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Wal-mart in talks to buy Jet.com for $3 billion(wsj.com)
2 points by putlake 10y ago|2 comments
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You're Doing Social Logins Wrong(blog.diffen.com)
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by putlake 10y ago
Same here. I own about 50 domains and I've not had privacy on many of them. My Google voice number, which is also my business number, is listed on these domain contacts and I get more spam phone calls than regular calls on that. Most o
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by putlake 10y ago
Well data suggests that 90% of new companies fail. So anyone who starts a new company is stupid, right? I'm not advocating in favor of the religious people who go about preaching abstinence and spending taxpayer money on it. If I were
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by putlake 10y ago
I probably will buy HTC again as long as they honor the commitment they made. My HTC One A9 had all the specs I needed at the time -- removable storage, fingerprint sensor, NFC, 3GB RAM. But what I really like about it is that HTC promise
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by putlake 10y ago
On my website yesterday there were 112,500 referrals from Google, 9,400 from Bing and 5,750 from Yahoo. Also, 800 from DDG and 200 from Baidu and 70 from Yandex.
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by putlake 10y ago
Entry load of 6% (real estate commissions) 1% penalty every year (property tax) Exit load of 6% (commissions again) That is why real estate tends to be a worse investment long-term compared with the financial sector.
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by putlake 10y ago
This is a good question. There are many reasons for a city to be responsible to its homeless citizens. e.g. 1. Many homeless people actually have a job in the city. 2. Many homeless people need access to services that are only available in
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by putlake 10y ago
You're right; there are many unknowns. But that doesn't mean you pull a number out of thin air. M&A teams use all kinds of models to make financial projections and calculate ranges for valuation. Even for the LinkedIn acquisit
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by putlake 10y ago
This pertinent HBR blog post is very interesting: https://hbr.org/2016/03/dont-use-round-numbers-in-a-negotiat... The TL;DR version is that acquisition offers in round numbers signal that the buyer hasn't don
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by putlake 10y ago
Cruz won Iowa, not Trump
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by putlake 10y ago
Yes, that's pretty much it. http://www.diffen.com/difference/Jail_vs_Prison
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by putlake 10y ago
OT but I wish Vimeo had an option to play the video at 2x the speed. YouTube has that option and I love it. Use it all the time for watching conference presentations.
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by putlake 10y ago
They do provide proper cache headers. They cache the CSS for 1 day. The actual font files are cached for a lot longer than that. The reason for shorter cache periods for CSS is that Google are continually making improvements. The font files
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AlphaGo vs. World #1 Ke Jie (who Beat Lee Sedol)(engadget.com)
2 points by putlake 10y ago|0 comments
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by putlake 10y ago
There was a mathematical/probabilistic argument proposed in 2003 [1] that, if I were to paraphrase, goes like this: * It's a virtual certainty that hardware and software improvements will lead to us being able to simulate beings l
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by putlake 11y ago
If you pay, you can place the freeze online. If you want to do it free because you qualify as a (potential) victim of ID theft (e.g. in any data breach), you have to do it by mail. And you must include proof. If they were serious about peop
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by putlake 11y ago
It's because unbeknownst to you, the sites you visit are requesting javascript or a tracking pixel from these other domains.
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by putlake 11y ago
Being an ex-con should not disqualify you from driving a cab. Especially in a country like the US that has obscene incarceration rates, and where who ends up in prison is a factor of race and wealth more than the seriousness of the crime. A
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by putlake 11y ago
As others have noted, you could attribute the entire 34% "discount" to the fact that these are common shares, not preferred. A few months ago when I looked into investing in Palantir via EquityZen/Sharespost, the share price
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by putlake 11y ago
Changing your Gmail password is not necessarily what you need to worry about because that wasn't compromised. HIBP told you your account at other places e.g. Heroes of Newerth was compromised. So if you used a password for that account
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by putlake 11y ago
Well he wrote in his comment that he has no understanding of markets. I'm agreeing with what he wrote about himself -- verbatim.
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by putlake 11y ago
It's easy to see this in terms of statistics if it's not _your_ 2-year old with the speech delay. Not all individuals tolerate lead at the same level. Lead was commonly used in the middle ages and not everyone suffered from the ne
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by putlake 11y ago
It's clear you have no understanding of markets. Price per share is meaningless. What is being compared is the market cap (Price per share * Number of shares outstanding). In other words, the total value of the company.
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by putlake 11y ago
If what you are saying is true, then it's phone apps (games) driving this revenue. In that case, it seems to me that one should actually buy Apple stock. Because phone apps will only spend this kind of money on Facebook ads if they are
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by putlake 11y ago
It's on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/754262
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by putlake 11y ago
I was excited about Amazon enabling 2FA. I started using it rightaway but it doesn't work with their extended applications. e.g. signing in on Roku, Amazon photos uploader app for Mac, Amazon video on Android/iOS.
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by putlake 11y ago
Liu Cixin's The Dark Forest, the second book in his 3-body problem trilogy, posits a similar philosophy: resources are limited so civilizations annihilate other civilizations. So if an alien civilization knew about earthlings, they wil
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by putlake 11y ago
Scott Adams is very entertaining. He predicted Trump's staying power way back in the summer when everyone (including me) thought his candidacy was just a joke. In fact, he has predicted a landslide for Trump in the general election. He
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by putlake 11y ago
Google Analytics for now but I'm thinking about running a secondary homegrown system for some basic telemetry.

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