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by mrep 7y ago
> I just don't understand how anyone comes to buy things shown in ads. What is so different about seeing something you are interested in from an ad or from a website you clicked through to yourself? > Are ads really effective? I
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by mrep 7y ago
What data sources are you looking at? According to this website which is basing their data off of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic, it shows beef is up 40% [0], bananas are down 5.58% [1], and milk is up 8.56% [2] since 2009 which is way
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by mrep 7y ago
> But I can't think of any other area in healthcare where your care is held hostage unless you pay them for some unrelated diagnostics you don't want. Happens to women too for birth control.
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by mrep 7y ago
Or visit then if you like some snow :) I'm currently in Seattle and I cannot wait to move back. Fortunately, my girlfriend gradates in 7 months and we are literally counting down the months until then so we can move back.
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by mrep 7y ago
It's about 50% north american users if I recall correctly. Dang posted the stats once in a comment but I cannot find it using algolia.
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by mrep 7y ago
> Why would Google care about how good chips for Android are? Google only cares about the Android ecosystem being good enough to deliver ads. Considering Google paid Apple 12 billion dollars this year to be the default search engine on i
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by mrep 7y ago
tptacek has 323873 since november 2007 [0] or an average of 2,249 per month so probably quite a bit higher. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
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by mrep 7y ago
What? They are the one of the largest employers on the planet with over 600,000 employees.
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by mrep 7y ago
It is for me for all the games I have tried so far.
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by mrep 7y ago
Hey me too (albeit 100mbit) and I've gotten my Stadia and been playing tomb raider with it and it works great so I wouldn't worry about it.
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by mrep 7y ago
> Google Stadia is £120 down and a monthly fee... while it's clearly still in beta No, the beta was last year with assassins creed and that was free and they gave everyone a free copy of the game afterwords.
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by mrep 7y ago
Presumably over provision and then when idle, they can reuse them for their own internal batch work.
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by mrep 7y ago
> The only part that stumps me is why you need pay $130 for a controller and a Chromecast with "special" software on it. Isn't the whole premise that you don't need dedicated hardware to play games? That is for the pr
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by mrep 7y ago
Pretty sure you won't need that when the free 1080p base version comes out next year. I played 30 hours of assassins creed during the beta last year on my macbook pro with a xbox 360 controller.
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by mrep 7y ago
I would argue that, and it allows them to reuse idle resources. Instead of everyone having to buy their own game console or pc which sits idle most of the time, google only needs to buy enough for peak demand and then they can use the idle
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by mrep 7y ago
Says who? I grew up in chicago where not only do we have an elevated subway [0] but we also have some double decker streets such as wacker drive [1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_%22L%22 [1]: https:&#x2
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by mrep 7y ago
Not sure why you think rail cannot service suburbs. I grew up 20 miles outside of Chicago in the suburbs and and we had a train station in the middle of town. Furthest you could be from the train station and still be in the town was about
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by mrep 7y ago
> I‘d say Oracle is driven by a hierarchy of sales culture. Isn't Oracle a legal driven company [0] :) [0]: https://bonkersworld.net/organizational-charts
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by mrep 7y ago
@dang What are the browser and operating stats for HN?
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by mrep 7y ago
Have you gone to apple for the battery swelling issue? I took mine in after part of the trackpad stopped working and a fan starting whining non-stop. They ended up replacing the case, battery, fan, and potentially even the keyboard and sc
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by mrep 7y ago
It was a joke about how they have ran multiple stories sourced from there due to them finding bugs in robinhood and exploiting them, most recently the infinite leverage cheat code.
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by mrep 7y ago
If you are business insider, it's probably best to refresh r/wallstreetbets.
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by mrep 7y ago
Honestly, that doesn't look as bad as I thought it would be considering all the reports of how journalism is dead. US median wage for those with a bachelors degree is about $62,000 dollars a year [0] which seems similar to the median
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by mrep 7y ago
GAFAM is what the french use and I think it is most fitting [0]. [0]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFAM
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by mrep 7y ago
Everything in google cloud and paid GSuite is 100% not used for anything ad related and you can check the terms and conditions yourself.
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by mrep 7y ago
> For example, let's say that a country had to displace 40% of its productive arable land in order to install wind & solar. How do wind turbines take up substantial arable land? The wind farm near the university I went to in In
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by mrep 7y ago
From autonomy day hacker news comment: "Pegasus consumes about 500Watts, compared to under 100 Watts for Tesla's FSD computer. Elon in particular emphasized the performance per watt (as it's always possible to cram more chips
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by mrep 7y ago
In the metric of income in relation to the entire US population, sure. In regards to the ordinary tech worker in a ridiculous CoL area like SF , no it definitely does not require you to be extraordinary to join one of the higher paying co
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by mrep 7y ago
L6 at Google pays $490,000 a year [0] and 90+ percent of first layer managers at GAFAM are L6 or above. While getting into GAFAM and becoming a manager isn't a stroll in the park, it definitely doesn't require you to be extraordi
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by mrep 7y ago
> maximum salaries or maximum wages Yah, we tried that in WW2 and now we are stuck with employer paid healthcare. I'd rather not.

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