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by zzleeper 10y ago
TBH well-prepared plain quinua should have a very neutral taste. But if you don't wash it enough, you won't remove the soap-ish outer layer so it ends up tasting bitter: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/JdBFm-697eM&#x2F
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by zzleeper 10y ago
I thought it was satire. Although you might make an argument for why reducing time-to-trade from 50ms to 100ms would not be the end of the world
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Damn! And I was just thinking about looking for a spot in Yellowstone or Jackson for that day :(
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by zzleeper 10y ago
It's not about the servers, it's about the users location. If a judge in France can succesfully that no one in the US can no longer find results for XYZ on Google, I find this troubling.
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Edit: or is it a move by Softbank to get the Sprint-TMobile merger approved? "Son is no stranger to grand goals, even if he hasn’t always delivered. He planned to combine Sprint, the No. 4 U.S. wireless operator, with its next rival T-
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by zzleeper 10y ago
I still feel like I'm missing something. It's not just the fact that it's going to be more labor expensive (after all, the yuan has fell a lot recently), but that the entire supply chain is in China, so if you produce in the
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by zzleeper 10y ago
For me, it's Python 2: weird quirks (unicode support sucks, I have to do from future import for a lot of things, etc.). On the other hand, Python 3 fixes many of these things, and even others that I didn't realize could be better
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by zzleeper 10y ago
That would be my first thought, but that's not how it works. If 50% of people had placebo and the drug had a real effect on 10%, then: - Placebo results: 50% - Drug results: 50% + 10% * 50% = 55% To detect a difference of 5%, you need
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Come on this is not reddit...
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Indeed. But I was replying to the pro-libertarian point of view, where municipalities or airport administrations play no role in the taxi industry, which sorts any problems "by itself"
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Not really. There is an econ paper that explains why (Xavier Gabaix's shrouded prices theory), but the idea is this: There are some consumers that are naive (tourists in this case) and you can exploit them (go to the airport, and wait
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by zzleeper 10y ago
That was not his point. When you extract oil, you don't really get a single product but multiple ones (heavy oils, lubricants, etc.) Before you might be selling lubricants cheaply, because after refinement you had lots of lubricants as
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by zzleeper 10y ago
That's the question we all asked.
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by zzleeper 10y ago
+1 for MTailor. Not affiliated at all, but I ordered several shirts and a suit in the last year and it fits amazingly (and it's quite convenient to order from the app). Do be aware though, that it will take ~ 4 weeks (slower than buyin
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Don't the figures depend on the latitude? (Northern Hemispher will see a larger increase or sth lke that)
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Interestingly, the same might be true with languages. Quechua (from the Andean Mountains) only has three vowels (a, i, u). I can't find a reference, but AFAIK the main hypothesis was that a 3-vowel system made it easier to communicate
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by zzleeper 10y ago
That's one of the things keeping me away from Haskell. It seems that to be proficient I would need to know way more beyond the "standard library", but go into the String vs Text debates, and the huge amounts of common knowled
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Wow, I haven't even seen a 14b on an actual gym wall; I have absolutely no idea of how hard it is compared to a 11-12
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by zzleeper 10y ago
For me the most interesting chart is #2, "My Country is the Best Country in the World". Some countries (US, AUS, and a bit less the UK) show a marked divide between young and old responders for this. Any ideas why?
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by zzleeper 10y ago
How is Thiel's support for Trump consistent with Trump's stance on climate change? It's one of the largest dangers faced by the world, and I don't see how ignoring it is like "fixing the alzheimer of politics"
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by zzleeper 10y ago
I think that city folks were derisive of the rural and older voters but never really considered them as the enemy , while on the other side it was clear for the anti-abortion/protectionist/etc people that cities and their liberal
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Do you really think Trump will reign over banks or reduce military exports? I'm not asking an asshole question or being rhetorical. It's just that I can't see how or why would Trump choose to do that, once he is in office.
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by zzleeper 10y ago
> Every discussion of policy in every email was not picking and choosing which positions were the best positions for the country, but which polled the best and basing their platform sporadically on that. Agreed. But didn't you knew
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Not really... \usepackage{tabulary} gives me the X column type \usepackage{multirow} does what the name says \usepackage{longtable} is the most useful one \usepackage{booktabs} adds -toprule-, -midrule-, -bottomrule- \usepackage{threepartta
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Not just you. Tables are a huge mess, and for every package I add to my .tex file to fix a problem, two new problems pop up.. (oh you added package a at the end? It will fail, because package b loaded package C which defined the same macro
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Ok, I'll take the bait: I see a Bloomberg article attacking the company as the cause for the DDoS. I go to their Crunchbase and see that the founder is very young, entered college at age 12 (although that contradicts his linkedin), etc
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by zzleeper 10y ago
As you said, some sort of message would have to be the way. A 4xx probably won't cut it but something like the messages Google shows you when asking for a captcha is fine. My point is that there will be a cost, and that taking action
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Also either his crunchbase or his linkedin are lying, because "After starting college at the age of 12, I..." (from his crunchbase linked above)
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Not powerless, just unplug their toaster and they get their internet back. What is powerless is that many people today couldn't get twitter, github, reddit, spotify, box, etc. because many people don't care about securing their
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by zzleeper 10y ago
Why can't everyone else then block the customer? Get the big 5 tech companies to block IPs that are shown to do DDOS, for say a 24hr period, and you will see how quickly they unplug that IOT Toaster

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