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I'm also curious what percentage of people married to people in their career field is due to meeting on the job. Are you more likely to marry someone in your profession? Or is "wor…

Although if one side in the cold war had good anti-ballistic missile tech they would be incentivised to first strike. That's the reason for the ABM limitation treaties https://en.m…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmeat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_trafficking_and_emerg... I have no doubt that there are cases of wealthy people consuming exotic meat …

Yeah, people don't eat bushmeat and from the garbage can because they choose to - they have (or feel they have) no other choice.

For a person to get both bottom and peak right. But hey, I'm less picky

All you need to correctly pick the bottom and peak of a year is 365 people. 366 in leap years.

Yeah, that'd theoretically work. But I wonder how it would go in practice with the limited information of each driver. Perhaps if they provided drivers with statistics (average off…

It seems to me that the option to refuse drives is the bigger change. But regarding pricing, Uber is no longer "mandating" the drivers accept a price, instead Uber drives agree to …

Hacker News without cynicism would be like Disneyland without Mickey Mouse :)

>Many argued at the time that J&J was at fault because their packaging wasn't sealed or tamper-evident. Do you have a citation for that? I don't doubt it's possible but I've never …

In this case, they use "foreign keys" in the sense that there are keys which correspond to keys in other tables. There are no foreign key constraints, the keyword is never used.

Seriously. "As a C developer, I never check exit codes of child processes. We can just enforce it by ensuring child processes don't have bugs"

Because, theoretically, these companies would not be profitable if their interest rates were regulated, and therefore nobody would offer loans. But I don't have statistics on defau…

It went great, expect where they totally missed sales targets and shuttered the program. The TriStar was a great plane. It should've done better.

While I 100% agree with you, as a Java dev who is very interested in optimization (particularly register coloring) at a certain point I think you have to realize that any "compiler…

How will an AI decide what the optimal allocation of food for the hungry is, how many computers everyone needs, and whether we should build basketball courts or if it's just a wast…

The negative interest rates discourages holding money and encourages spending (and investment), which drives inflation. I do not believe negative interest rates destroy money, but …

Theoretically, if he has fiduciary duty, he has to act in the best interest of his clients. I'm not sure if he has that duty (I've googled but can't find anything) but if he did th…

Technically, you can have a lease of any length. I've seen 3 and 6 month leases. I'm sure it's possible to have a 24+ month lease.

>And yet, proposition 13 is rarely cited as a significant contributor to California's housing issues, especially by the "this is simple supply and demand" crowd. Personally, while …

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/... I believe you might be thinking of month-to-month, which is not a traditional lease. On all fixed term leases over a…

I think you're intentionally misrepresenting the opposing viewpoint. If rent control artificially reduces the price of housing, more people will want to live in CA. Less houses wil…

All you need to do is fill it with ads, then it will be really cyberpunk! Although I heard recently that might be against NPM's TOS...

This is hilarious, and I love it. It makes me really, really nostalgic.