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by traek 10y ago
Yes, it's very likely that different demographic profiles have different driving behaviors. But given that they've shown this 40% crash rate reduction in their current demographic, it's reasonable to expect to see a similar r
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by traek 10y ago
From what I've heard, the WhatsApp team has remained fairly independent internally. They're executing on a strategy separate from Messenger's.
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by traek 10y ago
If you're doing significant volume, give them a call and they'll give you a custom cost-plus rate.
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by traek 10y ago
And even your ability to read posts is questionable, given that ~Camillo didn't write any of the words you're putting into their mouth.
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by traek 10y ago
I think the unwritten qualification is "If it's a bad environment". "If it's a bad environment -- it never gets better, there is no good fight, and you should flee to save yourself." It's very possible to
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by traek 10y ago
> I've learnt to value people in the "cooperate cooperate" quadrant of the Prisoner's Dilemma very highly, and it's not a reputation you can "buy" quickly. This is a great way to put it. People who act
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by traek 10y ago
Yes, but it's misleading to compare city+state spending in NYC to solely city spending in SF, and conclude that SF is underspending on the homeless. To be a fair comparison, we'd also have to include what the state of California s
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The Internet Thinks I’m Still Pregnant(nytimes.com)
4 points by traek 10y ago|0 comments
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An Update to Trending(newsroom.fb.com)
2 points by traek 10y ago|0 comments
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by traek 10y ago
The "Google Transparency Project" [1] seems like a deliberately misleading name. They're not at all associated with Google yet they're going as far as using Google's logo in their logo. I wonder how legal that is, a
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by traek 10y ago
> the quality of service was good. But that doesn't make it a good business. And when it's not a good business, it gets scrapped.
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by traek 10y ago
> Maybe not tech company, but Walmart just bought Jet.com Nope, Walmart is reportedly in talks to buy Jet.com.
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by traek 10y ago
From the main post: > include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome.
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by traek 10y ago
It's less expensive in harvest season. "a full ounce for 100 or less" -> 12.5 for an eight
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by traek 10y ago
On macOS, http://bowtieapp.com is a good free alternative.
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by traek 10y ago
The probability of a false positive result = probability of not doing meth * probability of getting a positive test result while not doing meth. P(+ ∩ M') = P(M') * P(+|M'). That pretty clearly depends on the prior probabilit
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by traek 10y ago
Similarly, when running a hypothesis test statisticians "fail to reject" the null hypothesis, rather than accepting it.
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by traek 10y ago
Because the case rested on patent infringement, not contract violation? People don't need to sign a license agreement to be bound by patent law. > Their business model depends on farmers agreeing to licensing their seeds. Nothing sa
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by traek 10y ago
I don't see why employers making bad purchase decisions signals Apple "calcifying into what Microsoft was". Just because some employers (and some ordinary people) might purchase it for situations where it's not the best
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by traek 11y ago
Do you have any sources for this? I'm looking for academic literature on the effects of tetrasodium pyrophosphate on satiety, but I can't find anything.
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by traek 11y ago
> We don't mistake the almost ubiquitous use of cars in the US as an indicator that the US population is 'car savvy,' so why do we do it with computers, cell phones and the internet when in reality you need to know just as
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by traek 11y ago
> When you press the button, it leads you to a page with a button that says "participate". Pressing this button puts you in an IRC chat with another user. Along with being able to chat, there are three buttons to press. These a
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by traek 11y ago
Looks like "we" is StockTwits: https://twitter.com/crosbyventure
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by traek 11y ago
They treat corporate employees (not drivers) fairly well, according to friends who work there. I'd be interested in hearing if you have experience to the contrary.
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by traek 11y ago
The interactive visualization is very neat. Interesting data, and an interesting way of presenting the data.
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by traek 11y ago
No, he is saying you need human moderators if you're connecting two users and letting them speak to each other.
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Your Strategy Is Showing #1: The Millennial Road Trip(medium.com)
3 points by traek 11y ago|1 comments
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by traek 11y ago
Agreed, 100ms feels very different from 50ms or 10ms. Microsoft Research has an interesting video[1] on the UX impact of different touch latencies. Even below 100ms, users are very sensitive to latency. [1] https://youtu.be/
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Photographing Diverse Hands at Facebook(medium.com)
1 points by traek 11y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Design Resources(facebook.github.io)
1 points by traek 11y ago|0 comments

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