Litmus2336

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Comment · 5 years ago

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 "working together" just a very common way to meet your spouse?

Comment · 6 years ago

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.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Ballistic_Missile_Treat...

Comment · 6 years ago

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 as a delicacy, but I would bet pound for pound it is largely people in poorer regions without much alternative.

Unfortunately I'm looking for real stats but am having trouble as most of the trade does not keep records, is illegal, etc

Comment · 6 years ago

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

Comment · 6 years ago

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

Comment · 6 years ago

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

Comment · 6 years ago

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 offering price, bottom 10% offering price, ride volume over time, peak areas etc) then it would work. Interesting proposition.

Comment · 6 years ago

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 the rates Uber sets. Maybe that has some bearing? I'm no expert.

Comment · 6 years ago

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

Comment · 6 years ago

>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 heard it. As far as I know no major pain medications had tamper resistant seals at that point in history.

I've read a lot about this (being from Chicago myself) and do not believe you're representing it correctly. J&J took responsibility insomuch as they pioneered tamper resistant packaging, but they very clearly blamed a saboteur. The initial allegation was that Tylenol was unsafe. J&J successfully re-spun it, correctly, as an external terrorist poisoning their medication. And, to their credit, they did a great job making future Tylenol very safe.

But the bottom line is that these two incidents are very different. In J&J's case they were not at fault. In Boeing's case they were.

Info taken from https://www.ou.edu/deptcomm/dodjcc/groups/02C2/Johnson%20&%2...

Comment · 7 years ago

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.

Comment · 7 years ago

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"

Comment · 7 years ago

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 default rate or anything of that sort.

Comment · 7 years ago

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.