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by peterjlee 9y ago
Finally!
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by peterjlee 9y ago
TIL Gen Z is a thing. I feel old. Also, I'm guessing most Gen Z fitbit users are in college because there's no way high school kids can wake up at 8:12AM and go to school.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
*Berkeley
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by peterjlee 9y ago
If marijuana is legalized, why bother growing it indoor?
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by peterjlee 9y ago
The plants taking up space in the grocery store have a pretty fast turnaround time while these basils will take few weeks to grow. Though I guess they could have these "farms" in some cheap warehouse then move it to the grocery st
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by peterjlee 9y ago
This may work for a few Whole Foods customers who pay $5 for a bottle of herb infused water but I wonder if the cost is going to be reasonable enough for most people. Real estate cost alone may trump every other cost savings. Even if that &
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by peterjlee 9y ago
>Presumably records are locked in such a way that simply knowing a URL doesn't allow you to bypass security. In case this doesn't happen. If there is a leak, with sequential ID, you run the risk of leaking the whole table. With
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I think guimarin meant that the fund is mostly from the sale of the oil from Norway. Since Norway is making money from selling oil, it does makes sense to diversify and invest in other industries.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Funny thing is Github sometimes makes more sales after an outage because clients want to upgrade to the enterprise edition to host on their own servers.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Why not just use Github Enterprise then?
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Alpha particles are basically Helium atoms without the electrons so it's fairly easy to contain it. A sheet of paper is enough to block an alpha particle.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
If you already know how and where to get those stuff that's great. But for most people, they just want a quality product at a reasonable price with out much thinking or research. Amazon is full of fake Apple/Samsung cables and cha
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by peterjlee 9y ago
So what you're saying is you can update the neural net to do dick or not dick without going through the App Store review?
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by peterjlee 9y ago
SoftBank is actually not the largest telecom company in Japan. Though SoftBank does a lot more than just telecom. Telecom just happens to be the more consumer facing business. Also, SoftBank made $50 billion by investing $20M in Alibaba 17
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I think that's more of a branding thing. Telecom is just one of the things SoftBank does and it just happens to be more visible to consumers. Berkshire owns Geico but you wouldn't call Berkshire a insurance company.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
For those who's going to mention Bayes' Theorem regarding medical tests, here's a link to save you a Google search https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%27_theorem#Drug_testing
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by peterjlee 9y ago
My answer to most scaling question is: by the time we have that problem, we'll have a lot of customers and money so we'll hire smarter engineers with experience in scaling to figure that out. I still make sure we don't do any
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Which VR headset are you using? I've tried HTC Vive and I had no problem with glasses on. I also own a Gear VR and the lenses are adjustable enough so I don't even need to wear glasses.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
I'd argue this is one of the more secure questions compared to other common questions like "Your mother's maiden name" or "The make of your first car".
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by peterjlee 9y ago
In S.Korea, you never see a cop on the highway. They just have speed cameras on accident prone zones and put up camera warning signs miles ahead so people actually slow down. It seems pretty effective.
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by peterjlee 9y ago
Wouldn't this make your service less reliable since downtime in either cloud service can cause your service to be down?
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by peterjlee 10y ago
If you count the number of billionaire, Palo Alto alone has 13 billionaires in a town of 66,000 people. It's ranked #25 on the list of cities with most billionaires and Seattle is not even on the list. https://www.forbes.com
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by peterjlee 10y ago
Visual Studio is the most used IDE and somehow I don't know a single person who uses Visual Studio. http://stackoverflow.com/insights/survey/2017/#technology-mo...
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by peterjlee 10y ago
When I buy phone chargers from Amazon I intentionally avoid the manufacturer branded ones because I know it's going to be fake. I usually choose a well known 3rd party brand with good reviews.
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by peterjlee 10y ago
I've always liked Rotten Tomatoes ratings more than IMDB star ratings. Rotten Tomatoes rating is basically, what percentage of critics gave a thumbs up.
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by peterjlee 10y ago
Off topic but I'm going to assume anyone who misspelled Levandowski as Lewandowski is a soccer fan.
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by peterjlee 10y ago
How is AutoByTel.com different from TrueCar? TrueCar doesn't seem like it's doing too badly
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by peterjlee 10y ago
It's a tricky business. ask twitter
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by peterjlee 10y ago
Facebook had $1B in profit in 2011(1), the IPO was mid 2012. Maybe it wasn't enough to justify the $100B+ valuation at IPO but at least they had their business figured out; which is not the case for Snap, yet.. (1): https://
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by peterjlee 10y ago
Also the emergency spillway was never used since the dam was constructed 50 years ago so nobody really knew that the erosion would be that bad.

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