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When will it come to Car Play?
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Does your opinion change if there is user benefit? E.g., is it okay to track user location, if in aggregate they use it to advice on traffic?
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"The provision would prevent investors from minimizing taxes by choosing the specific shares that are being sold when they sell part of a position. Instead, investors would have to sell their oldest shares first."
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The New Tax on Stock Investors Hidden in the Senate Tax Plan
(wsj.com)
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SMO was an expansion. They're still in Venice too. https://www.google.com/maps/search/venice+snap+locations/@33... http://www.laweekly.com/news/snapchat-leases-more-than-20-pr...
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9y ago
More features = more resources. You need a culture of cleaning up tech debt to reduce resource usage. With so many holes in the ship, the company is going to be focused on features to drive up RPU.
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If your math is right, they were issued ~2% of the company, which is worth $535B today.
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I wish MailChimp (and others) would stick with double opt-in. However, if we've lost that battle, it would be nice if they gave a user the option to require double opt-in on their email before being added to a new MailChimp list.
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I might be an outlier, but if they are using this authentication, it's actually somewhat clever. And likely a net positive for the user. I obviously don't for sure if this is happening, but if your social media footprint helps de
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A bit of trivia: Chase was founded by Aaron Burr.
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> $10K for a gym membership over two years?! That over $416/month. Is that normal for the area? I'm not sure what area he's in, but he's probably including the cost of classes, trainers or similar. I was a member of E
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9y ago
The Three Body Problem.
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link?
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No. Root for other browsers, sure. But Microsoft's? No. They wantonly abused their market position in the 90s & stalled the advancement of the web for years. There many other worth products to cheer for rather than the latest offe
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Facebook Ad Reach Is More Than U.S. Census Bureau Data in All 50 States
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It's not just small accounts. It's also big accounts that are abusive.
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"Arrest quotas" is a bit like voter fraud. It's talked about a lot, there's heavy speculation, but there's little evidence showing it exists in any systemic form. It's also worth noting in many areas arrest qu
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Watching what a user types into Google & using the Google result is pretty much textbook copying.
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The devil may be in the details. If your team is excited to build a service (say, for the technical challenge or the potential reputation gain) that objectively should be done by a different team (say, they have the right background, have a
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Aristotle was taught by Plato, not Socrates. Socrates died when Aristotle was still relatively young. It was Plato who believed the ideal ruler would be a philosopher-king, but he also explicitly stated it was not a realistic option becaus
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It seems equivalent to ad blocking.
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http://golf.shinh.org/p.rb?FizzBuzz
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https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
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Various tech industries do have it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Sec...
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> In choosing the location for HQ2, Amazon has a preference for: > * Metropolitan areas with more than one million people There are 10 cities in America with one million people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_
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Microsoft caught 'astroturfing' bloggers again to promote Internet Explorer http://www.pcworld.com/article/2365060/microsoft-caught-astr... Confirmed: Ben Edelman Paid by Microsoft, Attacks Google http:
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> I'm actually rather surprised that companies like Google aren't offering solutions to integrate ads into the delivery of the page content itself rather than JavaScript at this point, as it's pretty easy to block the spec
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Alice searches for Bob but does not add him. Facebook shows Bob a suggestion to add Alice. It doesn't explain all cases, but it does explain quite a few.
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I'm guessing you have status with them? Almost every airline is great once you have status. Personally, I hate Alaska. I fly ~2/month & avoid Alaska if I can. My wife's family is from Seattle, so sadly, they're un
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> I am not surprised that digital marketing is not that effective. To be clear, that isn't what the article is about. P&G still spends massive amounts on digital advertising. The point they are making is they were able to ide
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