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by vmarsy 9y ago
I agree on those 2 points. regarding your second point, I don't like this unrolling either. The trick seems to be instead of : return $mylist Add a comma in front: return ,$mylist https://stackoverflow.com&
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by vmarsy 9y ago
So basically it seems that houses in France are sold via a slow Dutch auction[1], whereas in the US it's an English auction... It seems that the English auction goes much faster for the seller, whereas in the french house market, the b
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I think wireless charging slowness can be seen as a feature, not a bug. Some EE major can correct me, but I think the slower you charge a battery, the better it is for its overall life. (So even for non wireless charging, if possible, it&#x
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Those Spanish wines that are made to look French and fool the consumer with their lavender fields etc as described in the article... Winemakers are blaming the Spanish, but there's also the French grocery stores to blame: why put the F
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by vmarsy 9y ago
From one of the sources of the article: [1] >> In Study 1, White and Asian nonnative speakers using the same scripted responses as native speakers were found to be significantly less likely to be recommended for a middle-management p
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by vmarsy 9y ago
There is already such incentives for companies defrauding the government [1] : "Qui tam" where the whistleblower can receive "between 15% and 25% of any award or settlement amount" on cases like this seems to be a pretty
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I really liked the blog post and was interested to see the end results but... > I hope to publish another blog post describing [speculative parsing] thoroughly, along with details on the performance improvements this feature would bring.
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We Have Every Free PACER Opinion on CourtListener.com(free.law)
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> A single Boeing building in Everett, north of Seattle, is 4.3 million square feet. About half of Amazon's total. You're talking about the Boeing Everett Factory[1], 399480 m2, 4.3 million square feet... Of course it's b
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Is there any examples of concrete source code matching exactly? I'm not familiar with ruby, but what if it's just how ruby projects are set up usually? The version file content, and the file structure might just be both taken fr
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> The customers don't have any recourse to say "no, that's a shitty settlement, we want 100% of what we're owed not 10% of it" They definitely do, they can decide to opt-out, and retain the right to sue the compa
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Agreed, but you can't anticipate what another dev could write :) Or if you pass down that `isConnected` down to a library where for some reason they assumed `null` should default to `true` Of course it's very unlikely, but my poin
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by vmarsy 9y ago
What if `weAreConnected` is `null` or `undefined`? WalterSear's solution solves the issue since both `null` and `undefined` would become `false`: this.setState({ isConnected: Boolean(weAreConnected) }) but in your
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I think this is an important point. I found the Intercept's article[1] about the ACLU defending Charlottesville protesters' free speech right pretty interesting in that regard: Some people insult and blame the ACLU for defending
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Same for Seattle, $10518 of housing implies a rent of $876.5 per month But the average rent[1] in Seattle is $2210 per month for a 1Br, $2803 for a 2BR , so even sharing a 2BR it's still way above the $876.5/mo [1] https:/&#
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> Some 58 percent of all offers on Airbnb in Germany are entire apartments or even apartment blocks - meaning professional landlords are effectively the core of Airbnb's business. Someone working a full time job, who owns a primary
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by vmarsy 9y ago
This reminds me of Solar updraft tower prototypes [1], which concentrates heat at the bottom of the chimney instead of expecting cold air at the top of the chimney. There's still a delta of temperature between the top and the bottom, b
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by vmarsy 9y ago
3) is true with all hue lights, so that you can easily override using the good old physical switches. However, are you sure about 4? I had power outages sometimes, when the power comes back, all the hue lights gets on (Not cool when it&#x27
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by vmarsy 9y ago
To add to the list of how many of those problems are already solved in the EU : > Allowing merchants to save 2% in credit card fees (which doubles their profit margin if it was 2% to begin with). In the EU those fees are capped at 0.2% f
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Low humidity compared to where? Average yearly relative humidity[1] : Houston: 75% daily 90% morning 55% afternoon In the summer, the heat is much more unbearable in Texas than let's say Arizona due to the high humidity ra
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Trump’s Plan for Reform of Employment-Based Green Card System(immigrationgirl.com)
2 points by vmarsy 9y ago|0 comments
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I wonder as well if you read the papers too? you may learn something from them as well. "We investigate the idea that women’s flaunting of designer products functions as a signaling system directed at same-sex rivals who pose a threat
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by vmarsy 9y ago
It's a bit tougher when a paper hasn't been peer reviewed, although not too different from a good paper published in a low quality or unknown conference. I think you should cite any idea you pick from a paper when the said paper h
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Interesting, I'm not sure how the list was created, it seems to be missing entries such as the one mentioned in that March 2015 comment at the end of the post.
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I think stackoverflow, reddit, etc. clearly know this is less effective, but they are probably simply following the law regarding "Native advertising" [1] which applies to "content that bears a similarity to the news, feature
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> Is it cheaper to buy 1 case of water for $2.50 or 3 cases of water for $9.00 Slightly off topic as I don't think this is college level algebra, in supermarkets in Europe they are required by law to put the "€/liter"
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Amazon launches Spark, a shoppable feed of stories and photos(techcrunch.com)
3 points by vmarsy 9y ago|1 comments
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by vmarsy 9y ago
It seems that it would not be legal, unless announced upfront : http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/watchdog/2014/12/24/as...
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by vmarsy 9y ago
The legal way might put pressure on Visa and MC, their attempt at a settlement failed last year [1]. I don't know what happened next. > The settlement may now need to be renegotiated, or the case could go to trial. > "Swipe
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by vmarsy 9y ago
In France we cut it in half, remove the pit, and in each half put a drizzle of olive oil and balsamic vinegar (2 olive oil : 1 balsamic vinegar ratio) in the hole where the pit used to be, and simply eat it with a spoon, it's delicious

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