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by wnissen 8y ago
The driver grosses that much, but has to cover gas and the cost of the car itself out of their share. The actual amount the driver keeps appears to be on the order of $10 an hour, so I doubt we'll see very cheap rides any time soon.
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by wnissen 8y ago
I am surprised that they have not kept up with the professional photography, though. Who is going to be the guinea pig to book a property with 6 blurry photos in a foreign country? It's a waste of everyone's time: host, guest, and
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To add to this, the jitter becomes more and more important the larger the scale you are running. The whole calculation (potentially the whole machine) is sitting around waiting for the slowest single task to finish up. Thus you get counteri
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by wnissen 8y ago
If you're into a long biographical documentary, check out http://www.iambigbird.com/ which you'll have to rent or buy (at least in the US).
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I heard an advocate for the sabbath who was an observant jew but felt that in the US we should protect Sunday, essentially for this reason.
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by wnissen 8y ago
Yeah, not sure what is going on with there being no truly hand-sized phone available except the SE. You could fit a much bigger screen in that form factor, it would have a huge (pun intended) impact. Instead you see a bunch of bezel-less ph
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by wnissen 8y ago
Specifically, 32 bits of PDP11 core memory cost on the order of $2, and that was per timestamp. Pretty obvious why you wouldn't go 64-bit unless you had to.
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by wnissen 8y ago
Yep. One day I walked several blocks in each arrondissement on foot in a single day. The route was a little over 30km, and it took only about 12 hours, with lots of stops whenever I saw something interesting. There are many similarities, bu
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by wnissen 8y ago
The percentage of all PhDs earned by women has just, in the last ten years, hit 50%. Of the STEM fields only biology has over 50%, and engineering, physics, and math are in the 20s. A lot of strides have been made, but "most inclusive
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by wnissen 8y ago
I take a half an Ambien to sleep on overnight flights, no side effects that I can discern. It's all about managing risks relative to benefits, and not always in an evenhanded way. 2 grams of Tylenol/paracetamol with a bottle of wi
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Still looking at the formula and puffing my cheeks out in disbelief. Every time I read it again it seems weirder. Bitwise and?
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Blockbuster was also servicing US$1 billion in debt after being spun off from Viacom.
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Yes, and your version is a knockoff of a culturally significant item created in an independent country that was conquered militarily and handed over to be annexed for the benefit of a pineapple company. So maybe give those of the originatin
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by wnissen 8y ago
Netflix now lets you download many (most?) of their films, I always get some documentaries and fictional shows of my destination. For France I watched a documentary on the national soccer team and a comedy special by Jacky Bloom.
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by wnissen 8y ago
It was an X-Sense DS31, looks like it has been replaced by this one: https://smile.amazon.com/X-Sense-10-Year-Battery-Detector-Ph...
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by wnissen 8y ago
I read that a photoelectric smoke detector gave far fewer false positives and found that to be the case. No more alarms when boiling water or making a stir fry. This one is very affordable, if you have control over your smoke detector. htt
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This explained a lot about evolution and government that previously seemed paradoxical to me.
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by wnissen 9y ago
Yes, it is easier to screw with a pension than a 401(k), for sure. Countries that have national pension schemes certainly have their share of problems. But the median 401(k) balance for a senior is $65K. That's maybe 2 years living exp
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by wnissen 9y ago
Pensions are cheaper than 401(k) accounts. I will say it again, this is simple actuarial math: Pensions are cheaper than 401(k)s. Three reasons: 1. Some people will die before they collect, others will live far longer. With a pension the f
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by wnissen 9y ago
Jacquesm has it right, just an ordinary radio. There was a reason the brick-sized Motorola DynaTAC had only a 30 minute talk time, and it wasn't that the battery was small. Thus the popularity of the carphone, as noted elsewhere. It&#x
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It's not really a study, just the slightly more than back of the envelope calculation that you're sketching out. The census records median household income, check for a typical rate, and in the Bay Area at least, you get a huge fr
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by wnissen 9y ago
Right. We already did this experiment, as a society. In the old analog days, people were beaming an actual watt straight into their heads, Bluetooth still being a decade in the future. Now the max is something like an eighth of that (.125 w
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by wnissen 9y ago
No one wants "real" food, that is for sure. We always try to stay and shop in residential neighborhoods when we travel, and if you look at what people have in their baskets, it is pretty boring. I would have gone insane in Puerto
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I just wish they would bring back the old patron system, where I didn't see ads and some small amount of money went to the sites I visited, without a subscription. Because I want to support good journalism, wherever it is found, but th
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by wnissen 9y ago
Renters and pro-growth, urban-minded owners would seem to constitute a majority in many of the highest cost parts of California. And yet my town recently passed a milestone of sorts: the principle and interest to buy the median home consume
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by wnissen 9y ago
You must only know people with a lot of disposable income.
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Apple is great at getting you to buy new hardware. This is, as you have found, quite different from actual obsolescence.
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by wnissen 9y ago
Apple does this right, the installed keyboard is not used for passwords. So while it can see what websites you are visiting, even in Incognito mode, it doesn't ever see URLs or anything very sensitive.
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And they are only doing this in the big cities where there is plenty of competition. When I've stayed at sketchy AirBnBs, it was not a surprise. The real problem is in the boonies where there might only be a couple places available in
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by wnissen 9y ago
Right, but most of them are getting landfilled at the worst, right? As I understand it, the majority of the garbage is coming from countries that have no commercial-scale waste disposal except ocean dumping.

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