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by bagacrap 11y ago
Well they do charge you money for the device. I think in the long term the goal is probably more about connecting the internet to your living room (making that ubiquitous) which naturally means more YouTube usage which means more ads. They
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by bagacrap 11y ago
I've biked in Copenhagen and in Mountain View, and I'd say both are head and shoulders above my hometown of Los Angeles which is in turn lightyears ahead of most American cities. Between the great weather, bike boulevards, bike la
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by bagacrap 11y ago
There's an alternative that is more user-friendly which the browser provides, but only for app install interstitials. Since there's no built-in alternative for other kinds of interstitials, it makes sense that they're left al
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by bagacrap 11y ago
about 10 months a year that's not a problem.
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by bagacrap 11y ago
Yes, it's difficult to make a fair comparison across counties of such vastly different areas and populations. LA county includes far-off places like Palmdale which bring the average housing price way down. If you only looked at more ce
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by bagacrap 12y ago
my guess would be that they were showing Bing Ads on Gemini.
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by bagacrap 12y ago
> * Report sensor data from small embedded devices with extremely limited CPU This proposal is specifically about web browsing. > * Your JS can talk to APIs that don't yet support HTTPS (e.g. NextBus). If your serve your JS over
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by bagacrap 12y ago
I don't understand this article. It fails to mention that tech companies have the best paid parental leave policies[1]. There are other family-oriented perks: on top of normal life insurance at Google, "The surviving spouse or par
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by bagacrap 12y ago
Exactly my experience. Turns out my neighborhood is full of kooks. One of my favorite threads is a group of neighbors encouraging everyone to boycott the local Von's until it stops being so "ghetto". In retrospect I think nex
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by bagacrap 12y ago
The linked bug shows that it was discovered Sep 30 and revealed publicly on Dec 30. Thus MS missed the deadline by two weeks, not two days. I agree there should be some flexibility but where do you draw the line?
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by bagacrap 12y ago
1 - coffee is not a placebo, caffeine is one of few ergogenic aids that's been often proven to have real benefits via double blind trials. 2 - if you legalize drugs then you require drugs (of anybody who wants to be competitive). Liter
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by bagacrap 12y ago
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the reason Kenyans dominate at long distance running is that their national ADA (anti doping agency) doesn't enforce the rules. It's starting to come apart at the seams though: http://www
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by bagacrap 12y ago
Drugs like testosterone allow you to lose fat mass while retaining muscle mass. Drugs like clenbuterol help you shed weight and metabolize fat more quickly.
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by bagacrap 13y ago
Isn't that already the case when bad weather strikes? Delivery trucks take longer to drive around in bad rain, or blizzards, or unpredictable traffic (resulting from accidents or road closures). The slower the truck, the more of them y
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by bagacrap 13y ago
> The card issuers don't have to buy in to anything. You program the Coin yourself using your existing cards. They do define the policies that merchants have to follow, including whether to accept payments from this device.
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by bagacrap 13y ago
There is actually a ton of helpful feedback in that email in between the verbal lashings. I don't think he's trying to hurt this guy's feelings as much as he's trying to emphasize the importance of his point, which seems
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by bagacrap 13y ago
when I was growing up I was sort of forced, sort of coaxed into reading a lot of books. So maybe I am biased, but it seems like reading books is the most educational experience a young mind can have. I also built a lot of legos, which is ki
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by bagacrap 14y ago
you don't predict an incentive to use self driving cars? How about: 1) reducing the risk of accident and increasing safety in case of accident (you could, for example, sit in the back seat) 2) no need to find nearby parking (let the car dro
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by bagacrap 14y ago
nested ternaries are the same as if-else-if continuations. You figure that out one time, and it's easy to parse forever after. The ternary operator in general eases understanding because it extracts the common bit, i.e. "sides[i] =", meanin
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by bagacrap 14y ago
tickle me elmo was a craze in 1996
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by bagacrap 14y ago
zynga was compared to a ponzi scheme (rightly or wrongly) when early investors were paid off during subsequent rounds of funding. I think that's what he's referring to.
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by bagacrap 14y ago
(unless they use the same flawed methodology)
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by bagacrap 14y ago
what area does Google have a monopoly in? Surely not search, email, or the browser. MS wasn't just cross-marketing, it was bundling IE and setting it as default which was unfair competition given that getting netscape required a lot more wo
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by bagacrap 14y ago
so in other words, the extent to which lockin makes lockin easier makes google quite happy with lockin.
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by bagacrap 15y ago
there's only "no obvious cue for scrolling" because apple recently decided to hide your scrollbar, which I happen to think is a terrible decision.
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by bagacrap 15y ago
there's a line between holding patents for (ostensibly) defensive purposes and actively using them for litigation against your competitors. The article that you didn't bother to read makes this point somewhere in the middle.