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by positr0n 9y ago
What would be their basis for preventing the sale when Amazon controls 0.19% of the U.S grocery market and Whole Foods controls 1.21%?
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by positr0n 9y ago
Summary: Facebook: 2.02 years Google: 1.90 years Oracle: 1.89 years Apple: 1.85 years Amazon: 1.84 years Twitter: 1.83 years Microsoft: 1.81 years Airbnb: 1.64 years Snap Inc.: 1.62 years Uber: 1.23 years
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by positr0n 9y ago
Honest question given that GMOs are awesome but patenting a GMO seed is bad. In that scenario, how are GMO creators incentivized to create more GMO products? Sell the first seed for a billion dollars and then the person that buys that seed
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by positr0n 9y ago
Is average annual high a useful measure here? When the high is around 77° during those amazing couple of weeks in March and October in I never have to turn on the heat or AC. The AC is running all day in July and August though; especially t
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by positr0n 9y ago
I believe they have mod tools to help with voter ring detection and similar problems. I would guess those rely on ip addresses for some of the functionality.
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by positr0n 9y ago
There is no light used in a CPU (or any other kind of chip found on a PC motherboard). Grace Hopper was talking about the speed of light, which is roughly how fast a change in voltage will propagate. That can and does curve all around your
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by positr0n 9y ago
My understanding of the hydrology around Miami is that dams won't work. Water will just seep through the ground.
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by positr0n 9y ago
It's a benchmark for transistor density, nothing else. Of course a single company could grow faster than transistor density can scale. The only possible insight, if you can call it that, is that facebook owns more square centimeters of
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by positr0n 9y ago
Basically they are using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_satiation strategy to reduce loses.
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by positr0n 9y ago
I could give a general explanation about reducing the number of disk seeks by using B-trees to store index values with pointers to the database row. That being said I mostly agree with the other commenters that while a senior developer shou
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by positr0n 9y ago
Relevent sentences from the abstract: At this rate, about 4 μg of aluminium is absorbed from a single use of ACH on both underarms. This is about 2.5% of the aluminium typically absorbed by the gut from food over the same time period. Ther
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by positr0n 9y ago
As the description notes, that is the technical stream. Here's the stream with commentary (and cheering :) ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URh-oPqjlM8
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by positr0n 9y ago
The moderators (and submitters) do that often when the article's title is clickbait but the content is still good. You'll usually see dang or sctb comment and say something like "we changed the title to a representative sente
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by positr0n 9y ago
Not Air Force 1, but here is his private jet: https://mobile.twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/7602997572...
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by positr0n 9y ago
Why not? We're talking about average lifetime medical costs, so who cares if one is preventable and one isn't? From a public health perspective yes that absolutely matters, but all I'm saying is this narrow claim: You will n
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by positr0n 9y ago
> Yet here you are, posting things like this I posted what I am educated about, and did not post an opinion about what I am not educated about. > Without any data. Apologies. I posted a nytimes story that links to a study in another c
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by positr0n 9y ago
That isn't true: On average, healthy people lived 84 years. Smokers lived about 77 years and obese people lived about 80 years. Smokers and obese people tended to have more heart disease than the healthy people. Cancer incidence, ex
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by positr0n 9y ago
The problem with that logic is that people with unhealthy behavior actually cost the system less. It's way cheaper to be relatively sickly for a few decades then die of lung cancer or heart disease at 50 than be relatively healthy and
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by positr0n 9y ago
I took it to mean a plastic shell around the pi (hence "housed") to make it look like the real deal.
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by positr0n 9y ago
I'm surprised you had it in the Southern U.S. since only in the last 5 years or so has it started appearing in grocery stores here in Texas. Growing up, my mom used to serve rhubarb pie to guests (she got the rhubarb and froze it when
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by positr0n 10y ago
seriouseats.com, smbc.com, nytimes.com
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by positr0n 10y ago
Is the flash message setup a standard way implement that type of functionality?? Encrypting the cookie with a key that is delivered client side anyway seems like it doesn't buy you anything.
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by positr0n 10y ago
I went to the museum at LANL a few months ago and in a lot of the videos the scientists and engineers expressed similar sentiments. They feel that the work they are doing is instrumental in the relative peace humanity has had since the end
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by positr0n 10y ago
I've seen the mods make the "please log out to save load on our server" announcement a few times on really busy threads. My understanding is it wasn't because HN depends on S3 but because everyone was on HN at the same t
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by positr0n 10y ago
FYI VSCode has always been an electron app, and thus always worked on all platforms. Visual Studio on the other hand is a gigantic IDE that only runs on Windows.
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by positr0n 10y ago
No, but there are guides out there to use SteamLink for gaming on EC2. https://lg.io/2015/07/05/revised-and-much-faster-run-your-ow...
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by positr0n 10y ago
For my application I have found it is more complex about provisioned vs consumed capacity. I get throttling all the time when consumed capacity is a third of provisioned capacity. You also need to care about how DDB does its underlying part
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by positr0n 10y ago
He used to. His comments and posts and slowed down over the years though. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pg
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by positr0n 10y ago
Here's an awesome performance audit of reddit mobile by Paul Irish. It shows how completely unoptimized the code was back in 2015. Sadly it doesn't seem to have improved much since then. https://github.com/reddit&#
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by positr0n 10y ago
Another famous source of the "bags of water"/"bags of meat" phrase is the short story They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson. http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html

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