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by patmcguire 8y ago
1) It's hard to overstate how much people love Fortnite. They can also lose ~25% of sales and still make the money without the cut. 2) It's not necessarily about the money, there's lots of other rules besides the 30% cut th
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by patmcguire 8y ago
And it wasn't until 2005 that student loans were made permanently non-dischargeable, rather than the previous first five years. Of course bankruptcies went down, what's the point?
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Yeah. If Netflix sends me every byte I've ever viewed, that's pretty useless.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
The science was mostly settled and obvious on climate change, to the extent that the corporate actors with the most incentive to pretend it was nothing acknowledged it. They invested heavily in contingency plans under the assumption that it
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by patmcguire 8y ago
I believe the big difference is that electric engines are wildly more reliable than piston engines. That allows less maintenance and shorter turnaround times, so it spends more time in the air than turboprops can.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
They are in the US as well. There's some exception if you can make a case that it's for the employer's benefit, not the employee's. Everyone says it is, and no one tries very hard to tax it.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Is the A Apple or Amazon? No one is anywhere close to Amazon in headcount growth.
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Susan Fowler Rigetti to Join Opinion as Technology Editor(nytco.com)
15 points by patmcguire 8y ago|3 comments
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Looks like a big one: "npm will revoke all tokens issued before 2018-07-12 12:30 UTC"
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Boxing out ISPs is probably a large part of why they're doing it. Google believes traffic should be able to go directly from your computer to the server in question and then load up Adsense without any interference from your ISP inject
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Housing changes hands much less because the tax gap means all other factors things being equal the house is worth more to the seller than the buyer - they can't live in a similar place for the same money. Deferring taxes just makes tha
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Have they started shoving out the less savory subreddits? This may be the alternative to that - the brands that advertise don't want their stuff showing up in the wrong places, and you have to be able to say to them no, that's not
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by patmcguire 8y ago
It depends on the backing, if you're using just memcached there's no way to completely lock the key. None of the popular rails caching frameworks I've seen handle this either.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
It's not that uncommon - promotion takes so long and has so many moving parts - you might as well interview somewhere else, since if it doesn't succeed you'll just be doing the whole thing again in six months.
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by patmcguire 8y ago
Do they have a good record with acquisitions? I doubt they'll be evil, but another Skype seems likely, where the product gets worse and weirder for reasons that make no sense.
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The misery of positive feedback loops(patrickmcguire.com)
2 points by patmcguire 8y ago|0 comments
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by patmcguire 8y ago
It still does, if it means they get married earlier, at the immediate college/post-college time.
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Some effects of unchecked company growth(rachelbythebay.com)
2 points by patmcguire 8y ago|0 comments
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by patmcguire 9y ago
I'm curious how much "Ban the Box" laws apply to contractors and gig economy workers, my guess is not at all.
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by patmcguire 9y ago
Android is a mess, but the really big issue lurking is GSuite OAuth. The "Google Docs" fiasco [1] is proof that for a long time they didn't even prevent impersonation of Google functionality on the platform. The only options
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by patmcguire 9y ago
This was the peak of the great Google Plus push. It didn't work out and it had a lot of collateral damage to the org and to a bunch of products on the edges (Reader gone, Google Talk shattered into 20 different messaging apps)
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by patmcguire 9y ago
I see this comment quoted a lot in a jeering way, but always just the first two points. Number one is a little silly, two has some validity, three is pretty correct (there was no way to pay for it!) And the commenter answers the response to
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by patmcguire 9y ago
Best candidate is some Chinese OEM or tech titan like WeChat that has already done all the insane work it would take to replace the things Google holds hostage. Wouldn't necessarily be more open if it's WeChat, though.
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by patmcguire 9y ago
Most of them are silly, some of them are true. It is super integrated, it is fast, and it is opinionated. User-first is debatable, but it's not exactly publisher first and it's definitely not (external) advertiser first. No idea w
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by patmcguire 9y ago
It's too late. Corrections don't really work in the social media age, two different interpretations of the same base facts won't propagate through the same path. I don't know whether the adjustments are valid or invalid,
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by patmcguire 9y ago
Yup. The Google promo article [1] from today is good on the background for why these things happen. How can you show technical impact on a chat product that scales from 20 million to 80 million users? (numbers made up) Sure, there are chall
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by patmcguire 9y ago
There are many ways to do advertising. Serving ads most relevant to a search query is the searchiest way to do it.
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by patmcguire 9y ago
It's the hard helmets vs leather that's the the issue, the hard helmet lets players use their head as a weapon. Injuries were also caused by a lot of plays that are illegal today - flying wedges and various dirty blocks (clipping,
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by patmcguire 9y ago
Article has screenshots of it intentionally looking like the stripe homepage. Guess that was an older version, and now it's just a blog post, but it has had the exact same look.
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by patmcguire 9y ago
The much-maligned "things you may have missed" box helps. Also giving up on reading every tweet.

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