kevinstubbs

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by kevinstubbs 7y ago
Your first paragraph is very interesting. Got a link or book you could recommend to learn more?
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by kevinstubbs 7y ago
Feels like you're assigning probabilities out of thin air. For example, not sure how hardware failures would wipe out the entire human race, or even cause the collapse of modern civilization across the planet - like every single piece
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by kevinstubbs 8y ago
KSA = Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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by kevinstubbs 8y ago
What's "radio spectrum shock"? Google didn't find anything referring to this =/
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by kevinstubbs 8y ago
There were many times, at least during the time of colonial empires where companies would run entire towns, regions, and countries. Sometimes they provided just law and order like in British American colonies, but usually they coerced pre-e
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by kevinstubbs 8y ago
If you're not going to do something awesome why not work hard? Broken down: If you aren't going to do something awesome (like travel a lot) , [then] why not work hard [instead]?
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by kevinstubbs 8y ago
Graphene can be used to detect molecules in the air which has applications in air pollution monitoring. https://phys.org/news/2016-04-graphene-based-sensor-air-poll...
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by kevinstubbs 9y ago
That's really interesting! Do you happen to remember where you read about demobilized soldiers in countries, or about the possible motivation for the crusades?
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by kevinstubbs 9y ago
They do it because video preroll CPM is waayyy higher than display advertising. Like up to $15/cpm.. Multiples of that if you can get the right deals in place (not remnant).
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by kevinstubbs 9y ago
The paywall doesn't have to be all or nothing. Probably a very small minority of their readers are capable of bypassing the paywall using browser dev tools.
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
Just curious, why is the limit 10 (and not say 11) and why have a limit at all?
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
Thanks for the information. This opens a little rabbit hole of terms to crawl Wikipedia for. It's very interesting that you thought I raised five questions, when my intention was to actually clarify my single question :)
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
Can somebody explain how Amazon could buy them if Capital One's total assests are worth $334 billion? Presumably the valuation would be some multiple of that. Amazon doesn't have enough liquid cash, so how would they do it?
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
I've independently come to the same conclusion as you and OP, but some of my liberal friends on Facebook don't agree. I don't really understand the argument to "isolate and shun" by not joining his advisory boards.
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
Is there any merit to the argument that increasing population density will make bad traffic exponentially worse?
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
From the top down, executives need to communicate that it is a company priority. Even better if they can make it a cultural thing, instead of an afterthought. A lot of the time, engineers just don't know best security practices or in t
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
Is Marc Andreessen's "Software is Eating the World" the blog post you were referring to? http://genius.com/Marc-andreessen-why-software-is-eating-the... Linked to the Genius page because the original WSJ is b
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
I'm not a designer. Why is material design bad? What is better? Are there any situations/contexts where material design is the king?
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
Looks like there are four frameworks[0]. Use the Android one for Android, the Polymer one for Polymer, the Angular one for Angular, and the "Material Design Lite" would have to be adapted for everything else - it is plain css, htm
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
If they haven't already started to rewrite the codebase, then I expect them to soon, or there is a medium-term plan to replace it with something else.
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
There is a .zip you can download, and a link to give it access to your Twitter account. That's enough to make me think it's legitimate :) If you are brave enough to go through either of the steps, let me know what's at the en
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
I can't stand Skype's sign in/closing experience. Linking my original Skype account with a Microsoft email definitely broke something. Also why do I have to tell it to exit in 3 different ways to get it to finally exit for re
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
Until looking just now, I thought headphones were either "earbuds" or the full headphones. Earbuds are the kind Apple sells, while "in-ear" headphones are the ones I find comfortable for hours at a time. The cheap kind I
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
Apple sells wired headphones for the lightning port. I'm personally not interested in upgrading because I don't want to use their headphones or get a lightning port adapter just for the phone. You're not forced to use the Air
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
Peoples' ears are all different. Apple's earbuds aren't comfortable for me, but they're the first choice for many people that I know. I can easily believe that the AirPods will be so comfortable that some subset of the p
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
Spaced repetition and learning in context are not mutually exclusive. [0] Secondly, there are many many advantages to learning vocabulary out of context. I am very interested in foreign languages, and have self-studied to elementary profici
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
Straw man argument? Doing that doesn't sound fun at all, and is totally different than what OP was talking about in Sears. Trying to use the giftcard number to see how high their staff will escalate to deal with this "scam" i
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
For fun, you could buy a few more cards like that and see what kind of mess happens. Like what Steve Wozniak's does with his $2 bills ( http://archive.woz.org/letters/general/78.html ).
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
That's a fair criticism. You're right that with this system of paying somebody as close to their value as possible, bonuses and raises wouldn't make sense. It did make me realize though, that there is a risk of having a downr
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by kevinstubbs 10y ago
I see what you're saying, but if everybody is getting paid at the breakeven, or close to breakeven point, the company is going to be starved of capital it needs to grow, take bets, weather a bad sales cycle, etc. Also, how can a compan

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