sambroner

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Ask HN: Have you purchased digital art?
2 points by sambroner 7y ago|0 comments
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by sambroner 7y ago
Very interesting. Thank you for sharing.
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by sambroner 7y ago
I was always shocked by McMaster-Carr's delivery speed. I felt like the parts would arrive as quickly as I could have conceivably picked them up. This was 10 years ago now, so sort of like Amazon Prime before it became ubiquitous, but
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by sambroner 7y ago
Are members of the primitive community living in villages, solo, or small groups? Do they follow hunting laws (tags and license)? Do they live on public or private land, if public do they try to grow crops?
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by sambroner 7y ago
I couldn't find this by googling. Can you post a link?
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by sambroner 7y ago
This is quite impressive, although inconclusive... Apple Pay currently accounts for 5% of credit card payments (from article), but, more importantly, this does not include non-card transactions like WeChat! Still, I think that Apples deep e
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by sambroner 7y ago
I believe Buildium's subscribers are the landlords, but, for a fee, they have a portal that renters can use. There is no subscription, but as the author acknowledges, these rent payments were considered as regular and recurring by some
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by sambroner 7y ago
I don't know much about tunneling speeds, but this seems much faster than Big Bertha in Seattle although for a much smaller volume (the tunnel is narrower) and (I'm assuming) less complex location. Big Bertha - 3.5 years, ~1.75 mi
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by sambroner 7y ago
This is a scary comment for me. I'm partially commenting to remember it. I do exercise, but I avoid exercise while uncomfortable from back pain. Clearly, if I keep not exercising, I'll eventually only get worse...
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by sambroner 7y ago
They mention it in the article, but it's really fascinating how we've documented previous nearby (relatively) supernovae. Modern scientists have identified that the Crab Nebula (6k light years away) was created by a supernovae. Hi
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Effects of Seatbelts on Car Crash Survivors(mymodernmet.com)
1 points by sambroner 7y ago|0 comments
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by sambroner 7y ago
Everyone I have worked with from the Midori team has been very impressive. Regardless of the direct success of the project, I believe it (to some extent) improved the quality of Microsoft's engineering culture.
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by sambroner 7y ago
At least this guy was wrong > I predict lots of people will make predictions, but we'll never go back to check and see if they were right. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1025748
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by sambroner 7y ago
After posting I was curious so I looked around for data on who fractures a hip. All I found was data from one UK Hospital saying around 10% of broken hips are from people younger than 65. If that extrapolates out, then you may be right. Bec
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by sambroner 7y ago
Just to tune your smell test, my suspicion is that the vast majority of people over 65 that break their hip are somewhere on the frailty scale from this article. Healthy people are very unlikely to trip and break their hip.
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by sambroner 7y ago
This would clearly be amazing. 25 days is approximately the amount of time needed to do these things: * Make travel plans * Grow a head of lettuce * Schedule and reroof a home * Ship goods from China to West Coast, USA Seems unlikely that w
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by sambroner 7y ago
It's amazing that people in Iceland knew people in Greenland and people in Greenland almost definitely knew about North America, but somehow most people in Europe had no idea that North America existed. People must have been so much mo
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by sambroner 7y ago
Funny article. Surprisingly useful (as someone who is not part of VC Twitter)
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by sambroner 7y ago
I think this was the most effective strategy in the board game pandemic (or video game Plague Inc)
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by sambroner 7y ago
Check this additional article out... really shows the growth in exports and its global impact. https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=35352
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by sambroner 7y ago
This seems like great practice, despite being extraordinarily fraught with difficult decisions. If we attempt a custom solution to hundreds or thousands of these rapidly dying patients, we may learn a tremendous amount about each disease we
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by sambroner 7y ago
It basically means "hold cash", so visa, stripe, insurance companies etc. all get cash from customers, hold it for a period of time, and distribute it to customers. Holding it for a period of time is "generating float."
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by sambroner 7y ago
Where are you living? I hope it’s lovely!
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by sambroner 7y ago
Thanks.
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by sambroner 7y ago
I'd love an answer to this. The article was very aggressively written and I have no basis for understanding any bias if there is one.
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by sambroner 7y ago
Wow. Can you share more about this? Is it due to names being stratified by income/background? Without knowing more, this seems both easy to cheat and biased towards... people with father's with certain names?
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by sambroner 7y ago
My impression is that at a large company it's easier to cut in broad strokes and then hire for specific roles. Many companies, certainly Uber as well, do smaller force reductions where the employees have ~60 days to find an internal ro
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by sambroner 7y ago
5000 sounds like a low standard, especially because I fold my money each time I open and close my wallet (billfold style)
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by sambroner 7y ago
Wow. Presumably they were no where near passing the sound barrier relative to the jet stream, but that is wild. I couldn't find it with my choice of google words, any idea where you found it?
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by sambroner 7y ago
Would this be a problem if these cars exclusively took off from the top of sky scrapers? If I remember from my time in Nyc, above the 20th floor it’s quite hard to hear even the loudest noises from the street. Presumably from the ground, it

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