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by niftich 9y ago
On the contrary, this is a much larger issue on the ground. A commercial airplane spends most of its flight time in clear air, in an airway assigned to it by 24/7 air traffic control, safely separated from large objects with which it c
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This scenario contains a lot to unpack. Let's try to extract some of the claims: 1. Most websites will get little to no traffic. 2. Consolidation will eventually result in a mere handful of verticals remaining, in the author's opi
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The Burlingame A&A is notorious for being the one of the cheapest -- if not the cheapest -- places to fill up between SF and SV. In this case, it's likely that the Chevron literally across the street just decided it's not wo
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There are likely other factors at play. For example, if the more expensive fuel station has brand associations it triggers (e.g. Shell [1]), the higher pricing likely benefits them more so than it hurts, as their target market discerning cu
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A 2008 TechCrunch article has an uncited blockquote about it [1]. From that verbiage, it appears it's H.264 produced with a good encoder, likely some custom quantizer matrices (vs. the default flat matrices, to allocate less detail to
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The 24kbps AAC and 32kbps AAC encodes of the audio completely tune out the kid's voice. You can verify this with youtube-dl by getting formats 17 and 36, respectively, to obtain the versions with the unfortunate audio. Better-quality v
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As of writing, Vudu offers content with a few different business models, but none of them are based around a monthly subscription. This doesn't exist. Instead, depending on the title, Vudu offers a short-term pay-per-view option to &qu
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Incidentally, the Vudu name pre-dates the public announcement of the 'Hulu' name by at least one month, but has been attested for longer. The 'Hulu' name was unveiled [1] in August 2007 for a then-unnamed project [2]. Vu
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Expending the effort on designing formal, hard system boundaries (within the same organization) tends to work less well in practice than it does in theory. The 'full-stack' trend serves to compensate for this deficiency by making
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Notwithstanding the Active Directory integration, this is the clearest shot across the bow of Microsoft's on-prem management suite yet. The naming is puzzling. But I'm sure MS shops are used to weird names, and aren't likely
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In HTML's case, the mass-market adoption and competing browser landscape meant that being anything other than lax and forgiving was a bad strategy for self-preservation: users would simply get frustrated and switch browsers to one that
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Snapchat is using a disingenuous metric here to count views which plays to their advantage; an advantage they wish to exploit as long as they can before their advertisers and content partners wisen up and start demanding a metric that bette
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Definitely control of videos so they can sell ads, but also an effort to cultivate a captive ecosystem and reduce reliance on outside sites. These largely circle back to 'sell ads', but it's too drastic to suggest that it doe
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Newegg went through the same bifurcation when it introduced third-party sellers in 2010. It turned a largely hassle-free shopping experience into one where extra care had to be taken to filter out results that weren't sold by Newegg it
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The governor of Colorado and Denver businessmen, including David Moffat, were worried that their city would be eclipsed by Cheyenne, and their own neighbor, the City of Golden, so they raised money to build the 'Denver Pacific' ra
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Industrial use. Louisiana [1] has 18 oil refineries, numerous chemical plants, and various other facilities to process oil and natural gas that are produced both in-state and imported from elsewhere. Compared to Texas, which has more oil re
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And happy 1500000000!
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Moving the feed from 'chronological' to 'algorithmic' obfuscates the true quantity of actual content on the user's timeline, thereby allowing a higher density of ads and other sponsored content without the user nece
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I don't know how SoundCloud is managed and what their balance sheet looks like, but it's deeply unfortunate that a site that caters largely to up-and-coming musicians has so much trouble getting out of the red. Presumably they&#x2
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It's not that these points aren't valid; they are, and I know some people who've been rightfully hammering the exact same points for, well, decades, at this point. But we arrived here neither out of pure accident or grand ove
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In Sydney, Digital Reality opened a site in 2012 out in the western suburb of Erskine Park, almost 40 km from the CBD, but within 3 km of the Transgid Sydney West 330/132kV Substation, one of the key pieces of power supply infrastructu
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AWS in contrast likes to spread things out more, like in Northern Virginia where they have 5 different AZs that are supplied from different electrical substations and confer some 'more than one block down the street' geographic se
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In the past 12 months Blizzard has integrated Facebook login [1], Facebook Live streaming [2], and Facebook friend lists [3] into their revamped Blizzard App (previously known as the Battle.net Launcher). The live streaming functionality wa
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> How do people who are not software engineers, manage? With great difficulty [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. [1] http://www.newgeography.com/content/005501-the-demographics-... [2] https://www.usatoday.com&#
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I'd imagine a notoriously cash-strapped site like Reddit is enthusiastic that Google is willing to offload traffic originating from Google Search on Mobile to Google's own AMP CDN. This helps incidental visitors still consume Redd
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Google Search on Mobile is no longer a web search engine that hyperlinks to the resulting page, but rather an search-integrated newsreader that loads itself when you click on a result that's marked with AMP. This is understandably a bi
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It's also interesting that Windows Phone -- I'm intentionally using the term very loosely -- showed that it's possible to offer lower-end devices that do receive security updates straight from the OS-maker on carrier networks
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Android devices, as deployed in the wild, consist of a bewildering array of offerings, from shovelware-equivalent throw-over-the-fence devices, to pricey flagships whose makers command some brand awareness. Google has known for years that t
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Google Search, when used from a mobile user-agent, such as a mobile browser or some mobile-resident Google Search integration like the Google Now Launcher Search Bar, will show some results' AMP-equivalents, and uses AMP-availability a
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Qatar Airways Middle East landing and airspace restrictions(centreforaviation.com)
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