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by B-Con 8y ago
Where did you see that? I doubt hourly warehouse workers are getting RSUs to begin with, that tends to be for salaried positions only.
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by B-Con 8y ago
According to the article it was one of the conditions and they paid ~$100-200M (IIRC) in fines for breaching it. Which furthers my point, that Facebook will jump on any carrot in front of it.
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by B-Con 8y ago
Is this any surprise? Just a few hours ago the Acton article on the front page[0] talked about them doing this in WhatsApp: > Later he learned that elsewhere in Facebook, there were “plans and technologies to blend data.” Specifically, F
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by B-Con 8y ago
Obligatory "don't forget to authenticate the other party. Encryption can be meaningless without authentication if someone MITMs the initial setup. Follow-through on WatsApp's initial verification step using some other channel
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by B-Con 8y ago
Thus is the nature of updating settings. Easy mistakes to make include: * Changing a field's default value (is that even a mistake? users might perceive it that way. Also, is there a difference between a field set to the default value
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by B-Con 8y ago
> Yeah I don't understand at all why people think that Google wanted to be in this business. People still think Google Glass was a failed product. Many just have no idea how businesses, particularly non-traditional ones like Google
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by B-Con 8y ago
> They probably just ought to have spoken to each other. Twitter probably should have just done the dive to verify what deleting an app does. I would guess this is mentioned somewhere in the docs.
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by B-Con 8y ago
Now it's > How an Indian family lost $2 Billion I think we're on the 3rd title.
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by B-Con 8y ago
> to announce news of this magnitude. Only if he's announcing news, which he likely is not. The method itself makes it feel more like a muse and less like an announcement. [edit] Well, everyone seems to be taking him seriously...
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by B-Con 8y ago
> Trailers don't summarise the whole movie. Some do. If they contain: * the protagonist's set-up * the antagonist's set-up * an explanation of the protagonist's challenges * the protagonist overcoming the challenges *
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by B-Con 8y ago
I think people are watching movie trailers because they're almost self-contained movies. Very frequently the protagonist and antagonist are set-up, the protagonist's challenges are laid out, the protagonist is shown overcoming the
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by B-Con 8y ago
What about summarizing the entire movie? That's an instant NO from me. I've literally not watched movies because I've seen the trailers and feel there's really no wiggle room left plot-wise, I know it all. I very activel
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by B-Con 8y ago
These problems are inherent to nature of being in the real-time PvP genre. And AFAIK LoL was designed from scratch, it's Dota that actually based on the code of the WoW mod. Not that it matters today, that code is long gone.
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by B-Con 8y ago
How is it different than today? The game is slightly cheatable (scripters exist) and they are counterating it and getting some publicity out of it. Being so good at anti-cheat that there is nothing to talk about seems like something so far
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by B-Con 8y ago
That's literally impossible. The entire point of the game is to have client-side input and for that input to be generated by a human and not a computer. There's no way to move that to a server.
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by B-Con 8y ago
In this type of scenario (be it bitcoin hashes, serial numbers elsewhere, etc), the real question is how many possible "vanity" hashes exist. The odds of this specific one are not interesting, it's the space of all of them th
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by B-Con 8y ago
> That isn't enough. Due to the frankly idiotic way corporate investors think 'any company that isn't growing must be dying'. I despise it when I see large companies make business moves purely to "grow". The
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by B-Con 8y ago
> There are groups on Facebook, but it's so tied to you that it's hard to just be a part of a community. It's also a lot less sreamlined. Dare I say it, reddit feels kind of like an RSS stream of popular content. Faceboo
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by B-Con 8y ago
> I think it's important that we don't overly focus on one isolated experience point like yours, because empirically this is highly disputed. I'm not saying my experience generalizes, I doubt every environment would see th
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by B-Con 8y ago
I've worked in private offices, private cubes, and open office. As much as I personally prefer isolated offices/cubes, the last 4 years in a mostly open office have definitely given me sympathy to the argument for them. I personal
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by B-Con 8y ago
> Ordinarily, the blockchain would resolve this by including only the first transaction in the block, but the attacker was able to reverse transactions since they had majority control of the network. Not a very precise explanation, just
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by B-Con 8y ago
You can't install unofficial packages via pacman. And AFAIK none of the unofficial/AUR package managers, like yaourt, are in the official repositories so the point where you cross the line is very clear and distinct and any wiki g
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by B-Con 9y ago
No offense, but it seems like you didn't click through. From the abstract: > here we take a classical microprocessor as a model organism, and use our ability to perform arbitrary experiments on it to see if popular data analysis met
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by B-Con 9y ago
> If liking a tweet will infuriate the largest (by population) country in the world, maybe $14/hr support agents shouldn't be able to one-click like tweets. I think this is the most pragmatic thing mentioned yet. Social media a
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by B-Con 9y ago
People like certainty. It's why someone who is 100% reliable is generally perceived as far more valuable than someone who is merely very reliable. People are far happier to follow a leader that has 95% chance of succeeding than someone
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by B-Con 9y ago
It sounds like the theory behind this is kicking the circadian rhythm to see if it improves. > Depression is also associated with altered daily rhythms of hormone secretion and body temperature, and the more severe the illness, the great
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by B-Con 9y ago
In the traditional model, yes. But if you're willing to make sacrifices... see previous discussion on this topic when it came up with Mega, de-duplication, and client-side encryption: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?i
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by B-Con 9y ago
> 1. Gmail is a channel that Google has under monetized for a decade. This is an opportunity for them to extract value from the said channel. If you're allergic to Google offering free services that use your data for advertising, go
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by B-Con 9y ago
I bet someone at IBM found a bug, traced it back to some quirk in Windows that was hard/impossible to work around and the ticket got the attention of an engineer who figured out how to fix it in less than an hour. They decided the chan
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by B-Con 9y ago
tl;dr: They buy less in quantity and value expensive brands less. This is in line with the "spend money on experiences not stuff" trend we're watching rise in popularity, particularly in the younger generation. People aren&#x

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