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Square Launches 0% Fee Bitcoin Payments Program(beincrypto.com)
1 points by adg 11mo ago|0 comments
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U.S. Wealth Distribution(joshworth.com)
13 points by adg 1y ago|9 comments
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by adg 9y ago
This jumped out at me, too. Here's how Unroll.me describes their service: Clean up your inbox Instantly see a list of all your subscription emails. Unsubscribe easily from whatever you don’t want. It's not clear at all
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by adg 9y ago
Meta: it might be worth updating the title to mention this was published in 2011.
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Uber: From zero to seventy (billion)(economist.com)
2 points by adg 10y ago|0 comments
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by adg 11y ago
A lot of people think Gladwell created the 10,000 hours theory, but he merely popularized it. The original research comes from K. Anders Ericsson. Here's a link to the original paper, which is actually quite accessible, if you're
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by adg 12y ago
Surprised no one's mentioned Bublecam: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bublcam/bublcam-360o-ca... . Instead of six Go Pros, you can just use one Bublecam to capture 360 degree video, and the software to s
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Do Immigrant Engineers Depress Engineer Wages?(slate.com)
25 points by adg 13y ago|69 comments
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by adg 13y ago
I agree. But as the article goes on to point out, we are not more trusting of complete strangers, but rather strangers who've been vetted by many AirBnb reviews, background checked by Uber, etc. Technology has changed the definition of a 's
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by adg 13y ago
If the noise levels are too high, why not let the neighbors call it in? It seems like a waste of time to proactively try to find parties when they could just wait around at night for people to call in the noise violations.
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Twitter just told us how cool its real-time search is and how it makes money(theverge.com)
3 points by adg 14y ago|0 comments
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by adg 14y ago
The book touches on this. Basically, the human brain is biased towards novelty. It's much more likely to remember something if it's unique or interesting or different -- if it stands out. The book's title, Moonwalking with Einstein, is one
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by adg 14y ago
Here's a clip from the documentary Objectified where Moggridge talks about designing a laptop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHEA-jbo1aI .
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by adg 14y ago
Right. USPS PO Box was just one example. It's my understanding that the other services have the same requirements. E.g. I checked and UPS offers a service called My Choice: > The UPS My ChoiceSM enrollment process uses public record in
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by adg 14y ago
> Visa charges Square 1.76% + 6 cents Last I checked, Square had not published the transaction fee they negotiated with Visa.
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by adg 14y ago
I always thought there were laws against running a service like this in the US. For example the rules for registering a USPS P.O. box are very stringent: > To rent a PO Box, two different forms of identification are required. At least o
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by adg 14y ago
As far as I know, this feature already exists -- pg just needs to add github.com to the list of well-known URLs.
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by adg 16y ago
Anyone else wonder how the author made the white outlines on the Yahoo Maps text? Seems super tedious to do this by hand.
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by adg 16y ago
The first few minutes sounds like a collaboration between Brian Eno and Deerhunter. Very ambient and atmospheric.
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by adg 16y ago
If you search the page for "You mentioned you used Erlang in GitHub." and click the link, it'll fast-forward the video right to where they they talk about what's mentioned in the title.
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by adg 16y ago
I think this is probably an excellent example of what can be done with a comprehensive set of automatic regression and performance tests. I'm guessing most bugs are caught immediately after each build, and they can be fairly confident rele
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by adg 16y ago
Yet another Wikipedia article with graphic pictures that I agree should be there, but are not something I want to see while eating my morning bowl of cereal...
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by adg 16y ago
Same here. I'm hoping that enough other people are hooked that someone will create a Firefox extension for it.
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by adg 16y ago
This is basically of a rip-off of this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=615088 .
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by adg 16y ago
I always thought it was taboo to use the default samples that came with an app, but she seems to be perfectly fine with it. I thought one of the things DJs prided themselves on was their ability to find unique samples to integrate into thei
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by adg 16y ago
"So far, Tumblr is growing, but it’s nowhere near MySpace’s 70 million users or Facebook’s 61 million or even Wordpress’ 3 to 4 million [...]" Ah, how things change...
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Acid3 update for :link/:visited privacy changes(ln.hixie.ch)
1 points by adg 16y ago|0 comments
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by adg 16y ago
This is going to happen soon: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/04/01/business/AP-US-Be... .
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by adg 16y ago
Some of the photo titles come out wonky due to character encoding issues. If I click Vote, but am not logged in, why not redirect me to a login page? The photo sizes are really small. Why not make them bigger? After all, the whole point of
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by adg 17y ago
I kept clicking on parts of the code hoping it'd automatically select the type of element I had clicked on so I could change its color. Looks like I'm the only one, though, judging from the other comments.

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