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by zaphod12 5y ago
I don't know about number 7 - most of the USA is actually pretty nicely temperate. There are some exceptions like death valley (3000 sq mi) or the chihuahan dessert (about 25000 sq mi in the USA), or some parts of Alaska, but we'r
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Though a lot of what say is reasonable, it's of interesting note that NASA has had this issue basically since day 1. Many of these causes boil down to the same issues that caused the devastating Apollo 1 fire.
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by zaphod12 5y ago
oh yeah, this is super true of sales. everyone in your sales org needs absurd titles or nobody will ever speak to them. Just one of those things apparently.
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Interesting the Atlantic is considered to skew left
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by zaphod12 5y ago
You can get 8gbs?!?! What can you do with that? I have 1 gbs and the bottleneck isn't that bandwidth for pretty much anything.
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Depends on the artist...T. Swift vs. Rogan would be a pretty close thing.
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by zaphod12 5y ago
I don't know man - graduate student might be the only job that's more demanding that amazon warehouse employee.
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by zaphod12 5y ago
So interesting that we're comparing to buzzfeed, who also has a fairly good investigative journalism group! Here's a rather interesting one: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/collection/wwfsecretwar
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Really recommend longreads.com Mostly they curate other's long form journalism, but also have some of their own and usually quite good. They'll link out to eater, ny magazine, aeon, nautilus, outsideonline, nytimes, propublica (su
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by zaphod12 5y ago
The study that pushed that thought about wine tasting was looking at amateur enthusiasts, not professionals. The top folks can identify, in all common cases, the vineyard that a wine has come from. Some aspects of this are surprisingly stra
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Rounded corners actually
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by zaphod12 5y ago
The skyscraper point is tremendously silly. Sure, the max height has slowed it's march (though not stopped!), but far more supertall towers have been erected since 2001, than had been previously. This is because of cost decrease and te
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Funnily I've had many Amazon engineers fail system design interviews because they only ever saw their little area with more senior people handling all of the interesting stuff. I also consider a small company starting to bring on ex-Am
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Amazon used to be great. They used to refund, or replace an order immediately. The other day I literally had a chat support agent tell me to call the shipper to check status and then gave me the Amazon support number, because Amazon was the
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Very frequently seen $5000 or even $10000...often from hypergrowth venture backed start ups. There is nothing insulting about that.
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Wait...what on earth is American paella?!?!?!
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by zaphod12 5y ago
This is a really awfully broad generalization. Crime in SF, NY, Chicago, Boston, LA or Houston are all vastly different situations. Even with shootings up a ton this past year, NYC is still safer per capita than places like Savannah. SF see
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Forced exclusion sounds terrible. It's about having options, so there is not forced inclusion, which is the trap we've found ourselves in.
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Everyone ignores early endings, late starts is so much better!
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Business selling faraday cages for the home, anyone?
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by zaphod12 5y ago
This reads like an episode of black mirror. It's also brilliant. I also think we'll see this company IPO for $4 billion in 2030.
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by zaphod12 5y ago
I'm sorry to be this guy, but it's "tenure"
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by zaphod12 5y ago
Ok, so cancer is essentially a blanket term for describing that you have a group of cells in your body doing uncontrollable runaway mitosis (replicating themselves). But the thing is that it's caused by hundreds of different mutations
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by zaphod12 6y ago
I've seen realtors ask for ID unless you're accompanied by another realtor (who would leave a card). Basically they want a record of people through the house in case something does happen. You could easily make a fake business car
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by zaphod12 6y ago
Only comment is that keeping your money in cash instead of invested for a 5 year horizon isn't wise. Put them in something on the safer side - I'm not saying buy Bitcoin or something - but that's a long time to have your mone
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by zaphod12 6y ago
Cash is held for it's stability. bitcoin is the polar opposite of stability right now.
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by zaphod12 6y ago
another thread noted that the hardened CPU was not fast enough to do the required sensor fusion and responses. In the case of a severe fault, the 801 can be restarted fast enough (while in mid flight!) to not crash the vehicle.
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by zaphod12 6y ago
I've felt that same freaking feeling as a US citizen returning to my own country! It's crazy! The customs officials entering the Netherlands were cracking jokes with us, the ones entering japan were unflinchingly polite and effect
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by zaphod12 6y ago
J&J only announced phase 3 results a few days ago and will be up for approval shortly. the Astrazenaca vaccine's results were a mess of p-hacking and mixing methods (they reported a result on a half-size first dose which occurred b
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by zaphod12 6y ago
shorting is identically borrowing. You borrow the stock from someone who owns it, and resell it at the current price. Then later down the road, you buy it back at the lower price and return it to the original owner. You have made money on w

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