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by tdhoot 7y ago
Pilots do train for communication failures. ATC at most airports has a number you can call to be patched through if your radio stops working and I've heard multiple cases of people having to use it. In the worst case, there are non-ver
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by tdhoot 7y ago
> * The USPS, unlike UPS and FedEx, have a legal mandate to attempt to deliver every letter and parcel if it's in the US. Fedex and UPS are common carriers and also cannot refuse a package without good grounds. USPS can also refuse
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by tdhoot 7y ago
This is widely joked about, there's even a Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill%27s_law "What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away"
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by tdhoot 7y ago
What does strict policing have to do with civil rights, like the right to face your accuser, the right to a jury trial, protections against double jeopardy, etc.? My point being sometimes people vote or defend ideas that they believe are fu
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Right. I'm never going to get arrested or be on trial (statistically), so why defend the civil rights of those accused? I'm much more likely to be a victim, so why vote against my own interests?
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Have you heard of gun ranges? There are so many examples of situations where you risk death if you don't follow rules, your argument isn't persuasive at all.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Analogy doesn't really hold up. Increasing conversions by 0.01% probably takes an hour at momandpop.com and maybe a year or more at Amazon. Not to mention low-hanging fruit already being picked at large corps.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Weird how it still mentions Caviar, even though Square sold it. I guess the blog post was written some time ago.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Only for personal and non-commercial use, which is probably not what startups need.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Only if you go by similarity. If you go by exact dedupes using hashes (which they almost certainly do), the CPU cost is trivial.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
The lowest income people in the US also qualify for free healthcare through Medicaid. It covers ~20% of the US population (that number also includes those with disabilities).
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Probably because the alternative interpretation makes the answer so trivial that it's not worth assuming?
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by tdhoot 7y ago
I think the answer to both your questions is because there are costs to securely storing cash. That also makes cash risky compared to bonds, where you are not responsible for the security.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
The term for this is "activist short seller". It's pretty common. Citron Research, Bonitas, and Spruce Point are some of the firms I've heard of that follow this business model, but there are tonnes of them.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Yes, that's my understanding. But there's no guarantee that Wealthfront transfers to the FDIC-insured bank accounts as soon as possible. For all we know, Wealthfront could hold on to it for weeks.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
I think it depends on the efficacy of the cheaper procedure. It's rare for the cheaper procedure to be as accurate as the more expensive one. If you knew the tuning fork was 80% accurate and an x-ray 100% accurate, would you still take
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by tdhoot 7y ago
It's not FDIC covered during the transitional period, and they don't say how long the transitional period is either.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Voting power in Google is controlled by the founders, regardless of how much ownership they have.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
I think he was talking about the author, not the football player. The football player was going to Buffalo so I assume the bus to Ohio wouldn't be helpful.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
The font reminds me of Habbo Hotel.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
You mean it's too bad people aren't forced to feel the same way about issues as you do.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Companies are also owned by human beings. I don't see any inherent reason people should take the side of a small business in every dispute between a small business and a larger company.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
The article says they hand over ownership on demand.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
I agree, it's a huge problem. It also leads to divergence between internal variants of systems and external where in many cases the internal variants are leagues better than even what competitors have. But unfortunately since they&#x27
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Doubt Calendar is hosted on GCP. Generally Google does not run first-party systems on GCP, instead putting them on Borg (internal cloud).
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by tdhoot 7y ago
But they don't have a monopoly in any area. Xfinity Mobile is just a Verizon MVNO. Grandparent is simply using the wrong company as an example.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
HipChat is dead. Atlassian threw in the towel and partnered with Slack for messaging.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
You can also remove a field by reserving the tag number and optionally the name. New binaries will fail to compile but previously persisted values can still be read back by old binaries. Also ensures no one uses the same tag number later an
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by tdhoot 7y ago
I suppose Euthanasia is wrong in your book too?
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Exxon Mobil?

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