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by bb611 9y ago
Where's Google's upside in all this? This (maybe) improves their search product, but it doesn't directly make them money. From a legal standpoint, this behavior is clearly different from their last slap on the wrist.
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by bb611 9y ago
> This is identical to the ranking boost given to Google Shopping (for which Google was just fined 3 billion EUR), so you can expect the same result. Isn't it different because (presumably) the AMP links aren't owned by Google?
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by bb611 9y ago
Yup. They'll get high quality games, 1-2 years after they have their mainstream release.
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by bb611 9y ago
> Tons of amazing indie games make a pitiful amount of money. Mostly because of lack of exposure. Is it lack of exposure, or extreme excess of supply vs demand? As a lifelong gamer, what I've seen is a ton of high quality content be
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by bb611 9y ago
He's an easy target, and NPR has a very large political reporting apparatus that can't be easily changed to report on anything else.
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by bb611 9y ago
Except the one the GP objects to: "Minimise the stuff."
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by bb611 9y ago
I'v seen this extensively in multiple upper-middle income communities on the east coast. Houses that have tripled in relative value force their now retired owners to sell because they can't afford the higher property tax. Develope
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by bb611 9y ago
There are only ~20 buildings of 100+ stories in the world. The tallest building in the Bay Area is the Salesforce Tower at 61 stories, and there are only ~50 buildings in SF that hit 400 feet, which is about 1/3 the height required to
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by bb611 9y ago
I second the request. I spent several years as a K-5 teacher, I didn't perceive this dynamic at all. All US teachers are rightfully extremely wary of being alone with any child, and from what I've seen that is a concern for teache
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by bb611 9y ago
I think your perception is stronger than the actual social effect - people who object to others not drinking are loud, but in my experience very much the minority.
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by bb611 9y ago
I lived (well) in San Jose on <$65,000 pre-tax for 4 years, including picking up a degree at nights to the tune of $20K. I agree that it is some financial challenge, but it is nowhere near as dire as "paycheck to paycheck." I a
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by bb611 9y ago
I think you're making a big assumption that you'll be accepted - anecdotally I've heard that they turn away many people who meet their basic acceptance criteria unless those people have a large amount of industry experience.
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by bb611 9y ago
In fairness, aren't movie ticket prices in NYC near $20? I haven't tried to see a movie there in >5 years, but at the time going to see one in midtown was ~$16.
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by bb611 9y ago
The contest prize was $15,000, there were probably some ancillary costs related to running the event but still quite cheap.
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by bb611 9y ago
> you are paid what you can be had for > No lawsuit is needed to correct that. If they can either get Google to settle or convince a jury they deserve compensation, they've retroactively increased their pay. It's a high and
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by bb611 9y ago
The vast majority of student loan debt is already guaranteed by the US government: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGCCSAQ027S So something like 77.5%+ of that is already bailout guaranteed. Taxes (or more likely US
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by bb611 9y ago
> The government owns student loans. To back up your point, the US federal government guarantees the vast majority of the student loan market: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FGCCSAQ027S I believe the total stude
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by bb611 9y ago
> overpriced Vibrams A particularly odd criticism, since Vibrams cover the same price spectrum as more traditional running shoes, and both groups are essentially centered on selling shoes for just above $100 (and have been for more than
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by bb611 9y ago
Beyond that, it was more powerful than many (maybe most) modern governments. It was an international power unto itself.
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by bb611 9y ago
I setup my brother's small business stripe integration, and I wrote and tested the API calls to charge customers. Stripe doesn't know anything about his business except transaction sizes, and a bunch of info they definitely can&#x
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by bb611 9y ago
Having "permission" is not an applicable defense to a federal criminal charge, the law supersedes some random person (i.e. a LinkedIn user) saying "oh yeah, that's okay."
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by bb611 9y ago
If it's illegal to scrape without permission, that makes the behavior of scraping illegal. They are not claiming it's a TOS violation, they're claiming it's a CFAA violation, which is a federal statue and (theoretically)
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by bb611 9y ago
The scale of government which interests people is a direct product of the issues that interest them. Want to influence school policies? Almost 100% a local ward/district issue. Want to have a meaningful impact on almost anything else?
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by bb611 9y ago
You can cover >25% of the US population in just the top 3 states (CA, TX, NY). The system isn't that strange, almost every business in the US is primarily regulated by the states. What's strange is that most Americans don'
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by bb611 9y ago
It's not clear what exactly the outcome is in this case, but in many civil cases the US Treasury uses the penalties to repay the original injured parties. It generally doesn't cover all their losses.
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by bb611 9y ago
My boot time on an SSD + i5 on my 4.5 year old desktop is <10 seconds. The same PC boots Ubuntu in ~5. ~2 seconds of both is BIOS boot time. I haven't experienced any annoying issues with Win 10. Obviously, there is some variation i
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by bb611 9y ago
Is there a lot of demand for these jobs? In the US I would have to pay 1.5-2x that for housework, which puts it squarely into a category of value that I just do myself
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by bb611 9y ago
Do you have a better source for this data than, well, a bunch of numbers you posted to HN? In particular, an explanation by a researcher or other expert who has actually studied the difference and can explain it? It's very easy to draw
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by bb611 9y ago
Netflix's recommended connection speed for 4k is 25 Mb/s. So what exactly does "do something about it" mean in this circumstance? Is your download rate actually saturating your throttled connection?
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by bb611 9y ago
> among relatively well-off 40-ish Australians The same is true in the US. Note the ages and geographic locations of the people mentioned in this article. Among well-off middle-aged (40+) Americans, in my experience it's more typica

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