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by princeb 7y ago
are the engineers "over-conservative"? or have human drivers become inured to what should have been considered an unacceptable amount of driving risk?
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by princeb 7y ago
i wonder if there will be a possibility in the future where the OS runs app telemetry, looks at things like how long a user spends on an app, parts of the app that the user clicks on, looks at, the text and non-text elements of the app, and
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by princeb 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/MapsWithoutNZ/ also i noticed gov.nz looks like gov.uk. both look great.
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by princeb 7y ago
> Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have seized a container ship operated by the Mediterranean Shipping Co. and owned by JPMorgan Asset Management. so it's a fund managed by JPMAM but the assets are actually owned by probably a bu
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by princeb 7y ago
there's too much talk of tesla. BMW's main benchmark is Daimler and BMW lost the ICE race to them and also the EV lead. Tesla didn't make enough cars to be a threat in the last 4 years. all in all a very incompetent CEO. the
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by princeb 7y ago
malaysian recyclers, as far as i know, were fairly profitable despite paying a much lower rate compared to chinese recyclers. there are companies out there squeezing a fortune out of rubbish. the visual impact on the landscape is notable, a
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by princeb 7y ago
plenty of overseas chinese in countries that don't speak english... chinese speakers of mandarin and indonesian, minnan and indonesian, mandarin and french, mandarin and german, mandarin and quebecois, etc.
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by princeb 7y ago
a few folks like to use examples like this (and those in the replies here) as examples of auto-trading, actually. someone noted that every time the actress anne hathaway trends on twitter, the price of warren buffet's berkshire hathawa
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by princeb 7y ago
i wonder if this would work if small towns in usa could implement it, like those with around 500-1000 people living in them?
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by princeb 7y ago
my experience is that you have to babysit the senior hires a little bit more because they bring their own baggage and habits into the team even if it doesn't support the existing workflow or even goes against. they are also more resist
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by princeb 7y ago
consumer deposits would probably be less sticky if consumers were required to confirm every single day that they would like the banks to carry their deposits over to the next day, which is what an overnight repo is in essence. the nature of
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by princeb 7y ago
the writer's mind is a palette and on it are his experiences, his instincts, his biases. to be fully aware of the meaning "X" is to be fully aware of not only his own meta-cognition, but the context of the world that he lives
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by princeb 7y ago
regus has a sister company called spaces that is a closer thematic competitor to wework.
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by princeb 7y ago
it's not crowded for a typical japanese store and not crowded for a typical east asian megacity store. i've seen "supermarkets" that have just as much walking space. that's just the nature of the use of space in tha
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by princeb 8y ago
none at 4".
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by princeb 8y ago
this is literally the ONLY modern smartphone at this size. miniaturization has become so costly that no major phone manufacturer is capable of doing it at scale.
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by princeb 8y ago
anyone who wants the "faster feeds" are welcome to pay for it. hfts being able to trade on better infrastructure is no different from walmart being able to distribute soda to you at a fraction of the price they are retailing it at
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by princeb 8y ago
facebook feels more and more like traditional tv or the web portals like yahoo! or msn. we've moved on! they went backwards.
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by princeb 8y ago
> most fish flesh can be bland and rubbery yikes. i think you will have a better experience eating in a seafaring culture - the british, french, norwegians, coastal china, japan, even new england? i think something is quite wrong if you
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by princeb 8y ago
yes if you look at busiest routes you will find the top few dominated by short domestic routes less than 1000-1500 km. you run a short range plane like the a320 or the 737 and fly the route 100s of times a day. it's much cheaper than r
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by princeb 8y ago
real news is what people believe news should be - truthiness and all that.
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by princeb 8y ago
between payday loans and missing rent i sincerely believe people deserve to miss rent. /s i don't think there is a way of avoiding this situation short of some kind of wealth transfer program. certainly not within the reach of a f
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by princeb 8y ago
> a walk or bike ride across a city block absolutely foreboding i can't imagine taking a car to get to a bodega on the other side of the block or across the street is easier than just walking to the bodega directly.
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by princeb 8y ago
heat waves kill more people than cold snaps, for what it's worth.
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by princeb 8y ago
one benefit of pigovian taxes is increased revenue to ameliorate the externality, but it's not the main goal of the tax. the cost itself reduces demand to the socially optimal level. the government could well burn the tax revenue (or i
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by princeb 8y ago
i'd happily pay up to $1200 for a high spec 4" phone. i'm on an SE. i got this phone fairly late into its life cycle and it was a deliberate choice. my biggest regret is probably not getting a second one before they discontin
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by princeb 8y ago
researchers are probably optimizing ahead of time. by the time the trains start spitting people out faster than the single-file escalators can clear them, the human crush will force standing on both sides naturally, whether people like it o
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by princeb 8y ago
the other problem is assuming the reader knows nothing, going too deep into the foundations supporting the conclusion. mathematical knowledge is like scaffolding. a reader has to gradually build up and buttress the lower layers before attem
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by princeb 8y ago
up until a couple of months ago, apple was the only company selling a proper 4-inch smartphone.
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by princeb 8y ago
A lot of people here talking about pivot tables and vlookups. There’s so much more to be good at in excel other than BI! Vba, udfs, volatile functions and dependency chain optimisation, com interop, windows libraries, vsto, etc. You can bui

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