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by snowwrestler 5y ago
> why would a sender choose to serve 100,000 copies of the same image from slightly different URLs, when they can just serve it up once? To provide open tracking, which is a core metric that all of their customers demand and rely on. The
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
It is in fact on the fly when you open it. All Gmail does is proxy the request to hide your IP from the server hosting the image file. Gmail does not change the timing of the request, the URL, or the image file.
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
The majority of emails are never opened. So why would an email service greatly increase their complexity and costs by downloading images no one would otherwise ever see, storing them indefinitely, and rewriting their customers’ email conten
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
All Gmail does (or ever did) is proxy the image file so the server hosting it cannot do reverse IP lookup to collect client metadata like geolocation. The server hosting the image sees a Google IP address request the image, not (for example
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
You didn’t waive or assign copyright but you did “grant Y Combinator and its affiliated companies a nonexclusive, worldwide, royalty free, fully paid up, transferable, sublicensable, perpetual, irrevocable license to copy, display, upload,
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
The reason software is different is simply that it is a recently developed industry. If you look back, all industries start this way. The most heavily-credentialed and tightly-regulated field you can think of today started off as a bunch of
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
The Chinese government operates their Internet blocks (the “Great Firewall”). But overwhelmingly, it is the Chinese people who are trying to access information on the public Internet. Blocking the entire country will do little to hurt the g
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
At the height of the Cold War, when the U.S. and Soviet Union governments were sworn enemies and on the verge of shooting nuclear weapons at each other, U.S. and Soviet scientists collaborated openly and productively on a wide variety of su
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
That is awful. I’m sorry for your loss. I hope that front-line medical professionals are not reluctant to report potential vaccine injuries. I would be surprised if they are; there are decades of training and experience around such reportin
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
When Star Wars was released, it was understood to be science fiction. See this interview with Alec Guinness in 1977: https://youtu.be/0qxcEBI1iKI They both call it science fiction. Lucas was wary of that label because scien
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
Old cars were not sturdier or more robust than new cars. That’s a myth. You can Google “crash test old car vs new” or something like that to see examples.
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
One of the few named brands in the story is a fried chicken place. You don’t have to be rich to afford fried chicken. But fried chicken is a multi-billion-dollar industry. And it’s an industry that is deeply dependent on advertising to main
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
A bunch of classic “golden era” science fiction novels feature characters with unexplained mental powers, like Asimov’s Foundation series, Dune, Niven’s Known Space series, etc. Those seem like obvious fantasy now, but from about the 1950s
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
Grossly increasing the factor of safety is a subtle way that science fiction stories connote a feeling of very advanced technology. For example in the JJ Abrams movie Star Trek Into Darkness we see the Enterprise operating at depth in an oc
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
I wonder how long Adobe is going to care about professional photographers for Lightroom. That sounds crazy, I know, but I would bet that the percentage of Lightroom users who are actual working pros is tiny and shrinking. At some point it w
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
Google, in general, does not sell or give away data. What they do is charge advertisers to target ads to users based on that data. The distinction is that 3rd parties only have access to Google UIs or APIs based around ad targeting selector
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
I would guess that most orbital debris is aluminum, titanium, paint, or some sort of plastic or plastic composite (e.g. epoxy/carbon fiber composite). Even a powerful magnet would not likely do much to attract these materials. For exam
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
That is what I meant. The stuff you can buy at REI or specialty outdoor stores, or direct online these days. The demand became so great after September 11 that several outdoor gear manufacturers pivoted entirely to military products—Dana Gl
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
At least in the area of outdoor gear (clothes, packs, tents, sleeping bags, etc) I know serious military dudes buy the high end commercial stuff, sometimes with their own money, rather than get stuck with “military grade” stuff.
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
Personally, the watch I grab most these days is a good ol’ Timex Ironman. I pretty much only wear a watch when exercising and pretty much only care about the time while doing so.
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
> They don't pay taxes until they sell their shares, so they just make their interests into business divisions. Interested in space exploration? Make a rocket division of the company! Hire people around the world without ever paying
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
Kind of, but among the largest tech companies, Apple uniquely runs most of its revenue through the hardware category, and gets a lot of revenue from China. Google (Alphabet), Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook all use hardware from China, but most
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
So who are the most capable competitors to Apple in wearables? Among my friends and colleagues, those who don’t buy Apple Watch often buy Garmin watches instead. In the area of fitness tracking watches, Garmin seems to be serious competitio
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
I have rigorously only accepted connections from people I’ve actually worked with in some capacity. Makes for a nicer feed, but maybe that means I’m missing out on some recruiting opportunities? I thought recruiters could reach out to folks
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
Personally I don’t have a problem with repetitive content that is overtly aimed at beginners and junior devs, since there is a constant flow of new beginners and junior devs joining social media. Seems like it could be a constructive exchan
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
At least LinkedIn (the company) got over their initial love affair with video. There was a time when my LinkedIn feed was 80% videos of people sitting in their cars over-sharing directly to the camera… because that is what “the algorithm” w
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
Twitter’s moat is speed of new information. It is the fastest way to find out what is going on. That is delivered by a combination of technology, experience design, and network effect. And basically every major competitor has ceded that gro
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How to Take Your Twitter Feed Back from the Algorithm(vice.com)
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
I used to have these issues don’t seem to anymore. For example I used to have to switch my timeline back to Latest every so often. But I realize now that I can’t remember the last time I had to do that. I also don’t seem to get weird tweets
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by snowwrestler 5y ago
I think you might be confused; giant squid were known to be a real species as far back as the 1800s based on specimens that washed ashore. But it was only within the last couple decades that they were imaged alive in their natural environme

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