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by bspn 9y ago
I was a long-time Nexus 5 user and upgraded to the Essential PH-1 last year and can't say I regret the decision. The 5 is still my favorite all-time phone given context, but the PH-1 is a pretty significant step up and has one of the
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My 10-Year Odyssey Through America’s Housing Crisis(wsj.com)
2 points by bspn 9y ago|0 comments
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by bspn 9y ago
IANAL, but I believe the Federal NLRA trumps any state-level at-will provision in much the same way as the EEOC operates. I don't even think formalizing a union is required, but simply banding together to improve working conditions aut
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by bspn 9y ago
> ASP increased to $800 dollars (!) which would point to the iPhone X doing relatively well, despite not being available for the entire quarter. I'm not sure that is necessarily true. The iPhone 8 pricing ranges from $699 to $849
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by bspn 9y ago
I don't follow Snap well enough to know the cause of the dive, but they did release their first ever annual report as a public company this morning: https://investor.snap.com/financial-information/sec-filings
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by bspn 9y ago
I was driving through Atlanta the other day for the first time and now appreciate the value of lane guidance. You can be on an 8 lane highway with three simultaneous exit options. If you find yourself in the wrong lane it is not an enjoya
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‘I Lived a Nightmare:’ SIM Hijacking Victims Share Their Stories(motherboard.vice.com)
4 points by bspn 9y ago|0 comments
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What’s Hidden in the Senate Spending Bill?(nytimes.com)
1 points by bspn 9y ago|0 comments
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Apple confirms iPhone source code leak(bbc.com)
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How People Die in America(splinternews.com)
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by bspn 9y ago
It also puts you squarely in PCI scope which is a massive burden. I believe many of the modern payment processors offer embedded iframe solutions these days where they handle the sensitive bits (card and CVV#) but allow you to style the pa
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A daredevil climber risking his life for breathtaking views(huckmagazine.com)
86 points by bspn 9y ago|82 comments
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by bspn 9y ago
Here's some background from a TG insider: "I seem to recall Walter Day had sold the rights to TG a couple years back. I used to work for TG some years ago, but hated it. My brother I and were constantly having to fight with what
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by bspn 9y ago
Not OP and I have no inside info, but if we take the $25m as given and assume that investors owned 20-30% on a $2m check with a vanilla preferred that brings the founders/team share down to somewhere in the the $17.5-20m range with the
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by bspn 9y ago
IANAL but I don't think it's necessarily illegal by default under the ADA. The first thing the employee has to do is establish that their condition falls under a protected class and then they can request an accommodation. If the
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by bspn 9y ago
My favorite part of the aborted Friday (EST) launch was when the Kiwi controller was asking the American launch director whether he wanted any pre-determined halts in the launch sequence. It took them 3 goes for the American to understand
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SoftBank considers $18B IPO for wireless unit(reuters.com)
1 points by bspn 9y ago|0 comments
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by bspn 9y ago
Wouldn't that depend on the details of any tax treaty your home country has with the US?
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by bspn 9y ago
If you don't mind, can I ask what particular issues you faced? We're looking at moving from Slack to Mattermost later this year to help streamline the security clearance process so it's a little concerning to hear that it wa
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by bspn 9y ago
Probably not theft, but I think it would qualify as criminal conversion. Google would likely need to complain though for the authorities to do anything about it, and I can't see them doing that.
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by bspn 9y ago
> Maybe the lifestyle is different as a VC, but as an engineer, this seems so disjointed from reality that it's almost farcical. I can barely get some of my coworkers to stop talking about code for more than a breath I think you and
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by bspn 9y ago
Your neighborhood would be an ideal candidate for something like this wireless mesh network solution currently in development: https://8rivers.com/portfolio/8-rivers-networks/
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by bspn 9y ago
But even that is only as good as the infrastructure behind it. I landed at Dulles on an international flight one day and the entire immigration system was down so none of the self-service kiosks or agent terminals were working creating hug
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An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo(nejm.org)
2 points by bspn 9y ago|2 comments
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by bspn 9y ago
I once clicked on a recipe that was pinned to a Pinterest board and it would not allow me to view it without registering for an account. They lost my eyeballs forever that day and I'm sure there's many others like me out there.
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by bspn 9y ago
It appears he had a bad experience with them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833815 and is writing a book about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12749364
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by bspn 9y ago
Here's NZ's proposed (extreme) response to the foreign buyer problem: http://www.bbc.com/news/business-41745129
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by bspn 9y ago
> You'd also learn a lot from ex-Amazon engineers Reading the thread, it appears they were at most SWE interns at Amazon so the learning opportunities would be minimal I imagine. This feels all sorts of icky and the poster did th
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by bspn 9y ago
I can already see Luxotica's new Fall line branding: "Face ID compatible sunglasses!"
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Death at a Penn State Fraternity(theatlantic.com)
1 points by bspn 9y ago|0 comments

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