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by malz 10y ago
Techcrunch has some photos of the lab. https://techcrunch.com/gallery/facebook-hardware-lab/
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by malz 10y ago
The media unquestioningly reported the $1 billion number. This article at least admits "it's unclear where that $1 billion figure came from", but where's the shame about being manipulated into reporting completely made-u
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by malz 10y ago
It's surprising to the extent that: balancing on a non-moving bicycle is hard. Riding a unicycle is hard. Riding a bike is easy.
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by malz 10y ago
I certainly have. Who has experienced a loss due to HRC's email policy? I'm just curious. I mean, Benghazi had clear losses, but no firm cause that pointed to her negligence. Then we have emails with clear negligence but no obviou
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by malz 10y ago
> those who are strongly opposed to HRC use the term "traitor" frequently Those people also use the word "traitor" when they are cut off in traffic, or when the mailman accidentally delivers their Guns & Ammo subs
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by malz 10y ago
It seems newsworthy that the world's first robotic car, specifically designed to see and react to road conditions, drives into the side of a truck.
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by malz 10y ago
Palantir was founded 11 years ago, which shows there's nothing magic about the proposed 10-year exercise period. You might still be waiting for your unicorn to provide an exit (which will feel increasingly mythical, like its namesake).
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by malz 10y ago
So your counterparty makes money on 90% of his trades and is down 30% for the year? He must feel like a schmuck.
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by malz 10y ago
I don't believe "dividends are becoming increasingly rare in the stock market". One measure of that is to compare the S&P 500 yield with treasury yield, the latter being near a historic low, but the S&P yield near a c
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by malz 10y ago
The interesting thing about Prop 8 is, a few years later, the outcome of the vote has been totally reversed, same-sex marriage is the law of the land, and it now has solid majority support. The will of the people can change in a short time.
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by malz 10y ago
It hasn't disappeared (Google Ngram viewer shows a consistent occurrence of "led" since 1800). It's just a common error due to (1) inconsistency with "read" (same spelling for present and past tense) and (2) th
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by malz 10y ago
Its rules for pronouncing "X" are also distinct in these cases: say "Malcolm X" say "Louis X"
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by malz 10y ago
These people found an ally in California's anti-mind control candidate for U.S. Senate: "... the freedom to think one's own thoughts free from interferance such as that from Voice to Skull (V2K) mind control technology ... le
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by malz 10y ago
"You agree to keep confidential ... the incidents or claims leading or related to our provision of the good will" certainly implies that I'm agreeing not to talk about the incident.
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by malz 10y ago
The NYT article implies Tesla is not acting like other car companies. >Ford, General Motors and Toyota all said they did not have customers sign confidentiality agreements in exchange for fixing cars that have broken down. >Joan Clayb
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by malz 10y ago
"You agree to keep confidential" is the key phrase.
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For Tesla Owner, Losing a Wheel Was Just the First Surprise(nytimes.com)
4 points by malz 10y ago|1 comments
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Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ to Be Scrutinized in Court in Copyright Case(nytimes.com)
2 points by malz 10y ago|0 comments
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by malz 10y ago
touché.
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by malz 10y ago
Alt-[ and Alt-] also work. And they work even if a text field (including the address bar) is selected, whereas backspace or alt-left/right change to their text-editing behavior.
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by malz 10y ago
Giant web forms have been a usability disaster since day one. Accidental back button, link click, window close, session timeout, etc, increase the chance of a failure and need to re-enter the entire form. Whereas for at least 40 years deskt
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Gunn High School students asked to retake AP exams due to testing errors(paloaltoonline.com)
1 points by malz 10y ago|0 comments
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by malz 10y ago
I should point out that time travel would fix the phone charging problem quite handily. Just send your phone back in time a few hours. Not sure if there are other applications.
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by malz 10y ago
It's not obvious it's in their best interest to block fake reviews. If product A has zero reviews and product B has ten glowing but fake reviews, which one makes more money for Amazon? Sure there's long-term reputation risk,
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by malz 10y ago
Yep. My kids are encouraged to learn to code whenever they get the chance. Coding is problem solving, applied logic, putting abstract math to use in everyday life. They also play with Legos, but it doesn't mean they're expected to
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by malz 10y ago
Another explanation: EVERY can of beans at a mass supermarket like Safeway has the same ingredients. You have to go to Trader Joe's or Whole Foods to avoid the national brands. Many people don't have that option or choose to use i
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by malz 10y ago
My local drugstore sells both kinds of products too. If it's evil for Nestle, it's arguably even more evil for Walgreens, since that's where the consumer is making their purchasing decision.
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by malz 10y ago
The US Congress has an 11% approval rate. The idea that people would support a candidate from outside that system is not hard to fathom.
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by malz 10y ago
Every job I've held for 20 years has involved keeping a chat window open with my collaborators. At various times it was IRC, Jabber, AIM, iChat, HipChat; but now Slack is suddenly the one worth a jillion dollars.
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by malz 10y ago
Which was followed by an admission of the conflict of interest in running a tech-hype story written by the wife of a wealthy VC. http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/conflict-of...

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