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China Moves to Devalue Yuan(wsj.com)
82 points by ethanhunt_ 11y ago|62 comments
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
"because American structural design forces everyone to drive two-ton bullets to go anywhere, which inevitably results in lethal wrecks. Compare Denmark's road fatality rate of 3.0 per 100,000 inhabitants versus the US ratio of 11.
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
I thought this too, but after looking at data it doesn't really seem any more dangerous than driving a car. I think the reason it sounds dangerous is that when it happens everyone hears about it and talks about it a lot more than car a
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
"Now all personal music players sold in the EU after February 2013 are expected to have a default sound limit of 85dB. The user can choose to override the limit so that the sound level can be increased up to maximum 100dB. If the user
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
I purchased a used Nexus 5 because I got tired of all modifications and dropped support on my verizon branded phone. I assumed that as a Google product it would have the best functioning version of Android. But in the past few weeks it&#x27
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
> Vaccinated people (because a vaccine is never 100% safe). s/safe/effective Also, I think you should rewrite your post without the insulting words in it. Writing it as such may be cathartic, but it is ineffective in convincing
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
I saw something strange here in Seattle. Usually there is surge pricing whenever there are few cars around. However I checked multiple times on New Years Day at around 12:30AM and the surge pricing was >4.5x, but there were loads of Ub
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Google Removes Amazon’s App Listing from Google Play Search(techcrunch.com)
66 points by ethanhunt_ 12y ago|36 comments
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
Article is a hit-piece; author is being willfully ignorant/misleading. > Amazon’s newest investments aren’t paying off. The most notable failure has been the Fire phone, which has received terrible reviews. > And the Fire phone w
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
The problem with these stock trading games is that people can create multiple accounts and use each one for a different all-in strategy. At the end of the competition there will be a few accounts with astronomical gains, that didn't us
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
Only got through the first two links before I stopped reading. First link: says that Uber CEO Travis comes off as a bit of an ass in interviews, and therefore Uber should hire a PR person. So you're switching to Lyft because they have
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
Source?
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Trojan Android app distributed at HK protest; steals msgs, call audio, location(github.com)
2 points by ethanhunt_ 12y ago|0 comments
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
A wikipedia for textbooks? There's exactly that, though I can't comment on the quality. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Calculus/Limits/An_Introduction...
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
I'm more familiar with companies that have vesting schedules like: 10% per year for 3 years, then 70% in the final year. That's a great way to keep someone around for an extra couple years who doesn't want to be there. I agre
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
Scheduled cash bonuses and multi-year stock vesting schedules are a great way to retain employees who don't want to work for you anymore. I have no clue why companies think this is a good idea.
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
> And Verizon has a legitimate argument that it is not based on the sustained differences in traffic flows Verizon and comcast have been selling asymmetrical residential links since always. Verizon is advertising 500/100 on their ho
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
> I agree to an extent. But there's a point at which Level3 stops becoming a peer and starts becoming a subscriber. That point is somewhere between equal utilization of Verizon's peering point and (near) total upstream into Ver
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
Are you both the creator of WUT and the author of the original piece? EDIT: posting too fast, so I'll just edit this post. I think you should edit your blog post with a disclaimer that you're a creator of WUT. It's not that I
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by ethanhunt_ 12y ago
Agree on Facebook, but how would you get around the phone number for Secret? I don't have the app, but as I understand it, it uses your contacts list to find out who to send messages to (i.e., the phone number is the username that it u
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
"An interesting side effect of writing side project code every day is that your current task is frequently running in the back of your mind. Thus when I go for a walk, or take a shower, or any of the other non-brain-using activities I
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
I wonder if changing the downvote button to a "flag" link would be more appropriate for how the button is intended to be used.
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
The difficulty needs to ramp up significantly quicker (does it even ramp up at all?). Make the tutorial a single page.
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
When a car with power-steering loses power, it doesn't become like a car without power-steering. I've had a car shutdown at highway speeds, and turning the wheel is incredibly difficult. At the time I was a fairly muscled weight
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Vice Admiral Michael Rogers Named New NSA Chief(securityweek.com)
1 points by ethanhunt_ 13y ago|0 comments
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AT&T Introduces Sponsored Data for Mobile Data Subscribers and Businesses (att.com)
2 points by ethanhunt_ 13y ago|1 comments
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
It would be nice to see Mozilla's app-store have more first-class support for open-source projects. The notion of Free software (apps, particularly) seems to have died with mobile, but I think Mozilla is in a position to bring it back.
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
Disclaimer: I've never worked from home. I have thought about it a lot though. I think WFH isn't a good idea for a junior dev (e.g., <5 yrs experience). In my career, I've learned the most from working closely with really
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
I think a lot of game developers actually use perforce because it handles large files better. This is at least what I've gather from eavesdropping some of them (e.g., Jon Blow) on twitter.
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by ethanhunt_ 13y ago
Statement of the Guardian's Jennifer Lindauer: "Glenn Greenwald is a remarkable journalist [...]" Better late than never, I guess.

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