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redler
5y ago
This is also a problem since some businesses have very high nominal revenues and very low margins.
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redler
5y ago
Shorter dwell time is like faster table turnover in a restaurant. More customers will be better, financially, than fewer who spend slightly more time. Maximize wallets-per-hour.
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redler
5y ago
The LGA perimeter rule already has holes. Denver is allowed, and the rule doesn't apply on Saturdays. With the much more airline-friendly layout post-construction, it would not be surprising if the rule is changed.
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redler
5y ago
I'd say it depends on whether they're successful. "iPad" was widely skewered as a branding choice in popular media, and we see how that turned out.
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redler
5y ago
For the market this venture is targeting, JFK and perhaps even (after the construction is finally done) LGA would be preferable. Both in the city, both have Centurion lounges, etc. But LGA is a shorter field without a substantive internatio
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redler
5y ago
Major airlines like United have a powerful lobbying presence. If Boom starts hitting milestones, influence spigots will open.
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redler
5y ago
Like the spaghetti monster, it's certainly not impossible they don't exist. It's also not impossible that they're indeed here, unfailingly remaining just beyond our ability to confirm their presence, and they look exac
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redler
5y ago
Furthermore, any big vendor (e.g. Facebook) with its own vast audience and ecosystem would immediately launch its own app store, with its own payment model and revenue cut, its own exclusive titles, developer relationships, and (one assumes
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redler
5y ago
It’s the old being-hacked-as-a-service startup idea.
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redler
5y ago
There are state laws now being passed that make “blocking roads in protest” a felony, while legalizing running over protestors with your car.
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redler
5y ago
There's also a subreddit for this sort of thing — r/whereisthis.
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redler
5y ago
As has been said elsewhere, beware that zealot on your team who keeps on with the whys until the user gives up and screams, in tears, “because I don’t want to die alone!”
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redler
6y ago
Yup, this is more or less how “cyber security” policies work.
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redler
6y ago
Dental insurance of any kind is pretty rare in the US. Large employers may offer this to their employees, but even then it’s a situation of very high coinsurance for any procedure of substance, and covered procedures are limited. So however
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redler
6y ago
“Is anyone here a marine biologist?!”
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Parse HTML at the Command Line with CSS Selectors
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6y ago
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redler
6y ago
Under the US system, everyone's savings is also lower -- because of extremely high insurance premiums, co-pays, coinsurance, deductibles, high out-of-pocket payment maximums, uncovered care, predatory billing complexity designed to m
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redler
6y ago
Under such a system, if your choice is not to have insurance, what should happen if you step in a hole and shatter your ankle in a way that requires complex surgery to repair? And if the response is to simply pay the cost out of pocket, wha
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redler
6y ago
"Instead of" would certainly be bad. But the "textural details" of these long-form articles is the sort of experiential glue that can make the scene -- and the facts -- come alive in the mind of the reader. That makes th
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redler
6y ago
"I'm totally not wondering why no one will rid me of that meddlesome priest. That would be wrong! Please do not rid me of that meddlesome priest. Although, I have to say, he is quite meddlesome, and I completely understand why it&
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redler
6y ago
If the money is exceptional, the longer you stick it out, the more freedom you have to leave at a time of your choosing to pursue your next adventure.
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redler
6y ago
On iOS there's an app called Camo. There are probably others.
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redler
6y ago
It would be a hobbyist endeavor -- and look like one -- but a Raspberry Pi plus camera module would hit the mark.
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redler
6y ago
Don't lock them up. But charge penalties that greatly exceed the value of the wage theft.
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redler
6y ago
I suspect they're referring to the fact that after the Zoom app is updated, you may find yourself in a meeting but unable to share a window because the updated app no longer has the "Screen Recording" privacy entitlement. Tur
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redler
6y ago
I think the fact that a billionaire can't buy a better iPhone is partly what supports the (now perhaps only slightly) higher price of iPhones versus other non-cheap phones. The same might be said of these headphones (if they turn out t
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redler
6y ago
That's surprisingly reasonable for a $550 product with what's probably a custom high-energy-density battery.
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6y ago
What sorts of things can the old watch do that the Apple Watch cannot?
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"Mr CEO, the board has heard word that you are working on some sort of "insanely great" product, and requires clarity on whether you're booking the revenue from this thing, whatever it is, into the current quarter, or ne
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redler
6y ago
Spotlight search "screenshot" is how I "remember". You get a little widget that offers all the options.
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