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by gberger 8y ago
> The author greatly underestimates the native speakers potential for screwing up song lyrics I think what's interesting is how it's often possible to trace a mistake back to a word or idiom in the speaker's native languag
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by gberger 8y ago
Yes, Google's internal tool handles permissions based on directory owners. They use the same OWNERS-file model as in the Chromium project [1], the only difference being the tooling (Chromim is git, google3 is ... its own Perforce-based
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by gberger 8y ago
https://what-if.xkcd.com/8/
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by gberger 8y ago
> It seems like it's pretty normal for people to get equity from big companies. Right, but equity at big, established companies generally isn't worth potentially $1M+. From what I've seen, it's around $20-50k/yea
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by gberger 9y ago
I think he means arbitrary and unconventional, not random.
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by gberger 9y ago
Facebook
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by gberger 9y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/20/nyregion/mta-train-delays...
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by gberger 9y ago
Palantir. 28+ days.
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by gberger 9y ago
I'm sure you know that, but that paragraph looks like a standard blurb that is pasted onto all press releases.
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by gberger 9y ago
Ironic in the Alanis Morisette sense :)
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by gberger 9y ago
I don't see the connection?
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by gberger 9y ago
The pizza place generates more revenue -> the increased revenue can be used to increase wages -> drivers get more money It's that simple, but it doesn't work in American tipping culture.
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by gberger 9y ago
Soon they will.
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by gberger 9y ago
A dead child is a dead child.
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by gberger 9y ago
Hell, Snap never even picked up in Europe, as a result of its strong bias against Android and heavy marketing focus on US colleges, cities and events.
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by gberger 9y ago
Not necessarily, you could have `h.h1` and `h.span` and `h.myCustomElement` just by using Proxies from Ecmascript 6 https://makandracards.com/makandra/44070-javascript-hash-obj...
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by gberger 9y ago
But in digital downloads they don't lose much, do they? The kind of people who would use this loophole would pirate the game.
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by gberger 9y ago
Tabloid can refer to either a type of journalism, or newspaper format. Daily Mail is both, Guardian will only be the latter.
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by gberger 9y ago
I would pay $40-60 for an AAA console or PC game, not for a random mobile game. For that, $10 is about right.
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by gberger 9y ago
Why not CommCom?
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by gberger 9y ago
100 years doesn't really equate to "several generations"...
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by gberger 9y ago
1%? I would have guessed 0.1 - 0.2%.
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by gberger 9y ago
How is "European customer" defined? If someone is not European but resides in Europe, do they have this right? If someone not from Europe travels to Europe and issues the request while inside Europe, do they have this right? (If s
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by gberger 9y ago
(finance.google.com) is already next to the title
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by gberger 9y ago
Uhh.. It means 00:00 - 12:00, every Sunday. From midnight to noon. The first half of the day.
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by gberger 9y ago
Wait, I thought exonomist was a typo. Does it mean anything different than economist?
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by gberger 9y ago
Right now they take a large % of every cab transaction (done on their platform).
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by gberger 9y ago
Right. But imagine you have your rooms listed for $220 in your own site, and for $200 on Booking. If someone books on Booking, you get $180. If someone calls and asks to book at the rate they see at Booking, but directly with you, you make
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by gberger 9y ago
In the mail? :-)
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by gberger 9y ago
These are all good points, but how does the author reach the conclusion that the coding tests are ageist? Ageism was only mentioned in the headline.

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