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by frei 7y ago
GP is talking about the Google onebox features, like maps, local reviews, weather, sports updates, movie tickets, etc. which show up on the SRP before competitors like MapQuest/ESPN/AccuWeather/Fandango
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by frei 7y ago
Well the back of my Chase card says chase.com. If you tend to use search engines to find websites, you are trusting the search engine to give you the website for Chase Bank.
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by frei 7y ago
You used to defraud the US Government back in the day? For pagerank? Did you get in trouble?
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by frei 7y ago
>264 APM Actually 792 APM. They limited their AI to 264 "things" (choose unit+ability+target or change view) per minute. Each "thing" can be counted as between 0-3 actions by starcraft. So it really has a peak APM lim
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by frei 7y ago
> What could have happened instead? Many things. Yes, yes, many things, certainly. Obviously, fix-forward is very bad because of these many things. As a highly compensated software engineer, of course I know what these things are, but,
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by frei 7y ago
I have been using a 5th gen X1 carbon 1080p with Linux for work for over a year. I would say it's slightly inferior to the mbp except in the weight category. The screen is dimmer (maybe the 4k is better), the webcam/mic/speak
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by frei 7y ago
It's not possible to replace fiat currency with bitcoin because the transaction rate (# of tx/s) of the bitcoin ledger is far too slow (5tx/s). https://hackernoon.com/the-blockchain-scalability-problem-th...
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by frei 7y ago
The Amazon locker still makes non Amazon packages safer just by reducing the thief's reward. For example, if I forget my bike lock, I feel better leaving my bicycle in a locked bike cage with cheaper bikes that are all well locked with
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by frei 7y ago
I've had the experience of needing to book 4 airplane tickets through a reseller, and having a hunch it would be cheaper to book in 2 goes since there were only "2 tickets left at this price". Since they had 24hr cancellation
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by frei 7y ago
Well since you bring up heated seats, the TM3 does not turn on the heated seats automatically based on temperature / butt-in-seat and changing it requires 3 touchscreen taps, two of them high-precision taps, where as the Volt has simpl
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by frei 7y ago
It's unnecessary to create a filesystem-level support I think, since you could make a circular buffer holding a video stream in a file with some constant size that is approximately n hours of video. With some clever tricks you could ev
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by frei 8y ago
No, it's usually more like 5 minutes
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by frei 8y ago
Confession of judgement is what the clause is called.
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by frei 9y ago
I assume they trap bacteria to the cornea, and reduce the tear-flow that normally reaches the cornea you get with each blink.
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by frei 9y ago
An option is a contract that sets a price that you can either buy or sell a certain stock for at a subsequent time. They have a certain value, and therefore prices, but are different from actually owning the underlying stock.
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by frei 10y ago
I believe the parent poster is referring to the second episode [0], where people must earn credits for cycling on exercise bikes. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits
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by frei 10y ago
At the bottom he writes, "the stationary distribution is actually independent of adding a constant diagonal (identity) matrix," but I'm not sure how that could be true (intuitively it doesn't make sense, but I don't
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by frei 10y ago
The repetition of the word 'underwhelmed' seems intentional, but the reason for it is unclear. It's distracting to the point that the actual content of comment is lost on the reader.