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by ggg9990 8y ago
Holy Christ I do not want to “engage with a book’s content” any further than reading the words on the page. My Kindle already has too many garbage features (dictionary? I have one in my phone). All I want is a physical home button, a physic
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by ggg9990 9y ago
You could write a Snapchat “clone” but not with anything close to its performance. Snapchat has to be the most performant app I have ever seen.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Shows you the difference in opportunities for a smart kid in Bumblefuck vs. a smart kid living in a $5 million house in Silicon Valley and having transportation to Stanford.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
T-Mobile aims for the Walmart positioning and Verizon the Neiman Marcus positioning.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
But larger users can also afford more RAM.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
WhatsApp supports free encrypted video calling and picture messaging, even for groups. No way that it was covering costs.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
But their WhatsApp business model was not self sufficient. They were charging $1/year which is less than the operating cost of the servers and bandwidth.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Actually, I’m surprised a guy with $8 billion in his pocket worked a day job at Facebook this long.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Big companies are inefficient because too much is at stake! A zero-revenue startup can publish an ad, and if it is offensive to the point of trashing the brand, literally nothing was lost. A big company could lose billions of dollars from t
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by ggg9990 9y ago
My guess: in trying to do GDPR compliance they basically did their first real code change in years. They found that everything was an undocumented web of dependencies and that even starting to understand the problem was months or years of o
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by ggg9990 9y ago
My equally well-reasoned rebuttal: no, it doesn’t.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Sure, but within a model generation (eg E90 BMW, 2007-2012), the cars are largely the same.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Those kinds of communities aren’t created by towns full of telecommuting programmers — they are created by diverse economic activity and people out on the street doing their jobs.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
40 hours isn’t the standard. France does 35 and gets better productivity per hour because of it
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Elon Musk says the quality has vastly improved and continues to improve. That means today’s Model 3 is worse than tomorrow’s and yesterday’s is worse than today’s.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I suspect that this technique has been previously used, but was only disclosed in this case to widen the Overton window on police use of DNA on a case that everyone agrees was worth solving.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
> How would a government agent be able to prove that whatever DNA they extract from his coat sleeve is mine? Because your cousin was arrested in 1999 for burglary and held for 30 hours until they realized they had the wrong guy.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
No, because that doesn’t affect the customer. Tesla’s most loyal and gung-ho customers are punished for their enthusiasm by getting the worst Model 3s that will ever be made.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
So, don’t buy a Model 3 now. Wait until it’s a lot better.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
NewEgg’s operating margin is probably between 3 and 10%, so that bounced transaction cost them ~$250 in profit. Would they have lost more than that by fulfilling your order size in 2009 if it had been fraud?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I have not been able to get good frame rates from Zoneminder connected to MJPEG streaming on Raspberry Pi. I figure I'd need to record the video locally on the Pi but that's about as far as I've gotten.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Websites that build knowledge-based status hierarchies naturally end up being dominated by insecure know-it-alls.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
A bit of a disappointing exit for what was considered an IPO candidate. I think they only knew how to make a great product and were clotheslined by Squarespace and Wix’s giant ad campaigns feeding a super optimized funnel management system.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I didn't either, but I didn't have a better plan at the time and I didn't want to lose the moments. I'm working on a non-cloud replacement with Raspberry Pis, where all of them are continuously recording and saving to lo
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Try it. Mounted at floor level the Nest footage does a pretty good job of capturing the moment.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What they really need to do is have the decision on when to ship be put in the hands of someone other than the person who is managing the development of the technology.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I’ve already cracked this with Nest cameras around our house. When something cute happens I tell my Google Home to take a note with the time so I can go take a clip later. Very poor showing from Google that this isn’t already integrated — w
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by ggg9990 9y ago
That actually sounds like it could be really good, especially with unripe mangoes.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
That’s not really how the word “alternative” is typically used. “Mangoes” are not a good “ground beef alternative.”
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by ggg9990 9y ago
As opposed to MY trash, which contains the hidden mysteries of the multiverse...

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