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PayPal Is Said to Be in Talks to Buy Pinterest in $45B Deal(nytimes.com)
7 points by biggc 5y ago|2 comments
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by biggc 5y ago
s/information/misinformation, then yes, yes it should be
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by biggc 5y ago
Notice how whenever someone talks about holding Facebook for its algorithm spreading and promoting outright lies and falsehoods, e.g. active antivax propaganda, people start talking abstractly about “non-mainstream positions”?
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by biggc 5y ago
I could be wrong, but I think the “cups” on a coffee maker are 4oz each
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by biggc 5y ago
The second part isn't exactly true in California. Thanks to Prop 13 homeowners' property taxes usually don't increase in proportion to their value.
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by biggc 5y ago
This is from 2018, the thread makes it seem like they "fixed" the problem
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by biggc 5y ago
> The question almost no one knows the answer to is - is YouTube actually profitable? I think the answer is yes, and hugely so.
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by biggc 5y ago
How do you get good employees with such a terrible work culture? Their compensation structure doesn't seem great either. > Employees receive 10% of their equity allotment (in some cases called profit units, since the company's
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by biggc 5y ago
This Hackernews comment is up there with the classic Dropbox comment[0]. You just listed two setups of 3+ connected devices that need to be configured to work together and possibly wired together. Compared to a single plug-and-play object.
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by biggc 6y ago
> a mediocre product We don't know if the product is mediocre. Good, useful software can have messy underlying code without the user being aware.
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by biggc 6y ago
With the rising popularity of streaming, a lot of people are getting a mirrorless camera and capture card. This is ridiculous overkill, and I imagine that a "premium" webcam could provide the desired features* at a much lower pric
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by biggc 6y ago
Does that include Alaska?
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by biggc 6y ago
> 55 TB ... > smallish What a time to be alive
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by biggc 6y ago
Don't both parties need to agree to (e.g initial) the redlined sections?
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by biggc 6y ago
> The stock price will effectively be pinned at that now Won't it fluctuate with Salesforce's value?
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by biggc 6y ago
> a clueless hedgehog across a highway before it becomes roadkill Before watching the linked video I thought this was describing crows deliberately placing hedgehogs in harm'ss way so that they could eat the resulting roadkill
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Online payments group Stripe poaches GM’s finance chief(ft.com)
1 points by biggc 6y ago|0 comments
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by biggc 6y ago
I believe that Disney gets most of the admission price for movies, and the theater makes its money off of concessions.
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by biggc 6y ago
The hiding of positive and negative reviews if you don't/do pay is hard to prove, but one thing incredibly shady thing that Yelp does and is proud of is: They will prominently display ads containing positive reviews for competitor
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by biggc 7y ago
What is a BAA?
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by biggc 7y ago
> I have heard from other SAR groups that the beacons have been a mixed bag, and they're getting too many call-outs from people who just got tired and want a ride home. Those people deserve a verbal chewing-out from the local coordi
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by biggc 7y ago
Warning: CNN has autoplaying video with sound enabled.
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by biggc 7y ago
Leachate may be a local problem, however widespread use of single-use plastic that eventually makes it way into the ocean and food chains is a global problem.
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by biggc 7y ago
> I was hoping to read that it might also help people like myself who suffer from tinnitus. Sadly, no. It depends, I have tinnitus and high-frequency hearing loss. It's not at the point where I need hearing aids, but anecdotally a f
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by biggc 8y ago
So that the video is accessible to people who are hard of hearing?
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by biggc 8y ago
> Cool, so start-ups lose a potential hiring perk to the incumbents. I don't think catering startups that coordinate with local restaurants (e.g ZeroCater and Chewse) will be affected.
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by biggc 8y ago
One issue I have with Amazon is the lack of a concrete return policy. I was looking in to order a relatively bulky item (soundbar) and I wasn't sure if I would like it. The best item-specific return policy information I could get was t
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by biggc 8y ago
> Sounds pretty complex. But you would have to recover all equipment if you wanted to have a chance as meeting the economics of that. All equipment, and especially the people in the equipment. One "safety incident" would crash
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by biggc 8y ago
> I am not in London My understanding is that London cabs are held to an extremely high standard ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom... ), as a result they're also extremely expensive.
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by biggc 8y ago
My complete guess would be that this is an intra-union agreement. The insurer could be charging a fixed rate per member with the union enforcing a progressive scheme.

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