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10y ago
Why would hardware development not be important to security?
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10y ago
I agree with the sentiment of that tweet mentioned in the article, except that Austin isn't really comparable to NYC or SF in terms of living expenses. Perhaps more expensive than the average American city these days, but definitely no
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10y ago
How do you go about targeting B2B clients via Facebook? We have good success with consumer since that's a pretty broad audience and affordable for certain products but never managed to target busineses effectively within a reasonable c
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10y ago
>> If someone developed a decent documents management company, based in the cloud, and integrated it with some nice mobile solutions, they would take a HUGE chunk of the market. Not necessarily. Convincing people to fit their workflow
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10y ago
>> If you have Clover installed, that may be the issue. I don't, so that's not it...
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10y ago
Ever since I installed it on my work laptop, it's been crashing the file manager every few days, requiring a reboot. Sometimes more often. I've been refraining from installing it on a bunch of other PCs since then.
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10y ago
DB is actually one of the less well capitalized major banks in the world: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-12/deutsche-b... As others have pointed out, the German government would probably be re
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UK PM candidate Andrea Leadsom thinks all websites should be rated, like movies
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"“It’s utterly maddening because the thing about conversations is that when I say something to you, I believe I’m having influence on the conversation,” .... "AT&T, Comcast and Verizon Communications did not respond to request
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"The EU is a very large economic entity and to negotiate with 27 countries individually the UK of the past had formidable clout but today the situation has changed very much and turning back the clock like this simply isn’t going to wo
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From that graphic, it looks like this argument is being made to work by stretching the definition of interchange. Most people would think of the area right around the clover loops. What is being discussed here is actually an extent defined
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10y ago
Indeed, especially in this age when even authentic likes are arguably almost useless - any post on Facebook nowadays seems to need boosting to reach more than a negligible fraction of a page's likes. But it's definitely worse when
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10y ago
>> The solution is to build more good US cities that aren't car centric. I'm not aware of any. NYC is definitely not car-centric or even car-friendly. Indeed, the non-car-centric zone there is considerably larger than SF
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10y ago
This fellow came up with some innovative stuff to perpetuate his nasty way of life: "One example, the court noted, is Zavodnik's penchant for making filings under often "bewilderingly lengthy titles" such as: "Appel
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>> Yeah, probably the worst thing about the valley culture is that organic growth has lost it's charm. With the cost of living there, particularly the real estate component, you could also argue it's lost alot of its feasibi
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10y ago
In a country with a GDP per capita (not per adult, to be clear - this includes non-adults) of around $50k, why would you feel that's terrifying?
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10y ago
The lack of an income tax is great although one should note that property taxes in TX are considerably higher than average. Around 2.5%+ or so. To optimize one's tax situation in Texas, the ideal situation is to live in a cheap condo&#
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10y ago
Technically 100 and 32 are comparable numbers.
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We are seeing the opposite of what this article claims. Conversion rates from Google traffic are good and ROI there is steady. Facebook traffic quality on the other hand seems to have steadily deteriorated over the last few months, and our
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11y ago
I think that statement was directed at the absence of blue colors in living organisms.
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11y ago
Karma comes around. With all the posts about this on HN, Reddit, and elsewhere, one could observe that the Chinese city itself is now being shamed publicly also.
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11y ago
>> I chose McDonald's and Coke as brands as they are two good examples of previously invincible global brands that are now showing significant decline. Not sure about Coke but McDonald's is doing pretty well these days. Its
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With all due respect to Stephen Hawking, whose expertise in theoretical physics is undoubted, how would he be in a position to "confirm" this?
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Big differnece. There was no software installable on "dumb" telephones. They could not be programmed remotely to change functionality to listening without ringing. That would have required an easily detectable hardware change. Sma
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>>Unlike eBay, where each vendor maintains a separate listings page, Amazon tidily groups its Marketplace sellers by item, hiding away the inferior offers, to showcase the best deals up front. (In seller parlance, landing the number-o
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11y ago
Analog chips can be real cash cows. Unlike digital microprocessors, a successful design can last for decades without any change in process node. You still get some really old process nodes being used on the analog side because they're
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Pretty cool - and accurate. In the IBM Model 5150, there was a bug in Microsoft's floating-point math routine of the PC's BASIC ROM chip. If you ask the system to divide 0.01 by 10, it displays 9.999999E-4, instead of the correct
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This is very cool. But the number of ingredients needs to be increased (only 240 right now). Mentioned this to my wife, and she chose lotus root, which isn't in there. 600k recipes is very impressive obviously.
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That would be somewhat ironic - startups have no profits for the most part, let alone dividends.
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11y ago
Interesting. Do you find $2+ cpcs justifiable? Can you really get a good ROI with that?
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