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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
Example (with Perl!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz3JeYfBTcY
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
If you don't have a car, and the bus runs infrequently, I bet many people spend an hour getting somewhere. Anecdote, not data, but https://www.seattletimes.com/business/economy/low-pay-long-p... You could arg
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
If you have to take a bus for an hour to get to your four-hour shift at a stressful minimum wage job, where your manager is abusive and the workplace is unsafe, your mental health may suffer. Meaningful work, or contributing to the wellbein
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
In my experience, they are often young and at the beginning of their career. They are still medical doctors, not to take anything away from them, but I mostly rely on them for referrals to specialists as needed. One Medical removes some fri
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
c.f. https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
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Ask HN: What is the dumbest thing you do but do anyways?
12 points by totalthrowaway 7y ago|19 comments
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.org domain name registry to be sold to private equity firm [pdf](domainnamewire.com)
31 points by totalthrowaway 7y ago|2 comments
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
Since Uber will predict the fare, I can occasionally AB test in NYC. The rates are basically the same as taxis now, so far as I can tell.
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
It isn't perfect, but the Mighty (bemighty.com) is basically an iPod Shuffle that you can download Spotify offline playlists to. It filled that niche for me.
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
At first I thought book was in Slovenian or something, until I realized there was some DOM level decryption happening. I simultaneously wanted to open it up to figure out how it worked and close the page because it was so broken and counter
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
I hear this line of thinking a lot, and I still don't understand why Uber would be the one to rake in all the self-driving cash. What do they have that a new self-driving debt-free startup won't have?
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
Sort of? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/b-c-man-fine...
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
There was a time when this concept was revolutionary. https://www.pps.org/article/wwhyte He literally filmed what people actually did in public spaces, and came up with great guidelines to make them enjoyable. Architec
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
The actual article title is "The Hidden Horror ... " Having been there, financing is but one of its many horrors. NYC is great for many reasons. Having high end airport malls is not one of them.
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by totalthrowaway 7y ago
The study was 16 swimmers and 16 runners. From the paper itself: "For runners, sprint/power athletes were defined as those who competed in 100–400 m races and high jump, while distance athletes competed in races ≥800 m. Short dist
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by totalthrowaway 8y ago
Likely only half the world, given how it arrives -- which probably wouldn't save us given the interconnectedness of all the supply chains. Could half the world plausibly build a cell phone? If you wanted to buy a city-sized transformer
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by totalthrowaway 8y ago
This is such a relief to see purely for personal reasons. I was there as a child, and had some memory of 'buses with little wheels on the side' -- and had eventually convinced myself it was a dream. No one I had ever mentioned it
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by totalthrowaway 8y ago
That is not Amazon. ~ whois s3-amazonaws.com Domain Name: S3-AMAZONAWS.COM Registry Domain ID: 2246085106_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namesilo.com Registrar URL: http://www.namesilo.com Updated
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by totalthrowaway 8y ago
He's not quite anyone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Nottingham Perhaps this is meant as a public service, just to gather best practices. If you want to build your own thing, please go ahead, but don't c