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901.
by slyall 10y ago
I'm not sure. If an insurance company can make a profit by charging me $500/year (random number) for car insurance now why would I be forced by them to switch to a driverless car? Sure the people with driverless cars only pay $100
902.
by slyall 10y ago
You see in in movie trailers. The trailer will typically have a cold-opening and sometimes a "mini-trailer" before the movie title that last almost exactly 5 seconds. This is to at least expose you to the movie even if you don&#x2
903.
by slyall 10y ago
The studios are very strange sometimes. Dumb stuff I've seen them do recently: * Post to obscure channels * Have cross-promotional stuff on the trailers * Region blocked videos * Take down official trailers after a while * Give exclusi
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by slyall 10y ago
This guy (h3h3) is claiming that a grownup "Prankster" Youtube channel switched to making "Spiderman and Elsa" videos for kids and made so much money in a few months the blew it all on $100k sports cars https:/&#x2
905.
by slyall 10y ago
I worked Y2k by myself in the Noc at an ISP in New Zealand ( aka UTC+1300 ) * Got paid $1000 bonus * Called up by local reporter asking if any problems - Nope * Called by several of our vendors/providers in the US just to say "Hel
906.
by slyall 10y ago
Quotes for the tweet thread: Have I mentioned I've been A/B testing the gnupg developers over the last decade by submitting patches as both female and male pseudonyms SPOILER ALERT: they denied 100% of the patches with female-s
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A/B testing the gnupg developers. Submitting patches as female and male pseudonyms(twitter.com)
46 points by slyall 10y ago|18 comments
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Crawling the Soundcloud graph to find local musicians to book for a concert(medium.com)
1 points by slyall 10y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 10y ago
A couple of other examples: Gas Station owner given $10 million overdraft instead of $100,000 , transfers it all offshore and runs: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti... Student given
910.
by slyall 10y ago
The Author is a transit consultant. He is constantly talking to cities/towns about optimizing their transit networks. I would guess he is hearing it from politicians and other parties in the areas he is talking to. They will say "
911.
by slyall 10y ago
Subject to the problems above I much prefer this system to one of giving out options. It is nice and transparent and would give me a bit more confidence in actually getting a payout than the more usual options route. Having said that I did
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Change the World – Silicon Valley transfers its slogans and money to politics(newyorker.com)
1 points by slyall 10y ago|1 comments
913.
by slyall 10y ago
He is quoting the movie "Back to the Future" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088763/quotes?item=qt0416301
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Autonomous Cars and Induced Demand: A Historical Perspective(humantransit.org)
2 points by slyall 10y ago|0 comments
915.
by slyall 10y ago
Most people prefer a mansion, a giant salary, etc. But doesn't mean they get it. The problem is that if you want to be at the interesting end of IT you probably need to be somewhere with a decent population (1m+ , maybe closer to 3m+)
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by slyall 10y ago
I've seen similar stories in the past, the problem appears to be that in many areas the bill was 100% linked to actual usage and didn't reflect the costs of the connection and infrastructure. In New Zealand the domestic electricit
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Optimizing optimizing: some insights that led to a 400% speedup of PowerDNS(hackernoon.com)
1 points by slyall 10y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 10y ago
Sounds like a poor design, most places will have people boarding from sidewalks or a raise area. As for the 2nd, people run into stuff in the cars all the time. Around 50-100 people die each day on US roads. And in the story you mentioned o
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by slyall 10y ago
The news stories identify the commentator as Australian
920.
by slyall 10y ago
Thanks, that look pretty close to what I'm after.
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by slyall 10y ago
The joke the previous poster was making is that the boxes were printed "by" bicycles instead of being printed by printers. Hence the printer companies would be unhappy.
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by slyall 10y ago
A service that provides a URL for a song. Right now if I write a tweet or a blog post that links to a song there is at least a 10% chance (even if to is an official post by the artist) that a few weeks from now the URL will be bad. Some off
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by slyall 10y ago
Australia was also settled during a glacial maximum so the coastline extended out much further than now. The distance the first migrants to Australia might have needed to travel across open water might have been as low as 90km. https:&#x2F
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New Record Low Solar Price in Abu Dhabi – Costs Plunging Faster Than Expected(rameznaam.com)
105 points by slyall 10y ago|94 comments
925.
by slyall 10y ago
A couple of months ago I sold two networks (a /22 and a /24 ) that I had accumulated over the years. I got closer to $5/ip but a fairly small volume. A little bit of paperwork but not too bad. I thought it was interested that
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A Review of Time Series Databases(blog.dataloop.io)
133 points by slyall 10y ago|56 comments
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by slyall 10y ago
Tax is usually close to 30% of net income to start with and even those with the best accountants usually pay a few percent. So dividing their tax bill by the 10, 100, 1000 or whatever workers that exceed some magic income level won't g
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by slyall 10y ago
> Spending power around the world varies by several orders of magnitude. If there's one "world price" for a crop, that price will be incredibly cheap for rich countries and incredibly expensive for poor ones. Agricultural
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by slyall 10y ago
Lovely argument, if only it were true. Your whole argument is all over the place, not least because a lot of food eaten in rich countries is has minimal subsidies already. Why don't you examine the world as it is today rather than how
930.
by slyall 10y ago
Also he was already doing his job well enough, he just needed an extra few credits to satisfy some random bureaucratic rule and get a pay bump. Roughly the equivalent of the mandatory diversity training or (to give a tech example) a PCI che

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