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by traek 8y ago
Anecdotally, I just ran a speed test and got 140Mbps up/35Mbps down with 31ms latency on LTE. I’m in SF.
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by traek 8y ago
> Facebook takes a strong moral stand on free speech, but it has a clear blind spot for privacy and public discourse. I think Facebook expressly does not take a stand for free speech, they've been pretty clear about banning offensiv
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by traek 8y ago
None of those charts are normalized per capita, so they're essentially just plotting population growth. I agree with you that greenhouse gas emissions are disproportionately from high-income countries, along with meat consumption, food
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by traek 8y ago
Nobody’s getting “the last .1% that can ever be gotten”, so it’s a moot point. Google and Facebook are still growing. There’s always room for more improvements.
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by traek 8y ago
They just replied saying they disabled the emails.
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by traek 8y ago
People did notice. http://articles.latimes.com/2013/nov/04/entertainment/la-et-... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/amazon/10426865/Wife-... https://www.t
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by traek 8y ago
Maybe people would prefer the unstated third option of lower property tax.
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by traek 8y ago
Aircraft noise can change after an airport is built. From the article: > The multibillion-dollar program is changing the way air traffic is managed, moving it from radar to satellite navigation. Proponents say it makes the air traffic sy
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by traek 8y ago
That's true, I assumed from your original comment where you said "directly from a company in the primary supply chain of the shoe company" that the shoes were from further up the supply chain, like a factory, rather than furt
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by traek 8y ago
The photo caption says that's just the infrastructure team. I'd imagine the product team is much larger given how many features are crammed into Messenger.
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by traek 8y ago
Yes but ghost shift goods are counterfeits unless they are free of any logos and other intellectual property. The first sale doctrine doesn’t apply because it was never purchased from the IP owner at any point in the line. If I have a facto
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by traek 8y ago
What did Amazon do here that was wrong? It sounds like these people bought illegitimate “ghost shift” shoes from a factory and the brand owner correctly shut them down.
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by traek 8y ago
That's a T-Mobile feature, not an Apple feature, and you can change your settings to block the calls instead of just ID'ing them. https://www.t-mobile.com/resources/call-protection
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by traek 8y ago
> There was a phone that people complained about reception on that was displaying the current service signal strength using a realistic algorithm. > Review sites, etc, complained about it compared to other phones despite it being bett
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by traek 8y ago
> They have proved these "conspiracy theories" to be true quite a few times. Such as? Facebook has explicitly denied spying on people's conversations. I can't think of any situations where they have flat out lied abou
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by traek 8y ago
This is why most large tech companies have data engineer roles that are separate from the data science role.
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by traek 8y ago
Merchants can store the account holder's name and the card's last 4 digits, which is pretty much all that is needed to correlate transactions.
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by traek 8y ago
It's a chicken-and-egg problem. You'd want to be among the last people on the road to adopt a lighter car, because being in a lighter car while other people are still in heavy cars makes it much more likely for you to get killed
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by traek 8y ago
It’s not about how many engineers it takes to make a new programming language or runtime. Facebook has the scale to invest in creating tooling, IDE extensions, core libraries, documentation, training, test frameworks, bindings, etc for a ne
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by traek 8y ago
That doesn’t answer what type of media is on the disks.
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by traek 8y ago
The first sentence links to that paper. This is presented as a high-level introduction to that and related papers/ideas.
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by traek 8y ago
> Also, a good lesson from Facebook: instead of rewriting their PHP codebase, they extended the language by creating the "PHP++" language Hack (along with the HHVM runtime), and incrementally changed their codebase to take adva
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by traek 8y ago
Possibly more relevant than the 2009 Australian fires are the 2017 California wildfires from last year in the same area, for which this same utility (PG&E) has liability expected to exceed $2.5 billion[0]. [0] https://www.sac
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by traek 8y ago
> 'Bumble' got special access because FB is an investor. (Did OkCupid? Tinder?) I think you misread the article. Facebook wasn't an investor in Bumble. Badoo was an investor in Bumble along with owning other dating service
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by traek 8y ago
>1. Russian interference in the election and the fact that FB knew about it and did nothing. "the fact that FB knew about it and did nothing" is unsubstantiated. The person I trust the most on this is Alex Stamos, who actually
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by traek 8y ago
> So they just heard about Vine, and decided to deprecate the API the same day? No? Where are you getting this read from? The documents clearly show them discussing it from a year prior to shutting down Vine's API access, and planni
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by traek 8y ago
Not really, they built an actual data compression VPN for users with limited data plans and did traffic analysis on the data that went through that pipe.
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by traek 8y ago
> Nothing says evil more than preparing reactive PR to bury your competitors. Really?
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by traek 8y ago
> But being forced to give away half your physical retail space is hardly the same thing as just letting them keep using an API that you provide explicitly for such use. In this case, Facebook was deprecating the API and declined to prov
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by traek 8y ago
And that's different from Baidu in what way? If it's not worse than the status quo, then it's not a negative impact of bringing Dragonfly to China.

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