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901.
by saryant 12y ago
Yes, I was referring to airfares over the past few decades, not the recent past.
902.
by saryant 12y ago
What does that have to do with DCC though? Maybe I'm missing something but that doesn't sound like it has anything to do with DCC. Any card with no forex fee is offering you a rate at just above the interbank rate if you avoid D
903.
by saryant 12y ago
It's a complete scam. It's called "Direct Currency Conversion" and it's a essentially the payment processor and merchant hoping the consumer doesn't know what's going on. Amex disallows on their network b
904.
by saryant 12y ago
For phones, yes. It's not clear if China is Apple's largest market overall though.
905.
by saryant 12y ago
Considering airfares are the cheapest they've ever been in the US, I don't know how that's even remotely true. More of "the masses" are able to fly than ever before.
906.
by saryant 12y ago
From the docs, I'm not sure if they really qualify as actors. There's no mention of hot-swapped behavior or supervisor hierarchies.
907.
How I Defeated the Tolkien Estate(the-toast.net)
66 points by saryant 12y ago|16 comments
908.
by saryant 12y ago
Houston's actually a great place to live. I lived there for several years. Incredibly good schools in the suburbs, fantastic food and bar scene down in the Montrose, Washington Heights and Midtown. Very affordable. I've lived i
909.
by saryant 12y ago
I certainly wasn't trying to disparage either oil or healthcare tech. I grew up around oil and have huge respect for that industry. I think my overarching point was that startups in Houston aren't sexy, they don't get cover
910.
by saryant 12y ago
It's there, but it's not young and it's not the sort of tech that you see in SV. If you want to talk to startups building oil pipeline monitoring or healthcare software, it's the place.
911.
by saryant 12y ago
Hi Michael.
912.
by saryant 12y ago
I have to agree. I love Houston but I left it for San Antonio because the tech scene in SA was much more lively with Geekdom and Techstars. Though I'm now in Boulder I've been keeping in eye on SA and there's a lot of cool
913.
by saryant 12y ago
I work for a Boulder tech startup with an unlimited vacation policy. Last year I took a month in Japan and South Korea, I just returned from two weeks in Tokyo, Taipei and Hong Kong. I also spent two weeks in Europe earlier this year, plus
914.
by saryant 12y ago
How can CoreOS be called vaporware? They have products! I use them in production.
915.
by saryant 12y ago
Natural gas prices in the US should stabilize as the American producers begin exporting to the world market.
916.
by saryant 12y ago
Most of the stuff I saw on the app hardly qualified as "secret" anyways. Maybe potentially embarrassing ("I really don't want to fly to see my family this Christmas") but other than that kerfuffle about the Google
917.
by saryant 12y ago
I'm excited to watch this battle between CoreOS and Docker heat up. I recently took a CoreOS/Docker-based system into production on AWS and there are definitely still some missing pieces. Swarm appears to be a slightly higher-le
918.
Improved dependency management with sbt 0.13.7(typesafe.com)
2 points by saryant 12y ago|0 comments
919.
Mega Carta(economist.com)
2 points by saryant 12y ago|0 comments
920.
by saryant 12y ago
In Vanguard's case, the TD funds generally make sense starting out given their lower minimum investment requirements ($1000 vs $3000 for most others). Once you reach $10-20k and can starting using Admiral funds, then you can switch to
921.
by saryant 12y ago
That makes sense. Much of my anxiety is just remnants of some real bad shit I went through four years ago. Part of my reluctance towards getting close to people is a fear that I'll fall into the same situation I was in back then.
922.
by saryant 12y ago
You're probably right. My anxiety at home even manifests as eczema, such that it completely disappears when I'm traveling but reoccurs the day before I fly home.
923.
by saryant 12y ago
I am the exact same way. When I'm at home, I'm always afraid of keeping up the same persona. I have very bad social anxiety at home, I'm terrible at talking to people at gatherings, haven't been on a date in four years.
924.
by saryant 12y ago
I have to disagree. Sure, if you stick with package tours taking an air conditioned bus from one site to another, that's all you'll get. But there is more than enough to explore that is nothing like developed, Western countries.
925.
by saryant 12y ago
Yeah, pretty sure you could get WartRemover or one of the other static analysis tools to disallow these sort of egregious violations.
926.
by saryant 12y ago
Yeah, casting to Any isn't a "grey area" in Scala's OO/Functional mix, it's just plain crazy.
927.
by saryant 12y ago
> The other programmers were like type casting to Any or whatever that generalize highest type was (unified type theory). As a Scala dev, that is absolutely terrifying. I can't even begin to think of a good reason for that.
928.
by saryant 12y ago
Why not? If nothing else, the new news site is, itself, news, which could serve as a PR boost to attract new contributors. Wikinews is old hat, nobody is going to start contributing there now . A new site with a fresh start has a better
929.
by saryant 12y ago
I first moved out of California as a kid when I was six. Work had just begun on the new Benicia bridge over the Carquinez. Work completed a year after I moved out of Benicia the second time when I was 16. Originally estimated to cost $2
930.
by saryant 12y ago
TSA has nothing to do with entry into the country—you don't encounter them on arrival unless you have an onward flight. CBP handles immigration and customs.

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