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by sequoia 5y ago
Avip is not including cities when s/he ranks Gaza #5, s/he is only including countries. If I asked you "what's the most densely populated place in the world?" you would probably answer with the name of a city. Avip
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by sequoia 5y ago
Good point, thank you.
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by sequoia 5y ago
Ok I think I’m able to piece back together what you’re talking about: it sounds like you’re ranking Gaza on the list of most densely populated “Country (or dependent territory)” but excluding cities. The article refers to it as one of the m
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by sequoia 5y ago
Can you walk me through your thinking here? I don’t quite follow. I am listening and open to being wrong.
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by sequoia 5y ago
There are plenty of stories where this would be relevant. "Many refugees are landing in suburbs of Paris, one of the most densely populated ..." "...rural Korean population is flocking to Seoul, one of the most ..." An
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by sequoia 5y ago
Looking at the country list, I see Israel is the #5 most densely populated country in the world. And Bnei Brak is the #5 most densely populated city, far more densely populated than Gaza. Bnei Brak was hit by rockets this week. Can you link
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by sequoia 5y ago
Your point about my argument regarding BBC's credibility based on this one point is fair, I can see how my argument can reasonably be considered overstated. Your point about "fixating" (assuming you're referring to me) i
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by sequoia 5y ago
Here is a single reference: https://www.middleeastobserver.org/2016/07/12/pcbs-reports-g... "Do you generally call things out as being untrustworthy for claiming that the top 5% is among the highest in a
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by sequoia 5y ago
Tangentially related but where does this come from and why is it so widely repeated (as in this article): > ...Gaza, one of the most densely populated places in the world I've seen this claim (both in the "one of the most...&qu
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by sequoia 5y ago
This case is very different than an internship, Netflix producers appear to be soliciting a working professional photographer.
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by sequoia 5y ago
Totally cool project! I can't quite figure out where in the repo the code is, or maybe this repo just contains the CF configs? If so a link to the lambdas etc. would be useful.
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by sequoia 5y ago
All JavaScript apps run in the browser with its own JS engine (V8 in chrome) garbage collection, etc. This is effectively a VM I think. Like you deploy Java apps to the JVM, you deploy JavaScript apps for the “browser VM.” Google writes gma
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by sequoia 5y ago
The fact that a web email client (gmail) can turn the fan on when it’s mostly text and runs in a VM written and published by the same company that wrote the email client just makes my head spin. And the solution to this is to put the brow
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by sequoia 5y ago
Yeah I don’t get why it’s top comment either, I just meant to vent about an annoyance that’s frankly not material to the question at hand. I was unable to refrain from laughing at your quip incidentally.
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by sequoia 5y ago
As a cashier you are not empowered to make this decision. You are not "able to" violate store policy this way and keep your job. If a store owner or manager wishes to give someone a product for free or issue a full refund, yes the
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by sequoia 5y ago
> Unfortunately the warranty on your product has expired and we do not issue refunds for products outside the warranty period. If you pressed me I would admit that yes, in some exceptional cases we issue refunds for products outside of w
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by sequoia 5y ago
I disagree. If you buy a product from me with 30 day warranty and it breaks on day 31 and you contact me, I will not give you a refund because: a) I haven't agreed to do so b) I'm not bound to do so c) I don't think it's
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by sequoia 5y ago
> ...after taking into consideration the information that you have provided, we have confirmed that we are unable to reinstate your publisher account. I hate when using euphemism slides into flat out lying like this. They are not "u
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by sequoia 5y ago
It would be nice if the linked page contained some brief explanation of what this is.
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by sequoia 5y ago
I like the locality of behavior concept and am interested in learning more about hyperscript. This VanillaJS example is just plain silly. I've never seen anyone set styles and call requestAnimationFrame & do all that in an inline
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MasterCard Rewrites Rules for Banks Backing Pornography Sellers(bloomberg.com)
27 points by sequoia 5y ago|6 comments
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by sequoia 5y ago
Incredibly clear and compassionate writing (callout boxes throw a bone to readers who aren’t well versed in concepts like the heap, character arrays etc.). Big kudos to the author!
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by sequoia 6y ago
Good point, I hadn't thought of that.
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by sequoia 6y ago
> This kind of anti-feature is not what I signed up for. At the risk of sounding like a Signal simp: don’t use this feature if you’d don’t like it? I have no idea whether this is a good or bad idea, I figure the proof of the pudding is i
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by sequoia 6y ago
This sounds like a dream to be honest.
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by sequoia 6y ago
Haha yeah I never did learn all about modes and had to google commands or go to the mod channel and ask for help not infrequently, but irc does get held up as an example of “a simple and perfectly decent tool” and my point is that being sim
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by sequoia 6y ago
You’re totally correct that there are trade offs. Coming from a background of using IRC, google chat & Facebook chat with and without e2e encryption and deleting accounts etc I’m used to not always having forever message history and I c
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by sequoia 6y ago
> Early in Signal's development they would add privacy features. Lately they have been adding social features. This is intentional and relates to Signal's growth in the past few years. It's not "a hacker tool for nerd
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by sequoia 6y ago
Uber (Toronto, Canada) | Onsite | Fulltime Android, iOS, fullstack, project manager, golang etc. https://www.uber.com/us/en/careers/list/?location=CAN-Ontari... official copy: Our Canada team is growing!
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by sequoia 6y ago
Is there any indication/proof that these accounts were in fact created or run by Amazon? This certainly seems a lot like someone is trolling: https://twitter.com/15Deloreans/status/1376678761630998533 1. Crea

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