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by JamilD 10y ago
Previous discussion, when the merger was initially announced, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11421894
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The Gadget Apocalypse Is Upon Us(nytimes.com)
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> Oh and in this case it wasn't a question of frugality, but scaling. Too many interns to interview, not enough time. I've interviewed for Google and Apple internships and the process has been extremely pleasant, with the inter
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• LinkedIn notifications within the Windows action center • Enabling members drafting résumés in Word to update their profiles, and discover and apply to jobs on LinkedIn • Extending the reach of Sponsored Content across Microsoft propertie
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Foxconn Confirms Plans for U.S. Investment(bloomberg.com)
33 points by JamilD 10y ago|24 comments
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BusinessInsider and Mac blogs tend to be less reputable sources than Bloomberg, whose articles regularly make it to the HN front page. Might have contributed to this particular submission's success.
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Is numbers of papers published a good metric for determining the contribution of a company to public research?
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I tend to agree with this article; I don't think Donald Trump, a New Yorker and a businessman, is a racist. However, the people who he surrounds himself with, are. This article makes no mention of Steve Bannon, who suggested too many A
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Breaking Up With Twitter(nytimes.com)
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Organic is [0], natural isn't. [0] https://www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/organic/labeling
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FCC Reaches Settlement with T-Mobile Regarding “Unlimited” Data Plans [pdf](transition.fcc.gov)
3 points by JamilD 10y ago|1 comments
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Many airlines offer a Premium Economy product which offers wide seats and more legroom (think domestic First Class). They don't tend to sell well; Turkish Airlines is in fact removing them from their aircraft [0] — and many major airli
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Sabre's REST APIs are actually pretty great; they're well-documented and fairly easy to use. The SOAP APIs [0], which contain the real meat (inventory details, PNR lookup, etc) are another story… [0] https://developer.s
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Have we learned anything about distributed systems in the last 20 years? (1992)(groups.google.com)
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Ridesharing Services Explicitly Legalized in Toronto(news.nationalpost.com)
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Banks generally do better when people have more money, not less. They'll get more deposits, and hopefully more loans that can actually be paid back.
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The previous post on the same blog debunks this. http://www.philosophicaleconomics.com/2016/05/passive/
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He's not claiming it's new information or something only he knows. In fact he attributes most of his knowledge to Graham. Read some of the other comments in this thread and you'll see it's not common knowledge either.
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Index funds expose you to essentially the entire market; it's the sum of thousands of tiny pieces of businesses all across America. We're not putting all our eggs in one basket, rather, we're all distributing them across many
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> In a bad/recession year, this could be largely negative. They are not hedged against business cycle downturns. This was the argument made by Protege Partners, when betting against Buffett in the great "index funds vs hedge fu
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I was at the Berkshire meeting this past weekend, and Buffett gave a nice (if simplified) explanation of investing in index funds over active investment, as it pertains to hedge funds, hiring analysts, etc. An excerpt from the transcript [0
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You would have a hard time finding a court to enforce your claim too, since the Outer Space Treaty states: Outer space, including the moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by mean
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by JamilD 10y ago
I don't think it's illegal, but it is enforced by COSPAR's recommendations on Planetary Protection. Missions to Mars actually have a much higher threshold for avoiding contamination than, say, missions to the moon. https:&#x
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Wrangling State in Haskell(deliberate-software.com)
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I was just thinking the same thing. It's so easy to look at someone else's public, social media persona and forget about the struggles that they've faced as well. There's immense pressure to show a face of complete perfe
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From the police scanner audio [0]: "Information for our units [inaudible] at Apple Campus, Infinite Loop, for a 10-56 attempt... female employee bleeding from a head wound to the head, possibly has a gun. Looks like security was escort
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You can see crowdsourced ADS-B data at https://www.flightradar24.com; it's a pretty cool visualization, and far more accurate than other flight trackers.
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I agree with you completely, but is it really Silicon Valley's place to decide which regulations to abide by, and which to ignore?
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The expectation was $2.00 EPS, Apple reported $1.90. AAPL is down in after-hours trading right now, at 95.91 from 104.35 at market close (as of 5:20 PM). This is a significant earnings report as it's the first to break 13 years of cont
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Apple Q2 Financial Results Conference Call(apple.com)
2 points by JamilD 10y ago|0 comments

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