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nattofriends··on It is as if you were doing work
You do realize that calendar picker is the stock jQuery UI picker
nattofriends··on Why We Should All Dump Yahoo
How would they make money?
nattofriends··on Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf Steps Down
It is enforced. See Arthur Andersen.
nattofriends··on The iPhone's new chip should worry Intel
They already did the processor shift thing twice.
nattofriends··on Uber's Failure in Japan
Technology was sourced from different companies, it just so happens that this is how they chose to deal with this problem. From your link:

> In Japan, the western part of the country (Kyoto and west) uses 60 Hz and the eastern part (Tokyo and east) uses 50 Hz. This originates in the first purchases of generators from AEG in 1895, installed for Tokyo, and General Electric in 1896, installed in Osaka. The boundary between the two regions contains four back-to-back HVDC substations which convert the frequency; these are Shin Shinano, Sakuma Dam, Minami-Fukumitsu, and the Higashi-Shimizu Frequency Converter.

nattofriends··on Uber's Failure in Japan
I don't know about the details of constraining supply (medallion system), but taxis in Japan are not cheap. In Tokyo, they start at about 7 USD.
nattofriends··on This Is Your Life in Silicon Valley
You do not live in SV. You live in the East Bay.
nattofriends··on React Server
Merged at https://github.com/redfin/react-server/pull/527
nattofriends··on Pokémon Go Is Teaching Americans the Metric System
I thought it was common to quote weight in stone in the UK?
nattofriends··on More awful IoT stuff
http://resetplug.com/ among others.
nattofriends··on Exploring the Elizabeth line, one of the world’s largest construction projects
It has interrunning with GEML and GWML, so a separate system. As TfL basically owns most of it, it is co-branded the same way Overground and DLR are too.
nattofriends··on Exploring the Elizabeth line, one of the world’s largest construction projects
Of course there is no such technical _need_, most kinds of these needs are driven by _legal_ requirements founded in fear of full automation. Fully automated systems were realized before your example already in Vancouver's SkyTrain (1986) and even BART was supposed to be specified to be fully automatic.
nattofriends··on Exploring the Elizabeth line, one of the world’s largest construction projects
No one mentioned it because it is not the same, it is only comparable. RER is, like you said, of the same scale, but 40 years old and proven. You should be happy to bring things you like into the conversation, but not surprised that other people don't like the things you like.
nattofriends··on No Code of Conduct
*codes of conduct
nattofriends··on Yelp Is Exploring a Sale
Glassdoor reviews have a notice that is almost word-for-word from Yelp's. Should Google buy Glassdoor to fix their credibility problem?
nattofriends··on The Tesla of Scooters Is Driving Asia's Two Wheel Revolution
In California riding a scooter requires a motorcycle license.
nattofriends··on Is it an accident? No, it's a wildcard subdomain
You would fool no one because the UK uses *.ac.uk for academic institutions.
nattofriends··on “Today we moved into our new Facebook building”
Yeah, but then you were at Oracle.
nattofriends··on My Y Combinator experience
By the way, Creo was the name of a Vancouver-based digital imaging software company that was acquired by Kodak in 2005. So there might be some people you are confusing with that name.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creo

nattofriends··on Renewables now account for 25% of German energy production
Hydroelectric power is not something all countries are lucky enough to have.
nattofriends··on Show HN: TapChat is mobile IRC done right
What do you find lacking in your znc + colloquy? Mine works pretty well. Plus, no one else has push highlights...
nattofriends··on The H264 time bomb will kill us all in 2015, run
What is this "X.264" this article refers to?