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I wouldn’t be so quick to assume these folks can actually afford what they are spending: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2011-07-06/zynga-s-q... There were many articles covering this topic during the
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9y ago
They have confirmed the autopilot was on: https://www.tesla.com/blog/update-last-week’s-accident
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9y ago
Right, it wasn’t their core product but it was a thing that had a clearer monetization strategy. As far as I can tell no one has figured out a way to monetize private DM/group messaging via advertising. I actually deleted Facebook mess
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9y ago
> I should have used Monero as an example instead of Bitcoin, but I thought less people would have heard of it. Privacy can also be achieved with these primitives. Well actually that’s very much still in dispute: https://www.w
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9y ago
Not arguing that any individual should stay or go since that's obviously a complex decision, but at some level if you believe the municipal and/or state government are broken, yet you are in the middle class and you decide to stay
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The project was canceled and geohotz posted the code on GitHub: https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2016/10/28/commaai_car_kit... https://github.com/commaai
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9y ago
No, I don't think you're underestimating their strength - I think it's more that you're vastly underestimating how expensive it can be to make a bad hire and how difficult it can be to fire someone in California, even at
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9y ago
> Your tone suggests that you think this is impossible, but it happens all the time That's fair. To be clear, I don't think it's impossible, and especially given what I've heard from friends who've worked in free
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9y ago
This has been covered in previous discussions, but basically anything they say can be used against them in a lawsuit: https://www.quora.com/Why-dont-companies-give-interview-feed...
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9y ago
I feel like this is a disingenuous question. Are you asking if they should be? Do you believe that CircleCI has some nefarious plot to increase engineering team productivity by mining spare workcycles out of interview candidates? If I were
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> Also Most software engineers when they leave the company take backup of not only the entire code they've written but also the entire code for the project they've been working on. Is that really common practice? I don't d
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9y ago
In the USA we elected as president a politician who openly mocked a reporter with a physical disability. It doesn't seem like that much of a stretch to imagine someone carrying exactly that flag.
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9y ago
I guess this had already been brewing for a while: "After his day-to-day responsibilities were reassigned to others in December, Mr. Stamos said he would leave... He was persuaded to stay through August to oversee the transition... exe
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9y ago
Correct, they have negative earnings, and their P/E is also correspondingly a negative number: https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/pe-ratio
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9y ago
It depends on your definition of “care”. As other comments have noted, you might get a letter. History suggests they would not be likely to attempt to prosecute you for tax evasion. https://www.hrblock.com/tax-center/ir
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9y ago
I think you can click through to it now.
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9y ago
Apps are severely limited by the WatchKit SDK/API limitations that Marco Arment and others have covered. I've gone through several different podcast apps, and I'm now on Outcast which seems to work ok but still has annoyances
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9y ago
Real-time traffic and payment would not have been possible with the flip phone and shuffle. I’ve had both (though I ran shorter distances when I had a flip phone). The traffic directions are pretty important when you’re driving in NYC durin
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The other day I went out for a 10 mile run (from Brooklyn to Queens) with my Apple Watch and wireless earbuds. I was running to my mechanic to pick up my car which had been serviced. I listened to a couple of podcasts I had downloaded offli
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9y ago
This article goes into some detail on how Discover Weekly works and why it's pretty awesome: https://hackernoon.com/spotifys-discover-weekly-how-machine-...
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9y ago
So you do know who he is then? You’re being downvoted since you are obviously trying to make a different point - that Yegge is overrated / overhyped / whatever - than what you led with, I.e. pretending to not know who he is and qu
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9y ago
Works fine for me in iOS 11 / Safari / Private mode.
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This seems like a much better setup - $50M and setup as a 501(c)3 - rather than taking on the weird regulatory risk and all the other weirdness associated with Telegram's (IMO crazy) ICO: https://www.forbes.com/sites&#x
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Proof of steak sounds delicious and would be enough to tempt me off the sidelines into investing.
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I think that’s a fair distinction to make.
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I worry that it's sort of the same line of thinking that leads folks to skip vaccinations for their children, i.e. "What about the Tuskegee experiments and MKUltra? We can't trust government claims about health risks."
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9y ago
While I don’t disagree with the thrust of your argument, the equation would seem to imply that happiness + expectations = reality and unfortunately I don’t think it quite works that way?
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9y ago
Especially given that it's Black History month, it sounds like you might be interested in watching this movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_on_Ice_(film) And consider this criticism of the somewhat rosier pi
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9y ago
On my mobile device this amusingly read as “= $0.” before I realized I needed to scroll to the right. Who knows, perhaps that may end up being the most accurate value..
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9y ago
Really? In all locations or just some of them? I'm kind of surprised I can't find anything about this change, though there are lots of older blog posts and reddit threads etc. about how they roast fresh beans daily.
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