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Blue Apron lays off more workers(wsj.com)
156 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|335 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Should we dispense with competitive processes completely? When we're talking about pitting strapped local governments against each other in corporate welfare bidding wars, the answer is, absolutely, unequivocally, yes.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
In a starkly divided country, corporate pandering is the last bastion of bipartisanship, an activity enjoyed by both Democrats and Republicans at every level of government $2.5B in corporate welfare and permission to build a shiny new hel
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Ugh. Another rule added to block obnoxiously loud autoplaying videos on inc.com I hate the 2018 web.
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Spain to Outlaw Diesel, Gasoline Car Sales in 2040(bloomberg.com)
3 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
This is nuts.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
When Gmail first came out I was amazed at how fast it was, so much faster than the native outlook client I used at the time, wow! How is that even possible in javascript! Now gmail is slower than most any other website I use regularly. Can&
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I haven't installed a new app in like 18 months. I'm done with that song and dance, tired of my device always being the product, especially after I just spent $1000 on a phone. You better have mobile web figured out properly or yo
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Catering to the broken is like 90% of every developer and data scientist's day. I've spent the past two weeks just trying to fix some horribly wrong/invalid data that is absolutely positively guaranteed to always be correct d
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Geosynchronous satellite latency in best case: 250ms LEO latency best case: 6ms I've used those Hughes satellite connections before, I never got anything close to 250ms. More like 400ms.
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Israeli Spyware May Have Helped Khashoggi Killers, Snowden Says(bloomberg.com)
5 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|1 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
There will be more stories coming out about Google in the coming months, they are notorious for having a whole different set of standards for their super special elite executives. I don't know any specifics of an event or anything, but
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
"Biggest untapped market in the world" is the phrase I hear nearly every day, sometimes many times a day, on CNBC, when talking about China. Once you start setting up expectations for wall street research firms it becomes very dif
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
The technology hasn't leveled the playing field at all, it just tilted all the power towards large organizations with lots of technologists sitting around.
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Computer glitch led Wells Fargo to mistakenly foreclose 545 homes(fortune.com)
4 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Yeah cloud and ML numbers are becoming a running joke in financial circles, at this point I'm pretty sure Oracle counts JRE downloads as cloud revenue somehow. I wish these large corporations didn't demand so much creativity from
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Google Walkout's Demand for Changes(twitter.com)
5 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|1 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Last quarter IBM had free cash flow of 2.2B. They spent 2.1B of that on stock buybacks and dividends You can't really hide your lack of R&D or missing long term vision with numbers like that.
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Inside Rockstar Games' Culture of Crunch(kotaku.com)
20 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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IBM free cash flow: $2.2B, IBM stock buybacks and dividends: $2.1B [pdf](ibm.com)
2 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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U.S. job openings jump to record 7.1M(marketwatch.com)
1 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
It's funny how picky and particular HN gets over the wording or sources whenever the story is about Google. In nearly every article you see comments like this upvoted to the top within 10 minutes of posting. Any other topic or company:
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Not really, they used them to buy back shares while simultaneously expanding equity compensation plans for executives. There is very little corporate investment going on anymore despite many companies being awash in new cash.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I just wish these awful link shortener/trackers were faster, on lower end network connections you have to sit there and stare at the waiting for t.co for two or three seconds before you actually get the link you want.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
This is not as black and white as you portray it. 1. They don't actually know if the breach was exploited, because of the limited log window. 2. It appears that Google intentionally avoided the congressional hearings last month because
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Tyndall Air Force Base Suffers “catastrophic Damage” from Hurricane Michael(yahoo.com)
2 points by crunchlibrarian 8y ago|0 comments
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
This is new, particularly the details around search history and location data being stolen, as of an hour ago.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I wonder if we'll see a greater scrutiny of where startups and M&A targets get their funding from. Today, I don't think any founder would dare to ask a VC where the money was made that they are investing, but maybe they should
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
Most of machine "learning" in real world use seems to be humans fiddling with weights until they get the magic number they want.
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by crunchlibrarian 8y ago
I think the most upvoted answer will be problem solving, but instead I think it should be a broad liberal arts education, ethics, and learning how to say no. We've had enough of building machines as efficiently and ruthlessly as possib

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