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by sho 6y ago
Would love to know a ballpark figure for this acquisition. I mean this tool looks useful to some people I suppose - but the fact remains it's just a slightly more usable list of EC2 properties and costs. How much can it really be worth
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by sho 6y ago
I can't reply to all of this but I will say - I paid to go see the Avengers finale movies - despite seeing none of the preceding films - purely because I felt a kind of social obligation. Like it or not, Avengers was part of the zeit
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by sho 6y ago
So how about highbrow art forms like Opera? They're generally supported by the state. How many factory workers can afford to go? I'm not even sure what point I'm making here. I think it would be a good thing if the Opera cost
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by sho 6y ago
Hm. Maybe I imagined it but I got a definite negative undertone. Eg: > dark does not mean deep Well I thought The Social Network and Zodiac were thoughtful and at least somewhat deep. I guess this can just turn into a "deepness&
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by sho 6y ago
> Fincher [..] is kind of like Steven Spielberg [..] just gets a bit more respect because he is "dark" So he's a great director like Spielberg - but he's in a different genre and willing to tackle less family friendly
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by sho 6y ago
You might be right. I was just trying to offer a data point and offering a speculative extrapolation. If I've decided to "make a night of" a movie, the ticket price is almost irrelevant. I guess I'm applying a very narro
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by sho 6y ago
The industry needs to change. Charging all movies the same is ridiculous and just totally counter to all reality about their audience. We have fast food and gourmet, why wouldn't we have that with cinema too? I suppose I could be reluc
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by sho 6y ago
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day
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by sho 6y ago
I don't get why this is news.. the ARJ21 has been flying commercially in China since 2016. So another airline bought some and started flying it... and? Anyway, China still can't make the complex parts, like engines, which I believ
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by sho 6y ago
> Marathon 30 years later any computer system I control is still named after something in that game. Investors in 4 countries pump millions of dollars in orders through a cluster named marathon. The roots grow deep ;)
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by sho 6y ago
Let me just toss out a recommendation to the 2007 film Zodiac , which I really enjoyed. Directed by David Fincher (The Social Network). Great movie and a nice summation of events.
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by sho 6y ago
Agreed. That's who introduced me to this (awesome) scene. Try out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8oIeL_OPc8
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by sho 6y ago
Sure! Sheet2api is sort of thinking along the same lines (but different enough, don’t worry, founder...) Not even close to launch but think data transformation & automation, but for BAU, not analytics. So yeah automatic APIs is part of
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by sho 6y ago
Wow. There's a lot of projects here that must have taken a lot of work - and look really good - but the MRR is just dismal. There's one there that's pretty close to a side project of mine - not even a grand. Somewhat offput
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by sho 6y ago
As something of a war-weary veteran - I disagree. It's a good instinct to be suspicious of new technology. But I have personally seen, many times, what REST APIs can grow into - unless you are very, very careful, "get user/1&
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by sho 6y ago
But are they? How many main street retail jobs has walmart killed? A million? Ten? Look, you might be right. Maybe the pain is indeed worth the gain. My point is - it's not even being considered.
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by sho 6y ago
This is way better. I think the "sciencedirect" article is based on this. Re-link? @dang
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by sho 6y ago
Apart from the other reasons listed, modern battle groups are equipped with close-in weapons systems like the Phalanx which have a decent chance of shooting down inbound airborne missiles, especially if they're not ballistic. That and
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by sho 6y ago
> Walmart's presence lowered the living costs of low income families by $1k-$2k These studies are useless in isolation. If the super-optimisation of production and supply chains (less factory workers, drivers, other lower skilled la
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by sho 6y ago
You can get away with this twice. Once you hit 180 days in the last year you'll face some probing questions as to exactly what you're doing, and you better have a good answer or they'll simply deny re-entry. With this being T
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by sho 6y ago
I use this and it works beautifully. I never even load onto my kindle, which is sitting in a draw somewhere. Remove DRM, convert to epub and read in iBooks.
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by sho 6y ago
Hey, I'm not disagreeing. I'm just saying that at least journalists don't have mysterious "accidents" and opposition don't get frigging nerve agents in their drinks. It's not Russia.
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by sho 6y ago
Come on, that's a bit much. They're not Norway, but they're pretty far from Russia. And for what it's worth, I'd call America's money-driven system pretty far from the world's best democracy as well.
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by sho 6y ago
> Do tell. Well, he does need to be voted Secretary by the Central Committee. The change that was made recently was to remove term limits - but in theory he can still be voted out. Weak sauce I know compared to judicial oversight but hey
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by sho 6y ago
> China can be more efficient than all democratic countries Not all democratic countries. I live in Thailand, which is at least technically a democracy, and the virus has been completely extinguished here. The crackdown was harsh - a m
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by sho 6y ago
Quite interesting to see how the word "algorithm" seems to be changing over time from a straightforward mathematical or CS "series of steps to solve a problem" to a general byword for any sort of automated reasoning, esp
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by sho 6y ago
> hexapods are just not a good platform for doing much of anything Care to expand on this? There's an awful lot of insects with six legs that seem to do OK. Maybe I've watched too much Patlabor/GitS but I would have though
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by sho 6y ago
It's common in the US and Australia and, I suspect, any large producer of fruit with a normal culture of drinking juice. Anywhere that imports 1l seems to be more the norm. Strange what you say about milk though - I've usually see
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by sho 6y ago
Well you sort of betrayed yourself imagining all those hapless foreigners, struggling to fill their cars in multiples of 3.8L .. In most countries you could go your whole life without having to know what a "gallon" is or even hear
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by sho 6y ago
You're spot on with the mental models. If I try to imagine a gallon, I think of 2x2L bottles, one of them not quite full. A pint and I imagine a 600mL soft drink or water bottle. When you start having to do double conversions (eg miles

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