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by samcheng 6y ago
The "brick pallet" rumor has been thoroughly debunked. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/investig...
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by samcheng 6y ago
RINSE | REMOTE or San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, or Washington DC | Software Engineers | Full-Time | https://www.rinse.com Rinse provides dry cleaning and laundry delivery services to tens of thousands of customers
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by samcheng 6y ago
Right - so ~25% of excess deaths in April in the United States were not directly caused by COVID-19, but were almost certainly indirectly caused by the virus, either via the 'medical care chilling effect' mentioned above, or throu
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by samcheng 6y ago
According to this New York Times article from the beginning of May, excess deaths in the United States outpaced official Coronavirus reporting by 33%. This obviously varies significantly by country. Certainly many more people are dying at
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by samcheng 6y ago
It does sound like Taiwan is looking for ways to help Hong Kong residents: https://focustaiwan.tw/politics/202005270012
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by samcheng 6y ago
Your view of Taiwan's government is somewhat outdated. The KMT party (which once ruled China, and for decades ruled Taiwan) has suffered a series of overwhelming electoral defeats, and the now-ruling DPP party has a platform of "
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by samcheng 6y ago
I'd expect it to ask the first time around, and then remember the answer afterwards.
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It just travels in a straight line. Which is a pretty significant advancement over potentially turning around at the launching ship!
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by samcheng 6y ago
It's a really clever design, especially that gyroscopic 'impulse' mechanism, but it was never used in battle. The competing Whitehead torpedo, which had an onboard engine, was the one that navies adopted. https://
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by samcheng 6y ago
Looks like it's back up, at least partially. They're making progress... It's crazy how easy it is to depend on Slack. Email collaboration feels downright archaic. What a great product!
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by samcheng 6y ago
It's really the conversion to weight (grams, from cups/tbsp/tsp/hogsheads) that would be valuable. It's just so much easier to clean to stick a scale under the mixing bowl.
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by samcheng 6y ago
We had a 50 person meeting yesterday on Google Meet and it seemed to work just fine. Most people had their video off, though.
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by samcheng 6y ago
SQL is indeed pretty crufty. After all, it dates back to the 70's, and is generally regarded as an 'entry level' language for analysts. It's nowhere near as crazy as Javascript (and, arguably, Ruby): https://
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by samcheng 6y ago
Dr. John Campbell, who posts daily on Coronavirus news internationally, and who also dives deep into the physiologic processes around viruses, illnesses, and immune function, is often at odds with the WHO. And he generally has a compelling
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by samcheng 6y ago
A wise landlord would lag the market a bit. A good tenant is worth more than an average one, and vacancy is expensive.
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by samcheng 7y ago
Someone should do this with the "Getty Museum Challenge" photos that are circulating social media right now!
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by samcheng 7y ago
There is a good New Yorker article on the matter this week: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/how-does-the-c...
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by samcheng 7y ago
Hospitals do seem to graciously accept donations, even opened (half-used) boxes of masks. You can just drive up and hand them off. Second-tier healthcare facilities, such as elder care centers and rural clinics, are also desperate for PPE
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by samcheng 7y ago
Here's his most famous article on FOOF (Dioxygen Diflouride) https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/02/23/th... It seems there are multiple chemist-author hybrids out there!
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by samcheng 7y ago
These seem to be average / historical data sets, not "is there an accident / traffic jam on my route right now." Thanks for the excellent work, though!
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by samcheng 7y ago
Yeah, unfortunately I'm not aware of any open/free sources of real-time traffic data.
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For what it's worth, I found OpenStreetMaps and the Open Source Routing Machine to be sufficient for our purposes. If you don't want features like real-time traffic awareness, it's worth investigating the open source tooling.
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by samcheng 7y ago
Honestly, the most important metric is deaths, and from what I can see, the SF Bay Area has done relatively well in that metric. No overcrowded hospitals, for example.
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by samcheng 7y ago
If you enjoyed this, you'll also enjoy this "Wat" video: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
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by samcheng 7y ago
Cloudflare itself will host a cached version (plus a little Cloudflare-injected banner at the top) in this situation, but not apparently not all of the time reliably. It has worked for us in other "520" error situations.
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by samcheng 7y ago
I've been yelled at by drivers while riding on a designated bike boulevard with my 4-year old son to preschool. "Get a car" - seriously?
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by samcheng 7y ago
Yes; when you say "Bay Area" in Washington and Oregon, you generally mean SF Bay Area. Maybe an exception for those living in Coos Bay?
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by samcheng 7y ago
If you can, visit the Monarch Grove at Natural Bridges State Beach in Santa Cruz. Even though the numbers are down significantly, it is still visibly better than last year, and it's wonderful to stand amidst the Eucalyptus trees and s
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As your niche gets smaller, you will be able to focus your marketing a bit better. This should result in lower user acquisition costs.
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It probably wasn't unjustifiably arrogant back in the 90's. The article mentions evidence that this supremacy is no longer true, but doesn't actually cite any evidence. I suppose they are alluding to private companies (mostl

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