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by mseebach 8y ago
The pause and other playback control buttons on my TV remote works with the Chromecast. It somehow gets passed on through the HDMI port.
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by mseebach 8y ago
For the same reason you don't need to have every single steak and every single carrot analysed to a molecular level. After all, each individual steak or carrot will be a little different from every other. People who know what they&#x27
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by mseebach 8y ago
I know it's not exactly a sympatic line of inquiry, but how good are you actually at philosophy, if you expect a philosophy degree from a 25-30-rank university to be a marketable credential? I agree fully that education for educations
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by mseebach 8y ago
A: there are no "secret ingredients" in Coca Cola, there are a secret mixture of a certain secret subset of a set of well known, known to be safe, ingredients. In the same way you know that there is nothing weird added to your org
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by mseebach 8y ago
The hustle was getting the meeting, by the time they actually sold the software, it existed and worked. I really, really , struggle to see anything wrong with that.
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by mseebach 8y ago
There's a bit of wiggle-room between "is it even possible to get rich" and "average salary".
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by mseebach 8y ago
Except it's (mis)representing itself as an insiders view. Kind of reminds me of The Circle, iirc the author made a point out of not researching how Google/Facebook works when writing it, instead preferring to indulge his fantasi
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by mseebach 8y ago
Surely, true ideological diversity begins with (but indeed doesn't end with) the capacity to have democrats and republicans successfully coexist, something that parts of California and parts of the south, respectively, has struggled wi
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by mseebach 8y ago
> Imagine all the plastic items in the World suddenly as susceptible to rot as wood. It would fundamentally change almost every aspect our existence, in a very short amount of time. Hardly. Some usages of plastic would need to be alter
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The Facebook Trials: It’s Not “Our” Data(marginalrevolution.com)
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by mseebach 8y ago
It seems super-valuable for something like GA to get pulled into a classic vocational-training style setup. Adecco seems very well suited to place a large number of entry-level programmers, including on the receiving side, to help business
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by mseebach 8y ago
That seems unlikely. The Brexit vote is almost two years away now, and if anything, the negotiations have never looked better (not that that's a high bar). Why only now, and why in a so weirdly unrelated way? If they were sorry about B
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by mseebach 8y ago
You're just assuming overbooking away on a single, personal anecdote. Here's mine: I fly a lot on flexible tickets, and in periods have "missed" almost every flight I was scheduled on. But even your experience works out
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by mseebach 8y ago
High frequency trading is largely done in hardware these days. It's a constantly moving target, dealing in nanoseconds. It's not my area of expertise, but last I heard, ASICs directly in the switch is where it's at these days
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's a book by Francis Spufford, "Red Plenty", which is a fictionalised (but, according to the author, trying very hard to track the true story as much as possible) about this era, and Krushhev features heavily. Highly rec
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by mseebach 9y ago
I think it's a media attention thing. Flights are overbooked all over the world, and people get involuntary bumped. I just did a couple of searches for "[lufthansa, british airways, qatar, emirates] overbooked", and it's
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by mseebach 9y ago
I've never seen standby tickets on sale in a first order way. Usually, it's when you're on a rebooked or connecting flight, they'll offer you standby on a better (but sold out) option.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Ryanair doesn't operate connecting flights, and they sell very few flexible or refundable tickets. These are the main opportunities for people to not make their flights, and thus for overbooking to be attractive. A passenger not showi
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by mseebach 9y ago
Overbooking != Bumped passengers Most of the time, by a large margin, all of the passengers who show up for a flight get on it. That's the premise for overbooking, for any given flight, some number of passengers don't show up (inc
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by mseebach 9y ago
The underlying mechanism there is generally that the other party doesn't contest that the printout is in fact of a picture from their phone, or that the screenshot from Reddit is in fact of something they wrote. I'm not a trial la
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by mseebach 9y ago
I don't think lying to the government is automatically illegal (ymmv, ianal, probably varies with jurisdiction). They are generally pretty explicit about the contexts in which lying is illegal (certain signed forms, being under oath et
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by mseebach 9y ago
You also wouldn't have the PATRIOT act and the TSA (and a host of other junk) if some terrorists hadn't flown planes into the WTC. Bad actors doesn't excuse bad law, and good intentions does not make unintended consequences a
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by mseebach 9y ago
I wonder how much of this is due to a significant understanding of the underlying principles, that simply weren't present at the time? Today, especially in this community, we have an almost intuitive understanding of layers and paralla
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by mseebach 9y ago
The Apple Signature Box III.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I have definitely come across employees who acted borderline criminally irresponsibly, and had nothing to fear from management either way. Of course, not punishing that kind of behaviour is its own kind of hazardous management culture.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The counteracting force to that will be that they complexity of the surrounding environment increases and becomes more brittle, or is just simply in the way, as constantly increasing demands for new features drifts further from the capabili
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by mseebach 9y ago
Why the assumption that "to pull a Netflix", they will have to get rid of the back catalogue? Netflix has plenty of third-party content. I would assume that Spotify's music licences are highly variable cost, ie almost entirel
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's awfully close to movie plot threat thinking. Put your NAS in a secure back room and you're going to be fine for practically every scenario short of a 9/11 scale attack. And if you insist, just save your recordings to a
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by mseebach 9y ago
No, statistics aren't useless, but its usefulness cuts both ways: if you can add one or two relevant variables and almost entirely remove the observation, then statistics tells you that the observation was only there due to omitted-var
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by mseebach 9y ago
It seems that GP did that, and learned that these studies ignore inconvenient factors.

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