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721.
by sib 6y ago
I still think that buying an ad against a competitor's brand in search (Uber buying an ad to show when user searches for Lyft and vice versa) is very different from the behavior shown in the article where the advertiser is literally us
722.
by sib 6y ago
>> I think it's also important to have a culture of reading, not just writing. That's certainly part of the key at Amazon. Documents are written to be _read_ and _used_ in critical decision-making. If you regularly don'
723.
by sib 6y ago
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19126556
724.
by sib 6y ago
Yes, it is literally a quiet read time. Up to and including Bezos meetings. For longer (6-pages + appendices) docs, it can be 20-25 minutes. If you try talking during this time, you will get lots of dirty looks (and then probably be fired i
725.
by sib 6y ago
And also not everyone wants to be woken up to receive their groceries at 2am after they've been picked in the middle of the night.
726.
by sib 7y ago
Is that picture from the Lemay Museum in Washington?
727.
by sib 7y ago
I hate it even more when they try telling me that "that is not a valid email address" - welcome to RFC5322, people... https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5322
728.
by sib 7y ago
How does an IP address (in a world with VPN) or a phone number (which is likely to be mobile and could be located anywhere in the world) "prove that the customer is located in NZ"?
729.
Walmart Selling the Vudu Service to Fandango(techcrunch.com)
3 points by sib 7y ago|0 comments
730.
by sib 7y ago
"Shirt without stripes" may (or may not) be an unusual word choice to enter into a search engine, but it's definitely one that a child would understand. Additionally, "shirt without stripes" is not the same as &quot
731.
by sib 7y ago
We just did a zoom w/ 1,100+ different connections and it worked fine. I was pretty impressed.
732.
by sib 7y ago
If I remember correctly (grew up in Connecticut, drove through MA a lot), I-90 does not go directly through Springfield, but, rather, passes by a couple miles to the north.
733.
by sib 7y ago
Not engineering - that discussion and request was at the Jeff Bezos level.
734.
by sib 7y ago
Kind of like sometimes you fail to hear when someone calls your name and other times you think someone was speaking to you when they weren't? It's not like people are perfect at doing this task either.
735.
by sib 7y ago
The wake-word spotting for "Alexa," "Computer," and "Echo" is done on-device. I wouldn't call it AI in any meaningful sense of the word. Source: worked on project for ~3 years.
736.
by sib 7y ago
Idris Elba, who just tested positive for SARS-CoV2...
737.
by sib 7y ago
I'd call it "Mythbusters-ing" since this is pretty much how many of their episodes go.
738.
by sib 7y ago
And that's also why you can't do it with small, high-demand products such as AirPods (at least in the stores I've been in).
739.
by sib 7y ago
Pretty much my point (I lived in Germany some years ago, although born and lived most of my life in the US).
740.
by sib 7y ago
So much for freedom of speech, I guess. That sounds awful.
741.
United States National Radio Quiet Zone(en.wikipedia.org)
132 points by sib 7y ago|31 comments
742.
by sib 7y ago
Let's face it - if you were hiring lawyers, wouldn't you want a bunch of MoFos?
743.
by sib 7y ago
Walmart actually made a big difference in the health market years ago when they introduced the $4 prescription program, something like 300 pharmaceuticals that are available for $4. Even for people with health insurance this is lower than m
744.
by sib 7y ago
The parent literally called it "Tinder’s big innovation"...
745.
by sib 7y ago
Thank you! Very interesting. I've been having conversations with friends about the societal desirability of - and potentially need for - this sort of working arrangement over the past couple of years. I personally would love to be able
746.
by sib 7y ago
Is there an English-language description of this law anywhere online? I couldn't find it and would love to learn more. Thanks!
747.
by sib 7y ago
This is one primary reason why I'm not a fan of the hit air blowers to dry hands (rather than paper towels).
748.
by sib 7y ago
I'd like to understand this better. Intentional interference with satellites? Too mountainous or too heavy tree cover? I can imagine navigation services not working, but I've not been in places outside of the high Arctic (~82&#x27
749.
by sib 7y ago
Which will be captured by a bunch of manufacturers who like to innovate on "cheapest / crappiest" and who will outvotes the one manufacturer who actually innovates on "best"... As a customer, I'd like to keep t
750.
by sib 7y ago
A different way of looking at it is, with ~5 packages that were likely stolen out of 2,000 or so delivered, that's about a 1/4% loss rate, which is much lower than the typical retail store suffers from shoplifting. So, it's p

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