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by cbr 10y ago
Even then, though, I'd still be very surprised if Google would respond to an offer of seat availability data from Southwest with "sorry, we won't let people search it unless you pay us".
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by cbr 10y ago
Are you trying to draw a distinction between "prices" and "fares", or just "will likely" vs "will"?
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by cbr 10y ago
Are you finding the same specific flights have different prices on the two services, or are you finding that Hipmunk is able to find flights that Google doesn't? (Disclaimer: I work for Google, on an unrelated project.)
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by cbr 10y ago
I'd be very surprised if Google Flights wanted Southwest to pay for inclusion. It already lists Southwest flights with a note "Prices are not available for: Southwest. Flights with unknown prices are at the end of the list."
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by cbr 10y ago
When's a cheap day to fly to and return from Las Vegas? Sorry. Can't answer that, you need to specify the exact day you want to depart and the exact day you want to come back, and we might let you look at result
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by cbr 10y ago
If you read Dylan Matthews' investigation [1] a major takeaway is that the foundation's impact comes primarily from influencing corporations and governments. For example, to make AIDS drugs cheaper they convinced the manufacturer
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by cbr 10y ago
They disappointed a lot of customers! It was a pattern of behavior that blew up in their faces, not one incident.
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by cbr 10y ago
Let's take a specific scenario: * Person A composes some music, releases it as CC-NC * Person B uses that music as the background to a home video, uploads it to youtube It seems like B is following the CC-NC license? So then A goes
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by cbr 10y ago
This post seems pretty confused to me. The idea is that you tell YouTube "I own this, people can't use it without my permission, but I'm ok with it as long as you give me a cut of the ad revenue". But with CC-licensed
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by cbr 10y ago
Acetic acid is vinegar, not apple cider vinegar in particular.
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by cbr 10y ago
I am not sure I understand where you took your numbers from. The links I listed give 3,016 homeless people for Montreal and 6,686 for SF. Dividing by their populations, you get the per-capita rates I gave. I believe it
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by cbr 10y ago
I see 1.8/100k in Montreal [1] vs 8.0/100k in SF [2]. [1] http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/results-of-montre... [2] http://sfmayor.org/sites/default/files/FileCen
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by cbr 10y ago
this is not investment advice It certainly looks like investment advice!
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by cbr 10y ago
The ads you see are generally the result of an auction. When you use Contributor it bids in that auction for you, and typically wins it for a small fraction of a cent. Publishers generally don't have to opt in: if you're a publis
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by cbr 10y ago
I was curious what it looked like flat-packed: http://oxgvt.com/wp-content/uploads/Flat-Packing2.jpg
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by cbr 10y ago
Let's say you're using a cache server as a best-effort cache, and you take advantage of its ability to store complicated data structures. Your client implementation has a small bug with one of them, and ~1% of the time it sends s
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by cbr 10y ago
That's at the very least a much harder change to roll out, since if things are broken after a new version of Redis comes out people will blame Redis for breaking things.
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by cbr 10y ago
I don't see how the birthday paradox applies. If you pick a random IP under 127.0.0.0/8, then on average a website searching will take 1/2 of time required to check every IP sequentially.
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by cbr 10y ago
Building enough housing that rents start to come down is a great thing, and it's frustrating that they're pushing the negative angle here.
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by cbr 10y ago
The plot of compression ratio against speed for the various compression levels is pretty helpful for understanding its performance: https://scontent.fsnc1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/t39.2365-6/14146892_9... "The x-axis is a
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by cbr 10y ago
Paperless billing isn't really high technology. They're already sending an e-statement, so I'm not sure what would be keeping them offering to have that be the only option.
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by cbr 10y ago
There's a lot of variability between people taking the SAT twice. So if you initially expect that A will score higher than B, then learn they were selected for having received the same score on one round of the test, your guess for A
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by cbr 10y ago
Doesn't the compiler at least need to use the platform-standard argument convention when calling OS functions?
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by cbr 10y ago
Serving different things on https and http is completely to spec, though. It's not really a server misbehaving. (I do agree that it's contrary to expectations, but I'm sure this doesn't stop sites from relying on it.)
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by cbr 10y ago
Most of Kansas City (the metropolitan area) is in Missouri, but much of it is in Kansas. Legally it's two cities, Kansas City, MO, and Kansas City, KS.
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by cbr 10y ago
Not a lump; it's liquid anyway. Lots of tiny droplets under our floor: http://www.jefftk.com/mercury-under-floor-2x.jpg
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by cbr 10y ago
Cities in general have higher costs, so it's not too surprising that the only entry in the data that is just city is going to have the highest costs.
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by cbr 10y ago
"Chrome does not perform pin validation when the certificate chain chains up to a private trust anchor. A key result of this policy is that private trust anchors can be used to proxy (or MITM) connections, even to pinned sites. “Data l
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by cbr 10y ago
And that's true even if the client, like gmail, proxies the images: https://gmail.googleblog.com/2013/12/images-now-showing.html
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by cbr 10y ago
> I've got the word "Engineer" in my job title If by that you mean you're a software engineer, I do think it's fair to distinguish between getting an EE/CS degree vs say a BA in CS plus programming experienc

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