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by o_nate 7y ago
I saw the same thing in Tokyo. It may have something to do with the common courtesy of the bikers to yield to pedestrians and not buzz past them. Here in NYC, I'm much more terrified of bikers who stick to the road (given that I occasi
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by o_nate 7y ago
Maybe that was the OPs point? The paradigm of Javascript is incompatible with having a sleep() command, and an experienced Javascript programmer should know that?
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The Tinder Hacker(thecut.com)
2 points by o_nate 7y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 7y ago
I liked the example of water spilling onto the floor. I was trying to explain this point to my 7-year old the other day. As crazy as it sounds, the laws of physics don't say that the water couldn't jump off the floor and back into
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A Fork() in the Road [pdf](microsoft.com)
2 points by o_nate 8y ago|1 comments
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by o_nate 8y ago
There might be some value in an "INFER JOIN" keyword that tried to guess what relationship you wanted to use for the join, either based on defined relationships between the tables or based on statistics about the most common join
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by o_nate 8y ago
It probably also helps that they allow people to load at both the front and back of the bus, and they check tickets while the bus is in motion. Buses in the US generally have people load one at a time through the front door and everyone&#x2
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by o_nate 8y ago
These are good points. I would add that generally there's not a problem with having lots of risky debt in the system, as long as it's held by investors who are aware of and can handle the risk. The reason that CDOs led to the fina
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by o_nate 8y ago
When we sold our house, it was obvious that our realtor's incentive was to get a deal done. They had no incentive to go for a higher price if it lowered the chances of a deal getting done. If you really want an incentive to get the bes
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What’s Killing U.S. Pedestrians? Streets That Weren’t Designed for Them(bloomberg.com)
2 points by o_nate 8y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 8y ago
The pessimism seems warranted in the case of plastics recycling. However, it's worth noting that the state of metal, paper and glass recycling is not so bleak.
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Facebook outage caused by server configuration change(twitter.com)
1 points by o_nate 8y ago|1 comments
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by o_nate 8y ago
Impressive and hilarious.
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by o_nate 8y ago
These are good tips but I find it incomplete without at least a few words about the freshness of the beans at the time you buy them. If you're using stale beans the other steps aren't really going to help.
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by o_nate 8y ago
Speed tends to be a factor people mention a lot with Aeropress, but I guess I'm not as busy as most people, because I rarely find myself in a situation where that difference of 2 minutes is a make or break thing. Once I factor in time
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by o_nate 8y ago
The standards China is demanding are not really relevant to consumer sorting. It's a sorting that is always going to have to be done in specialized facilities. China is requiring an 0.5% contamination rate. By comparison, curb side pic
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by o_nate 8y ago
It depends. If your county has the right equipment to recycle those mixed paper/plastic cartons then probably so, otherwise the whole thing goes into landfill or is incinerated, and that's more material than a plastic bag. You can
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Work of the Past, Work of the Future(economics.mit.edu)
2 points by o_nate 8y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 8y ago
I remember taking advantage of the promotions at places like UrbanFetch and Kozmo.com. Once I ordered a couple of music CDs and had them delivered to my door same-day for a total outlay of a few dollars. I remember seeing all the delivery g
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by o_nate 8y ago
Agreed. One could maybe make a case for NY as pre-eminent city of the 20th century, but Rome held that title for at least 4 or 5 centuries. London maybe for 1 or 2 centuries (I'd say 18th and 19th). Maybe Madrid at the height of the Sp
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by o_nate 8y ago
Good point, but obviously this would be difficult to gather for a large scale study of correlations between income and happiness. If someone's done it, I'd be curious to see the results.
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by o_nate 8y ago
I don't think there's any known objective way to measure happiness.
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What does it mean to speculate that growth is faster than we think?(econlib.org)
2 points by o_nate 8y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 8y ago
My first digital camera was the Nikon Coolpix 800, which came out in 1999 and came with a CF card that could hold 18 photos at the default resolution (less at high resolution). Also, it had a serial port connector instead of USB.
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by o_nate 8y ago
It sounds funny, though I've encountered some blank pages that were very resistant to being deleted, for example at the end of a document. It took me a lot of trial and error, and compromising on other design decisions (such as adjusti
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by o_nate 8y ago
I would imagine that lots of computer viruses and worms fit this description.
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by o_nate 8y ago
I think you've highlighted a problem with the business model. I had a similar experience. I really learned a lot about cooking from my first couple of years with Blue Apron, but now I'm at the point where I don't really need
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by o_nate 8y ago
As a long-time finance developer, I can attest to this. I think the only company that will be able to kill Excel's dominance in finance is Microsoft, and sometimes I think that they're trying. It seems the past few releases (basic
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The Placenta, an Afterthought No Longer(nytimes.com)
1 points by o_nate 8y ago|0 comments
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by o_nate 8y ago
Eh.. LINQ statements are fine when you're trying to do fairly straightforward types of aggregations, but for more customized stuff, I find it more of a pain to figure out all the syntax than to just use a simple for loop. Newer isn&#x2

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