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by whafro 9y ago
Theranos was a punch line in my office just this morning, and she'll forever be associated with that. But Shkreli has brought on himself another order of magnitude of personal criticism because of his statements and actions beyond the
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by whafro 9y ago
It wasn't available when I ordered. I had a time constraint, so got the first one off the boat into North America (allegedly), so it has a T6. But all things being equal, I'd love a T8 in there.
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by whafro 9y ago
Everyone differs here, but I think the X is actually pretty ugly at the front. The hood and grille just seem like a fussy child's face. I still love the look of the S, and think it's aging pretty well, but I couldn't bring my
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by whafro 9y ago
Apparently when there are issues with a belt, they just cut it off and reattach the clip. So belts can vary fairly widely (see what I did there?) in terms of size, and sometimes you have a relatively medium-sized person who runs into a real
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by whafro 9y ago
Assuming the presentations are equally high quality (in terms of communicating ideas) and the presenters are equally expert (in terms of the ideas themselves). That's certainly not always true. But my sense is that the era of strong an
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by whafro 9y ago
Streaming video in the conventional case may be a solved problem, but HQ has the additional (and seemingly unique to me) challenge of needing the streams to be nearly perfectly in sync. It's less like a bunch of people streaming HBO an
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by whafro 9y ago
Since having a kid myself, I've pretty much settled on the notion that it's an evolutionary trick: since you don't sleep much, you don't remember the hellish times during those early months (years?), so you're willi
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by whafro 9y ago
That's not what's typically been happening. In most cases, at least when considering the higher-profile ones of the last few weeks, stories have been about multiple occurrences. The reporting typically identifies a pattern of beha
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by whafro 9y ago
The roundabout on the Cambridge side of the BU bridge, which I unfortunately have to take home most evenings, is something I can't imagine a driverless car handling. Sometimes it's a single-lane roundabout, but at peak hours it ca
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by whafro 9y ago
That's sorta the point – in this case, I have no ability (as a consumer) to "go elsewhere." Aside from the two times I've placed freezes on my credit history, I have no relationship with Equifax, and have never consented
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by whafro 9y ago
I'm not knowledgeable enough to compare directly to VAT, but many credit cards extend a product's existing warranty (90 days to two years, depending on the card), and some offer things like 90-day purchase protection (if the price
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by whafro 9y ago
Refund the placebo folks after the study?
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by whafro 9y ago
In the Boston marathon, only the elite runners (a few dozen) are segmented by gender/sex, and elite women are the first to leave, followed by the elite men, followed by the top qualifying times of either gender. From watching the race
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by whafro 10y ago
Tough to tell what this is really saying from this side of the paywall, but it certainly doesn't fit the current narrative in the tech industry. On the other hand, in looking for a new crossover SUV this year, I was surprised at how ma
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by whafro 10y ago
Anecdata: the well-developed legal field is the prime reason why my corporate attorney always pushes his clients to incorporate in Delaware. He and his firm know what to expect throughout the process, and can offer much more reliable advice
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by whafro 10y ago
Totally, and thanks. I was quick to write and submit my answer and was remembering some debate during the Clinton era. But the noninterference provision was indeed targeted at market-oriented Republicans to get them on board. There were ple
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by whafro 10y ago
It was politics from a couple decades ago. Medicare historically didn't cover prescription drugs, until Part D was enacted during the Clinton administration. A tactic to get Republicans to support the measure was to pledge that Medicar
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by whafro 10y ago
I guess that points to a chance that a USB-C 5A cable at 20V or something could soon power something like this. If that cable were carrying the DP signal, that'd be rad.
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by whafro 10y ago
Perhaps not the strongest possible, but I've heard the argument in the past that it violates the confrontation clause of the 6th amendment – that you are unable to face your accuser, since your accuser is simply a timed camera. OTOH, s
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by whafro 10y ago
Of course, they also pay lots of taxes too, including sales tax, and presumably some of that, directly or indirectly, would offset the costs of this kind of program.
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by whafro 10y ago
Perhaps not for most of the country by surface area, but far more than 5-15% of the population could be effectively served by better public transportation.
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by whafro 10y ago
"Update at 11:35 AM PST: We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard." Yep.
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by whafro 10y ago
Alternatively, great luck and timing for the Wirecutter team to sell to NYTimes before this happened. For consumers, it's more likely heartbreaking, as we'll all likely have a tougher time getting high-quality review content like
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Coinbase and the IRS(medium.com)
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by whafro 10y ago
I don't have a ton of first-hand knowledge, but I know that being licensed to provide health insurance in NY specifically is no joke. Todd Park (former US CTO, AthenaHealth founder) once told me that he didn't pay much attention t
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by whafro 10y ago
I lived in Washington before stops like U Street, Petworth, and others had been built, and the major roads in those neighborhoods were not responsible for the growth they've experienced since the station's openings.
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But they intentionally don't cover the same ground frequently, which is a key part of the Tesla data. The same intersection in many different conditions is pretty important. I'm assuming that once a Google Maps van has covered an
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by whafro 10y ago
I misread this as "the best microcopy" and thought it'd be a potentially-interesting UX piece. Still, some amazing images here. Conceptually, it reminds me of the bacterial imagery used in the movie The Fountain for many of i
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by whafro 10y ago
The body element already has an opacity attribute, defaulted to 1. This explicitly defines it, initially, and decreases it over time.
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by whafro 10y ago
This is pretty cool. Slicing remains a relatively tough/lossy process, since I understand it's challenging to maintain the integrity of the tissue through the slicing and extraction process, especially for something as finicky as

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