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by tristanj 9y ago
I think it's close, but San Diego should be enough to tip it blue. Here's how the counties voted in 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_... Edit: I was curious so I ran the math.
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The biggest political consequence of this plan is that it would add 4 additional democratic senate seats. For this reason, I can't see this plan proceeding though congress.
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The automated restaurant is a chain called Kula Sushi. They have several branches in the US, there's about a half-dozen in southern california.
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Bloomberg hired the author (Mark Gurman) from 9to5Mac last year. https://www.recode.net/2016/6/1/11835514/bloomberg-mark-gurm... He was a senior editor there. His 9to5Mac bio shows quite a stellar track
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> the top Xeon-W processor has 28 cores No, the top Xeon-W processor has 18 cores. The 28 core processor is a Xenon Platinum.
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Active discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15133237 Surprised this wasn't caught by the dupe detector.
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Last week WSJ reported Jeffrey Immelt is the frontrunner for Uber's next CEO. Out of the blue this article pops up. With sections about "Transformation", his connections to Silicon Valley, how he's hip and watches Netfli
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> Cupertino is like hide-and-go-seek except with Apple offices. Almost every office building is Apple. While I agree, it's not immediately obvious these are Apple buildings. The buildings outside the main campus are dull 1980s sty
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In comparison, Apple occupies about 70 percent of Cupertino’s commercial real estate. Though Cupertino isn't a "major U.S. city" so Seattle Times' claim stills stands.
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Discussions of this article from earlier this year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13462865 (154 points, 173 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13482107 (136 points, 124 comments)
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Bill Gurley resigned from the board and another Benchmark partner took his place (Matt Cohler).
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Many of the 30,000+ employees are non-tech. Uber needs lots of hires for driver recruitment, training, support. They have people on the ground in every region they operate.
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The decision to prevent sideloading dates back to the release of the App Store. Upon release of the App Store, Apple charged a 30% royalty on every app sold. Developers were outraged by these fees, and fought against them. If Apple allowed
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How to Make a Movie Out of Anything – Even a Mindless Phone Game(nytimes.com)
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Under certain atmospheric conditions it may be possible to see further https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirage#Superior_mirage
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Uber told investors it had a growth rate in the "mid-teens". Assuming a 13-17% growth rate, Uber increased its gross bookings by $1.2 billion or $900 million. Lyft claims it increased gross bookings from $800 million to >$1 bil
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This is a known issue on iOS 8.0-8.1. Lookup 'WiFried'.
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Number of years since initial VC investment. After 7-12 years in VCs will want to get their money out to pay out their LPs. Around this time they will start pressuring management to find a buyer or prepare for an IPO. Though this pressure d
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by tristanj 9y ago
I believe so. When I was in China, my mainland SIM didn't work at all in HK. I assume many people get prepaid SIMs when traveling out of China so they wouldn't be subject to filtering anyway.
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Yes, effectively a VPN but I would just call it a tunnel, I don't think it fits the definition of a VPN. I'm not sure if this traffic is encrypted (I assume it is), but I know GFW filtering happens at egress points so mobile traff
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by tristanj 9y ago
It works because cellular roaming traffic travels over a tunnel to your carrier's source country. This greatly simplifies data billing calculations, since they only have to keep track of the usage of one connection. The traffic is alre
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by tristanj 9y ago
Your post [1] was autokilled because rfa.org is on the banned domains list. Try submitting something from rfa.org and it doesn't show up on new [2]. pg wrote a bit about banned domains here [3]. I don't think rfa.org should be ban
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For me it says this item is "Currently unavailable" and not in stock Here's a screenshot of it someone took earlier today http://i.imgur.com/b1zqWKR.png tl;dr He's selling one book for $290,000
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This video made a few rounds on the internet and it's dismissed as fake-science feel-good marketing bullshit. This picture and text explanation is not how Bernoulli's principle works. > Hot air enters the bottles from the out
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If you are curious how smartphone payments work in practice, Here's a video of someone using Wechat Pay to order squeezed-to-order orange juice from a vending machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Um53J3shL7I In prac
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Not everywhere takes WeChat pay. AliPay is slightly more common. Businesses prefer AliPay for their lower interchange fees. Though I'd estimate 80-90% of places in cities take one or the other.
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What's new about this? Alibaba cloud has been around for 8 years, it's called Aliyun in China (literally Ali-cloud). They didn't build datacenters in 7 countries overnight. Could anyone explain the sudden excitement about the
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No longer outsourced, Medium acquired Embedly last year.
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I think it just takes a long time. Messenger is already trying to emulate WeChat, they are just not there yet. I believe Messenger is the only app in the world that's positioned to match WeChat's ecosystem. They've been copyi
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California also has an income tax of 1% for individuals earning one million dollars or more. It's called the California Mental Health Services Act. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Mental_Health_Servi...

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