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by pinko 6y ago
The chatter on slickdeals.net forums (yes, Someone on the Internet Told Me...) is that Ikea has switched to a lower-quality Chinese supplier, and theirs are not white-labeled Eneloop anymore.
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by pinko 6y ago
That blog post was much more vague, and harder to understand than the clear explanation two comments above. I can now see that they're obliquely referencing their collateral requirements, but that wouldn't have been clear to me b
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by pinko 6y ago
The vast majority of the population has a Medium feed?
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by pinko 6y ago
Sensitive enough to detect a change in the relative length of two 4km-long arms equivalent to less than 1/10,000th the width of a proton. And we distinguish signals from noise via a few different approaches, but our flagship search rel
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by pinko 6y ago
Isn't that just noise? It's possible to extract useful signals from extremely noisy data if you understand the statistics.
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by pinko 6y ago
I think the parent question is interesting... you say you derive value from them, so it's somewhat conspicuous and seemingly arbitrary (rather than intentional, or calculated) that you've happened upon exactly $0.00 as the value t
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by pinko 6y ago
My only quibble with your "there is literally no permutation of events, no alternate universe" take is injury and other bad luck. I suspect for every Lebron -- who's been lucky enough not to be in the wrong place at the wron
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by pinko 6y ago
Just about every Marxist on the planet believes that we are "made better by social structure", so I think that characterization of what Marxists vs. non-Marxists believe is unhelpful.
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by pinko 7y ago
Amica is a mutual insurance company, but the dividend is paid only if you're a mutual policyholder, as they now also offer non-mutual policies at lower rates, without the dividend. However, I believe the dividend is based on the compa
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by pinko 7y ago
Also powered by Dark Sky.
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by pinko 7y ago
I remember a civil engineer telling me once that if highways only had cars on them they would last 100 years between repavings.
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by pinko 7y ago
Very misleading -- but that's still only the cost of two high-end iPhones, plus cell service! For a car!
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by pinko 7y ago
Boiling frog syndrome.
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by pinko 7y ago
FWIW, thanks to DDG and a spammy PDF doc site ("yumpu"?), I found the old course description: NS 322 MATH CONCENTRATORS' SEMINAR David Kelly This weekly gathering of students interested in mathematics and its applications wil
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by pinko 7y ago
This is only loosely related, but reading this brings back a wonderful memory. At Hampshire College in the early 90's, I took a "Math Concentrators' Seminar" which was really a free-form math club with free pizza one eve
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Quarks May Not Exist(newscientist.com)
2 points by pinko 7y ago|1 comments
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by pinko 7y ago
This seems like something that would be perfect in a Jupyter Notebook or the like.
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by pinko 7y ago
Doesn't look like they sell anything but 3-ply now.
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by pinko 7y ago
$10 in 1914 → $256.57 in 2019
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by pinko 7y ago
That's valuable to know -- thanks -- but nevertheless, demonstrating that if you can get onto the avionics network you can trivially compromise it is still valuable, no? There may be discovered other ways to access the avionics netwo
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by pinko 7y ago
This is a great question.
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by pinko 7y ago
This is really helpful, thank you!
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by pinko 7y ago
That's kind of a content-free statement, unfortunately. Although it's possible they can successfully position themselves as the premium upgrade, it's hard to see how this isn't a threat to CircleCI.
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by pinko 7y ago
Read the caveats at the bottom of the article -- the ship owner who has to make the capital investment doesn't pay for the fuel, so there's a perverse disincentive to invest in this technology (assuming it works).
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by pinko 7y ago
Except it simply doesn't work that way in the real world, and there are tremendous number of homeless people in Florida and virtually every other brutally homeless-hostile locale. People aren't trivially mobile -- especially if t
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by pinko 8y ago
Why can't they just allow the user to whitelist recaptcha?
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by pinko 8y ago
I trust it's just habitual, but I think it's important to describe her as a woman and not a girl. When a company is casually described as being made up of men and girls, it sends an insidious message to everyone about who's
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by pinko 8y ago
I worked on a software project for 10 years where we did this, with 5-25 developers in the rotation over time (we grew). It was unpopular with many of them, but I loved it, and found it incredibly valuable. Even the people who thought it
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by pinko 8y ago
Hopefully there's even odds it will be a woman by then.
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by pinko 8y ago
The friction, risk, and uncertainty of rental cars sucks . Friction: pricing is unpredictable between and within vendors so you have to waste time comparison shopping on ad-laden sites to avoid getting screwed, taxes and fees and insuranc

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