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wwqrd
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Comment #48568326
What was the book?
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Comment #48443327
The inverse was true for me, at 40 I realised a lot of doors are now closed or closing.
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Comment #45180167
per capita is a bit weird, maybe people in the UK don't drive as much.
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Comment #42557583
How long till it gets added to https://killedbymozilla.com/ ?
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Comment #38743903
This guy is really churning out awesome projects right now (or at least the videos for them). I got his satellite clock kit for the office and love it!
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Comment #38720824
Maybe it's a scale thing. If you are sologeneer working on your own project, with a singular vision, making tools to make your life simpler is a no-brainer. If you are implementing…
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Comment #36239795
For this to work I think the assumption is that the benefit of gerrymandering is less than the "anyone who doesn't like the in power guys" effect. e.g. % of disgruntled swing voter…
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Comment #34678994
TLDR; More volume per session/week = more growth? So really it becomes a balance of maximising volume against sustainable recovery.
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Comment #34609009
> People rarely stop in the middle of a road How rarely? How does it compare to self driving cars per km driven?
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Comment #34608992
Totally agree. If human drivers make more mistakes per km than autopilot then what sense does it make to stop self-driving cars?
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Comment #34373340
Maybe? I think the problem is does a small entity like a person or a start up have the resources to make that fight with a big entity? Even if it’s a really obvious and winnable ca…
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Comment #34345066
Good example of when obvious patents harm innovation.
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Comment #34117028
How do you compare non identical twins to the general population? Aren’t twins, even non identical likely to share the same diet, the same environmental factors and maybe even the …
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Comment #33853633
They switched for coal.
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Comment #33266468
Something about the way that was written brought this amusing thought to mind: what if this hype-man blog post about shortly had been created with shortly.
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Comment #32845077
Could the same argument not be levelled at the original incorporation?
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Comment #32137860
I think these answers are going to suffer a lot from survivorship bias.
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Comment #32122695
Am I misreading this? They work for a Fintech and their computer locks when they are away from their computer? Sounds like a misunderstood (or badly implemented?) security measure.…
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Comment #31753562
Plenty of vehicles can be driven on the road without paying road tax is the thing. So why would you call it road tax?
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Comment #29027923
Think the perferated panel is the top, and the rear intake is completely exposed.
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Comment #24418888
I think the salient point is this: > All obvious places already have them That is, we’re already practically at max capacity for hydro.
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Comment #23290421
“Why pay london rent when you can’t enjoy what the city has to offer?” said my friend that lives there just the other day.
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Comment #22599532
Firstly, is a physical shortage of beds the problem? Capacity is not just physical, where do the doctors come from? As for building additional capacity with a WW mindset... how abo…
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Comment #21579537
if we had robots as articulated as people to puppeteer the other robots then they’d be as lifelike as people can make puppets
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Comment #21131662
lost me at “feat”