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by smeyer 8y ago
If you read further in the article you'll hit >The FBI worked with a number of security researchers to reverse engineer the DGA and figure out how it generated the list of domain names it provided to the infected computers every wee
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by smeyer 8y ago
They're independently owned. You could argue that it was just accounting if the two businesses had the same or similar ownership while being two separate entities, but they're two different publicly traded companies with substanti
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by smeyer 8y ago
What percentage of TripAdvisor does Expedia still own? The stock looks to be mostly held by various mutual funds although I didn't look very closely and may be missing something.
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by smeyer 8y ago
I just got back from a three week vacation, and the travel-specific site I used most was TripAdvisor. I also used a lot of sites not specific to travel (like google maps and reddit). Does TripAdivsor not qualify as a "major website abo
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by smeyer 8y ago
Can you expand on your preference for SMS password resets to email password resets? As a user I prefer email, but I'm biased by the fact that I used email for a decade before I had SMS and I've had a malicious actor gain control o
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by smeyer 9y ago
>playing the middle-man between taxis and passengers everywhere, forever. A 1% chance at a one trillion dollar market cap Investors in Uber had to be hoping for either a larger than 1% chance, expanding beyond taxis, fundamentally growin
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by smeyer 9y ago
>I've never heard of a company going public without an investment bank's support. I assume there was a law to require this. Dropbox had the support of lots of investment banks[0]. Even Spotify is hiring banks to advise it in it
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by smeyer 9y ago
Also a reminder, Google has lied about this in the past. E.g. http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2016/3/23/alumni-lawsuit-a... . That being said, I think it's probably true that they've stopped
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by smeyer 9y ago
For those of us who are less informed, could you recommend a couple of them?
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by smeyer 9y ago
There are lockup periods that prevent them selling. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answer/12/ipo-lockup-period... >For example, Facebook's IPO lock up prevented the sale of 271 million shares during
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by smeyer 9y ago
I think that's mostly independent. A swimmer bulking up for a channel swim is probably putting on a mix of water, fat, and muscle in the slow lead up to the swim (and maybe extra water in the days before) and then losing water during t
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by smeyer 9y ago
Like the previous commenter mentioned, that's mostly water. I've seen various numbers between 100 and 150 calories burned per mile for runners, which at the high end is just a bit over one pound's worth of calories for a mara
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by smeyer 9y ago
>do what nobody has the balls to do: tax wealth Just to clarify, nobody in the US is doing this, but it's not unheard of elsewhere. For example, Norway has a wealth tax of about 0.85% and there are some other examples at https:&#x2
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by smeyer 9y ago
I'd never encountered this before, but it looks like it's been around for a while: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=554644 .
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by smeyer 9y ago
In business, spinoff typically refers to creating a new company with separate ownership. E.g., PayPal is a spinoff of Ebay and Agilent is a spinoff of HP but Waymo is not a spinoff from Google, because they share the same ownership.
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by smeyer 9y ago
>$2.50 is the base price and $0.505/mile and $0.50/minute the car is stopped Sorry, I was going off "Plus 50 cents per 1/5 mile" to mean $2.50 per mile. Where are you getting $0.505/mile from your link?
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by smeyer 9y ago
A lot of taxis are already run 24 hours a day, switching off between drivers at shift changes. The per-mile gas, maintenance, and depreciation (ignoring any fixed per-day or per-year costs) are already much more than 10% of the total cost o
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by smeyer 9y ago
>If there is a service that's 10x cheaper Why would a ride service based on autonomous cars be 10x cheaper? It's not like 90% of the current revenue or costs are human labor. I'm not sure the exact ratio of driver labor vs
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by smeyer 9y ago
>I would really like to see the balance sheets of these companies to see how much they're gouging us Not broken down to each accessory or anything, but you can see overall profit margins and such. https://www.sonova.com&#
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by smeyer 9y ago
Patrick McKenzie and Stripe are both pretty popular on HN and probably get immediate upvotes from a lot of people.
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by smeyer 9y ago
> combined with not having a way to play album tracks in order As a paid subscriber for several years, I've had no difficulties playing album tracks in order. I'm not sure what issue you were having, though.
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by smeyer 9y ago
Sorry I was a bit unclear. If every district is decided by 50% but some are 75-25 one way and some are 25-75 the other way, the efficiency gap is 0. If all of them are 75-25 the same way, there will be a large efficiency gap.
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by smeyer 9y ago
But if every district is 75-25, neither party is gaining a net advantage. If you have 10 districts and split them into 5 that are 51-49 and 5 that are 49-51 or if you split them into 5 that are 75-25 and 5 that are 25-75, you have 5 represe
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by smeyer 9y ago
I don't think you're understanding the calculation correctly. If a district election is 75-25, then the wasted votes is 24 (75 minus the 51 required to win). I believe the computation of net wasted votes comes from looking across
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by smeyer 9y ago
Can I ask what surprised you about Harvard? It's been historically strong in the sciences, medicine, and economics, and produces lots of the sorts of politicians that frequently win the peace prize. Which sorts of other universities we
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by smeyer 9y ago
Vimeo is owned by IAC, the $9 billion dollar market cap company that owns Match.com, Tinder, OKCupid, Dictionary.com, and lots of others[0]. I don't think this is proof that Vimeo's revenue model is working out unless it's cl
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by smeyer 9y ago
But the opposing bettor got to pick the funds, it's not like Buffett forced anyone to pick funds with risk profiles less likely to result in beating the market.
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by smeyer 9y ago
> Ehh. A $1/week expense which buys you hope and dreams for a week isn't that bad in the grand scheme of things There's a demographic of lottery players that really only are spending $1 a week (or even $1 every few months
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by smeyer 9y ago
I didn't see anyone else point how much money is already spent on cancer research. For perspective, the National Cancer Institute has a budget of about $5.4 billion for 2017, and that's not the only source of funding for cancer re
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by smeyer 9y ago
> for nutmeg the doses are given in thousands of grammes per kg body weight Is it really fair to call something toxic if the LD50 is more than your bodyweight? I suspect you might have your LD50 value off.

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