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by freyr 10y ago
Like Google Plus reduced the need to use Facebook. Instagram's efforts seem to accommodate (and be championed by) so-called "influencers," people who make funny videos or pose half naked to attract large numbers of followers,
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by freyr 10y ago
> I've heard it argued this is on purpose I've heard that argued too. I wonder if that's true or if it was an accidental, but apparently fortuitous, side effect of having a confusing UI. But apparently part of the issue
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by freyr 10y ago
I meant you listed five airlines bigger than Virgin/Alaskan, which would make it 6th.
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by freyr 10y ago
Wouldn't that make it 6th?
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by freyr 10y ago
I'm sure a horse-and-buggy owner said that about automobiles too.
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by freyr 10y ago
And a smart man would know he has a lot to offer society by advising someone like Trump.
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by freyr 10y ago
So you say. Autopilot has already been responsible (in part) for at least one death, and hasn't seemed to slow adoption or interest at all. Look at driving itself: there are all sorts of horrible accidents that we see on the side of th
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by freyr 10y ago
Wow, companies are spending on average between $450k to $1M per deployment on these things. You don't need too many customers to reach $1B at that price.
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by freyr 10y ago
One reason why the SF Bay Area attracts so much tech talent is that techies have high status here. Boston is the second biggest location in the U.S. for startups, but as a tech worker, it was a much worse place to be status-wise. Boston is
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by freyr 10y ago
> why would one think Uber will succeed Uber hasn't demonstrated a capacity to succeed, but unlike their rivals, they need self-driving cars to succeed for their company to succeed. The CEO has called self-driving cars "exi
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by freyr 10y ago
I became unable to understand conversations in noisy bars and restaurants. I had my hearing tested, and it was normal. I can hear one person talking quietly from across the house, but can't understand a person right next to me in a bar
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by freyr 10y ago
Because letting you post your one legitimate review opens the door to spam reviewers who each post five fake reviews a day. If Amazon can get a sufficient number of verified purchase reviewers, why do we need your review, especially if it o
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by freyr 10y ago
We can simply restrict our attention to one country, as they did in the study, to eliminate that variability. What is the bias?
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by freyr 10y ago
If I'm purchasing a physical item where quality matters and I don't want to end up with a shoddy product or cheap knockoff, I don't buy from Amazon. Exceptions are books and the occasional AmazonBasics cable. It's a sham
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by freyr 10y ago
What is the bias in this case?
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by freyr 10y ago
I just checked it out. It seems like he was concerned about the possibility of vote tampering, and has since backed off. Not sad.
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by freyr 10y ago
Hey, they put dinner on those yacht builders' tables.
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by freyr 10y ago
Read the article before jumping into an argument with uninformed speculation. They distribute profits to keep the fund capped at about $10B.
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by freyr 10y ago
Once a fund grows beyond a certain size, its trades can have significant influence on the market. This, in turn, disrupts the models that led to its success.
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by freyr 10y ago
Google and Facebook are experimenting with drones, balloons, etc. to deliver Internet to their next billion customers, who live in impoverished areas with little network infrastructure. If it works, this seems like a much more attractive so
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by freyr 10y ago
What bank gives you a 30 day CD at 0.75%? My bank (Bank of America) gives 0.03%.
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by freyr 10y ago
Where would you suggest putting liquid emergency funds?
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by freyr 10y ago
> Trying to go to Mars is equivalent to the explorers in the 1500-1700s discovering other continents. Except that explorers in the 1500-1700s didn't have unmanned ships or remote sensing capabilities, and manned travel was their o
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by freyr 10y ago
Earlier this week, Oracle had their OpenWorld conference in San Francisco. Thousands of badge-wearing attendees swarmed the city and signs plastered all over declared Oracle "The fastest-growing cloud company." But even the Oracle
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by freyr 10y ago
> Much of our self is shaped by being mammals, with two eyes and two ears and limited perception of the world. Of course we've built visible light cameras and microphones, which mimic our own sensory inputs. Machines will likely h
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by freyr 10y ago
Interestingly, the editorial board of the Washington Post recently published an article opposing Snowden's pardon. The same Washington Post that published Snowden's documents, and won a Pultizer for doing so.
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by freyr 10y ago
Could you explain?
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by freyr 10y ago
That's funny; as someone familiar with React, Angular, etc., the Java ecosystem seems utterly impenetrable.
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by freyr 10y ago
I think he meant "nothing out of the ordinary" as in nothing to warrant a pardon. Except, of course, he was rich and well connected.
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by freyr 10y ago
Any idea why the memory usage is so high? Is it related to the Electron/Chromium platform, or bad application design?

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