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by yid 13y ago
> Condoleezza Rice is famously hated across the internet and in the press (especially on the Daily Show) Her actions are hated; she's been on the Daily Show at least once and had a pretty decent conversation with Jon Stewart.
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by yid 13y ago
Yes, and google apps for business continues to exist...
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by yid 13y ago
Consumer Reports ratings are not double-blinded studies; I wouldn't be surprised if there was a correlation between product price and satisfaction ratings without blinding.
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by yid 13y ago
> Why use this when there are options like bitcasa - 1TB at $10/month? Name brand recognition. Same reason why Tide detergent still exists when others are around half as expensive.
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by yid 13y ago
> If business reliability matters to you, Dropbox seems comparatively better. If you're comparing Drive to the Reader fiasco, keep in mind that Drive for business is a paid offering.
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by yid 13y ago
> Google Apps is $5/user for 30GB for each user I'd be willing to wager that someone at Google has figured out that 30GB/user covers > N% of users, where N ~ 80-90. This makes Drive more attractive than Dropbox for that
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by yid 13y ago
> Also, how do you filter out non-serious buyers, especially for performance vehicles I cannot emphasize the importance of this. I have a 2005 Lotus Elise that I would love to part with, but I'm really, really nervous about an inexp
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by yid 13y ago
Thank you, that was very clear. > if Class A gets a $1 dividend Class B must receive the same. Does this mean that companies cannot split into voting and non-voting stock without paying out a dividend?
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by yid 13y ago
I'm curious why, given the prior reports of security issues at Coinbase and the ongoing drama with Mt Gox, you guys didn't immediately hire, say, tptacek's company to do extensive penetration testing and a full security aud
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by yid 13y ago
I'm confused...isn't this just a matter of wrapping sql select, insert and update statements in the db.find() and db.save() interface? If so, how is it relevant to MariaDB rather than a translation layer in a client driver, for ex
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by yid 13y ago
npm is a fantastic package manager that integrates very well with github, and node -- in the opinion of a lot of people -- has a rather intuitive system for installing and loading third party modules. EDIT: also wanted to add that node expo
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by yid 13y ago
I, too, have a random number generator that I am willing to part with on very reasonable terms, cash/equity split negotiable.
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by yid 13y ago
> not everything needs final approval from the C-level suite (hell, that's their selling point to new hires.) Would you care to back that up with anything (not the part in parentheses)?
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by yid 13y ago
> They (Oculus) now have many many more times the resources at their disposal than before to make countless imaginative projects. An acquisition into a company like Facebook is not quite carte blanche to chase "countless imaginati
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by yid 13y ago
> Mozilla now cannot hire a LGBT employee without creating a hostile environment for them. His private donations as an individual have nothing to do with necessarily creating hostile workplace environments.
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by yid 13y ago
> would you build an ad rotator by keeping counts of all banners served and picking the next banner based on those counts and your weighting rules, or would you build the rotator on a foundation of statistics and probability with a littl
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by yid 13y ago
You run the risk of making this a self-fulfilling prophecy. An (economically, educationally, etc.) privileged background increases the ODDS of being successful; it is not a REQUIREMENT for success by any measure. If this is getting you down
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by yid 13y ago
I agree, and I can't help imagine that there isn't some overselling of the "seriousness" of the onboarding problem to (probably) non-engineering VCs. That said, I can see enormous potential in this as an education platfo
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by yid 13y ago
Looks like they still rely on the buyer "confirming" that the exchange happened, which seems like a red flag to me.
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by yid 13y ago
The biggest question for me remains unanswered, having been bitten pretty hard by an eBay scammer who claimed the camera I shipped "wasn't as advertised". How will they verify that an exchange has taken place, and how will th
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by yid 13y ago
> Um, am I the only one that thinks 35 engineers is a pretty good size team to get a good amount of work done? It takes extraordinarily good engineering practices and discipline to get 35 engineers working as well as you'd imagine W
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by yid 13y ago
Not exposing a client-facing search service has no bearing on their ability to search through your messages on the server; they most assuredly can search through your messages.
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by yid 13y ago
I'd initially submitted as "Try downloading this Highlighted dataset"
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by yid 13y ago
> If that's what you're looking for, then I found it. If not, I give up. Thank you for the effort :) Unfortunately, I have no idea what that is, but someone could probably tell Ellen that it works.
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by yid 13y ago
> You have a very clear (and in my opinion on point) critique of what you're presenting us, but you don't have the inclination to write a blog post? Correct. I don't have a blog, and don't care to set one up. And I&#
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by yid 13y ago
Sorry, I thought this was worth sharing and didn't have the inclination to write a blog post.
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by yid 13y ago
Something makes me feel like that might be an uphill battle. The focus of the entire site appears to be a slick superficial UI. There is no attempt to consolidate data from various agencies into a uniform access format (say a JSON API or pe
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by yid 13y ago
(Submitter here) This is so frustrating. There are so many links to important datasets that are just broken, such as the NHTSA crash ratings: http://catalog.data.gov/dataset/new-car-assessment-program-n... (try clickin
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Featured dataset cannot be downloaded(data.gov)
60 points by yid 13y ago|25 comments
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by yid 13y ago
It might be a better strategy to keep the module prices as low as possible and depend on frequent upgrades. I wouldn't mind committing to buying a new CPU/RAM module every year for a few years if the price was right.

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