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691.
by pdog 13y ago
A billion dollars is about $20 for each of the 46 million Americans that live in poverty.
692.
by pdog 13y ago
> It used to be that there was REALLY good stuff posted there. Like what?
693.
by pdog 13y ago
Can someone tell me, technically, how every service Google has to offer can simultaneously be blacked out?
694.
by pdog 13y ago
How do you feel about the aspect ratio? I feel that the 7" device is too small to comfortably read PDFs, especially in portrait mode with such a narrow width.
695.
by pdog 13y ago
You should be writing with proper capitalization.
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by pdog 13y ago
Interns aren't employees.
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by pdog 13y ago
So does Balanced Payments for Marketplaces [1]. Facilitating transactions is a huge pain point for businesses, so it's a big deal to see another company moving in to solve it. [1]: https://www.balancedpayments.com/
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by pdog 13y ago
Even if you find a price difference between Amazon and eBay, how do you take advantage of it?
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Confounding a Smoking Ban, and Bouncers(nytimes.com)
19 points by pdog 13y ago|62 comments
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by pdog 13y ago
> Bitcoin is an incredibly efficient protocol for moving money with low fees. However, it does have a “miner fee" ($0.05 - $0.01 at current exchange rates) if you want your transaction to be sent and confirmed quickly. Should tha
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by pdog 13y ago
Regarding your second point, the code for the strats would be immensely and immediately more useful than the trading platform. You wouldn't need much infrastructure to build a profitable strategy to trade against it.
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by pdog 13y ago
> So why are Microsoft founders so rich even as their company’s lost pole position? Because meritocracy is a myth, even at the highest levels of the American economy. What?
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by pdog 13y ago
The full text has been available online for years . http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/sicp.html
704.
by pdog 13y ago
Given that niche social/mobile networks for short videos are so hot right now (ie. Vine, Instagram Video), it might be more fruitful for you to plan on creating a new one.
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by pdog 13y ago
Any papers on the subject? I'd love to dig deep into some of the technical details behind this.
706.
by pdog 13y ago
What a weird title. Why call out that he's a "Millenial"?
707.
by pdog 13y ago
I don't think blocking India-specific topics is enough. Even general questions are dominated by answers from people with "Indian-sounding" names.
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by pdog 13y ago
The Wirecutter[1] is a site that lists the best technology to buy. Like this article, it answers the question, "What is the best ____?". I wonder how the Hewlett-Packard Pro P1606dn competes with the Brother HL-2270DW[2]. [1]: ht
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by pdog 13y ago
Eh, Sal Khan was a 30-something hedge fund analyst when he started Khan Academy. He's intelligent, hard-working, and could find work somewhere else, but he wasn't exactly "set for life" if the Khan Academy thing didn&#x2
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by pdog 13y ago
For actor-based programming in Clojure (complete with real lightweight processes, selective receive and an Erlang-like API), look no further than Pulsar: http://puniverse.github.io/pulsar/
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A secret folder full of Facebook messages, called Other.(pogue.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by pdog 13y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 13y ago
Two other options are selling the company or an IPO.
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by pdog 13y ago
The main job of any CEO is to destroy the career aspirations of his most talented employees.
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by pdog 13y ago
I know you're asking these questions rhetorically, but for those who don't know, Instagram usage exploded after the acquisition and the consensus in the Valley is that it sold to Facebook for incredibly cheap.
715.
by pdog 13y ago
So how do you actually find first class flights for 80-90% off?
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by pdog 13y ago
He's put hundreds of millions of dollars of his own capital into his ventures, yes.
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by pdog 13y ago
You're missing the point of the linked list. A simple coding test like "program a linked list" during an interview is just a negative filter. Someone who can't write a linked list certainly is not a good programmer.
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Licensed taxi drivers in Los Angeles facing heavy competition from Lyft(nytimes.com)
7 points by pdog 13y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 13y ago
No. Bitcoin itself is simply a technology -- there isn't a "point" to it. Bitcoins can be anonymous if there's no information linking the transaction or public address back to you.
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by pdog 13y ago
Welcome to the new economy.

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