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> There's no pride, no joy, just productivity. This is exactly what bothers me about the present moment. Not that the pride of craftsmanship is everything, but dialing it down to z…

Solar still works on Mars as does fission. Plenty of stuff about this online if you look.

On the one hand, totally reasonable to ask “what does speaking English have to do with building airplanes”. On the other, the vast majority of technical and scientific literature w…

Does commercial aviation carry an oxidizer though? I thought jets were air breathing.

There’s some real mistakes on the part of your direct manager here. It sounds like they have not been properly managing expectations between you and their boss. Out of curiosity ho…

It was really poorly worded and confused me too until I saw the dates on the articles linked out.

Have done so personally.

No one can require you to stay on though, you’ll either have sufficient equity or bonus potential to make up for the lower salary, a salary adjustment, or you’ll just walk for a ma…

So yeah people totally lose their health care when they lose their job. Typically it runs through the month and then you’re on your own. You can by law keep buying the same plan at…

Yeah, I was confused too, there’s plenty of molecules made up of two atoms. Sounds like the guess from other commenters about conservation of energy and momentum are most likely to…

iPhone’s not using USB-C is kind of a pain and I’m still not sure I love government intervention in this area. Lightning is weird in that it works quite well but as everything else…

Isn’t that kind of his conclusion too though? It matters in as much as we’re less likely to see new general purpose public clouds come into play, but he didn’t seem to predict ther…

It was like 40 or 50, but yeah the points stands, it was still like two orders of magnitude smaller than any other 10+ billion dollar exit we’ve ever seen.

It’s proof they can actually make money on the thing, which matters because it sounds it’s soemthing people like enough to pay for so as they grow the user base, they’ll grow reven…

Fairly straightforward in some languages (Ruby for instance).

LA also has a pretty massive affordability crisis. Rent and housing costs aren’t as bad as SF in absolute terms, but incomes are lower. https://www.nahb.org/en/news-and-publication…

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Yeah it definitely does sometimes. I use "echo" as the wake up word and it certainly has woken up on entirely unrelated words.

Hell, its about time.

While I think now is probably the time for lyft to strike while the iron is hot, I appreciate nytimes' candor in acknowledging neither Lyft nor Uber has demonstrated a "financially…

Your reading of Travis strikes me as wildly optimistic.

That happens to be one of the quotes in one of the related articles Medium suggests at the bottom that's worth the read: https://medium.com/@dhh/deleting-uber-is-the-least-you-can-…

Yeah Harvard doesn't use the same numbering systems as most other universities. It's up to the department if I recall and for the case department anything in the sub 100s were intr…

That means 52% of Republicans don't strongly support it, and Trump was elected by a mix of Republicans, independents and even Some Democrats.

Let's not give up so quickly: https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/28/google-ceo-sundar-pichai-f...