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by bhahn 6y ago
To clarify, the total funding amount is a bit more than $700m. $903m according to Crunchbase. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/postmates
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by bhahn 6y ago
> we have never scraped Google search results either currently or at any time in the past. Just an observation that this very specific denial without offering anything else makes me think that what they _actually_ do is probably controv
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by bhahn 6y ago
Pretty harsh comment. Maybe OP didn't know that channels cost differing amounts?
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by bhahn 6y ago
> YouTube does have a network-effect lock in, but AFAIK that's not really a revenue source for google. Just to clarify, YouTube revenue in 2019 was around $15 billion, which even for Google is not a small number.
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by bhahn 6y ago
I was very confused by the title. I thought it was a blog post that implied that CockroachDB was in-use at Twitch, but it's actually a Twitch channel from which viewers can play with CockroachDB (still cool).
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by bhahn 6y ago
While the question in the link is "Why can't I sign in with Facebook anymore?", it doesn't actually explain the rationale behind the change. Has the rationale been explained elsewhere?
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by bhahn 6y ago
The burden is on the buyer to take that risk or not. If the buyer isn't sure, then they are free _not_ to buy from a non-authorized source.
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by bhahn 6y ago
I don’t think comparing monopolies across industries is justification for a monopoly in tech. A more telling comparison would be monopoly in tech vs no monopoly in tech.
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by bhahn 7y ago
The article touches on why the draw is significant irrespective of paying it back (albeit the source of the commentary is from the same parent company): > “Companies don’t tap their credit line unless they need to,” said David Ritter, an
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by bhahn 7y ago
I just switched to an iPhone after being a long time Android user, and I've found Apple Maps directions not to be as good as Google Maps'. I live in central LA, and it regularly routes me through long and congested intersections.
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by bhahn 7y ago
I'm wondering what benefit this offers over getting a traditional loan from an institution, which he could (likely) get against the value of his contract. There is definitely publicity. Anything else?
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by bhahn 7y ago
iMessage pressure is real for me too. I was considering switching to an iPhone for a while but found air message and have been using it for a few weeks. It doesn't have all the features of iMessage, but core messaging works pretty well
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by bhahn 8y ago
Why is there a disclaimer necessary? I don't read any specific bias against Robinhood
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by bhahn 8y ago
Probably Clinkle
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by bhahn 8y ago
The author isn't wrong. You need to learn OTP to know that you don't need it (at least in the very beginning). When I was learning Phoenix, I spent a substantial amount of time learning Elixir as well and OTP is one of the first f
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by bhahn 8y ago
This isn't a bad guess! I don't know why it was downvoted.
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by bhahn 8y ago
On mobile web, pressing back from the note sends me to Facebook's homepage, not to hn. Anyone else notice this? This is on top of the pop-up modal prodding me to add a shortcut to Facebook on my home screen. These are the kind of annoy
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by bhahn 10y ago
> Bus.com is the destination you’d expect to head to for what the company does... Is the writing quality of techcrunch articles normally this poor?
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by bhahn 10y ago
It's not that simple. Announcing a merger doesn't necessarily a high chance of success. A recent, relevant example is Comcast's 2014-2015 merger with TWC that was called off after regulator push-back. http://www.fo
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by bhahn 10y ago
Presumably they charge the fee because it would be inconvenient and time-consuming for at least some to take a train a stop, exit, re-enter and take the train back for a few bucks.
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by bhahn 10y ago
> why a NAT instance is needed in each subnet? I don't think it's strictly needed, but it's best practice because instances in each AZ remain independent from failures in other AZs. Were the AZ with the single NAT to go do
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by bhahn 11y ago
(disclaimer: I work for DoorDash but have minimal exposure to our scheduling platform) > it would have been more efficient to schedule other deliveries in the mean time and just come pick up the food when it was ready? There are a lot of
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by bhahn 11y ago
Did you mean the Wayne Gretzky of Silicon Valley?
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by bhahn 11y ago
Latency is not an issue. That your test took 62ms to send and receive that is an artifact of your setup. Eg. latency across availability zones in the same EC2 region is <2ms (and obviously even faster in the same AZ)
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by bhahn 11y ago
> It ceded $5b of market value to Stripe Not just Stripe. Braintree, I've heard, is comparable or bigger.
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by bhahn 11y ago
The title of this post is misleading. It implies strongly that his main motivator for making the donation was to benefit financially, but the article itself provides no direct evidence and instead critiques the tax system that creates thes
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by bhahn 11y ago
Check out crowdflower.com
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by bhahn 11y ago
The article implies that the 0.25 house edge was calculated before the rebates were considered, still leaving the ~0.08 house edge as a mystery. The quote below follows the quote from my original comment. The author of the article may have
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by bhahn 11y ago
He won’t say what all the adjustments were in the final e-mailed agreement with the Trop, but they included playing with a hand-shuffled six-deck shoe; the right to split and double down on up to four hands at once; and a “soft 17” (
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by bhahn 11y ago
I was under the impression that standard casino blackjack shoes were 8 decks (machine shuffled). In Las Vegas, shoe games are usually 6-deck http://wizardofvegas.com/guides/blackjack-survey/ . And whether a

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