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by cbr 10y ago
WhatsApp? (Disclosure: I work for Google, for three more days.)
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by cbr 10y ago
They still sell them: https://amazon.com/Prism-Glasses-Eye-Bed-Spectacles/dp/B000R...
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by cbr 10y ago
This is really good news. A major worry with driverless cars has been that companies would be harshly punished for accidents, even if there was a dramatic reduction in crashes overall.
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by cbr 10y ago
Yes. There aren't any Y chromosomes available.
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by cbr 10y ago
At least in that case you get the days paid out when you leave.
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by cbr 10y ago
If this bike was left on a bike rack outside a college dorm for a school year it would be perfectly fine To be fair, it would probably be stolen.
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by cbr 10y ago
mixed Shimano/SRAM components Is this an actual problem, or just something someone only would do if they were heavily trying to minimize cost?
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by cbr 10y ago
In Chrome on Linux it reads "Opera Neon concept browser for Windows"
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by cbr 10y ago
all the people crowded there to see the grass (more or less) green, the water blue These days it's the water that's green: http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/rio-officials-drain-green-wa...
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by cbr 10y ago
upside is capped at some fixed proportion of the income from the game That's not usually what people mean by a capped upside. In a context like this I would take a "cap" to mean something like "your shares can
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by cbr 10y ago
The JOBS act crowdfunding doesn't require you to be an accredited investor: http://www.finra.org/investors/alerts/crowdfunding-and-jobs-... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumpstart_Our_Bus
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by cbr 10y ago
Browsers only display unicode in domain names if the TLD has restrictions on character sets that prevent homograph attacks. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack#Defending...
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by cbr 10y ago
your password manager's url comparison? Better than manual url comparision! A surprising number of humans think things like www.goodcompany.evil.com are urls for "Good Company", and anyone can screw up and make mis
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by cbr 10y ago
Most of the people making these decisions are primarily concerned with cost and time and not pollution, so what determines whether this will be successful is primarily cost vs time.
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by cbr 10y ago
It's very hard to "fix" land use once the land is already "in use". Relaxing zoning to allow people to expand or rebuild more densely on existing lots would go pretty far in high-demand areas.
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by cbr 10y ago
They had already been doing it for a while by 2014. For example, I saw them doing it on my site in January 2012: https://www.jefftk.com/p/googlebot-running-javascript (Disclosure: I work for Google, on unrelated stuff
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by cbr 10y ago
It's utterly ridiculous that engineering and efficiency decisions are so deeply affected by whether or not the largest search engine will properly index your content. There being more sites that can only be crawled an
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by cbr 10y ago
The standard way to do this is to store the data encrypted, and store the key in something modifiable. Then when there's a delete you scramble the key.
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by cbr 10y ago
"We only considered couples who declared an anniversary date (as opposed to just changing their relationship status)" Seems like a strange choice; most dating couples I know don't seem to set an anniversary date.
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by cbr 10y ago
I am the creator of https://comments.network/ which you are using on the bottom of the article, and it's the first time I spot it in the wild! That's pretty cool! I made my own version of this a f
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by cbr 10y ago
This isn't the US, but cell phones make M-Pesa possible, which is very positive: http://www.jefftk.com/suri2014.pdf http://www.jefftk.com/suri2016.pdf
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by cbr 10y ago
My blog serves ~500k requests per month, mostly to bots. My pages generally have few external resources; with a typical CMS site this would be more like 5M requests. (This is with ~15k pageviews-not-from-bots per month.)
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by cbr 10y ago
"Can you pull that creative?" would mean basically the same thing, and is probably what someone would say. I included "ads for" to try and clarify that the actual things you're taking down are the ads.
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by cbr 10y ago
Close buttons could work reliably
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by cbr 10y ago
"That creative hasn't been performing well, regardless of channel." "Our creative review process is taking too long." "Can you pull all the ads for that creative?" "How good the creative is matters a
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by cbr 10y ago
It looks like they're converting many of their articles from https://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/reports/ to Medium?
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by cbr 10y ago
Something could be corrupted and then that corrupted data could be synced to the cloud, trashing what you had there.
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by cbr 10y ago
you can always unplug it before sticking utensils in there Not 'can', 'should'.
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by cbr 10y ago
The entire Real-Estate industry is ripe for disruption. Exactly why are we paying 6% to "agents"? https://www.redfin.com/ is already doing this. They charge half the normal fee if you're sellin
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by cbr 10y ago
That seems straightforward enough that you could try it on your own?

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