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by discardorama 10y ago
Twitter is the Yahoo of this generation.
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by discardorama 10y ago
One could also use it to verify membership (or non-membership) in a set without having access to the set. Suppose I have a secret list of websites from whom you shouldn't load ads. I can then just publish a bloom filter which you can u
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by discardorama 10y ago
They don't cache images (of Pokestops) client-side. This has got to be one of the bigger inefficiencies of this client. Aggressive client-side caching can relieve a lot of load on the server.
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by discardorama 10y ago
Clearly, you have not heard of "rent control". I know people paying $1200/month for a 2BR in the heart of the City. I even met a guy who was paying $350 for a 1BR in Nob Hill, not far from Grace Cathedral. About 72% of SF&#x2
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by discardorama 10y ago
> Quip has inline comments and document level comments, chat rooms, private chat, and the ability to tag people and documents anywhere. I think Google Docs has all of the above.
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by discardorama 10y ago
> Summly was none of those. They got one 17 year old dev, and a fairly-decent product they made basically no use of. I don't know how good D'Aloisio is, but he's not that good. Especially without the kind of status and sup
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by discardorama 10y ago
That is the stated narrative: that it's hard to hire CEOs who are good, and we need to give them every dollar we can. But there's a darker, and (IMHO) more accurate narrative: corruption or nepotism. Company A's CEO serves on
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by discardorama 10y ago
If you're a current $YHOO shareholder, what does this deal mean for you?
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by discardorama 10y ago
Came here to ask this. Why was the land sold in the first place, if it's a public piece of land? Why doesn't the City of LA buy the land and place it in the public trust? I hate these half-assed pieces of reporting. I don't l
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by discardorama 10y ago
The ultimatum was: if you can't convince us that you're productive remotely, you must start coming in to office. I know a couple of excellent techies who continued to work remotely after.
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by discardorama 10y ago
I worked there, and I agree with him. Is that authoritative enough for you?
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by discardorama 10y ago
I was in Yahoo long before Marissa joined. And I saw her in action for 3 years. Some of those "work from home" people were very good, and were all given exemptions to continue working from home. But the lazy ones, some who I knew
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by discardorama 10y ago
I don't know about hyped, but Carol Bartz (also at Yahoo) was the most disappointing. She single-handedly killed Yahoo faster than anyone else. Compared to her, Mayer is a genius.
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by discardorama 10y ago
> Today, with more than one billion websites across the globe Huh, what? There are estimated to be more than a trillion sites out there, from what I've read.
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by discardorama 10y ago
I think a more accurate classification (from the popular journalism viewpoint) would be that a startup is a tech company that hasn't gone public yet.
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by discardorama 10y ago
I keep reading about the decline of the Japanese population, and I wonder: what are the major causes of people not producing enough kids? Is it that there's not enough bonking going on? Stress from work? Long hours at the office? I mea
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by discardorama 10y ago
You could say the same about, for example, the NSA wiretapping your calls and listening in on them. Until you get caught in some bizarre situation as a result, you'll be happily oblivious. But your rights are still being violated. That
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by discardorama 10y ago
FTA: > More than 194,000 people have died since 1999 from overdoses involving opioid painkillers, including OxyContin. Wow, that's about 12,000 per year. :(
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by discardorama 10y ago
The biggest problem with Amazon reviews is that they'll let you post a review of something you never bought! Sure, they do add the "verified purchase" tag for things you bought; but for calculating the aggregate stats, etc.
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by discardorama 10y ago
I've left it outdoors, and it's still working. I did cover the top (where the batteries are) with some plastic to prevent water from going in. It should work against birds, as long as the IR detector can sense a change. The bird m
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by discardorama 10y ago
I have a problem with my neighbor's cats deciding to pee and poop in my front yard. I decided to go with a few of these: https://www.amazon.com/PetSafe-KIT19001-SSScat/dp/B000RIA95G . They worked reasonably w
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by discardorama 10y ago
Problem is: if they want free trade with EU, they must accept free movement of labor; which was the main underlying problem which caused people to vote for Brexit. If they adopt free labor movement, the Brexit would have been for vain, and
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by discardorama 10y ago
> I agree with what you're saying, but if anyone's responsible for it, it's actually Congress And by Congress, it really means YOU , the (American citizen) reader, who keeps voting for the same crooks.
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by discardorama 10y ago
I've heard it said many times: ideas are a dime-a-dozen, execution is everything.
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by discardorama 10y ago
Look at the date: they were made in 2009, when the company was barely a year old. At that time, an additional 730K in loans could have been a needle mover.
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by discardorama 10y ago
> Why does HN pretend political revolutions are peaceful? So HN is a single-minded entity? Just because a couple of people say something you don't like, you paint all of HN, with its 1000s of members, with that?
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by discardorama 10y ago
So when your "AI" makes a recommendation, it recommends some encrypted symbol?
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by discardorama 10y ago
From their FAQ: Is PBase free? No.
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by discardorama 10y ago
> I've had chicken nuggets that meat eaters had no idea were fake, Because chicken nuggets are mystery meats to start with. They're usually made from meat slurry, with various fillers added, and shaped into that shape. A chicke
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by discardorama 10y ago
Does the US have some sort of sanctions against Venezuela? I'm not sure if we do or not, but I'm wondering if we do.

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