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by jim-greer 10y ago
Are others getting a lot of recommendations for old movies? I have to be in just the right mood for a movie from the 1950s or earlier...
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by jim-greer 10y ago
Unfortunately for Unity, they don't make any more money on a hit game than on a big-budget failure. All that matters is how many seat licenses they sell. Selling developer tools is not a great business.
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by jim-greer 10y ago
I'm not sure that's what he's saying: "the sample used herein is a large and random subset of the to-be-completed data set". I read that as meaning database is to-be-completed, and he's sampling from that.
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by jim-greer 10y ago
This analysis is based on crowd-sourced data on shootings. I'm not saying that makes it invalid, but I'd need to know more about the dataset before trusting the results. It seems hard to have it be complete. The official FBI data
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by jim-greer 10y ago
They do feed on flying fish, among others. Here's a good clip from the newest BBC nature documentary on it: https://youtu.be/szuchBiLrEM
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by jim-greer 10y ago
Internationally you get $0.20/min calls and unlimited 2G data. I'm getting a consistent 0.07 Mbps in Buenos Aires the last few days!
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by jim-greer 10y ago
Some paper towels were harmed in the making of this video. http://imgur.com/d7lnT7Q
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by jim-greer 10y ago
My kids don't quite get Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy yet, but they enjoyed making a Don't Panic towel to take to school. https://twitter.com/jimgreer/status/735497227183919104
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by jim-greer 10y ago
I suspect some of these companies also do surveillance on non-public social media posts. It's about the only explanation I can think of for the volume of friend requests I get from fake profiles of attractive women...
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by jim-greer 10y ago
I'm of two minds about this. Everything you mention is great background to have. (Though non-trivial programs can't be reasoned about mathematically much more than biological systems can). I think this deep background is a great g
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by jim-greer 10y ago
I can't reproduce the censorship of telegram.org. http://imgur.com/qUjmS2n
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by jim-greer 11y ago
I totally agree this is the right approach. It seems like people are figuring this out. 10 years ago I did the Nerve personals (they were syndicated on various sites, I found them on The Onion) A lot of women seemed inclined to send a bunch
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by jim-greer 11y ago
How could you store enough power in orbit to fire it?
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by jim-greer 11y ago
The probes would be 1g, not 100g. They're sending the "guts" of an iPhone. 7kT is half of the Hiroshima bomb. Still destructive, especially if you've got a bunch of them.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Yes background checks are required at licensed gun stores. But as many as 40% of gun sales are private.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
I actually think it should be national, but reforms should be evidence based. First off, gun homicides are actually down over 50% since the early 90s. There are still too many, of course. Assault weapons bans are ineffective, since they acc
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by jim-greer 11y ago
That sucks. It's absurdly short-sighted to skimp on giving feedback to employees.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
So people get 1 month performance plans after positive or neutral reviews? Or are these places that don't do regular reviews? I've honestly never heard of that. Want to name names?
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by jim-greer 11y ago
I don't know much about Hubspot, but Lyons should know that sudden firings without an explanation are not common. The norm is quarterly reviews, and firing only after you've had several negative ones. Extortion is obviously not co
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by jim-greer 11y ago
FWIW my wife puts the odds of victory on this at something like 70% at this point. She's a director at Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, working on freedom of expression. That's based on this study: http:/&#x2
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by jim-greer 11y ago
It's the 90s on the European internet in other ways, or almost. For instance broadband penetration in Belgium is about where it was in 2003. There are lots of internet cafes. Edit: This is incorrect. European broadband is fine.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
Agreed! But it's perverse to blame Netflix for any of this, as OP and others seem to.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
To paraphrase Louis CK: Everything is amazing and some people aren't happy. The amazing new things make them forget that the crappier old things are still around. They just need to look underneath the big pile of amazing new things.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
> Yet our ancestors, with far fewer resources than we have, managed it just fine. Wait, how does having fewer resources make it harder to consume fewer resources? I find it easier to not eat ice cream if I don't have any ice cream.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
I've never seen it work on a site with an m subdomain. But Netflix serves both sites from www. Edit: I take it back. Somehow it works right on my own site, Kongregate. I wonder what the trick is? Edit: The trick seems to be a session v
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by jim-greer 11y ago
You can also do this on Chrome and Safari. It's a "share" option for Safari, bizarrely.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
In this thread - a lot of people who don't have a Netflix DVD plan saying that it's hard to use their DVD plan.
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by jim-greer 11y ago
> Search also feels biased towards streaming, to the point where it will suggest several "not even close" streaming movies before the literal title that you're searching for. This is not true if you have a DVD plan. There&
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by jim-greer 11y ago
These people need to learn about "request desktop site on mobile". It's buried in Safari, but still doable. > For a company the size of Netflix to fail in this regard is quite irksome. As a shareholder, I applaud them for
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by jim-greer 11y ago
I think it was just one mishap? That the mobile Netflix site doesn't expose the DVD queue. But the desktop site works fine on mobile. (edit - Yes, two. The app doesn't deal with DVDs either)

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