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by vl 7y ago
Typical modern American house has at least 3 bathrooms: downstairs, upstairs master bedroom for parents, upstairs shared for kids. Downstairs ”in-law” room with private bathroom or washer/dryer closet with toilet gives you fourth.
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by vl 7y ago
Each truly international product has hundreds, if not thousands policies like this codified. How to render border between India and Pakistan, Russia and Ukraine, what words to exclude from dictionaries and suspend in auto-suggest, etc. For
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by vl 7y ago
The problem is that tensorflow is an umbrella name for bunch of related technologies: it's a matrix calculation engine, graph definition language, distributed graph calculation engine, ML algorithmic libraries, ML training libraries. O
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by vl 7y ago
> If the patient could choose any doctor because they aren't limited to in-network only and the doctors couldn't charge different prices for insurance vs. cash, and if patients actually knew what the prices were beforehand ther
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by vl 7y ago
Not at all. AWS, or rather S3 was a pet project of one of the very early Amazon employees who wanted to do something fun. It wasn't really taken seriously or had deep strategy at first. Once it's started to gain traction, Bezos re
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by vl 7y ago
This is exactly my point, records should be apples-to-apples. This particular record should go to Shuttle or similar “aircraft”. In particular Shuttle is hard to distinguish from X-15. Same thing, but more of it. “Takes off under it’s own p
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by vl 7y ago
To be fair, calling X-15 “piloted, powered aircraft” is a stretch. While it’s piloted and powered, it’s definitely not conventional plane, i.e. aircraft. It’s a rocket that is launched from the carrier plane and has ability to land as (unpo
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by vl 7y ago
I love how liberal press screams "blue-collar workers can't get jobs", but if you try to hire plumber or electrician for a day job you will be lucky to schedule someone in the next few weeks and then will pay $1000 for a 6-ho
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by vl 7y ago
But you can't ride 6 hours on the single tank of gas?
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by vl 7y ago
>That's great to hear. Unfortunately, his actions haven't really done anything in the US. At the very least it produced some dissonance between democratic establishment and their support base. Bill and Hilary continue to tour t
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by vl 7y ago
This article has a lot of arguments specifically about safety. And even then, unions can increase safety in some domain, while simultaneously decrease safety in other domain and bankrupt host airline. Moreover, Sully, as senior pilot, was d
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by vl 7y ago
And yet it doesn't mean that he can't write a factual article about airline unions using his insider's perspective.
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by vl 7y ago
>He flew in an airline for a short while, but he is not a "former airline pilot". "He flew in an airline for a short while" literally means that he is a former airline pilot, i.e. in the past he piloted aircraft, whil
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by vl 7y ago
An article from the former airline pilot explaining airline unions: https://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
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by vl 7y ago
E9x was pretty good too. But they really missed electric train, and this the main problem for BMW nowadays.
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by vl 7y ago
Google has special compensation structure for some startup-like projects designed to keep talent in the company instead of leaving and building their own company. After they hit (or were thought to hit) all milestones, self-driving unit was
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by vl 7y ago
>While there would be considerable value in learning that we live in a computer simulation. There is no value, what would most of the people do differently if they knew? Nothing. Also, apart from the questionable idea that we are central
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by vl 7y ago
And Dark Mass and Dark Energy.
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by vl 7y ago
This Qoura post is typical pro-Google propaganda. Things at current Google are far from described: modern Google is deep bureaucratic hierarchical organization.
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by vl 7y ago
It’s never uphill though, while rotating “halo” looks like it bends upwards, force-wise it feels flat.
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by vl 7y ago
I just do stretches for the muscles I'm training. This is good book: https://www.amazon.com/Stretching-Pocket-Book-Bob-Anderson/d... This strap is really helpful: https://www.amazon.com/gp/pro
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by vl 7y ago
Well, my personal take, based on experience, is this: You have to have enough range of motion for the lift you are doing, if you lift and don't stretch, muscle tends to shorten, and eventually you are not going to have enough range. Th
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by vl 7y ago
In addition to money, there are a lot of things that are unclear in the Jane Austen’s novels for the modern reader. One such thing is time: when Mrs. Bennet asks Mr. Bingley “to dine with then”, at what specific time Mr. Bingley is supposed
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by vl 7y ago
There are few things they don’t tell you about weightlifting: - stretching is critical and takes time, without stretching you’ll eventually injure yourself. - eventually you’ll get some minor injury and will have to manage that and wait for
955.
by vl 7y ago
But times are changing, now it’s also possible to buy great screwdriver from China and inferior from Germany.
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by vl 7y ago
Managing 1000 units is way beyond full-time job, for this you need staff, which is additional expense.
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by vl 7y ago
The problem is that optimizing for long-term satisfaction metrics is extremely tricky and hard. Such metrics lead to the better user retention, potentially even with less watch time. Paradoxically higher watch time may lead to lower user sa
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by vl 7y ago
To the large extent this is how Amazon Video (or Hulu) works - you can subscribe not only to Prime Video, but also to HBO, Starz, CBS, etc. Which have subscription services of their own.
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by vl 7y ago
This crossword is available in NYT Crossword app, I just loaded it! I'm going to try to solve it both ways. :)
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by vl 7y ago
You concentrating on the literal interpretation of the phrase “give access to the index”. This is non-technical article which didn’t go into details, just read it as “give access to index & ranking”.

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