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by pdog 10y ago
> It is not like a safe European city center where you can go almost anywhere alone on foot at any time of day. Which European city are you referring to? The major European cities (e.g., Paris, London, and Berlin) don't fit this d
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by pdog 10y ago
Yahoo and AOL: a true merger of equals.
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by pdog 10y ago
Have you met the Trivago guy?
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About the security content of iOS 10.3(support.apple.com)
102 points by pdog 10y ago|42 comments
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by pdog 10y ago
You're grossly mistaken if you think that American workers are paid 2000% (!) more than comparable manufacturing workers in China, Germany, and Japan (the other top manufacturing countries).
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by pdog 10y ago
It's unlikely you'll be able to sell at a reasonable multiple (beyond 1x-2x ARR) unless your buyer thinks they can turn the company around. If you're not willing to double down and figure out how to a) reduce monthly churn to
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by pdog 10y ago
Don't upgrade immediately unless you're willing to deal with problems. If these security updates were critical they'd be made available in a 10.2.x point release.
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by pdog 10y ago
The societal cost of counterfeiting goes far beyond the nominal value of the fake coins in circulation (approximately one in thirty one pound coins is a counterfeit).
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by pdog 10y ago
Given that 97% of climate scientists agree that climate change is caused by human activities[1], the surprise would be if it didn't happen. [1]: https://climate.nasa.gov/scientific-consensus/
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by pdog 10y ago
The Fed should eliminate the objective of maximum employment from its mandate for monetary policy (automation will kill the notion of "maximum employment" anyways). They should also rethink their approach to inflation and raise th
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by pdog 10y ago
> You might as well say that anyone who is not living an RMS-sanctioned ascetic technology lifestyle is hurting the cause of free software everywhere. "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists
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by pdog 10y ago
> This is 6% of actions taken in a menu that is triggered very rarely (I forget the stats, we went over them in the mute/unmute discussion, but it's like 2% of users). So your 0.1% figure is actually pretty close," said
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by pdog 10y ago
Alternative title: The Chicken Little of startups sees a downturn coming every year for the last 25 years.
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by pdog 10y ago
I don't agree with the premise (that the dual mandate set by Congress of maximum employment and 2% inflation should be the overarching goal of the Fed) or the conclusion (that the Fed should wait on raising interest rates), but I appre
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Paul Graham's “Rice and Beans for 2N” Recipe (2009)(paulgraham.com)
1 points by pdog 10y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 10y ago
Don't worry. Chekhov's advice is only meant for talented people.
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by pdog 10y ago
Domain Authority
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by pdog 10y ago
> I’ve sent about 500 emails, resulting in 94 new, high DA backlinks. [...] The conversion rate from visit to signup on these articles is at a staggering 40%. These are great tips and the results speak for themselves. Kudos.
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by pdog 10y ago
> I'm curious to know what offers a better yield than a savings account with less risk than a stock or a bond. Why are you looking for a single, magical asset class with superior risk-adjusted returns? If you invest in a diversifi
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by pdog 10y ago
If you care at all about security, use an iPhone. Make sure the latest version of iOS is installed. Set up a difficult passcode. Android security is a joke. Seriously. Don't use an Android phone.
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by pdog 10y ago
Did they reconsider declaring a special dividend on the common stock as part of the $112M Series B funding round?
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by pdog 10y ago
> Age had a strong effect on sexual frequency: Americans in their 20s had sex an average of about 80 times per year... This seems too low to be true. Only three times per fortnight?
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by pdog 10y ago
Good analysis. As a counterexample, Slack quickly moved upmarket, transformed their product from a tool for small teams into a platform with enterprise-level features, and reached a multi-billion dollar valuation commensurate with the growt
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by pdog 10y ago
This is the perfect example of Silicon Valley hubris: farming animals is bewildering and barbaric, so obviously this New Thing™ that didn't even exist two years ago will totally replace what humans have been doing for the past ten thou
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by pdog 10y ago
Great interview. Most people would have given up after two years of zero growth and paltry revenue.
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by pdog 10y ago
Dale Carnegie's public speaking courses. If you're terrified of public speaking: http://www.dalecarnegie.com/events/getting_rid_of_the_fear_a... If you're a little bit more advanced: http://ww
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by pdog 10y ago
Cool technique, but you hint at the best solution: "running all teams in a shared context to eliminate the overhead of one webview per team."
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by pdog 10y ago
> Baker was seen "making out" at an internal Uber event held in Miami three years ago, which was seen by some employees. There was no suggestion of any sexual harassment on his part and the encounter was apparently consensual.
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by pdog 10y ago
Some journalists seem to believe that freedom of the press is an exclusive legal right. In reality, the right belongs to everyone.
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by pdog 10y ago
There's a lot of misinformation in this reply. > ...they're sending your facial mapping home when you do a face filter effect... Lenses are generated on the device. They're not uploaded to Snapchat servers. > Deletin

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