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811.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
Not as high profile, but my toastmasters group meets there, and there was mention that we have to move.
812.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
I suspect that police forces would be loath to unbundle any statistics about marijuana-related crimes because they are going to resist any potential budget cuts from that, and correspondingly, it will take a while for any savings to materia
813.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
There were probably lots of good decisions made when she negotiated her compensation.
814.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
Perhaps most of the time that's true, I suspect that a lot of health care is the same. There have been plenty of instances of software bugs killing or injuring people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software
815.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
I don't think its completely meaningless any more (actually significantly less) than using a country's minimum wage to make inferences.
816.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
The AUS minimum wage is higher, but not the per-capita mean. Stuff is cheaper in the US primarily because the market is larger, so fixed costs can be spread over more units sold. And larger markets also mean more competitition, which means
817.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
Surprised this article doesn't mention Bias lighting: http://www.howtogeek.com/213464/how-to-decrease-eye-fatigue-...
818.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
Perhaps self driving might change this, but currently it's illegal to ride in the "home" part of an RV while moving. Seat belts and all that.
819.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
Actually the part you elide is technically not [the Alibaba shares] but [the Alibaba and Yahoo Japan] shares. But it doesn't really weaken your argument as much as it seems to be, because Yahoo Japan is really separate from Yahoo, desp
820.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
I just finished "Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley" and there is a discussion about this in there. Turns out its very hard to get from "what you like" to "what I want to buy."
821.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
According to wikipedia, Facebook was actually started the same month as flickr (Feb. 2004). del.icio.us was another notable "Web 2.0" site that did predate flickr.
822.
Want to Be More Productive and Creative? Collaborate Less(fastcompany.com)
11 points by ojbyrne 10y ago|0 comments
823.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
No, sort of opposite. You pick them up at the departing gate and carry them aboard. I'm guessing they do that to make it more likely you're taking them on an international flight and not buying stuff for someone else on a differen
824.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
That's not really the relevant range for this discussion.
825.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
He seems to also be saying that the US is an enemy of Saudi Arabia. Otherwise "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" doesn't make sense.
826.
5,300 Wells Fargo employees fired for creating over 2M phony accounts(money.cnn.com)
54 points by ojbyrne 10y ago|28 comments
827.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
I seem to recall that googling (well alta-vista-ing) bugs in the 1990s was definitely a thing. Always seemed to end up on a usenet group though.
828.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
I don't usually join in the "Why is this HN worthy?" chorus, but in this case, I don't see any HN worthiness here. Also I hate when law enforcement calculates the value of a bust on the "street price" where the
829.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
At the risk of sounding frivolous, there are numerous prisons that have been turned into hotels. http://www.nileguide.com/blog/2010/10/30/incarcer-vacations-...
830.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
East Palo Alto's crime rate has dropped significantly in recent years and is rapidly gentrifying. http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2015/10/12/report-violent...
831.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
The article describes a "secondary display" that is a "touch screen strip for function keys" No indication that the main display is going to be touch-enabled, at least not that I can see.
832.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
I feel like this is similar to an "allowance for bad debts" in Facebook's accounting. A risk of doing business.
833.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
I feel that given trials, regulatory approval, and all the other obstacles facing new drugs (briefly referenced in the article), "Coming Soon" is the height of hyperbole.
834.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
I would characterize it as "an Ulysses too far." Ulysses was great, Finnegan's Wake incomprehensible.
835.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
They didn't necessarily blow through _all_ of it. Some companies will give cash back to investors when it becomes clear that the business is not viable.
836.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
Fair point in the first paragraph. It's the "far different discussion" I'm more interested in though. Starting with the loss of life caused by driving.
837.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
How many highways run without subsidies?
838.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
I tried this, as they had a coupon for a free pizza in Mountain View. The pizza was just ok, and considering the many choices around here for really good pizza, I probably won't actually pay for one of theirs unless I have some indicat
839.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
My prediction: politicians and bureaucrats will spend 2 years producing tens of thousands of pages of new laws and new trade agreements and very little will actually change. Except for the tens of thousands of pages of new laws and trade ag
840.
by ojbyrne 10y ago
I know personally that the TN is a non-immigrant intent visa. Typically you have to switch to an H-1B ("dual intent") first.

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