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811.
by raldi 5y ago
Ever chew gum?
812.
by raldi 5y ago
The main one is that the shareholders get to review the terms, and if more than 50% of either company’s don’t like them, the deal is off.
813.
by raldi 5y ago
Here's a clickable version of that link: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22google+photos+can%27t+edi...
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Ask HN: Why did Google Photos stop allowing photo locations to be updated?
7 points by raldi 5y ago|2 comments
815.
by raldi 5y ago
California’s not even building housing at the rate that existing families are having babies. Even if there were zero in-migration, there still wouldn’t be enough housing for the rising generation.
816.
by raldi 5y ago
All the best people I’ve ever worked with were odd.
817.
by raldi 5y ago
It would be a red flag for me if a potential employer distrusted candidates without LinkedIn accounts.
818.
by raldi 5y ago
A classic non-pivot is the Prodigy service, created as an IBM spinoff in the 1980s as a sort of proto-Amazon. To their great annoyance, instead of shopping, users insisted on chatting with each other all day. They could have embraced this a
819.
by raldi 5y ago
Looks better if you zoom out a little: https://i.imgur.com/UYUpUDT_d.webp?maxwidth=1200&fidelity=hi...
820.
by raldi 5y ago
My favorite part of the Nintendo story is that back when it was a playing card company, the heir to the family business took a trip to America that included a meeting at the largest card company in the world. He had expected it to have a lu
821.
by raldi 5y ago
MP3.com was initially a search engine. The nice thing about running a search engine, even if it only ever gets a trickle of traffic and could never compete with the big players, is that you can look at the logs and spot trends early. The fo
822.
by raldi 5y ago
Twitch started out as Justin.TV, where Justin Kan wore a camera on his head 24/7 and livestreamed the results. Then they expanded to a small handful of streamers, then anybody could stream, but it never really took off and they were ru
823.
by raldi 5y ago
> Simple heuristic: ask yourself what price you would pay at the moment you are using a digital product to be doing the real thing. Take running on a treadmill through a digital forest on a 10” screen. If the answer is $10, then do the
824.
by raldi 5y ago
They needed something on the equator, right?
825.
by raldi 5y ago
That would render them useless as an anti-theft product.
826.
by raldi 5y ago
How are finished tasks marked?
827.
by raldi 5y ago
You can't. You only get an alert after one's been following you around.
828.
by raldi 5y ago
The worst part of this is, if you don’t have an iPhone, you’ll never know if you’re being tracked. Edit: Yes, I know there’s an app. Do you think more than 1% of victims will have it installed?
829.
by raldi 5y ago
The next week the fisherman got a toothache.
830.
by raldi 5y ago
Can someone who can get through the paywall summarize the clickbait antidote?
831.
by raldi 5y ago
What’s an HGW?
832.
by raldi 5y ago
What’s the connection between the two metals?
833.
by raldi 5y ago
How do you know when you've reached "the last 30 minutes"?
834.
by raldi 5y ago
This is only the first of the Five Why’s. I’m much more interested in numbers 3-5.
835.
by raldi 5y ago
Doesn’t seem to be a date or notable postal code
836.
by raldi 5y ago
"Specifically, the hidden camera [...] reflects the incoming laser pulses at a higher intensity than its surroundings due to an effect called lens-sensor retro-reflection. This occurs when almost all light energy impacting an object is
837.
by raldi 5y ago
Meanwhile, I got wealthy by living in big cities, showing up in person, and being pretty good at many things. There are multiple paths.
838.
by raldi 5y ago
Exactly.
839.
by raldi 5y ago
Best rules I ever lived under were “We’re continuously running JTR against all users, and your password can be anything it’s unable to crack.”
840.
by raldi 5y ago
The article doesn't state what distance they were able to transmit over.

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