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by amclennon 7y ago
I'm a huge fan of Cloudflare in general, but sometimes I'm a bit uncomfortable with how much critical infrastructure is increasingly consolidated into a few single entities.
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by amclennon 8y ago
On average, the S&P 500 has historically returned roughly 9.8% annually. In 2017, the S&P 500's total return was over 19.7%. But for 2018, it was minus 6.2%. You could easily achieve similar returns in an S&P 500 index fun
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by amclennon 8y ago
I don't think that's actually true. My Volvo was around ~$5k cheaper (plus free plane tickets to Sweden) when I picked it up from the factory. This also takes into account the complimentary shipment to my local dealer in the Unite
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by amclennon 8y ago
> You don't really need jQuery anymore, due to the browser APIs being far more mutually compatible and useful than a decade ago You say that, but from time to time I still discover slight variations in browser behavior or bugs that
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by amclennon 8y ago
> Gluttony: Netflix – binge watching all your favorite TV shows and movies Interesting concept, but that one is a bit of a stretch...
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by amclennon 8y ago
> a creative person could trick the eye tracking People have already started to bypass hand requirements by placing a weight on the steering wheel . At a certain point, you can't really blame the manufacturer when the driver is acti
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by amclennon 8y ago
On the other hand, taking potential health concerns out of the equation makes working for a startup inherently less risky. Before the ACA removed restrictions of pre-existing conditions, merely switching employers carried the risk of losing
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by amclennon 9y ago
> The Colorado serves the same purpose as the Seine in Paris, as a cultural divide. Slightly off topic, but I've always found it fascinating how much rivers and other bodies of water can have a drastic impact on the culture despite
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by amclennon 9y ago
Zoom.us seems to work well using the browser extension alone. I've even gotten it to work in my Chromebook without any issues.
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by amclennon 9y ago
> Elaine Herzberg, 49, was walking outside the crosswalk on a four-lane road in the Phoenix suburb of Tempe Although I agree with your statement in general, it sounds like she was already walking her bicycle while crossing the intersecti
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by amclennon 9y ago
Assuming the truck driver isn't heavily armed or willing to endanger themselves by wrecking an 18 wheeler, there's nothing really stopping anyone from doing that today. You seem to be working under the assumption the nobody has ev
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by amclennon 9y ago
I suppose that depends on what your goal is. If you're hoping to create a product segment that didn't previously exist, I think Blue Apron succeeded. If the goal is to make money, then I think the Blue Apron founders / invest
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by amclennon 9y ago
> You don't have freedom of speech in Germany because there are hate language laws. Thus, it's not a democracy. I don't understand the point you're trying to make? The German people can always vote to overturn the law
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by amclennon 9y ago
> where we can offload all of the ops and deployment and first-line support duties to our customer, once they've got it installed and running. I feel like this might become a burden later on when you have to support multiple version
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by amclennon 9y ago
> If you think Facebook will still be there in 10 years, then you can safely pick React. At the same time, you could've made that same argument at some point with Google and AngularJS, Dart, Polymer, etc. Not necessarily a safe bet
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by amclennon 9y ago
> only a tiny subset of the device's functions can be used If that small subset is sufficiently useful to that particular individual, I don't think it really matters. The average person only uses a small subset of Microsoft Wor
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by amclennon 9y ago
I've been working on something similar with http://www.butterflyfx.io that captures information beyond a screenshot. It's still a work in progress, however.
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by amclennon 9y ago
> (i forget the English word) so if you do get sick it's going to cost you 2,500 CHF before the insurance kicks in I think the word you're looking for is deductible
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by amclennon 9y ago
Not a fan of the product demo with random background music format, but seems useful.
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by amclennon 9y ago
As an owner of four Echo / Echo Dots in my house, I can say that Alexa is terrible at answering questions outside of a few common areas (weather, store times, etc). With that said, I think the true power of Alexa's ecosystem is it
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by amclennon 9y ago
See the previous point about Ross Ulbricht (arrested in a public library)
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by amclennon 9y ago
Everyone has to start somewhere...
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by amclennon 9y ago
I think people often try to emulate policies from large successful companies without necessarily understanding the context for why this policy would make sense for those particular companies, but not for others. In a company like Google or
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by amclennon 9y ago
Expanding into more product categories is a logical evolution for Anker, but it’s also a response to a looming existential threat: Yang says he foresees a future where portable chargers won’t be necessary due to advancements in both fast c
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by amclennon 9y ago
> In Athens, Greece, a 15 minute ride to the airport in 45 euros This seems very different from my experience in Athens two weeks ago. According to Google maps, getting from the city to the airport by car takes around 40 minutes by car a
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by amclennon 9y ago
> ...if one of those stops, we're going back to unavailable, dirty, unsafe, cabs with perpetually broken credit card readers. I think it's disingenuous to suggest that there's no middleground to between complying with regu
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by amclennon 10y ago
Hello, former SDC coworker! The official Selenium Docker image uses the same technique to run headless Chrome / Firefox. From there you can just run docker run -d -P selenium/standalone-chrome and you'll get something
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by amclennon 10y ago
That seems like the direction Google is going with Chromebooks. Presumably newer models support running Android apps as well. There's an open source version of ChromeOS that you can install on normal PCs, but I'm not sure if this
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by amclennon 10y ago
I recently attended a transit planning meeting in Austin where they discussed the idea of combining demand driven tolls that provide free access to express buses. I think this approach provides an excellent alternative to trains (which Aust
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by amclennon 10y ago
> Presumably the shorter the work day, the more likely you would be to consider it ok to push through it if you feel ill If the net effect is that you still show up to work anyway, does it really matter?

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