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by sib 7y ago
In the past 20 years, I've lived across the major metro areas of Seattle, Silicon Valley, and now Los Angeles. in all places, it's been common practice for delivery companies to leave packages outside unless the shipper has specif
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by sib 7y ago
Nice try. You wrote: "The fares are exactly the same in the entire section of the cabin" Which is simply put, completely false. My response was: "The fares (on most airlines) are absolutely not the same throughout an entire s
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by sib 7y ago
From the late 1990's to early 2000's, there were a number of online companies (would now be called SaaS) including Qpass in Seattle that solved this problem for companies like NY Times, Wall Street Journal, and many more. Turns ou
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by sib 7y ago
Great book about this (and, more broadly, the rise of medicine as a scientific endeavor): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143036491/
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by sib 7y ago
Backblaze does back up (directly-connected) external drives but not NAS.
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by sib 7y ago
No - I'm not claiming they are different sections. That would be stupid. I'm stating the simple - and well-known - fact that the price paid by the person in 17C (aisle) can be quite different from that paid by the person in 17D (a
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by sib 7y ago
I hope that emailed login links cease to exist. I work at a large company. As a combination of lots of security scanning and, I think, intentional slowdown for virus spread mitigation, external email can take minutes to be delivered. More t
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by sib 7y ago
But all of those cars are insured (and that insurance is underwritten) today. So the liability already lives on the balance sheet of insurance companies. Maybe the specific companies change...
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by sib 7y ago
We used to have these at airports and train stations in the US and then 9/11 rolled around...
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by sib 7y ago
Sorry, but nope. As I said, the price you paid for your seat may and often will vary from that paid by the person next to you by factors including purchase time, seat "quality" (which includes location), extra features such as leg
761.
by sib 7y ago
The fares (on most airlines) are absolutely not the same throughout an entire section. They vary based on purchase time, seat "quality" (which includes location), extra features such as legroom & recline, spikes in demand, etc
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by sib 7y ago
Southwest's "lining up" process is not random; you get an assigned position in the line according to a set of factors. Once you start boarding, each person can sit in any seat that s/he wants.
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by sib 7y ago
On top of that: no (physical) keyboard, no GPS, no 3G support. They were almost the textbook definition of a disruptive product (worse on traditional metrics by which products compete, but better on some key factors that have customer value
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by sib 7y ago
I bought a Model 3 a year ago (Dec '18). I liked it so much that, when my wife's Audi lease expired in July, she also got a Model 3 (at least they're different colors...) The only issue either of us has had is one of the lice
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by sib 7y ago
Such a strange concept that we say that insurance can't be rated according to significant risk factors.
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by sib 7y ago
No - if the price is $X, then the shareholder is exchanging $X in shares for $X in cash. That's not a transfer of wealth.
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by sib 7y ago
Peak charging rate currently for a Tesla Model 3 at a v3 Supercharger is a bit over 1,000 miles per hour. It can't maintain that rate for very long to avoid battery degradation, but it could very well do 160 miles in 10 minutes or 200
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by sib 7y ago
My understanding is that the typical block heater might draw about 750-800 watts (call it 7 amps @ 120 volts in the US), which would charge one of the most efficient EVs out there (the Tesla Model 3) at about 3 miles of range per hour. So,
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by sib 7y ago
Japan overall is in a long-term _negative_ population growth trend, so the Tokyo population growth seems to reflect an in-country geographic shift, rather than a problem with too-permissive family planning.
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by sib 7y ago
The GDPR would be so proud...
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by sib 7y ago
"Is the problem here that they are selling DMV records" Given that the California CPA clearly considers this type of information to be private, not public, information, that seems like a fair thing to consider a problem...
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by sib 7y ago
Yes, there are states where that information is not for sale / not freely available. There's no particular reason that car ownership (or house ownership and pricing) needs to be public information.
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by sib 7y ago
I think that the "of course" was intended more as an ironic or even fatalistic comment that the government wouldn't _want_ to hold itself to the same standards as those eeeevil corporations, rather than implying that it shoul
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by sib 7y ago
For those in the US, this is what's known as a GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter).
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by sib 7y ago
Ship shipping ship shipping shipping ships? https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNSVOGMnms9RKigZTLds...
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by sib 7y ago
That's an interesting point of view. If some hypothetical "bad guys" are trying to set off a series of tactical nuclear weapons, false negatives are actually pretty bad. (Yes, I actually am a small-l libertarian and have a st
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by sib 7y ago
Yes, completely true - if it's 5'C and windy and damp, it's pretty miserable (I lived in Seattle for many years, so very familiar with this situation.) But, given the same amount of wind, I'd still rather hike in 5'
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by sib 7y ago
Hmm, i'm going to have to disagree with you on this: "-40C feels warmer than +5C" I've been outdoors in both, plenty of times, to hike or to engage in my hobby of landscape photography. At +5C, it's perfectly possib
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by sib 7y ago
I think it's true that it is largely an amendment to the "standard marriage contract" as reflected by the state's laws (I have one and spent a lot of time in researching it). But , that amendment, just as any contractua
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by sib 7y ago
Sounds like you could seed the repo!

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