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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Curious: did unionization reduce the # of graduate students UC Berkeley was able to allow in? This has been a common criticism I've heard, and would have potential ramifications on the long-term research pipeline if it were true + spre
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
If you think about it and abstract a bit, this is sort of the point of ads. Seeing an ad or two on display is like a micropayment of X cents to the content owner.
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I came here just to mention this app. I had done a small trial with a few colleagues for an alumni advisory group we run for our alma mater, and the consensus was that: 1) It absolutely solves some of the problems we had with slack, with a
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Well I see this playing out similar to the Adblocker scandal (i.e. pay Google to get on a special "Google Approved" list, and then you'll bypass the blocker.)
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Isn't Yahoo still powered by Bing? Or did they move back to their own engine?
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
> Hell, during the Obama era, Google had on average 1 White House meeting a week (!). I had no idea about this - does anyone have citations on what the meetings were about? Were they just typical lobbying efforts?
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Just open the link - it's not "Facebook for desktop" app. It's a toolset for their Sketch app for desktop UI elements.
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I agree that it's virtually on feature parity and quality with Google Maps, including getting _really_ good at adjusting directions based upon traffic patterns in real-time...at least in the US. When I travel internationally, even in a
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Alphabet announces Q2 2017 Earnings(abc.xyz)
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
This - the headline of the article is a bit click-bait-y, but you nail the crux of the issue. When I worked there years back, I recall chatting with a few cafeteria workers and learning that they were paid more than the average contract wor
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Yeah - the fact that the head of People Operations attributed these complaints to "cattiness" and told the victim that she should try to be a "cool girl" was stunning to me. I guess the adage "HR is there to protect
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
There are probably a number of aspects: - Rejection of the cult of personality & "cult of the founder": Stoicism promotes rejection of ego and constantly finding points for growth and adaptivity - A reaction to current events
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I double this recommendation - I read a chapter each morning on my commute to work.
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I agree - I think it's a reaction to the similar stories that started blowing up on blogs recently that claim that the minimum wage increase had no effect, with similarly minimal evidence or review.
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Anti-trust law in US & EU depends upon actually having significant market share. iOS has a significant minority share compared to Android, so it doesn't matter that Apple is bundling their own apps. The same logic applies to Bing,
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I empathize, but I'm pretty sure that Google already knows a bit about your employment, and/or is doing really good modeling to figure it out probabilistically. (Ex: if you make Google searches between 9-5 in a certain location co
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
I'm waiting for the actual report, rather than the secondary hearsay, before I comment on it. This article is a bit sparse on concrete / verifiable details at the moment.
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Yes and no - it's using a competitive advantage in one market to drive anti-competitive / unfair practices in another market. In Google's case, they're not quite _requiring_ you to use a service they prioritize ahead of
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Great job on this! It has a good amount of polish that you should be proud =) Interesting that Workflowy has been laggy for your buddy. I've been using it since 2011 and only tend to have lag problems only when using it in IE (or Edge
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by s3r3nity 9y ago
Why? Facebook has been a crazy positive growth story for so long now, and has > 1.9Bn people on the platform (monthly active users I believe?) Not saying that FB's growth approach is better than Google's - I'm just not sur
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Click Bait Title. I try not to be negative as much as I can in the HN community, but Business Insider has definitely been leaning towards click bait recently (could be longer - but it's been a hypothesis of mine for the past month.) &q
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Sidebar / off topic: highly recommend the cuban espresso in Florida if you're into coffee...blew me away when I had it for the first time, and is one of the top reasons I look forward to travelling there.
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
The one awesome feature I've been enjoying so far with TODO that Wunderlist doesn't have is the tight integration with Outlook. Right now, 90% of my Wunderlist lists are work-related projects, and the fact that I can sync TODO and
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Sure, and there are smokers who start when they're 16 and never develop lung cancer. You may be the outlier, rather than the average scenario.
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
As much as I agree with you, I wonder if the changes in leadership at the company since then might mean a different direction. Reading their blog posts, it seems like a "reboot" of sorts. I am in the camp that still thinks Twitter
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Not sure one data point signals a "systemic" issue within Google. Nor do I fully appreciate, as a reader, the unnecessary connection to Uber's sexism complaints as an editorial addition to portray sensationalist chaos in the
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
While I agree with you somewhat, I also find value in an iterative learning approach - one that, in theory, constantly improves over time. My problem with his approach, which I think you hint at, is that to properly improve you need to make
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Which has already been sunsetted... for a "new and better" one that hasn't launched yet, so I'm bearish. https://contributor.google.com/v/signupdisabled
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Anecdote on keyboards & iPads: My brother was attending a high school that was experimenting with iPads for students, and humanities classes especially felt this. I bought him a decent external keyboard case and he told me his friends a
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by s3r3nity 10y ago
Ah interesting - I had no idea about those skeletons. Thanks for the article!

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