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by qq66 10y ago
The lyric does fit perfectly but it's not based on Lake Nyos. The Lake Nyos CO2 outgassing was on August 21 and Graceland was released on August 26.
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by qq66 10y ago
All of those things are most likely to be found in dense cities like New York and Chicago, not the far less walkable exurban sprawls (although those places do need parking because people come from afar)
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by qq66 10y ago
I also dislike most real-world computing analogies because it encourages the use of mental heuristics that are usually just not that relevant to the situation at hand. I remember when there was a big scandal about MBA applicants getting the
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by qq66 10y ago
"Maus" by Art Spiegelman "The Way Things Work" by David Macaulay "Winnie the Pooh" by A.A. Milne
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by qq66 10y ago
"Cutting off the ability to work remotely, which is how most people who cannot afford child care manage small children" Not in the slightest. The lower one's income, the lower the chance that they will be allowed to work remo
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by qq66 10y ago
Or Netflix sending additional synthetic traffic to their site so that it's overdesigned by design. (and, when something goes wrong, they can turn off the synthetic traffic and immediately get a little breathing room).
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by qq66 10y ago
16 inches over 8 years is absolutely insane. That's the Usain Bolt of a sinking building.
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by qq66 10y ago
Is there any scenario where snooping on the upstream network connection can give you valuable reverse engineering information? Because of latency/reliability issues, most mobile apps have pretty simple and stateless protocols with the
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by qq66 10y ago
PINs are very costly because every time someone forgets one, you need to do an identity verification which usually depends on a human employee of the bank.
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by qq66 10y ago
The link seems to be a parody Kickstarter project.
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by qq66 10y ago
No, it doesn't, I have no idea what wizardry is involved. All I'm saying is that if you assume some magic that can distinguish Bob from Steve, then those same techniques, whatever they are, can be used to distinguish Bob from his
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by qq66 10y ago
Twins are easily distinguishable if you know them -- I went to high school with three pairs and they were easy to tell apart. Almost everyone has some pockmark etc. on their face, and Identical twins often have these in mirror image.
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by qq66 10y ago
The genes that you get from your ethnicity are a small fraction of your overall genome. There are tons of other genes that affect things like your height, your interest in music, etc, that could strongly affect your friend selection.
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by qq66 10y ago
Wow, regardless of the facts in this case, this highlights the possibility of a fascinating new type of "extortion" where one party can destroy an asset of another party's by disavowing its authenticity, and may be able to ex
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by qq66 10y ago
I personally know of three companies trying to do this. It's a hard problem, one of them basically gave up on the problem, but someone's going to figure it out.
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by qq66 10y ago
I would have appreciated a greater emphasis about the fact that a modern computer is made out of invisible transistors and that this is a fully discrete but working model, like a large cutaway steam engine in a science museum. Here, I'
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by qq66 10y ago
Product decisions can never be solely by consensus. At some point, barring massive groupthink, there will be a disagreement on some product decision (what color should this icon be?) but the icon will ultimately be assigned a color. There i
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by qq66 10y ago
I have a 22.5 GB data plan and I burn through the whole thing every month on LTE, without really watching movies or anything over wireless data (I don't turn on WiFi at any time, because my LTE latency and bandwidth is better than my h
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by qq66 10y ago
Good mechanics are a given at that level of performance. If you can play like Yo-Yo Ma with bad mechanics, more power to you, an orchestra is not going to care.
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by qq66 10y ago
I don't think anyone but a very early and very senior employee will be able to change a founder/company's perspective on this. The best attempt would be to walk away from the offer and explain explicitly why -- even if that d
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by qq66 10y ago
The extent to which a vote is going to be binding needs to be made extremely clear before the vote, and cannot depend on which way the vote goes. It's fine to say that "we will revote if the margin is less than 10%" before th
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by qq66 10y ago
Someone who's got a 9 degree blizzard outside their window.
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by qq66 10y ago
It might be similar to the way hotels are built. Nobody ever builds a "Sleep Inn" or "Motel 6" -- they build Westins, and old Westins become Hampton Inns, and old Hampton Inns become Sleep Inns, and old Sleep Inns become
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by qq66 10y ago
A professional programmer isn't likely to work for whatever Apple is willing to pay to teach classes it isn't charging money for. Programmers who want to teach are probably charging a lot of money for it, or volunteering to teach
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by qq66 10y ago
> Last year, Impossible Foods turned down Google's offer to buy the company for $200 million to $300 million. Looks like there isn't any business that Google won't get into.
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by qq66 10y ago
Another thing I do is only buy from and sell to people with 5+ years and 50+ transactions of feedback, and at least a few transactions at the same dollar value that I'll be doing with them.
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by qq66 10y ago
The package could always contain a brick. That's why I take a video of myself opening anything expensive I buy from eBay.
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by qq66 10y ago
Is there anyone making consumer SaaS applications that I can deploy myself? For example, being able to run Dropbox, Spotify, Evernote-style applications backed by my own server in my house.
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by qq66 10y ago
The China manufacturing sector is much more essential to Apple than Apple is to the China manufacturing sector.
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by qq66 10y ago
The comparison was between 1/8 of an ounce for $25 ($200 per ounce) and $100 per ounce during the harvest season.

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