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That system was the backend of the functionality currently known as Facebook Messenger, not WhatsApp. One might note, snidely [1], that three-four years after freezing development of an Erlang-based messaging system, starving maintenance wo
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Well, of course, because that's what the bill is forcing your landlord to do. If they, looking at housing starts and the economy and projecting out, think that there's a chance that there'll should be a 40% increase over five
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To overcome an entrenched competitor with network effects, the upstart has to be significantly and obviously better for a new project to adopt. To maintain market and mindshare, GitHub doesn't have to become/stay better than GitLa
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* deadliest this year
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Since the elements of the conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis date back to the 1930s, you can safely assume that it will ebb and flow according to each sides’ capabilities and willingness to seek advantage in the absence of a form
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The Houthis only control the northwestern part of Yemen, which borders Saudi Arabia. Though that represents a lot of the population, stabilizing control over the entire country is difficult when fighting on two fronts and being bombed, as t
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Huh? Saudi Arabia intervened in the Yemeni civil war in 2015 and has been doing bombing sorties against the Houthis on a regular basis. Without the Saudi intervention, the Houthis would most likely not have much of a relationship with Iran
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99% of the people on Earth have a higher than average number of legs.
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The problem from Dropbox's perspective is that they're not merely hiring someone to create a solo greenfield C++ codebase, but to contribute quickly to a codebase written in whatever arbitrary subset of C++ they blessed.
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Well, how does a competitor make money on iOS without giving Apple a 30% cut of app installs and in-app purchases and/or using their ad network?
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Unfortunately, under the current interpretation of US anti-trust law (thanks Robert Bork!), leveraging monopoly to knee-cap competitors is a-OK if it doesn't directly hurt consumers. The chances of anti-trust law returning to an interp
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Kraft-Heinz scale ($18B sales) is impressive, but it's still not much compared to Wal-Mart scale ($514B). That scale is what underlies the negotiation, just as Kraft-Heinz's scale typically let's them attempt to dominate thei
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Walmart does exert massive price pressure on their suppliers, but it's mostly by virtue of the leverage they gain by being so huge that their suppliers need Walmart a lot more than Walmart needs them. Walmart didn't create or inno
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It's just as bonkers as people profiting from providing food--a basic human need-- … which is to say not at all. There's no difference between somebody 3000 miles away in the US owning property and renting it out and somebody in C
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The first question summary is … poor. Congressman's biggest concern after poking around on github seemed to be about international committers and a "native Nigerian" committing a lot of the code. (based on looking around the
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It's apples and oranges. Python was explicitly designed and had a dedicated BDFL for the vast majority of its nearly 30 year history functioning as a standards body. JS, on the other hand, was hacked together in a week in the mid-90s a
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That's just an announcement that they reached the end of the list of user-facing syntax changes on their roadmap.
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The existence of the NCAA doesn't have anything to do with it. It is, however, somewhat of an accident of history that the MLB draft is of high schoolers as opposed to AA/AAA players. Before Branch Rickey pioneered the concept of
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The scouting consensus is that he'd be a third/fourth rounder out of high school absent football [1]. That's being rather more charitable to his prospect stock than it probably deserves, considering he barely played in colleg
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To be fair, (part of) the reason that affiliated baseball has 5000 players is the same as reason that the MLB draft has 40 rounds: the gap between high school / college baseball and MLB is incredibly greater than the one between colleg
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If "certainly had a chance" means "played baseball and was an OK prospect", sure, but then you're not saying much of anything. The truth is that it's a lot closer to five thousand guys, a shoulder, and an elbow
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Mahomes was a third/fourth round draft type out of high school and the MLB draft is a loooong way away from even making it for a single day in the majors. Claiming that he could “certainly” be an MLB MVP is ludicrous.
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Swimming’s not really analogous to the NBA because the peak comes so early (for example, Phelps was an Olympian as a high school sophomore); women’s gymnastics is the same. Swimming is also a low joint-impact no-contact sport with no sudden
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A statewide referendum (Prop 13) underlies the housing problems and is a huge enabler of Bay Area NIMBYism. Multi-decade homeowners can bask in a $5M house values and agitate for inefficient land use while paying taxes off a $30K purchase p
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In this case, a representative demos would need to include the people who’d like to live there as well.
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Turkey is part of the Middle East by any useful definition, including Wikipedia’s [1]. The parts of Turkey where these groups hail from are also the parts that are the closest to the Iraq, Syria and Iran borders. https://en.wikip
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Houston does, however, rely on the taxpayers in the rest of the country to underwrite their many many housing units built in a floodplain.
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Hence "economic stagnation".
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Japanese GDP now is ~$500B less than it was in 1995. [1] A country can't experience 25 years of economic stagnation as a whole and magically generate a large cohort of young people with money to throw around. Things are a little better
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IIRC, Google places a much higher emphasis on making counteroffers in the first place, as well as making those counteroffers hard to refuse.

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