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by mwint 4y ago
By 2015 Zillow was already well entrenched, what was your differentiator?
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by mwint 4y ago
It does, through the Files app (and Finder on macOS)
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by mwint 4y ago
With names like the Stripe founders and the GitHub founder on the list, perhaps fundraising is also a way to get those well-connected people's skin in the game? They might be good routes to new customers or other connections good for g
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by mwint 4y ago
It’s a lot like saying knives should be required to emit such a sound. A knife is a purely mechanical device, there’s no good way to require an electronic device in a way that won’t be ripped off by every criminal immediately. In the same w
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by mwint 4y ago
That first step, identifying the other party, is the hardest one. They’re all from “card services”…
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by mwint 4y ago
I kind of think FB is uniquely positioned to make the metaverse thing work, if it possibly can. I just think it’s unlikely we’ll ever see it catch on, no matter who is pushing it.
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by mwint 4y ago
This seems like a weird and computationally expensive validation to perform, but it does explain your observation.
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by mwint 4y ago
It really doesn’t. I took an exam in a meeting room at work with huge TVs on the wall… they made me show them the TVs were “unplugged”, so I just unplugged some random thing from the wall and they were happy. The TVs are hardwired, it’d be
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by mwint 4y ago
The remote proctoring stuff is downright dystopian. I bought an extra laptop to do tests; most people can’t do that and have to install this garbage on their daily driver. Of course, I guess most people don’t care.
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by mwint 4y ago
It seems like the way to win an appeal with Google is to somehow get in the internal escalation queue, usually by knowing an engineer or getting lucky on HN or similar.
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by mwint 4y ago
The median of a list of averages is not the median of the population.
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by mwint 4y ago
Huh, I always thought they did that because someone (mistakenly) thought it looked cool. The extreme camber actually does help with a measurable aspect of handling?
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by mwint 4y ago
I guess unless that tag is deactivated at checkout, you might now be wearing a unique collection of RFID tags?
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by mwint 4y ago
Key word there is probably average. Median would be more interesting.
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by mwint 4y ago
What do the "(Ueda: ###, ###, ###)" blocks mean? Some kind of internal CIA/gov't unique-person-identifier?
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by mwint 4y ago
I think Home Depot might be more usable because many of their items are too big to be removed from the cart and put on a scale, so they don't have that slowdown-inducing option for under-scanning prevention
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by mwint 4y ago
The "silence from the Tesla autopilot crowd" may be related to the fact that Tesla accident stories tend to be quietly corrected three months later. For example "Self-Driving Tesla runs into tree, kills occupants" turns
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by mwint 4y ago
Where'd this $5000/car(/yr?) number come from? Total cost of ownership for a car is far less than that. You can only really get to $5k/year through very high depreciation, and people buying those kinds of cars won't
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by mwint 4y ago
The self-checkout navigation is intentionally hobbled, probably because old people will 'press' a button about six times with shaking hands. Feels like they're putting button presses into a buffer for a half second or more. W
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by mwint 4y ago
Waste problem - drive through the US state of Nevada. There’s nothing for hundreds of miles. You could likely just throw the waste out of an airplane over Nevada and be more or less fine. With containment techniques combined with the ridicu
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by mwint 4y ago
Honest question, what dynamics make you think China would give advance notice?
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by mwint 4y ago
What’s your read on the average New Zealander’s opinion of ongoing lockdowns? Are they generally in favor, or is the gov’t out of touch?
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by mwint 4y ago
Certainly one cannot judge a decision by its outcome, but we can perhaps learn something if the skeptics we were banning from social media ended up being correct. Whether they were following proper reasoning or not, if they were right it’d
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by mwint 4y ago
Please confirm: this means the people saying the vaccine should be a strictly personal decision were correct?
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by mwint 4y ago
Shootings in general are a very, very rare event. Mandalay Bay was an exceedingly rare event inside that category. If you're worried about Mandalay Bay, you're right, you will not be returning fire from the ground into an nth floo
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by mwint 4y ago
I mean, how often would the instructor need to correct a human to drive legal in a busy city? The null hypothesis here is that driving legally in big cities is not practical.
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by mwint 4y ago
Ever since being rear ended in stopped traffic on the freeway, I do make a practice of stopping a bit further from traffic than normal and watching the mirror, ready to speed away on the shoulder, until there’s a decent buffer of stopped ca
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by mwint 4y ago
Never brandish a gun. Proper training means going from deep concealment to shots on target in a few seconds, maximum. Your cited statistic is one reason open carry is a Bad Idea; it puts you first in line to be eliminated. Concealment, all
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by mwint 4y ago
> Mass shootings are terrifying because there’s no sense of control. For anyone here concerned about this, it doesn’t take very much money in HN-terms to become reasonably well trained. You can: 1) Carry your own weapon, following your s
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by mwint 4y ago
Tire tread is kind of a dangerous measure; you don’t necessarily want everyone switching to a super hard tire. Basically you can trade tread wear for stopping distance.

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