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by objclxt 9y ago
> Because Swift 1.0 was far superior to Objective C in maintainability and code quality. You can take Objective-C code written three years ago, open it up in Xcode today, and compile it. The same cannot be said for Swift. So saying Swift
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> Index funds are basically set it and forget it, so why would I want to continuously use this app? Just buy some $SCHB, $SPY, $VTI, or whatever combo of index funds you want and that's it. Because of re-balancing. Say you invest in
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> (Germany or UK in my personal case) [...] not sure if Vanguard is accessible to non-US citizens, and there might be tax implications in different countries Vanguard operate mutual funds in the UK priced and traded in GBP, through their
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by objclxt 9y ago
That's one of the problems that GraphQL is intended to solve, specifically you don't want to write your API queries directly in SQL but you also want the flexibility to chain queries together and specify the exact types of data yo
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I think you're missing the massive ice packs they ship with everything that they make very inconvenient to return.
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That's certainly true - things like Pool make it easier to obfuscate the cut Uber takes. But still, price rises don't just have a potential to alienate passengers, but drivers as well. If anything, drivers may well be more fickle
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> And what most people miss, is that the 3.4 billion is the 30% cut Uber takes from a ride. Prices don't have to rise 20% to break even, prices have to rise 6% No, they have to rise by more than that. Your math is technically correc
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> it seems to me that both sides are afraid that if the other side wins they will try to force their lifestyle on them; and I think they are probably right. ...it's not really that simple, though. It's not like you're pick
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> This is civil, so a preponderance of evidence is the burden here. Can he fight that at all without talking? Pleading the fifth in a civil case can be used as a negative inference, so if you're not prepared to talk and the other si
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by objclxt 9y ago
I used to Head TA CS at Harvard (or "TF", to use their verbiage), so can answer this: the graduation rate is very high, but honors are capped (mainly because the honors rate was at one time out of control). Personally I never real
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Fun, tangental fact - that's probably more down to it being a movie set than an actual plane. There's actually a soundstage in Hollywood that's dedicated to plane sets. Here's their 737: http://airhollywood.co
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> For example, the overbooking that led to the beating on the United flight was the result of an aircrew from another airline being booked on at the last second. That's not quite what happened. The flight was operated by Republic Ai
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> you need to be very careful about tying your public identity to any statements about holding this amount of cryptocurrency. I've seen extremely well targeted (successful) spear phishing and identity theft attacks to steal bitcoin
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by objclxt 9y ago
Not just for business names! If you're a company that wants to sponsor an employee for a green card as part of the certification process you must advertise for the job in two Sunday newspapers of general circulation in the area of inte
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The Guardian isn't a right-wing paper, it's left of center, and I can't remember when it last endorsed the tories. You'd be far more likely to see that kind of thing from The Telegraph or The Daily Mail. There's ano
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Previously, no taxi driver would drive around in those areas - because of opportunity cost of higher fares in richer areas Well, if Uber is using dynamic pricing to ensure fares from richer areas are more expensive than those from poor
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> Cows are treated pretty fairly until the end [...] They have miles and miles of fields to roam. Except in many parts of the world where they are placed into barns for six months of the year. Or if they're used for veal.
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by objclxt 9y ago
> Public transit has failed to solve the problem despite a 100-year head start. So the question here really is "which would improve LA more: tunnels that carry trains, or tunnels that carry carts that hold single cars?" There i
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by objclxt 9y ago
> So, $100M per mile with Upkeep Lite™ sounds good when making conversation about the topic. Also the $1B/mile is the cost of the Purple Line extension in Los Angeles. Worst case cost no doubt. A real figure nevertheless. The figure
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I'm sure a lot of Theranos investors had good things to say about the demos they got from them.
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> Is it possible to use deep learning to fill out the missing parts? The half life is 521 years - there is nothing left to fill in. If you read the linked article you'll see even under perfect conditions all DNA is destroyed after
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by objclxt 9y ago
What proportion of costs do you think "immigrants that haven't had immunization" and "fgm" represents in the NHS versus "old people"? Here's a hint: a rounding error.
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> Personally I think we're 1-2 years aways from initial commercial rollout and it'll grow very quickly from there. I think you're very optimistic. Bear in mind that Musk often over-promises on timelines (for instance, he
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> Do they have huge profits because of not having enough competition, or because they don't they have to return profits to the investors? Apple has huge profits and a cash pile despite a) having lots of competition, and b) returning
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> how will any amount of fascism successfully prevent someone from getting into someone else's car? I'm not sure how guidance - not even a ruling - that a company's classification should change from one that provide "
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No, they're not. That would be far too heavy. The containers are regular aluminum lined unit load devices ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_load_device ). They are not resistant to explosives. Some airlines that
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> A very key number here is revenue per user [...] this is down from $1.05 (14%) from what it reported for Q4 2016, before its IPO. I disagree a little with Bloomberg here, the numbers are bad (active users isn't great), but given t
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> The current administration won't prosecute them. Anti-trust isn't the exclusive domain of the US, Microsoft have a long and storied history with the European Commission. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micr
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Because the malware presented a fake authentication prompt under the pretense of "installing additional codecs" which allows it to escalate privilege.
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> They are also one of the only big news organizations Infowars is to legitimate news organizations as Mackeeper is to virus scanners.

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