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by noer 8y ago
Major League Sports teams are generally pretty solid investments. Also, the Ontario Teachers didn't just own the Leafs, they owned MLSE which includes the Leafs, Raptors, Argos, Toronto FC, the Marlies plus the arenas at which those te
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100 Websites That Shaped the Internet as We Know It(gizmodo.com)
14 points by noer 8y ago|0 comments
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by noer 8y ago
Oh, that bottle looks exactly like those shaker bottles people use for protein shakes. We had one of those bottles too, but it was red.
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by noer 8y ago
Is the scanning of boarding passes really the thing that slows down boarding? They rarely pause between groups because of a line of people getting scanned. It's more often that the line of people waiting to get onto the plane has stret
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by noer 8y ago
> it's important to negotiate it when arranging employment I'm going to guess that a very small portion of WFMs employees have the ability to successfully negotiate their employment terms
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by noer 8y ago
There's one in the New York Times building and the first time I used it, I found it to be confusing & unsettling (since most people are conditioned to walking into the first open car they see)
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by noer 8y ago
Compared to Google's Display Network using non-retargeting ads? IMO, comparing banner placements to native social is like comparing apples to oranges
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by noer 8y ago
Facebook has a display network similar to DoubleClick, called Audience Network. In my experience it pays publishers a lot better than DoubleClick. For advertisers, they're able to target on more demographic categories (for now, the CA
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by noer 8y ago
I grew up in Pittsburgh. During my childhood I remember a lot of black stone buildings. I always assumed there was some kind of dark colored stone that was used to build buildings & churches. It wasn't until I was 12 or so that the
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by noer 8y ago
The next sentence after he calls it a fake trend (as of August 2018) is that he believes it will be big someday, but not today.
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by noer 8y ago
There are a fair amount of large housing developments outside of a 10-12 minute walk to a subway station. Co-Op city in the Bronx is huge (and according to Wikipedia, has 46K residents), LeFrak City in Queens is mostly out of that boundary
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by noer 8y ago
Not quite: this map [1] illustrates that there are large swaths of eastern Queens, southeastern Brooklyn, the Bronx and even parts of Manhattan that are more than a 10 minute walk from the subway. Since blocks between avenues are 1/3
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by noer 8y ago
You should check out Opternative. They do eye exams using your computer, though I'm not sure if they're licensed in every state.
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by noer 8y ago
My wife is afraid of flying and uses an app called SkyGuru (I think). It uses your phone's accelerometer to measure turbulence and let you know the plane isn't likely reaching its structural limits and I think it also uses a timer
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by noer 8y ago
The Plea Bargain system is really a result of the problems with the money bail system. There's less incentive plead guilty if you're not in jail.
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by noer 8y ago
The HN title is misleading, but the actual article title is much more clear: >Diply feels viral chill: Facebook’s algorithm change leads to plummeting traffic and layoffs As if the paywall wasn't irritating enough, the website appar
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by noer 8y ago
Heat deteriorates fiberglass
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by noer 8y ago
Unless I'm reading it wrong, they do think of it that way (on coins at least): >Fortunately, dimes and quarters are cheaper to make, costing less than their monetary value. So the Mint makes up the losses incurred on pennies and nic
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by noer 8y ago
"Go work at McDonald's/Walmart/whatever retail for a few weeks/months" is generally not great advice. Hiring is an investment at all levels and oftentimes restaurants (especially chains/corporations) and r
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by noer 8y ago
You already are renting/paying a monthly use license fee if you "buy" a phone from your carrier with a monthly payment and the ability to upgrade after x months. I did this by accident when I "bought" an iPhone a fe
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by noer 8y ago
>But not everyone are able to cope with the modern overload of information competing with our attention so you will have to excuse me for blocking out everything not needed I'm not sure how UTM Tags contribute to the modern overload
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by noer 8y ago
You'd be surprised in NYC where, for the NYPD, there are separate unions for Officers and their supervisors: Sergeants, Lieutenants and Captains (which also includes Inspectors & Deputy Inspectors) each have their own union.
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Industrial Revolutions Are Political Wrecking Balls(nytimes.com)
1 points by noer 8y ago|0 comments
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by noer 8y ago
You still have to pay. There are a ton of airport workers at the Q10 terminal at Kew Gardens.
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by noer 8y ago
What's worse is that airport _workers_ have to pay additional for the AirTrain I think there's a discounted rate now, but I'm pretty sure workers had to pay $5 at one time. I did some work with the PA in the mid 00s and someo
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by noer 9y ago
Chicago banned single use plastic bags a few years ago. While some stores switched to paper, most just began to use thicker plastic bags and called them "reusable bags". I think the ban lasted about 18 months and when it was found
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by noer 9y ago
>is it worth the time to set up and use a blog to generate passive income? I'd say the amount of time you'd need to spend monetizing & driving traffic wouldn't really make it passive.
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by noer 9y ago
I'm pretty sure it's the _only_ time in major professional sports an amateur is able to get into a game.
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by noer 9y ago
It's more every city/arena has an emergency backup. Each team has to have someone on call who can get to the arena in the event either team has a last minute injury to one of their goaltenders. The backup for Philly has "play
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by noer 9y ago
I've mostly switched to Dropbox Paper for writing work-related documents (and I think that product has some, "oddness", that I'd have difficulty explaining to a non-technical person). It seems to follow markdown syntax.

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