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by cbr 10y ago
So he proposed setting up a new Facebook stock class. The new shares would automatically dilute the voting power of existing shareholders, because every share with voting power will split into three shares -- one that
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by cbr 10y ago
Zuckerberg is a couple years older than me and I knew what Netscape was then, so I'd be pretty surprised if he didn't. (Though in 2004 we had already had Netscape -> Mozilla Suite -> Phoenix -> Firebird -> Firefox, so
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by cbr 10y ago
In the late 60s and early 70s, US airliners were getting hijacked at a rate of once every week or two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_hijackings is pretty dramatic
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by cbr 10y ago
> Google requires real profiles for YouTube comments now This was rolled back a couple years ago: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/16/youtube-t... (Disclosure: I work for Google, on unr
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by cbr 10y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13108404
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by cbr 10y ago
> What's puzzling is that they also bumped up the historical Zestimates There are two things a "historical estimate" could mean: 1) What did Zillow say the value was on day X? 2) What does Zillow now think the value was on
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by cbr 10y ago
"The corps, an agency within the federal government, decided to build Olmsted with an experimental “in the wet” construction method: Hollow sections of the dam are built on the bank, skidded down to the river, towed into position and l
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by cbr 10y ago
http://globalprioritiesproject.org/ kind of tries to do this
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by cbr 10y ago
(referencing http://news.mcdonalds.com/corporate/news-stories/2013/mcdona... )
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by cbr 10y ago
There's also the VA administration's VistA [1], open-sourced through regular FOIA requests, and written in MUMPS. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VistA [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by cbr 10y ago
JS isn't allowed in email. (JS crypto also has issues.)
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by cbr 10y ago
"Pareto efficiency" is a very strong claim, and it's invalidated by any single individual doing worse.
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by cbr 10y ago
The biggest problem here is not the support cost, but that offering this kind of information gives people insight into how the algorithm works so they can better game it. In search, email, etc there's continual competition between peop
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by cbr 10y ago
taneq was saying that Google Maps now shows very few street names, but your link doesn't talk about street names, and is about city names instead. (Disclosure: I work for Google, on unrelated stuff.)
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by cbr 10y ago
With most of these "meal replacement" products (soylent, meal squares, etc) the goal is to have 100% RDA per calorie. This means that you don't have to "make up" for them with other meals by adding some nutrient or
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by cbr 10y ago
It's also not a gift if it's compensation for doing work.
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by cbr 10y ago
Web fonts are a poorly performing part of the web.
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by cbr 10y ago
There are two fixes for this: * Pages can send the Strict-Transport-Security header to tell the client that future visits to them should be HTTPS-only * Pages that send that header can also ask to be included in a list that ships with the b
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by cbr 10y ago
In that situation there are three safe and legal answers: * Replace the wiring with grounded cable. Expensive. * Replace the outlet with a GFCI and label it "no equipment ground". Gives most of the safety benefits of a proper gr
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by cbr 10y ago
They're describing a power strip that has a 2-prong wall connector and offers three 3-prong outlets. This is dangerous, because equipment with 3-prong plugs needs to be grounded, and this power strip misleads you into thinking you&#x2
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by cbr 10y ago
I HATE touchpads, as the cursor tends to shoot off into space when I accidentally touch it with the heel of my hand when typing. Have you used a macbook touchpad? I hated this about touchpads, got a macbook from work in ~
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by cbr 10y ago
I had thought people we're pretty excited about the new Pixel phone? Like http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/18/13304090/google-pixel-pho... etc. Or am I just in a bubble as a Google employee, where I
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by cbr 10y ago
The spec has been moving along: http://wicg.github.io/ContentPerformancePolicy/
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by cbr 10y ago
Right now there are a lot of things that specs let you do that will make your page slow, like running a lot of js in the scroll event handler, or just including too much js overall. If you read the current proposal [1] the idea is that the
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by cbr 10y ago
That's what made it jump out to me too! But the key thing is that one number is in linear units and the other is in square units. So for any linear unit you choose (mm, in, km, furlongs, ...) an equilateral triangle with perimeter sq
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by cbr 10y ago
So you dirty the system where its supposed to be installed, a server, with gcc, make and friends? That's the way nginx is traditionally installed, and we're shipping an nginx plugin. State so on your documentat
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by cbr 10y ago
An equilateral triangle whose area and perimeter are equal has the area of exactly the square root of 432. Let's say we have an equilateral triangle with a perimeter of 3x units. Then each side is x units, and the area i
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by cbr 10y ago
Good for them! A recall is the responsible option at this point, and I hope other manufacturers do the same.
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by cbr 10y ago
Hi! I maintain a "curl | bash" installer script [1][2]. such as only working on specific variants of Ubuntu, with specific packages installed in specific version, and/or RedHat Our installer is capable of au
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by cbr 10y ago
Yes, Southwest asking Google not to include their fares in results seems likely to me. (This thread started with me arguing that "it costs money to be there" was not the reason Southwest flight prices aren't in Google.)

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