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by jarek 11y ago
Would love to hear what sort of minority the choice of Colgate Total vs Colgate Anti-Cavity caters to
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by jarek 11y ago
How much does being first matter here, though? A self-driving taxi service is not easy to scale because in addition to good maps of anywhere you want to service, you need to own and maintain physical cars (starting with nightly cleaning on
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by jarek 11y ago
If the car drives itself and you rent a trip rather than buy and own a specific vehicle, why would most people care to pay a premium for a Tesla trip rather than just getting a Nissan Leaf With Google or Hyundai e10 With Uber or a self-car2
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by jarek 11y ago
In practice, though, a lot of other editors also make huge bounding-box edits, to the point where I've found box history basically useless in London even ignoring wheelmap edits. And I'd take having accessibility data over cleaner
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by jarek 11y ago
A 7 Series on its third drivetrain within three years would have people tearing up message boards about how terrible internal combustion engines are
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by jarek 11y ago
You can add just about anything on OSM ( http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:En_key_descripti... ), so the only limit is what people actually map :) (and sometimes what the community decides, e.g. adding things t
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by jarek 11y ago
Don't see how that's any more objectionable than a third of your HN posts supporting Amazon
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by jarek 11y ago
A somewhat hacky thing you can do is tweet to @OSMthis with the location embedded in the tweet, and it will add a note to OSM: https://twitter.com/osmthis/with_replies Other editors can then see the note and might reso
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by jarek 11y ago
The problem is Google doesn't yet have a spam filter for my phone like they do for my email (I mean, in practice I just don't answer any calls I am not expecting - but not everyone can do that)
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by jarek 11y ago
In London these days you don't have to depend on third-party recruiters, but they will contact you anyway. Wayyyyy more than I saw in either Toronto or Vancouver.
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by jarek 11y ago
s/their E-mails/when they call three days in a row and don't take not picking up and not responding to voicemail or e-mail for a hint/ London, this week
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by jarek 11y ago
Maybe it's $1.2B of Evernote RSUs?
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by jarek 11y ago
Ah yes, TCP/IP, the technology that spurred founding of Ebay just 4 years after it was created ;) Non-EU small companies will not be hurt. Companies not collecting personal data won't be hurt. Companies that don't have an off
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by jarek 11y ago
Google, Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo, Amazon, Wikipedia, Twitter, LinkedIn, Ebay, Bing use HTTP. Which as I'm sure you are aware was created by a European, working at a European institute. Unless by Internet Blackout you meant blocking NNT
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by jarek 11y ago
If you're at the point of storing data on different continents and being aware where it is stored, I'm not sure what is stopping you from batching your trans-continent queries so that you only hit the trans-continent latency once.
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by jarek 11y ago
I'm mocking the idea of an Internet (though I rather suspect VikingCoder meant HTTP) Blackout for Europe by pointing out European HTTP services.
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by jarek 11y ago
U.S. residents, including temporary residents, are considered "U.S. persons" by the IRS and have to report everything. Amusingly this also applies to holders of U.S. Green Cards who aren't actually resident in the U.S. Canadi
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by jarek 11y ago
What kind of services or small businesses do you have in mind that a) have offices in different data jurisdictions and b) do not require any localization for these jurisdictions?
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by jarek 11y ago
Have you ever tried to do ad-selling on Google's scale without local sales offices?
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by jarek 11y ago
Maybe Spotify can go first. Then CERN can limit its "web sites" to only work from within its member states
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by jarek 11y ago
Sooner or later? It's been happening for a while in mapping. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/10922595/Reveal... http://qz.com/224821/see-how-borders-change-on-google-map
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by jarek 11y ago
Yeah, the special rules for U.S. persons are a result of U.S. forcing banks doing any business in U.S. to apply special rules to U.S. persons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Account_Tax_Compliance...
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by jarek 11y ago
No, but I would suggest that it's not a dealbreaker. Again, bandwidth pales in comparison to megabytes of Javascript and images getting pushed all over the place. On my nearly-blank test account loading Facebook.com fetches ~4 MB, incl
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by jarek 11y ago
> And you can't build a Facebook wall with intercontinental latencies. I have yet to see a Facebook wall in under 0.133 seconds, I'm not sure intercontinental latencies are the biggest problem in web performance these days...
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by jarek 11y ago
From my experience, majority of "bedroom/garage" startups self-limit geographically - whether it's expecting a phone number or a bank account in a given country, or assuming everyone has a U.S. state and zipcode (90210).
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by jarek 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick
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by jarek 11y ago
What are your thoughts on the humans prospering and blossoming in the London Barbican?
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by jarek 11y ago
I've tried every other Wednesday off. People ask me why I wouldn't just do a longer weekend, but I found the mid-week break to be great. What used to feel like a long five-day slog is much more manageable in two-day chunks.
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by jarek 11y ago
What exactly is a real-world test then? The procedure has to be nailed down to be accurate, and at that point we're back to optimising for a given test procedure again.
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by jarek 11y ago
If your salesmen are suggesting SSD ads for your high-production-value female-fashion-and-lifestyle site, you need to pay more for better salesmen If you're a content farm then rock on

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