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by rchowe 3y ago
They also may not publish the DNA sequence they are using, or they may have more than one sequence and only publish one of them. Presumably it has to be in a highly conserved region of the bacterial genome (or present in a few highly conser
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by rchowe 4y ago
Apparently this is why some of the McDonalds restaurants in the Oak Brook / Chicago area are very good (or at least perfectly to spec)... they are owned by corporate and used for executive training.
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by rchowe 4y ago
Since so many people travel to foreign countries by air, these electronic travel authorization programs are about stopping people before they board a plane (or train, since the UK has the channel tunnel). There was a brief golden age when y
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by rchowe 4y ago
It’s because Hayes held the patent on the modem having to pause for one second before it could receive commands. Other modem manufacturers implemented the “time-independent escape sequence” to get around the patent[0]… the only issue being
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by rchowe 4y ago
You take the bet because it's not even your entire profit stream and iPhone is much more of your revenue. Tim Cook's operational experience helped them increase their market cap dramatically once he took over, so I'm not sure
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by rchowe 4y ago
Many of the private railcars in existence today are ex-Amtrak, because when Amtrak was formed on May 1, 1971, they assumed most of the passenger rolling stock of the railroads that discharged passenger service. Supposedly the biggest cost a
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by rchowe 4y ago
Don't underestimate the ability of small companies to have 4D matrix pricing that nobody can comprehend! It's pretty common in custom manufacturing (which makes sense) but also companies that purchase product/services from ot
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by rchowe 4y ago
People were able to re-brand "charity" to "non-profit" in the US as well -- in part because if you have a $500k salary as CEO of a charity that looks like you're taking money, but if you have a $500k salary as the C
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by rchowe 4y ago
I would actually argue that, although it is unfortunate for long term retirement security, eliminating pensions and allowing workers to switch jobs is a good thing. Otherwise, you might get folks who stay in a job where they are miserable j
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by rchowe 4y ago
I think the problem with the term is that it places the blame on the employee —- Sarah “quiet quit” 3 months ago, and that’s her fault for not going above and beyond, not her manager’s or the company’s. We have a lot of founders that will w
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by rchowe 4y ago
... and a lot of those VPN companies are probably VC-funded. Tom Scott made a good video on the uses and non-uses of VPNs [1]. VPN advertising has changed since that video to downplay "security", but what I think is odd is that th
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by rchowe 4y ago
29, AARP member for the British Airways discount.
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by rchowe 4y ago
After Tom Scott made a video about VPNs[1], apparently a lot of VPN company executives got together to rethink how they market their product. He mentions that the reason there are so many VPN ads is probably because they are VC-funded, so p
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by rchowe 4y ago
When I was in school, I wondered why my hand hurt from writing so much. I switched to gel pens and my hand fatigue went way down. We put up with a lot in the name of cost. The thin blue Bic pens are much cheaper, but when I have to use one
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by rchowe 4y ago
President Biden made it a federal holiday last year. I work in manufacturing and I haven’t met many companies that are taking it off. I had hoped it would immediately be a paid holiday for most folks, but I think it’s going to take a few ye
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by rchowe 5y ago
I love the ITA Matrix style time bars; I wish every flight tool had them. Since you're using a browser extension and scraping OTA websites, one of the things on my wish list is the ability to scrape Amex Travel -- they offer discounted
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by rchowe 5y ago
If there's a picture of the person on the ID, gender doesn't seem very helpful in verifying identity.
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by rchowe 5y ago
Isn’t this kind of email easy to classify (on a large scale)? Gmail has a similar inbox system in its web reader.
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by rchowe 5y ago
A physician probably learns the physiology of sweat glands, mechanisms for how the human body regulates sodium and potassium, and diseases caused by regulatory mechanisms not working. Unless they had an interest or read a study, I’m not sur
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by rchowe 5y ago
Most Bitcoin transactions have a quite high transaction cost, and I would argue that chargebacks are an important consumer protection.
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by rchowe 5y ago
The Model S was a significantly higher volume and lower cost car than the Roadster that came before it. The Model 3 was a significantly higher volume and lower cost car than the Model S that came before it. Eventually they hit a wall in ter
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by rchowe 5y ago
The wait fees are imposed by the app, not the driver. It makes sense that disability accommodations should be part of Uber's normal service standard and supported by their technology.
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by rchowe 5y ago
I'd argue ITA Matrix serves folks that know airports and aircraft well enough to figure the human factors in their heads (e.g. if you can fly Delta and connect in either AMS or CDG, choose AMS), and just want to find a valid solution s
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by rchowe 5y ago
ITA Matrix is a great tool for a power user to search for flights, and the time bar view is brilliant. Google's done a pretty good job with Google Flights, but there are still crazy things you can build in ITA Matrix that it's tou
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by rchowe 5y ago
Having the browser vendors write documentation might be an issue because they will all write it for their own browser.
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by rchowe 6y ago
I ended up doing most of these things as a business development manager (in addition to some engineering work) at a small manufacturing company. Often I felt like an executive assistant. My first project was to take a drawer full of invoice
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by rchowe 6y ago
Correct. If the drivers are treated as independent contractors and account for vehicle costs and paying themselves at least minimum wage for all working time, the profit margin on rides is quite slim, potentially to the point where the addi
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by rchowe 6y ago
Unsplash has a great product, however for Getty this seems to be a good deal more because they eliminate a competitor than because they acquire a good product/team. I read that Unsplash's plan to monetize was to sell banner ads an
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by rchowe 6y ago
I wish MicroCenter would work on their customer experience. I go to one in Cambridge, MA to buy IoT supplies and it's never organized (despite signs saying "this area stocked by XYZ"), popular products are behind the service
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by rchowe 6y ago
I think one of the nice things about Python is that most people write it in a similar way (with the exception of classes vs not and annotations). "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." There are al

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