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by jonas21 5y ago
Are Stripe, Square, and Tesla not big tech? They have market caps of $95B, $88B, and $1.05T, respectively. And is YouTube not upending the incumbents (TV and traditional media) in the same way that they are?
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by jonas21 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_polymerase_chain_rea...
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Why not both?
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by jonas21 5y ago
It seems to me like this is a case of new large tech companies coming to dominate new markets while the existing tech companies continue to dominate their old markets.
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by jonas21 5y ago
As I understand it, HIPAA requires that health information is secured in transit and at rest. This is difficult to do over email, since email is not always encrypted in transit, so the general recommendation is to use a portal instead. Ther
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by jonas21 5y ago
All user-contributed content on Stack Overflow is under a CC-BY-SA license. So what the sites are doing is allowed under the license, as long as they're providing attribution. Is it annoying? Sure. But neither Stack Overflow nor the au
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by jonas21 5y ago
Do you have a few examples of those other places? I'd imagine that anyone interested in buying Giphy would fall into one of two categories: 1. Large tech companies for which the same antitrust arguments would apply. 2. Companies that
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by jonas21 5y ago
I'd also imagine you'd have a pretty hard time convincing a US court that working with a US government agency is "evil."
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by jonas21 5y ago
He will be replaced by Parag Agrawal. In the image in the tweet, Jack says: > Parag started here as an engineer who cared deeply about our work and now he's our CEO... Parag will be able to channel this energy best because he'
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by jonas21 5y ago
The CEOs of every Fortune 500 company (and many smaller ones too) are on-call 24/7.
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by jonas21 5y ago
Who said they simply get away with it? BP is responsible for cleaning up the site, at an estimated cost of $150M. They're responsible because they bought ARCO, which had acquired the site from the original mining company. They're
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by jonas21 5y ago
> I can’t imagine now, or anytime in the last 15 years, a teenager being able to walk into an office and be expected to show up and work the next day in a hard industrial job. The reason for this is that US Federal labor laws now prohi
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by jonas21 5y ago
Or for that matter, why wouldn't folks decide to live farther away from work to maximize their compensation? I think a lot of people wouldn't mind spending a few hours each day on the train for a 40% raise.
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by jonas21 5y ago
> Is any other 'mainstream' company offering a similar feature? You mean apart from basically every other mainstream tech company? [1] [2] [3] [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/google
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by jonas21 5y ago
It appears to be a copy of this article [1] from The Conversation (the original was published under a Creative Commons license, so I guess that's fine). The Conversation is backed by a number of well-known universities and foundations
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by jonas21 5y ago
This is the central tragedy of Facebook. They set out to build a platform where anyone, no matter how small, could compete with big media on a level playing field based on a straightforward metric: whether a user cares enough about a post t
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by jonas21 5y ago
I don't think the issue is people being polite. It's that these messages look similar to the legitimate fraud alerts that credit card companies and banks send. What happens if you don't respond to those? Presumably, the trans
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by jonas21 5y ago
It was emptied due to the swine flu response in 2009-10. The Obama administration included funding to replenish it in the 2011 budget, but that was rejected by Congress.
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by jonas21 5y ago
DocuSign exists because there are various federal and state laws that regulate electronic signatures. Companies are required to make disclosures, collect affirmative consent, retain records, provide access to them to the person who signed,
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by jonas21 5y ago
I can't off the top of my head. Can you? I mean it's almost as if targeted advertising were a remarkably effective way to fund things that people want but don't like paying for, whether it's journalism or parking.
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by jonas21 5y ago
This is an article in the LA Times by a columnist who works for the LA Times.
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by jonas21 5y ago
The author says that the app's "more than 4,000-word privacy policy is a minefield of digital pitfalls". I hate to break it to them, but the LA Times has a more than 7,000-word privacy policy with the exact same pitfalls. - C
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by jonas21 5y ago
Just to make sure I understand correctly... the most compelling piece of evidence for you is the timestamps on the files? Something that's not only trivial to fake, but also would have been overwritten if the files were copied betwe
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by jonas21 5y ago
Bears a striking resemblance to the James Webb Space Telescope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Webb_Space_Telescope
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by jonas21 5y ago
Yeah, and it seems like you'll still be able to flag videos on YouTube too. The change makes YouTube more like HN, which I personally feel is a good thing.
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by jonas21 5y ago
Imagine a News site for Hackers that only had the option to upvote stories. How horrible would that be?!
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by jonas21 5y ago
All of the discussion around the internet as if it's something we should take seriously has me baffled. It's an ill defined concept and the effort is being led by a government department that hardly anyone trusts or even likes. As
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by jonas21 5y ago
Why single out companies here? The experiment in question was performed at a state-run facility by researchers from a university and funded by federal grants. It seems like they are all responsible.
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by jonas21 5y ago
Quite the opposite. If skills are infinitely transferrable, then the skill level of a developer is a function of time they have spent in the field. This makes a senior developer extremely valuable because they will always be more qualified
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by jonas21 5y ago
A few years back, I commuted almost every week between Boston and NYC on Amtrak (~80 trips total) and had a very different experience. I took the NE Regional instead of Acela because it was $49 each way and only ~30 minutes longer than Acel

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