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by pvodsevhcm 14y ago
"There are only about 1,500 “medallions” (essentially permits) that allow taxis to operate in San Francisco. To put that in context, NYC has over 13,000." Wow, intentional abuse of statistics used without context, while claiming to provide
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Pondering WhatsApp(ben-evans.com)
2 points by pvodsevhcm 14y ago|0 comments
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by pvodsevhcm 14y ago
I don't mind the job postings. I find it annoying that there is no comment thread on them, to sort out the BS.
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Why we don’t sell ads(blog.whatsapp.com)
8 points by pvodsevhcm 14y ago|0 comments
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1 million is so 2011(blog.whatsapp.com)
2 points by pvodsevhcm 15y ago|0 comments
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One Billion Messages(blog.whatsapp.com)
1 points by pvodsevhcm 15y ago|0 comments
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One Million Concurrent TCP connections(blog.whatsapp.com)
192 points by pvodsevhcm 15y ago|65 comments
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by pvodsevhcm 15y ago
It varies by state. She has a track record of employment, and her most recent termination was involuntary and not for cause, which is generally enough to qualify.
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by pvodsevhcm 15y ago
keep distinct news items, but merge into a parent item that links both, much like the way this polling story work. The parent item gets the combined vote total of child items, and any summary screen that shows the parent item would then rem
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by pvodsevhcm 15y ago
> The Goldmanite trails off. “What do they do? No, seriously. Do you know?” So not even Goldman Sachs knows what they do? Goldman is also incredibly secretive, so kind of funny to see one of theirs being surprised by that behavior else
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by pvodsevhcm 15y ago
Near the end of the article: "But there’s always the risk of winding up afoul of Arrington’s rules of the road. That’s what GroupMe did last month with news of a major acquisition. Arrington’s response was classic Tony Soprano. Speaking at
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by pvodsevhcm 15y ago
You really don't understand _delirium's point, or are you just playing stupid?
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by pvodsevhcm 15y ago
This is a repost. The headline is appropriate for the stanford daily, but it becomes misleading when it gets copied verbatim to a site with a much wider audience. NYC is soliciting bids, and Stanford is one of the universities that appli
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by pvodsevhcm 15y ago
Why does the author pick 2012, as opposed to 2011 or 2013? There's no explanation on the timeline, which is so prominent in the headline, just two pictures. This is a pretty pointless article to make it onto HN's front page.
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by pvodsevhcm 15y ago
> Hundreds of thousands of folks (nationwide) lost their jobs at established companies in the wake of that mess. False. If you went to the east coast, people were largely unaffected by the dot-bomb in the valley. The most significan
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by pvodsevhcm 15y ago
Yes, that's what I recall happening in the valley from 2001-2004. Other startups just swarmed over the hundreds of thousands of developers out of work.
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by pvodsevhcm 16y ago
Similar to the Kik story. But it looks like LiveProfile is staying out of AppWorld for now.
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Over 1 Million Users in 5 Days and Major Outage(blog.liveprofile.com)
3 points by pvodsevhcm 16y ago|1 comments