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Usually when there's an "oddball" or "eccentric" person on, Letterman had his way with them, but I thought Ron more than held his own. Right mix of self-deprecation and confidence.

You can sail across the Atlantic with your dog or cat:

https://www.cunard.com/en-us/inspiration/life-on-board/pets-...

Reminds me of the scene from The Simpsons:

When Bart, Lisa , Maggie and Marge were at the Mt. Useful Visitors Center, Bart went to a statue of Smokey the Bear. Smokey said "Only WHO can prevent forest fires ?" Bart then pressed the You button and Smokey said "You pressed you, referring to me, that is incorrect. The correct answer is you."

I would love to know what's actually happening in these situations. Is there just a backlog of PDFs sitting on some server and there's only 2 guys going through it? Is there a command from Washington to only process N visas per day? What's literally happening here?

The world of bird sighting is interesting. I have a friend who runs a cruise expedition company in New Zealand. They run trips in the south seas (Antarctica) as well as the North (Russia, Japan) but they have to reposition their ships between seasons. Those repositioning trips are 3-4 weeks at sea with little-to-no land in sight. So what they did to make money was to sell heavily discounted seats to bird watchers because there are some species of birds who are only at sea during this time and this is the only way to see them. Pretty fascinating way to make up some revenue during an otherwise dead period.

What's interesting about this to me is that there's some disagreement over what the absolute highest possible score is.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/05/is-this-the-worlds-fi...

I don't know much about React, but I look at projects on github all the time and you nailed everything here. Demo right up front, well organized & well written docs, tests passing.

Fantastic job!

You'd think the first question the reporter would ask is "how many is that?" Such lazy journalism.

So if every phone/browser etc. asked you to pick your default browser at setup time - would that placate the DOJ? Wouldn't most people stick pick Google?

Eufy robot vacuum cleaner

How was the build quality at pickup? Any major defects?

Countless imagemagick users are probably in debt to Anthony thanks to his imagemagick documentation & samples.

https://imagemagick.org/Usage/

Go offers this out of the box via the sync.Once function. Do other languages? Kind of surprised python doesn’t as this sort of pattern is common in applications dealing with concurrency

FNB, a bank in South Africa, used to do something similar. It was called the Million a Month account. If I recall the South African Supreme Court shut it down because it was considered a lottery

Happy to hear you’re doing better. Any idea how you contracted it?

As a mod - how much time do you commit to this? Are you just sitting there reading comments all day? I'm fascinated by this whole mods thing especially since it's volunteer (!!) work - which strikes me as insane.

If you don't mind me asking, what's the drug/medication?

For the unitiated like me https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIRE_movement

I do. It's free in Canada, just walk into any pharmacy and you're out in 10 mins.

What's interesting is that McDonald's wait times have actually gone up since they moved to kiosk ordering, mobile app ordering, Uber eats etc. They've increased their ability to take orders, but haven't been able to keep up on the supply side. The old way was almost better in that it introduced a natural bottleneck so while it took longer to place your order, once you did, the queue in front of you was shorter.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-spending-millions-...

I'm with you. I went in thinking the rim itself would always ensure the ball goes in.

Supplies for vaccinces of any kind are always subject to constraints and so deliveries are prioritized by the highest bidder. I know for example the flu vaccine gets delivered to the US and Japan first from a certain French pharmaceutical because they pay (by far) the highest prices. Of all G7 countries, Canada pays the least for the flu vaccine so they get the the vaccines last.

You're right - for specialists and some GPs but not all. About half of the GPs are paid by their roster size, so-called "capitated payment". The idea being a doctors pay should be based on how healthy they keeps their patients rather than how many services they administer.

I only point that out for our American friends who might counter with "well isn't that a system ripe for abuse"

Yeah they meant why does the Barack Obama article in English differ in content than the Swedish one

For anyone else wondering ... an ISA is an Income Share Agreement. Lots of comments here mentioning this but I didn’t know what it stood for

I use waveapps too and I'm pretty sure they're Mechanical Turking their receipt transcription. Sometimes it takes too long for it to be an automated process.

It’s up to the merchant to decide. You can ask for as little as card number and expiry. All up to the merchant based on how they configure their payment processor

> In 2014, Navy officials discovered a flaw in the IBNS. One component could not keep track of more than 150 ships at a time without malfunctioning, according to Navy investigators. The Navy’s solution? Sailors were told to delete tracked ships before the total hit the magic number.

This blows my mind. Can anyone here guess what's going on under the hood? Is this a magic number that a developer came up during testing to avoid running of out memory/swapping?

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