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He should have just stayed the nights then if it was that important and he would be there anyway. And then misplace his frozen fish in a vent somewhere.
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What kind of recourse would meta have here? Sue him for breach of contract?
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8000 people could cost over $1B /yr. That's a totally different scale from paying an A-list celebrity $10M to do some commercials.
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One can think of a million reasons, but we will never know. Maybe the owner died and the kids didn't want to take it over and boarded it up. Maybe someone was murdered there or everyone got food poisoning and it was closed up because p
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For the past 20 years or so, Colorado has raised taxes in order to pay for a commuter train from Denver <-> Boulder. After the funds were collected, they decided to use it to build a toll/HoV lane on the highway between those two
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The easiest rule of thumb while traveling is that if you're the one who is approached(or, if there is a situation that is engineered to have you approach someone), you're what's for dinner.
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Islands may be detectable from 100+ miles away, based on how they affect wave, wildlife, and cloud patterns. Rapa Nui is 2000 mi from Chile, but "only" 1000 mi from Pitcairn islands, which were occupied by Polynesians in ~1000AD.
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The context is exactly once in a distributed system. When you construct that higher layer you will make your system highly coordinated, thus no longer a distributed system.
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Those products are more southern Italian cusine. Northern is typified by cheese, butter, lard, and corn/rice.
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4y ago
As they say, the little green legs of justice turn slowly...
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How long is the average sabbatical?
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4y ago
Generally just disabling JavaScript for the site works perfectly.
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4y ago
Same here. I think it's negatively affected my career prospects too, not that I care too much about that. Never thought it would be advantageous to be a schlubby balding guy, but I saw someone start the same day as me get way more resp
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4y ago
Sorry, just a lame joke on the phrasing of the title + author: "The Lava Lamps That Help Keep The Internet Secure from Tom Scott"
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4y ago
No, but the people who programmed them probably did so on a linux machine with GBs of RAM and GHzs of CPU
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He might also just literally be insane.
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4y ago
Tom Scott is the internet's biggest menace!
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4y ago
Yo Ma ma
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Those employees were silly for not just starting their own firm if they were the main cause of success.
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I think the idea is that the train was pre-existing, and it has some kind of perpetual motion engine which keeps it going and which the occupants can siphon off heat for warmth and electricity.
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4y ago
The account name would be green if they made the account recently just to post this.
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If that is the case, it's still a horrible example because the example prices are literally 12x higher than what you can buy water for.
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4y ago
Bottled water is a bizarre example to pick for price gouging of food, since water is available for essentially free for almost everyone in America. When it has a cost it is measured in $/kilogallons not $/liter
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How about just a tax deduction for qualified childcare costs up to a certain amount? Parents usually want to vet their child care and not just ship their child to whichever person is offering the lowest rates for the day.
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Google self driving car : Tesla self driving :: Google AI : OpenAI AI. Google is taking a very conservative approach, but their work is years ahead of groups getting far more press.
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4y ago
We have work release jail programs. You wake up in jail, are allowed to go do your job, and then as soon as you're done your job you go back to jail.
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4y ago
Just do it for a couple of days and you'll get used to it. Maybe drink some water if you really need something in your belly. And breakfast will taste the best it ever has.
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If you're groggy for more than a few minutes after waking up it is probably indicative of poor quality/amount of sleep. Not saying everyone is 100% at that point, but you should be able to focus on things after waking and going to
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How are you avoiding paid product placement, submarine advertising, sponsorships, Etc?
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I said the knife could have landed right near him and he picked it up immediately. And he timed the shot to be at a point where everyone laughed during the play,meaning many people just had no idea what was going on. So, what's your th
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