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by rlanday 8y ago
Are you sure? Wikipedia says Apple has 271 stores in the US. For your claim to be true, the average Apple store in the US would have to employ at least 45,001/271 = 166.1 people.
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by rlanday 8y ago
The current one way transmission times are 20 hours and 5 minutes to Voyager 1 and 16 hours and 38 minutes to Voyager 2: https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status/ The probes use a star tracker to determine thei
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by rlanday 8y ago
This is not correct. I believe there have been eight successful Mars landings: Viking 1 and 2, Mars Pathfinder, the two Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity), Phoenix, the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity), and now this one (In
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by rlanday 8y ago
> Haiku is an operating system which is known for its speed and being easy for anyone to use. That's a fairly bold claim. Haiku is an OS that basically no one uses for any purpose. Why should I take any sort of design advice from th
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by rlanday 8y ago
If a company’s considered to be worth $X of money, if you then bundle it with debts worth $-X, the combination should be worth $0.
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by rlanday 8y ago
I think copyright generally does not apply to facts (e.g. a list of names).
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Probably because states that observe daylight saving time are already on it for eight months of the year. It’s actually a smaller change to stay on it all the time.
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by rlanday 8y ago
You can't fit more people into the same amount of housing by raising everyone's pay. Either someone needs to start living with more roommates, or someone needs to get priced out and decide to leave.
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by rlanday 8y ago
> Apple adds no value there Other than inventing the modern phone, writing the operating system and developer tools, running the store, manufacturing the phones people are consuming Amazon's product on and convincing people to buy t
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by rlanday 8y ago
The claim that the average speed at which people drive depends on the speed limit, and the claim that it does not, cannot both be correct.
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by rlanday 8y ago
Which university is going to be the first to start offering blockchain degrees?
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by rlanday 8y ago
Typically companies that want to open a remote office pay people based on the local market conditions (although Amazon might set their pay to be try to be towards the top of the market, so they could still end up paying better than other co
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by rlanday 8y ago
This is not correct. The real reason is capital is more mobile than individuals are. Most Americans won’t (or can’t) leave the country if their taxes go up, but businesses are constantly making decisions about where to invest and hire peopl
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by rlanday 9y ago
Given that iPhones with OEM displays are apparently still working fine...isn't it pretty obvious that the third-party parts are the source of the malfunction?
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by rlanday 9y ago
I suspect the death toll from aviation might be a bit higher if that's how we responded to plane crashes...
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by rlanday 9y ago
He was offered and declined a plea bargain that would’ve given him the minimum sentence of three years: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/10/reiser_rejected_vol... The guy’s a delusional moron… Also: htt
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by rlanday 9y ago
Android P isn’t going to be released until later this year. So if you ignore prerelease builds, these devices will have had the latest OS for about three years after they first went on sale.
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by rlanday 9y ago
As a practical matter, Dropbox is operating at a loss, yet has value as a company because of the expectation that it will hopefully someday turn a profit. IPOing allows Y Combinator, which specializes in early stage investment, to realize a
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by rlanday 9y ago
Or apartments
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by rlanday 9y ago
> But in fact D.A.R.E., as it has been conducted for the past thirty years at least, doesn’t decrease children’s use of drugs. That's an understatement. Numerous studies have found that D.A.R.E. increases drug use: https:/&#
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by rlanday 9y ago
Even embryo selection and genomic prediction alone gets you pretty far if you’re willing to discard a lot of embryos (is it possible to read the DNA out of sperm and egg cells non-destructively? I don’t know much about the technology involv
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by rlanday 9y ago
Why does any bug result in a crash rather than just random unexpected behavior? There's a limit to how much it's practical to isolate things. For example, Chrome uses different processes to render different web pages, so a crash i
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by rlanday 9y ago
UAX 29 doesn't really describe how to handle Indic text very well. http://unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries > Grapheme clusters can be tailored to meet further requirements. Such tailor
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by rlanday 9y ago
Say you’re a freelancer and could do one more project but the marginal tax rate is going to be 90%, vs. being maybe ~50% on the previous project you did. So now you’d be doing the same work for 1/5th of the income. Wouldn’t you conside
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by rlanday 9y ago
> The articles of confederation failed because they couldn’t ensure adequate funding for the federal government to guarantee internal and external security. Reading more into it than that is ahistorical. The Constitution sought to remedy
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by rlanday 9y ago
The United States tried being a loose federation under the Articles of Confederation. It was a miserable failure, which led to the current Constitution, which was set up with the intention of creating a federal government strong enough to c
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by rlanday 9y ago
False positives and false negatives are both really bad. Now if there’s an ICBM launched at Hawaii this weekend, no one will believe it.
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by rlanday 9y ago
More relevant to the topic under discussion would be a future where cities go to war to keep each other from winning the favor of massive corporations.
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by rlanday 9y ago
It’s not legal for non-essential federal workers to choose to work for free: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/10/01/federal_worke...
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by rlanday 9y ago
If what school you go to is entirely determined by where you live, you can already buy your kids' way in by buying a house or renting an apartment in the district. I don't think that's fundamentally any different from buying

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