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by wnissen 7y ago
I think you have the reason exactly right. The producers got lazy on the prices and only recently have gone back to more difficult pricing.
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by wnissen 7y ago
So I've read the big GE management book written by the folks at Crotonville, and concluded that Welch did a lot right, like moving responsibility within the company to the level where the knowledge is, and shedding units that were fund
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by wnissen 7y ago
Currently country code registrars can only register for the country the represent. .uk can only do UK, etc. You could allow them to register for lots of domains.
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by wnissen 7y ago
Oh, that explains why they seemingly have a real version out there. I've been suspicious to try it, but if they are separate it might be worth a try.
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by wnissen 7y ago
Anyone who has seen how Intuit has bungled Quicken for the Mac multiple times in multiple ways for over a decade would not be surprised. I'm willing to pay for upgrades and still incredibly frustrated.
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by wnissen 7y ago
Certainly the complexity of the experiments shows why theories are so complicated. The neutron wasn't even observed until 1930, with an experiment that fits on a tabletop. Even into the 1940s you could put together a cyclotron in a lab
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by wnissen 7y ago
Correct. A fire in a nice, completely unremarkable neighborhood about 40 miles east of San Francisco destroyed 4 units and made 35 people homeless. Almost 9 people to a home. And this is a solid 3-hour roundtrip commute from San Francisco o
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by wnissen 7y ago
They still did stuff that makes no sense, to me, like not supporting `iteritems` on dictionaries and `xrange` on sequences. Or using `str` to mean bytes? That would have been possible to make backwards compatible until Python 4. At this poi
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by wnissen 7y ago
I am also happy to see that sometime in the last several years slices of arrays became views rather than copies. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/swift/arrayslice
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by wnissen 7y ago
I think it was more common in smaller populations, either a small school or a unit within a school like a greek organization. Ohio State with 50K students at 10x10 photos per page would yield a 500 page book, and a pointless one at that.
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by wnissen 7y ago
Probably comes from the Forbes 400 list, which has been published since 1982. Currently you need ~$2 billion in wealth to make that list. https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/#123491f27e2f
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by wnissen 7y ago
No, just income tax, the only portion of the tax code that is nominally progressive. Payroll taxes are explicitly regressive, going away at an income of roughly the top 5%. Sales taxes are flat. Even income taxes aren't as progressive
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by wnissen 7y ago
Each general is the CEO of a multi-thousand person organization. Whether CEO pay is reasonable is a different discussion, but it would be surprising if generals were not paid well.
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by wnissen 7y ago
For those not up on Matt Levine or where to find his newsletter: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-10-02/the-tr...
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by wnissen 7y ago
Modern detergents are amazing but plain old Dawn hand dishwashing detergent is better than any of them for greasy spots. I put some in a travel-size squirt bottle and keep it next to the Shout gel that I use on most other stains. It's
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by wnissen 7y ago
It sucks for the audience. Sadly RoboGames didn't do a show this year, they are a ton of fun to watch. I hope they come back.
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by wnissen 7y ago
The producers deliberately pick interesting robots (and teams) instead of the most likely to win.
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by wnissen 7y ago
At the moment, if an attacker has control of your DNS, it's game over before you even start. There are some technologies that help, such as secure DNS (DNSSEC) and "certificate pinning" but they don't do everything.
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by wnissen 7y ago
I suppose it's not something that the Fed would want trumpeted in every paper, but thanks for informing me that they were reversing QE. I agree, you would think that the effects of selling off a half trillion in assets per year since t
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by wnissen 7y ago
Lots of good Roman mapping resources previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146055 I personally really enjoyed http://orbis.stanford.edu/ which maps between cities, even telling you how man
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by wnissen 7y ago
Life expectancy past 65 is not, in fact, increasing at nearly the rate of overall life expectancy, which is mainly driven by reduced infant and child mortality. This data is from the UK, not the US, but the curves are similar. In the last 3
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by wnissen 7y ago
My guess is that would be more expensive than what the index fund / ETF would cost you even in a worst case scenario. Read my comment where over the last 10 years Vanguard has only deviated by 1%, even after factoring in trading costs.
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by wnissen 7y ago
I can explain the analogy at least, though I think there's a serious flaw in his reasoning. CDOs are collections of mortgages with rules about how they pay out. During the last bubble they were sold (and rated by supposedly respectable
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by wnissen 7y ago
As someone who had one of the bad batteries, where it swelled up to an alarming degree, I see a major difference between a generic power brick with some small possibility of a problem and a battery with a known problem.
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by wnissen 7y ago
Especially when the existing sites that at least offer 800 numbers are already so bad at doing low price guarantees. Look at what hotels.com did when the price dropped by $1000: quibble about whether the rate was really the same because of
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by wnissen 7y ago
I found my quality of life greatly improved when I started going to Facebook once a day, no app or notifications. So far it is improving again as I have stopped using Facebook. They sure are desperate to get you back, though, it's been
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by wnissen 7y ago
The average car on the road is 12 years old at this point. It has increased dramatically, even during "cash for clunkers", which you would think would have dropped it. https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehicles&#x2F
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by wnissen 7y ago
Yep. I have left mine running for literally weeks (over 25/5 DSL, so not a screaming connection, but perfectly adequate before) and it has not finished syncing a library that was completely synced before . It should be just a metadata
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by wnissen 7y ago
Yeah, that seems crazy. There are ~125 million U.S. households. We buy a ton of stuff from Amazon (not toilet paper, to be sure) and that's ~100 orders (so even fewer packages) per year. The average household is going to get an Amazon
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by wnissen 7y ago
The sorting centers are completely different, since the methods of backbone transit are separate. Express only goes via airports (except for regional city pairs like L.A. to San Francisco). Home/Ground only goes by road/train, so

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