawker lawsuit. I strongly disliked him fifteen years before that. Since no one else has mentioned it, maybe we should talk about Palantir which is one of his most high profile companies. He co-
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In case it wasn't clear, swang means this literally. Peter Thiel used his billions to get New Zealand citizenship after spending only twelve days there so he has a backup plan after our healthcare, schools, transportation networks, etc
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yes true, but I think he is disagreeing with the word choice as it makes it seem like the Mayor was doing a bad thing. It would be more neutral to say he restored it or even removed it but destroyed has a negative connotation.
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The thing is they don't just hide sexual assault cases. I reviewed a very popular, 5 star business on TripAdvisor that was selling fraudulent goods and they removed my review. I could pull up the exact reason they cited but it was tota
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by mrgordon 9y ago
The thing is they don't just hide sexual assault cases. I reviewed a very popular, 5 star business on TripAdvisor that was selling fraudulent goods and they removed my review. I could pull up the exact reason they cited but it was tota
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Flash on iPhone didn’t exist because Apple didn’t want it due to security issues. It was controversial when they decided not to allow it. https://www.google.com/amp/bgr.com/2016/12/12/steve-jobs-iph.
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This approach stopped working recently AFAIK. Does it still work for you?
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Sounds like a terrible CEO. That is completely inappropriate and unprofessional.
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CrowdFlower is the essential human-in-the-loop AI platform for data science and machine learning teams. The CrowdFlower software platform trains, tests, and tunes machine learning models to make AI work in the real world. CrowdFlower’s tech
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If its for SEO they could just use rel="nofollow"
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And that’s great! I never implied San Francisco is the only place with high water quality. I’m not talking about “standard” water though. San Francisco gets water from snowmelt so it has noticeably less contaminants than most water supplies
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You can likely find info online. In San Francisco we get information in the mail once a year. Probably because they want to brag about how good it is :)
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Safe = false was set that way to game benchmarks and it caused people to lose mission critical data if they didn’t realize and reconfigure. It’s just sad to make such nonoptimal decisions to inflate benchmarks and get PR
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If you’ve been using it since 2010, then your usage predates the aggregation framework. I’ll just state for the record that writing a JavaScript mapreduce (or telling a data scientist to write one) to count records is not a good experience.
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Yeah a colleague referred to MongoDB as the best marketed database and he was 100% correct. They’ll make some misleading benchmarks, throw a few conferences, and voila you have something to replace your ol’ RDBMS My favorite MongoDB moment
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True but if people prefer Lyft over Uber in many markets then Lyft will do well and expand to more cities/countries. In San Francisco I find a lot of people prefer Lyft. Most were turned off by Uber's many scandals and a few menti
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You wrote this in past tense but sadly they're still doing it :(
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Everyone is welcome to a preference of course, but I wonder why you assert Four Barrel is "much better" than Philz. If we're talking about non-espresso drinks, I know many people who prefer Philz. They have a huge variety of
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This is quite inaccurate. From Philz' website: "Here at Philz, we roast our own coffees at our roasting plant in Oakland, California." https://www.philzcoffee.com/our-coffee They obviously don't do espre
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brm hits the nail on the head. Their infant formula practices alone are horrible enough to boycott their entire business. For anyone that isn't familiar, they convince people in developing nations to switch to free infant formula so th
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Its a college dorm. It was never meant to be "fully independent" and there is absolutely nothing wrong with a dorm being "sanctioned and financed by the establishment." MIT made a decision to cover their own asses in cas

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