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by trimbo 8y ago
> The FAA is not a global organization, they don’t have oversight over any of the crashed aircraft. The FAA has bilateral agreements with other countries and the EU for certification[1]. I read recently but can't quickly find in thi
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by trimbo 8y ago
> problems with their keyboard, which is a hard thing to get right Not sure what you mean here. They got the old keyboard right, and made it worse!
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by trimbo 8y ago
> But that relatively small number is still enough to dominate the economy of a major metropolitan area... So the rise in visible homelessness is perhaps the expected result I'd imagine the expected result is that prices increase to
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by trimbo 8y ago
Somebody in Silicon Valley needs to hire David Carson.
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by trimbo 8y ago
Is there like an S-1 team that does graphic design for everyone's S-1 these days? Lyft's S-1 has the same designs: pages of pictures of happy people/drivers, a full page mission statement in a sans-serif font on a solid backg
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by trimbo 8y ago
No, this did not pass. All that has passed is that you need to "register" your vacant storefront or be fined for _not registering_. https://hoodline.com/2019/03/board-of-supervisors-passes-leg...
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by trimbo 8y ago
It is grounded worldwide
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by trimbo 8y ago
Call and ask?
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by trimbo 8y ago
They're spending $30M+ on R&D, so if you feel that way as a customer, that's not good.
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by trimbo 8y ago
> HBO has never been the best place for comedy series Hey now! The Larry Sanders Show begs to differ. ... also Mr. Show.
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by trimbo 8y ago
> I think the point is the client might not be sophisticated enough to realize there’s a distinction there Yup, that's exactly my point. Your car analogy is a good one. I was going to make a similar one with house construction but y
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by trimbo 8y ago
> Back when I worked on building software for clients, I used to tell people "we run all software on the Java Virtual Machine" instead of "it's written in Clojure", because I was afraid they would get scared. Tha
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by trimbo 8y ago
> If Alaska isn't a good place to live for humans but great for other inhabitants, the humans should move. The indigenous populations in the Arctic are often very poor. Who is going to pay for them to move to Ft. Lauderdale, or eve
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by trimbo 8y ago
> That's what sharing is about, more optimal allocation/usage. It's not an end-all solution to everything, it's a supplement. Do you think that drives down the wages of the people who need to do it as their main sourc
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by trimbo 8y ago
Maybe. The churn for Uber is reportedly 96% annually[1]. The Uber booth at the mall is for recruiting drivers, not riders. Ads on the radio are for drivers. And if you look around at what they spend all of this money on, it's incentive
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by trimbo 8y ago
So you think they'll stay solvent for 25 years?
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by trimbo 8y ago
It looks like they spend a bunch of pages on rider retention and gloss over what I think is the primary issue for the gig economy: provider retention. It's just like Groupon, you can't have a good sell-through product indefinitely
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by trimbo 8y ago
Will they accept nuclear reactors though? If you're going to ban these, then offer a non-fossil-fuel alternative that could work.
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by trimbo 8y ago
> So, I’m leaving. But I do hope to come back someday I hope this person moves to, like, Tokyo or London or something super expensive. If they move to a low cost of living area, trying to move back later isn't a great plan.
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by trimbo 8y ago
What's old is new again. NCSA Mosaic's Group Annotations: http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/facilities/documentation/www/Mosa...
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by trimbo 8y ago
The Airpods article is interesting. Airpods seem to be changing the office as well. People are doing their entire routine at the office with Airpods: going to the coffee maker, to the cafeteria, to the bathroom, going to meetings (then taki
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by trimbo 8y ago
> Shit got progressively more fucked up along the way. Okay, but the biggest reason for that is because Holmes and Balwani are sociopaths[1]. I wanted to point this out because I feel like your comment is defending her somehow by way of
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by trimbo 8y ago
From a screenshot at [1] * 800 mR/hr if you touched the ore * 280 mR/hr on the surface of the bucket (sealed) * "0 above background" if you were 5 ft away from the bucket * 2.5 mR/hr if you were touching the cabinet
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by trimbo 8y ago
> Developing SPAs is easier than server-render applications. Not sure about "easier". I'm a backend person so take this with a grain of salt but, to me, nothing on the web is easier than doing everything server side. All o
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by trimbo 8y ago
Here ya go https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelshellenberger/2018/05/23...
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by trimbo 8y ago
> Uber/Lyft are edging towards a comfortable duopoly A duopoly the likes of which not seen since that of Yellow and Checker.
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by trimbo 8y ago
Sigh. I've been arguing this for so long, and gave up about 5 years ago. I can't think of a more scalable way than fission to combat carbon, yet it won't happen for so many reasons. * There are too many solar and wind success
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by trimbo 8y ago
> Their working conditions and pay are much better than they would be without the unions. This is true, but those are gig jobs, not full-time jobs. A show might last 8-12 weeks. The crew need the union just to carry over health care and
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by trimbo 8y ago
The article says the layoffs are "mostly" not dev teams, but rather on the publishing side.
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by trimbo 8y ago
Sorry, yes I phrased that wrong. I meant they need to keep their focus there.

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