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by rlanday 10y ago
I suspect this is because if someone is hired, they were necessarily good at solving Google's interview questions, which are very similar to (easy) competitive programming questions. The fact that someone is good at competitive program
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I had been practicing competitive programming questions for several months the last time I was out interviewing for a new job, they're very relevant for both of those insofar as they help you pass interviews...
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That's the cap on what they're legally required to offer. There's no law that says they can't exceed that to avoid a PR disaster.
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If Burger King opens a new restaurant, should McDonald’s be compensated?
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How about kindergarten? https://qz.com/826748/the-math-gender-gap-between-girls-and-... There are people who hear "gap X starts in kindergarten" and think "oh, well it must be because of unequal access t
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Are you arguing that no gender gaps have been found in any measures of intelligence, or only that none have been linked to brain volume? There's a fairly persistent gender gap in average math ability: https://www.aei.org&#x2
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You or I might be ridiculed by everyone we know because of the social class we’re in, but what if half your friends are doing the exact same thing you are?
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You really think that after spending ~20 years of your life with a working-class background, you can learn to fit in with a bunch of rich people in a month? I’m extremely skeptical that I would be able to develop the cultural habits to fit
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God, I had a Seagate drive that failed a few years ago, they lost track of how long the warranty was supposed to be (5 years) and I had to fight with them to get them to replace it, then they sent me a refurb that had bad sectors, then they
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I think what he means is that government derives its authority from people respecting its authority and following its laws. If everyone in the US woke up tomorrow and agreed that we were better off if we just abolished the government, it wo
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It's also possible for a SHA-1 collision to result from random chance, however it's extremely extremely unlikely to the point where it will almost certainly never happen.
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There are over 200 sovereign nations you can choose to live in. The fact that you're not happy with any of them suggests you might have unrealistic expectations.
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Free as in freedom, free as in beer, but not free to develop. Someone's paying for the development of those works.
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Do you not believe that ideas are inherently valuable? You think they only have value in a capitalist society? If you find a copyrighted work valuable enough to use or share with your neighbor but you don't think you should have to pay
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Just looking at what Wikipedia says, AAC was standardized in 1997 and the first DVD players went on sale in Japan in 1995. So that’s probably why DVDs don’t use AAC.
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I had the opportunity a few years ago to see Buzz Aldrin speak at Facebook for the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11. Someone asked him about the speech that was prepared for President Nixon in the event that Neil and Buzz had been stranded on
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A can of soda is only about 140 calories. I.e. half the calories in the bread. I think it gets a way worse reputation than it deserves.
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It's not a greater achievement than the Apollo moon landings (it's basically the mission flown on Apollo 13, swinging around the moon without going into orbit and then coming back), but it's still something that hasn't b
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I don't think there's ever been an example of two different pieces of content hashing to the same SHA-1 before. An infinite number of such examples obviously must exist but they're incredibly improbably to encounter by accide
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From what I understand, no hash function has ever stood the test of time as some block ciphers have. SHA-2 is of related design and although no one's found an effective collision attack yet, I don't think it would really surprise
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by rlanday 10y ago
My understanding is that according to the IAU definition, a "planet" must orbit the sun and not any other star. Kind of reminds me of when people thought the solar system was the center of the universe.
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Now technically, according to the International Astronomical Union, these bodies can't be planets since they don't orbit the sun: https://www.iau.org/static/resolutions/Resolution_GA26-5-6.p... "1.
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by rlanday 10y ago
> Besides removing information from the file that doesn't affect the rendered image You can do this if the goal is pixel perfect accuracy, but Flickr can’t do this since they have “a long-standing commitment to keeping uploaded imag
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The guy was probably also super pissed that he was fired after only three weeks, after going through all the trouble of moving to LA.
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From the article: “Michaels said the information was withheld pending a determination on whether it is covered by a confidentiality agreement. It is possible that that portion of the complaint — which appears to contain a detailed account o
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Snapchat Has Been Faking Growth Numbers, Ex-Employee Alleges(variety.com)
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Well, for that to be a problem, you’d need to have flights where you’re flying around a large number of lightweight people, which may not be a situation that’s presented itself. And even then, it’s probably a lot easier to unbalance the air
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Presumably they did that if the cost were an issue, the primary problem discussed in the article though is keeping weight balanced on the airplane so it doesn’t crash, not the cost of fuel.
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That doesn't necessarily solve the weight distribution problem if the luggage and the passenger are not positioned together on the airplane.
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Your point being?

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