Tossrock

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by Tossrock 15y ago
You might be surprised; I know Alexa isn't exactly an infallible oracle, but they list groupon.com as averaging between the 200th and 400th most visited site globally, and 53rd in the US. "ranking.com", whoever they are, says between 150 an
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Unfortunately it doesn't work on any network besides Verizon's, so...
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Ahhh. I missed the date on the article and couldn't believe that HN was only getting 8k uniques/day.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Clearly someone needs to found a Hogwarts-meets-Xavier-Institute for exceptionally gifted kids. An environment actually tailored to the exceptionally gifted, and one that included their actual peers would be incredibly beneficial not just t
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by Tossrock 15y ago
It seems like public shaming is the only way to get auto-reply customer service companies to talk to you. See the Paypal/Regretsy fiasco. I never feel good about them because you just know for every Regretsy/HN vet who can get some swirl go
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by Tossrock 15y ago
>I shudder to think what could have happened, had she delayed the exam. There's a good chance nothing would have happened. Screening programs massively overdiagnose non-malignant breast cancer as malignant: http://www.bmj.com/content/3
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by Tossrock 15y ago
We don't have "f-star"; the centripedal force (or the force of gravity in this case) is the product of both the mass of the star and the mass of the planet, which we don't have.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
A tablet only app isn't the same beast as a smartphone app. You can throw a large number of menus onto a 10 inch tablet and gain functionality rather than lose it; try the same thing on a 3.whatever iPhone and you'd have an extremely clutte
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Orbit size and speed have no relation to planetary density by themselves. If we knew the total kinetic energy of the planet, then they would, but we don't.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
When I first heard about the Bell-LaPadula model ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%E2%80%93LaPadula_model ) in my security class, it was pretty eye opening, especially the notion that once you're given a certain level of access, you can
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson fan?
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Did anyone not see that coming? I mean seriously, the whole creative accounting thing should have scared anyone with a brain off the IPO. If their unsustainable business model hadn't already.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
Valuing 25:1 against yearly revenue seems a bit high. I mean, I'm sure it'll still ride a rocket the moment it goes public, but I think it'll peter out sooner than most long term investors would like.
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I'm not sure it's really possible to meaningfully compete with Google, at least in the US search market. They're synonymous with search, as evidenced by the neologism "just google it". As much as Microsoft wishes it, no one actually says "j
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by Tossrock 15y ago
I read that you can do it yourself by instantiating a VM and installing dropbox there, rinse+repeat till you're maxed out.