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by rlanday 9y ago
You would probably want to build a browser on top of Chromium, like Opera does (and also what Microsoft is doing on Android), and would want to try differentiating based on user-facing features. You could also build on top of Gecko, but thi
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That’s low for a manager. Many individual contributors make more than that at large companies.
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Given enough time, it does. People used to talk about a “WebKit monoculture” on mobile back when both Safari and Chrome were built on WebKit (although, they enabled different features and used different JavaScript engines). After Google for
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It doesn’t make sense to use the current price for something that happened several years ago when the price was much lower.
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What is “safe” about storing $1000 on a piece of paper that you “forget about for five years”?
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I think you’re assuming that there’s some minimum bar for “literacy, ability to work in an office environment, etc.” and that everyone above that bar is of fairly equal value to employers. I think you’re also assuming that nearly everyone c
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by rlanday 9y ago
College degrees only work as a selection tool for employers since not everyone has one. High school degrees are currently nearly worthless as such a tool since nearly everyone (the current high school graduate rate in the US is about 83%) h
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First, you file the lawsuit with the court. Then, you hire someone to serve the papers against the defendant to notify them of the lawsuit.
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by rlanday 9y ago
Two reasons why this is a colossally bad idea: - Mavericks is old enough that it hasn’t received any security updates in over a year - You’re falling way behind on emoji support (but maybe you haven’t noticed if you spend all your time on H
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Why would Apple sell a phone that requires bringing it back to the Apple Store every months to correct a problem that no previous model of iPhone developed? This idea is completely nuts.
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You don't necessarily need to know the whole model, but you need accurate enough prediction score outputs for each category. I think if you have that, that's enough to numerically approximate the gradient of the output scores and
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Your argument is clearly flawed because it goes way too far. It applies to literally any sort of economic activity it's possible to be engaged in. For example, I could make all your arguments as reasons why the California state governm
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Everyone is a “dick” given the right set of incentives.
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This is clearly a matter of preference. After using the iOS keyboard for years, I hate typing on Android.
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It also dropped ADB, SCSI, serial, and parallel ports in favor of USB (1.1).
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Civilian GPS signals used to have intentional error added, but that was ended in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_...
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Titan specifically (none of the other moons are big enough to have any significant effect). Even if you're aware of that, it's a pretty surprising result, since it took so much more delta-v to capture into Saturnian orbit than it
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Great way to be hospitable to the foreign tourists who don't carry coins...
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They actually did have this option, see http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0094576512... However, it was evaluated as inferior to the option chosen (there was apparently no concern at all about
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This is not true. You're right that it would quite slow, but end-of-mission options were investigated that would have sent Cassini all the way to Uranus or Neptune: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article&#x2F
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A couple clarifications: - My understanding is that the Blink fork happened because Google was the primary contributor to WebKit prior to the fork, and Google engineers were spending a significant amount of time trying to make Apple enginee
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The plutonium decays at a fixed rate regardless of how much power the spacecraft is currently using.
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Yeah, everyone's machine learning Ph.D.s are useless now because you spent an afternoon reading a 100 page PDF.
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Most commonly-used CJK characters are in the Basic Multilingual Plane, and take 2 bytes to represent in UTF-16 and 3 in UTF-8. So you're only really saving 33%, not 50%. Plus, if you're storing e.g. HTML, all the HTML markup chara
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Depends how big of a down payment you make.
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On the other hand, can nine women have a baby in a month?
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Does the SSD let you read the raw ciphertext to perform that attack? Or does it only expose the decrypted data?
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There are many, many things that are most likely provable that have not been proven yet. Fermat's Last Theorem went 358 years before it was finally proven. Theoretical computer science is a very young field by comparison.
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The "no tipping" was a great precedent they set. It made their service super easy to use. Call your ride, get in, get out, leave a rating if you're pissed off (vs. spending weeks dealing with the NYC Taxi & Limousine Comm
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What is "fairly and equitably"? If I choose to live in the most expensive metro area in the country, have ten kids, and then kill my wife so there's no one else to help support them, is it my employer's fault I'm st

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