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by jzl 8y ago
Best summary I've ever read about Logan Paul is this (since-deleted) tweet: "Watching adults learn about Logan Paul is like seeing Mt. Everest base campers leave for the summit with a windbreaker and a granola bar."
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> an extension called "Skip Redirect" [mouth open emoji] Smacking my head that I never thought to look for such an extension. Thanks!
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Not happening to me, but this question reminds me of something I've been wondering for a while: when did Google first start redirecting search result links so they could track what you end up clicking on? Was it like that before 2010?
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This piece from 2012 (posted now why?) loses all credibility in the section called "2. Misleading results": It is tempting to think that the 60% figure that’s being thrown around in media reports is just too large a percentage to
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Best comparison chart I've seen so far: https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/10/30/18042744/...
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Imploding might be extreme but I think it's entirely plausible that 1-2 years from now their stock is at half its current value or at least half the value of its all-time high.
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You know they just lost their highly revered head of security and said there would be no replacement, right? https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/1/17640852/facebook-cso-alex...
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IP address commonality is probably a major part of this, so using separate devices only helps if they are on different carriers and you never use wifi AND you don't allow location services or practically any other permissions. With a s
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by jzl 8y ago
Simple: delete your Facebook account. Many of us already have. Nothing will send a stronger message than people doing this en masse. Even if they don't get the message or don't care, it's the only way to protect yourself from
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Something that can't be said about very many people -- Ramanujan has an integer named after him: 1729. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number) This is hands-down my favorite math story: It is known as the Har
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by jzl 8y ago
"Almost completely ignored by the modern world, this month marks the 500th anniversary of one of history’s most tragic and significant events – the birth of the Africa to America transatlantic slave trade." A (relatively) small
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The story of "import this": https://www.wefearchange.org/2010/06/import-this-and-zen-of-...
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The most insidious tactic on the ground is GPS spoofing, using malicious software to broadcast phony signals and fool the receiver on, say, an aircraft into thinking it’s somewhere, or somewhen, that it isn’t. Such methods “would certainly
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by jzl 8y ago
They also pretty much developed the Vive and all accompanying software. HTC was originally not much more than a partner that created hardware to their specification.
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by jzl 8y ago
I'm thinking of all the people who did/will make that much or more with each large-scale exit. How many 3+ millionaires will the combined exits of Airbnb, Uber, and Pinterest create? (Any of which could be in the next few years.)
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by jzl 8y ago
Amazing. Would kill to see the respective employer(s) of each bidder. That would be fascinating. I still wonder how much developers and/or foreign buyers are in the mix, but I have a feeling that's not the dominating factor here.
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Given how small SF is, and given how many multi-millionaires are minted with every big and even not-so-big tech company exit -- not to mention a steady population of bankers, traders, lawyers, doctors, etc. -- it seems like there is absolut
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Slashdotted...
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Is it possible that the X is also seeing fewer cracked screens? I imagine there's a correlation between hardness of the glass and tendency to crack.
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There was a better article about this earlier this year in the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/11/world/china-recyclables-b... Corresponding HN thread: https://news.ycombinator
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An interesting question here is whether this will ever affect what AMC ultimately pays the movie studios. In the same way that Moviepass had to pay AMC the full ticket price for each admission, I'm sure that for now AMC will have to pa
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by jzl 8y ago
One popular option: https://jfrog.com/artifactory/
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Ha, I thought this was going to be an article comparing BeyondCompare, WinMerge, xxdiff, etc.. But it was interesting nonetheless!
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by jzl 8y ago
The emacs "JOKES" file contains an extended section of proposed backronyms, along with a bunch of other 20-30 year-old jokey bits from usenet: https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/blob/master/e
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by jzl 8y ago
TL;DR -- The issue is lack of sunlight rather than damage from dust or blanketing of the solar panels. I was curious if Opportunity has a way to clean its solar panels. Answer: no, but sometimes a wind gust helps out. https://www
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Going to try this!
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To that I say I'm doing you a favor: adding noise to your profile to throw off their big-data algos. :)
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Is it possible there will simply be "Office 365" standalone apps that are basically just baked-down versions of the web apps (like typical Electron style apps), but distinct from the official desktop apps? I could see there being
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by jzl 8y ago
The phone number is an easy one. You never give them your real phone number. I use an old number to which I add 1 to each of the last 4 digits. That way when I don't have the card I can still remember what phone number to punch in.
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The other goal of "unlimited vacation" is that companies don't have to pay out banked vacation days upon end of employment.

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