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by jakemal 7y ago
Is this really all that significant? It seems that since the WeWork fiasco, all of SoftBank's failures are being covered by news organizations. But isn't that simply the nature of venture capital? Invest in a lot of different thin
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by jakemal 7y ago
It's actually O(n) where n is ∞
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by jakemal 7y ago
When developers build high income housing, high income households move to those new developments and reduce demand for the places they vacated, making them more affordable for lower income households.
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by jakemal 7y ago
Most pages take 10+ seconds to load for us and we are using Atlassian's hosting.
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by jakemal 7y ago
There was an Angry Birds movie released within the last couple of years. It's still extremely popular.
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by jakemal 7y ago
I'd imagine that is net cash per month. But they would still be building equity.
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by jakemal 7y ago
What features are missing when using Android? I'm going to switch from Android to iPhone when the next generation comes out but was thinking about getting airpods before I get an iPhone. I was curious on what features require the iPhon
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by jakemal 7y ago
Yes, but it will be 100% of a very short tenure.
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by jakemal 7y ago
The company I work for has unlimited PTO and I really enjoy it. Even if I don't use significantly more than if I had a set number of days, I really appreciate having the peace of mind that comes with it. I don't have to worry abo
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by jakemal 7y ago
It looks like you are citing the CDC ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/dvs/LCWK1_2015.pdf ) study. They define poisoning (including by alcohol) as an unintentional injury. So that 88 thousand is included in the 1
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by jakemal 7y ago
What is a use case for optimizing interprocessor latency?
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by jakemal 7y ago
Remember from what?
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by jakemal 7y ago
Along with the fact that we have the option to block all of those distractions now. With my blocking extensions, that article was a single photo and all text on a plain white background. It was a very enjoyable reading experience.
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I think this is something that seems reasonable at first, but in practice would get incredibly unwieldy. There is much more to what they do than connect buyers and sellers. They also resolve conflicts, navigate different laws in countless l
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by jakemal 7y ago
I would imagine going into it, people would optimistically assume they are only going to watch for 30-60 minutes, but end up getting hooked and watching for hours.
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by jakemal 7y ago
I wonder if Netflix will eventually get rid of discrete episodes all together. Generally, the end of an episode is when people make a decision to stop or continue watching. If the goal is to maximize engagement, it seems like it would be be
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by jakemal 7y ago
Agreed. But in the context of the parent comment, it seems like they are specifically referring to web interface design.
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by jakemal 7y ago
> Arguably the best engineers are also good designers Is there an implied caveat that this applies mostly to Frontend engineers? Or do you think this is something Backend engineers should also be good at? Or I suppose there is third opt
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by jakemal 7y ago
I live in downtown Chicago and I find the lack of billboards everywhere refreshing. Michigan Avenue has very few advertisements with the exception of unintrusive storefront signs.
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by jakemal 7y ago
Yes and no. Even if they are acting with good intentions, it's still causing negative consequences for the author. I can understand it would be especially frustrating if the "correction" was incorrect.
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by jakemal 7y ago
I've never heard of that being considered an entire meal America either.
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by jakemal 7y ago
The headline is extremely editorialized and attempts to steer the discussion in a very specific direction. Can the mods change the title to match the article headline?
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by jakemal 7y ago
It's also a lifesaver for viewing pages that are not mobile friendly. It's my most-loved feature of Firefox.
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by jakemal 7y ago
You cut off the relevant part of the description. It tracks your sleep cycles so it can wake you up when your are naturally in a light part of your sleep cycle. That way you aren't going from a dead sleep to being jolted awake by an al
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by jakemal 7y ago
The point of the comment was that people likely cared less because people heard about it significantly less.
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by jakemal 7y ago
Usually when you learn a topic, you pick up skills in the process that are useful outside of that specific domain. For example, as a software engineer, I have refined the skill of being able to break down a problem into smaller, workable pa
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by jakemal 7y ago
It isn't a requirement for a map to capture all characteristics of an area to be considered a map.
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A map that doesn't capture all information about an area doesn't make it not a map.
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I think if the machine was two dimensional and the photo had a measurement scale then it would be as good as a blueprint.
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by jakemal 7y ago
Facebook can't read the content of your messages. They can serve you an encrypted version of your messages that your device can decrypt. Look up end-to-end encryption for how exactly that works.

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