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by zevyoura 10y ago
The current CEO of Reddit (Steve Huffman) is one of the co-founders.
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by zevyoura 10y ago
Prior art: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnidirectional_treadmill
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by zevyoura 10y ago
> The [Prospect Theory] model is descriptive: it tries to model real-life choices, rather than optimal decisions, as normative models do. Expected utility is normative.
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by zevyoura 10y ago
It's a joke referencing Sutton's Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton%27s_law
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by zevyoura 10y ago
There's an accompanying blog post that explains this effect: http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_S...
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by zevyoura 10y ago
Swype and other keyboards with similar functionality have been available since iOS 8's release. It makes sense they'd highlight the new functionality over that.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
From the article: "A source familiar with Spotify’s finances tells me it still had €570 million still in the bank, so there was no gun to its head to raise this money."
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by zevyoura 11y ago
If you find this interesting, you'll probably really enjoy this[0] great 1996 Neal Stephenson article, "Mother Earth, Mother Board". [0] http://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/
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by zevyoura 11y ago
"All-in" means total compensation (stock and bonus included), not just salary.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
It's the person who works in the "cage" in a casino, i.e. exchanges money for chips and vice versa.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
M-Pesa is mentioned in the second sentence of the article.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
In the US, only NYC has over half of households without a vehicle [0]. Chicago has only 28% with no vehicle. [0] http://ns.umich.edu/new/releases/21923-hitchin-a-ride-fewer-...
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by zevyoura 11y ago
The page has the same title as this story currently, so at least the clickbaity title is coming from the source and not OP.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
Relying on that app may not be the best idea; from the article: >While the apps also can be used to track ovulation, signaling the days the user is more or less likely to become pregnant, most period tracker apps explicitly warn users no
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by zevyoura 11y ago
That's not a particularly meaningful number without knowing the total amount that was inherited.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
It means the percentage of attendees who earn more than the average income of a high school graduate.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
A similar (or maybe the same) species is mentioned in the article: "The jack pine depends on fire to melt the hard resin that encases its seeds."
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by zevyoura 11y ago
Facebook does a whole lot more now than they did when there were 80M users. I think if they provided the same functionality over the years this would be more concerning.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
The article "Visualizing Algorithms" by Mike Bostock has a fantastic section on mazes: http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/#maze-generation
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by zevyoura 11y ago
Few owners of modern luxury cars do their own maintenance.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
Usually making a developer's job easier entails making them more productive, which means fewer bugs and more features. Those things also correlate with a good product just as much or more than performance in most cases.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
The surprising part is that they're shipping live bees back and forth overseas.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
> beating traffic by skipping between lines (I know its illegal but most of the motorcycles do this) This is called lanesplitting and it's not illegal in California or most of the non-US world.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
Try Mercurial.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
Do you really do your work on a computer where an 80MB install is a problem? No argument on the file size limit.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
Which "tech super power" has a military and nukes?
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by zevyoura 11y ago
How is that different than if those representatives chose to enact tax laws that cause wealth distribution (as they currently do)?
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by zevyoura 11y ago
> What is "robbing" is wealth redistribution disguised as something else, so the people whose wealth is being taken don't know it and don't make a voluntary choice to give it up. Do you object to taxes in general?
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by zevyoura 11y ago
There will also be increased demand for the goods the skilled person is producing since more people can now afford them, so there is a counterbalance to that too.
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by zevyoura 11y ago
That's not what a zip bomb is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb

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