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by whyenot 7y ago
Totally agree. If you spend any time in San Jose you feel like you have to take a shower afterwards because the exhaust from the cars and buses is so thick and gross and gets all into your clothes. If only they would take emissions a little
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by whyenot 7y ago
Thank you for sharing that, it's pretty interesting. I wouldn't have guessed that it was to maintain compatibility with Lotus 1-2-3.
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by whyenot 7y ago
Just don't try to use dates before January 1, 1900 (or 1904 on Mac). You can work with dates in Excel 1,000 years in the future, but if you try to do that for dates from the 1800s it will completely screw them up. I don't understa
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by whyenot 7y ago
If you have a lot of followers, twitter can be a very effective loudspeaker even with the character limit. By the way, 10 year olds don’t tend to use twitter — boys or girls (why is it so often young girls who are held up as a negative exam
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by whyenot 7y ago
Alex on Autos and others are better for a thorough review, but where Doug Demuro shines is his emphasis on quirks and features.
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by whyenot 7y ago
I remember reading about him in Chaos: Making a New Science where James Gleick portrayed him as a young man. That was in the late 1980s when I was a high school student. Time flies :(
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by whyenot 7y ago
Boeing is never going to be "put out of business." They are too important to the US economy and US national defense for that to ever happen. What could happen (but still unlikely) is that those within the company who made the dec
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by whyenot 7y ago
> Unlike banks, Amazon is now simply too big to fail. A generation ago, you could have said that about Microsoft. Somebody can indeed force them to "fix their shit" -- government. ...and they will. You can already see some rip
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by whyenot 7y ago
My university lost power for about 9 hours a few years ago. Several labs did not have their -80s hooked into emergency backup power (due to limits of the building, very understandable reasons). I remember a professor sitting in the dark hal
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by whyenot 7y ago
Especially with how high-resolution touchscreens in cars are becoming in new models, I doubt they're cheaper than a handful of plastic knobs and buttons. Every modern car is going to have an infotainment system with a screen. A bette
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by whyenot 7y ago
Yes. Isn't that something that ultimately the courts will have to decide?
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by whyenot 7y ago
> The graphic shows 79 species of plant lost. Anyone that's been to Hawaii knows there are far more than 79 introduced plant species. But these two things are not directly comparable. On the one hand, you have species that have gone
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by whyenot 7y ago
Can you back this up with a link or more specifics?
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As Wildfire Season Looms, Finding Tree Trimmers Is a New Problem(nytimes.com)
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Tesla’s automatic lane-changing feature is ‘far less competent’ than a human(washingtonpost.com)
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by whyenot 7y ago
Donald Trump could "solve" global warming in less than 30 minutes with a call to the military. Vladimir Putin has a similar option. Depopulation and nuclear winter would do the trick. Of course I am being glib, but we are living i
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by whyenot 7y ago
Your link is to what is represented as the authentic text of the memo. If genuine, to me, this seem like the most important bit: "It is important to bear in mind that we lost $700 million in the first quarter this year, which is over $
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by whyenot 7y ago
Where do those figures come from? They appear to be completely inaccurate. Looking here [1], while there has certainly been a reduction in fatalities over the past 30 years, it's not even close to 10x. Maybe 2x or 4x. As far as miles t
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by whyenot 7y ago
As mentioned in the article, Amazon's competitors such as Walmart are also doing trials with the same machine.
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by whyenot 7y ago
Likely true, at least in a direct sense, but Stanford does give a nearly three-fold preference to legacy applicants. Alumni are more likely to donate to Stanford than non-alumni. https://stanfordmag.org/contents/what-it
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by whyenot 8y ago
How would that work, exactly? A drone isn't going to be equipped with a shovel to pry it out of the rocks or have the power to pull it out.
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by whyenot 8y ago
Unfortunately, "just try harder" isn't always the solution to this problem. Sometimes it's better to fail, catch your breath, and then select a different path.
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by whyenot 8y ago
Working as staff at a major university, I get to interact with a lot of students in biology and often hear back from them once they graduate. At least for biology, the job prospects are not great. With luck, you may make a living wage and h
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by whyenot 8y ago
I don't think you would hold that opinion if you walked in the hilly are near Union Square.
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by whyenot 8y ago
> Is fb actively stifling competition? Is there a market failure? They bought two of their competitors and copied the features of a third. None of that may meet the definition of "stifling competition," but it's a strategy
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by whyenot 8y ago
I noticed you didn't provide a link to any of this "wonderful evidence." So let me provide one to a Washington Post article on the controversy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/01/12&#x
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by whyenot 8y ago
consensus =/= unanimity It only takes one person to post the comment and a few more to upvote it. Furthermore, particularly in the case of the WSJ, there is no low cost option for reading individual stories. You either become a subscri
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by whyenot 8y ago
They really are larger. You can't even buy a single cab Tacoma in the US anymore.
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by whyenot 8y ago
> working in a minimum wage job? Why is being a line cook in a relatively high-end SF restaurant a "minimum wage" job? Especially when severs in the same restaurant are apparently bringing home $80-90k a year? I don't disa
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by whyenot 8y ago
As detailed in the article, due to the FAA's efforts to modernize the air traffic control system, planes have different flight paths than they used to, and communities near airports which used to not experience noise problems, do now.

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