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by objclxt 7y ago
> Had Jeff Bezos relied on Telegram instead of WhatsApp, he wouldn't have been blackmailed by people who compromised his communications You can have a healthy debate about whether Telegram is a better option than WhatsApp for the av
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by objclxt 7y ago
> Always more people, always more asphalt, always more buildings London's population today (8.7 million) is only marginally more than it was in 1939 (8.6 million). For much of the 20th century the population decreased - there's
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by objclxt 7y ago
> I can't remember the %, but it seems unlikely, in the fact of all that competition that it was as high as 30%. Many of the J2ME etc app stores prior to Apple were run by network carriers, and their cuts were considerably higher th
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by objclxt 7y ago
> Any suggestions? Lobby your lawmakers. Banks have no incentive to provide open APIs. For example, in the UK banks did nothing until they were forced to - the market regulator now requires the nine largest banks to provide an open API (
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by objclxt 7y ago
> I even doubt one can get $130k in London.SWEs in London are not competing with other SWEs. They are competing with bankers and similar. It's certainly harder than in, say, SF, but by no means impossible. Google and Facebook betw
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by objclxt 7y ago
> As a pilot I can go fly my plane at any altitude I wish as long as I am not entering any controlled airspace. Well, no. That’s not true. Firstly there are rules about the altitude you can fly at when it’s greater than 3000’, and second
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by objclxt 7y ago
Having worked at ad and design agencies I am highly confident all of that deck has been back-ported onto the new logo to justify the large fee the client paid. I can virtually guarantee a designer knocked up a few variants, the creative dir
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by objclxt 7y ago
> I don't feel like my employer is a rival or an enemy; I feel like they are a partner in our mutual goal to make a lot of money [...] it's not hard to understand why many of us feel no draw to unions. It's hard for me to
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by objclxt 7y ago
Perhaps because Freenode has about 0.25% the number of users of Github - ~100,000 vs 40 million?
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by objclxt 7y ago
> Is EMV contactless not a thing in Japan? Not really, at least as we know it. Contactless in Japan is very popular, but doesn't use EMV. Most terminals in Japan use a Sony-derived standard called Felica (also known as NFC Type F),
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by objclxt 7y ago
> how come only a range of models are affected? Aren't they all built in the same way? Most manufacturers will dual-source component suppliers (because a) it can drive your costs down, and b) you're not reliant on a single comp
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by objclxt 7y ago
It’s bad because the tax rate you pay on your property should not be tied to how long you’ve owned it. Right now two different families living in identical properties in CA can be paying vastly different property taxes depending on when the
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by objclxt 8y ago
> It is completely legal in the UK without any compensation. This isn't strictly true. The Working Time Directive provides you the right to work no more than 48 hours a week. It is possible in the UK to opt out of the Working Time
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by objclxt 8y ago
> Most of these are just COTS Android tablets This isn't quite true. They're not off-the-shelf (COTS) Android tablets - the hardware is custom, especially in terms of industrial design (although the chipset is pretty standard).
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by objclxt 8y ago
It's for detecting when your hands move towards the display, and turning on LEDs in response (for instance, many in-seat monitors have a USB socket with a LED ring around it) - I worked on those units many years ago.
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by objclxt 8y ago
Because you can use that information to speculate on mergers and acquisitions: https://www.bloombergquint.com/business/hedge-funds-track-j-...
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by objclxt 8y ago
> Because Tim Cook, as a homosexual, has teared up when speaking about human rights abuses of homosexual under repressive regimes ...but is also more than happy to meet and shake hands with the leaders of those repressive regimes? Like t
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by objclxt 8y ago
> And now they've regressed. That's not entirely true, there are teams in the new campus that have offices (usually shared, which is much the same as Infinite Loop) - it's a mix of working spaces and styles. What is true i
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by objclxt 8y ago
> having to rely on all the existing crappy hardware for taking payments is a pain in the a$$ This is the same crappy hardware. Look at the page - it's Verifone terminals. It's an app based POS that communicates to standard POS
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by objclxt 8y ago
Mozilla's been doing this for HTTP sites with password fields for a while, and has publicly said they will roll it out to all HTTP domains. Not sure why you think it's Google pushing an agenda here when it's recommended polic
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by objclxt 8y ago
It's right there in the first paragraph: > With Sonar, engineers have a highly flexible, intuitive way to inspect and understand the structure and behavior of their iOS and Android application ...and the top of the post is tagged as
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by objclxt 8y ago
> With the resources of Microsoft it will not surprise me to see a much more open and capable GitHub. Devil's advocate: why would Microsoft invest in improving, say, the issues functionality of GitHub when it could instead integrate
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by objclxt 8y ago
> I hope they don't discontinue Atom Atom is MIT licensed, GitHub can't "discontinue" Atom so much as stop paying their engineers to contribute to the project. After that it's whether there's enough impetus
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by objclxt 8y ago
I'm not sure how different this is from saying a BMW 3 Series (starting price $34,900) could cost you $98,000 (for the M3 CS).
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It's a slightly misleading figure because it includes all the stock grants given in 2017. From the proxy statement: > we calculated as actual salary paid to our employees for 2017 [...], actual bonus or sales commission earned b
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by objclxt 8y ago
> Air bags have saved more lives than safety belts, haven't they Not by a long shot - seat belts reduce the chance of death by 60-70% across all crashes. Airbags reduce the chance of death by 15% in frontal collisions, and very litt
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by objclxt 8y ago
E-residency gives you no rights to enter or live in Estonia.
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by objclxt 8y ago
Seems pretty reasonable to me. There can be 9-10,000 flights in the sky at any one time (go check out any of the flight radar/tracking sites).
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by objclxt 9y ago
> blatant discrimination against Asians at universities So you mention "knowing what the data says" - * Asian Americans represent 5.6% of the US population[1]. * The most recently admitted class at Harvard was 22.7% Asian Ameri
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by objclxt 9y ago
> What does the statistics say? How many miles have the self-driving cars driven, and how many deaths were they responsible for? How does it compare to a human driver? As of December 2017 Uber had driven 2 million autonomous miles[1]. Le

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