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by smackfu 11y ago
>Maybe the long-term plan is de-regulate and re-regulate in favor of Uber? That's one option. Grow until they are dominant, then support greater regulation. They can afford it, new competitors can't. Similar to Amazon and sa
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by smackfu 11y ago
Interesting they don't ship paper maps over a certain size, just laminated ones.
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by smackfu 11y ago
True in general, although for tourism, you don't really want any horizontal velocity, because you want to land as close as possible to the take-off point.
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by smackfu 11y ago
FYI, this particular cute little rocket is aimed at space tourism. Sub-orbital flights only, to just above the Kármán line.
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Blue Origin: Images and Videos from Our First Flight(blueorigin.com)
151 points by smackfu 11y ago|74 comments
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by smackfu 11y ago
It just launched yesterday, so I assume the reviews will come soon enough.
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by smackfu 11y ago
It's in NYC rather than the Bay Area?
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by smackfu 11y ago
Blame it on Apple, they mandate using this button. I understand why they don't want to use prices, because those are localized, but agree that it should differentiate free vs. paid apps.
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by smackfu 11y ago
Yes, TWTR does seem to move 10% or more on any news, but that isn't "very common" in my opinion.
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by smackfu 11y ago
When enough companies start coming to you and saying they want "agile" development, you give it to them. Even if the companies don't know what agile means. "No, I don't want to prioritize, I want everything in thi
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by smackfu 11y ago
My thinking is that if you want to say you have thousands of apps on launch day, but barely any developers have run their apps on real hardware, you have to relax your standards a bit, and figure it will work its way out in a month or two.
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by smackfu 11y ago
It seems like standards can be a bit relaxed when you are submitting an app that aligns with Apple's strategy.
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by smackfu 11y ago
We have high quality mods now, from people motivated by love of the game. It's not a given that adding money to the equation would create higher quality mods.
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by smackfu 11y ago
>They created an attractive gaming environment and a mechanism for modding Isn't that what paying the $60 for the game pays for?
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by smackfu 11y ago
That seems like an argument that any percentage is fine as long as it's above zero. But certainly people can debate over what a fair percentage is.
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by smackfu 11y ago
They probably should have left abortion out, since it's not clear that American ever changed their mind on that. Over the last 20 years, it's still roughly 50/50. http://www.gallup.com/poll/170249/s
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by smackfu 12y ago
In a typical management structure, sending out org-wide emails is often a sign of bad management, since management is not trusting their lower tiers of management to get their message out and is essentially acting like the voice of god. In
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by smackfu 12y ago
OTOH, the teachers who got a jail sentence are the ones who didn't take a deal, even after being found guilty. Not really about money more than principles.
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by smackfu 12y ago
>I order pizza, call my mechanic, etc. all via the phone By choice, or by necessity?
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by smackfu 12y ago
In my circle, using Facebook to connect through anything other than Facebook itself seems futile. No one has emails or phone numbers posted, even for friends. So this app seems like it would basically do nothing.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Yes, taking a sweet fruit and removing all the liquid leaves you with something that is remarkably unhealthy by weight, despite being "natural." But that just means that eating a lot of dried fruits and nuts and such is not a gre
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by smackfu 12y ago
True, but it's pretty easy to do 600 calories of exercise in 45 mins. Which is still a hamburger or so (not the fries.)
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by smackfu 12y ago
>People don't realize what a trivial amount of calories working out burns. I think it's more that people don't realize how stunningly high calorie counts for "bad" food can be. Like a cookie might take 20 minute
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by smackfu 12y ago
How do those stats turn into "awful" in your mind? Maybe "not as good".
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by smackfu 12y ago
Make sure to select memory foam rather than just foam. Big difference there. And also the cheapest ones are rather thin.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Huh, I was wondering about the returns, and how you could pack it again if it's so tightly compressed. From the FAQ, the answer is that a courier picks it up and drops it off at a local charity.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Practically speaking, no one is going to buy something for $10 when they can get it for $1, especially if they have to work several hours to make $10.
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by smackfu 12y ago
A bunch of old PL/I programs that run once very pay period is not very exciting.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Does anyone know why this is in the Sony emails?
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by smackfu 12y ago
>In annual terms, 2.7% or the drives failed in 2012, 5.4% failed in 2013 and 47.2% failed in 2014. I can't figure out where that 47% number is coming from, if the overall failure rate was 29.5%. It seems like 1008 out of 4289 drives

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