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by gknight 5y ago
Could you dig up sources on that? Not challenging you, but as an Angeleno I've always believed this to be true myself. Curious what may actually be happening.
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Did the Y2K Bug Cause Any Problems?(cs.swarthmore.edu)
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by gknight 6y ago
I hear you, but often times in B2B advertising, your target audiences are going to be small. How would you suggest assessing the success/failure of your ad campaigns if it's an order of magnitude less than your 50k threshold?
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by gknight 6y ago
This is so true. When I click on a compelling headline and the article starts with some sort of description unrelated to the headline like that, I bail.
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by gknight 6y ago
Why I love HN. Thank you!
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by gknight 6y ago
Pardon my ignorance: Could someone explain to me why this is under the purview of the Secret Service?
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by gknight 7y ago
Teacher: Be sure to mention the most important concepts we learned about in class in your essay High school me: “Real-time data and analytics and machine learning and AI creates unpreparedness by corporations and Big Tech companies.”
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by gknight 7y ago
>All-day battery life is based on 18 hours with the following use: 90 time checks, 90 notifications, 45 minutes of app use, and a 60-minute workout with music playback from Apple Watch via Bluetooth, over the course of 18 hours. Apple Wa
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by gknight 8y ago
In Japan, the Nissan GTR unlocks the speed limiter when it detects it at a race track: https://gizmodo.com/nissan-gt-r-detects-when-car-is-on-a-rac...
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by gknight 8y ago
It was a remake of a remake, actually. In 1991, they remade the original Leisure Suit Larry to be a traditional point-and-click adventure game. It's referred to as Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards or just Leisure
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by gknight 9y ago
> The name Gigafactory comes from the word “Giga,” the unit of measurement representing “billions.” The factory’s planned annual battery production capacity is 35 gigawatt-hours (GWh), with one GWh being the equivalent of generating (or
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by gknight 9y ago
"vosot A TV news term, an acronym that stands for 'voiceover/sound on tape.' This is a story in which the news anchor reads copy while video plays, and then a short soundbite plays while the anchor stops reading, and the
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by gknight 9y ago
One way he's made these keynotes his own is by the humanity he's injecting into them. I've noticed that whenever there's a big keynote after some big crisis or tragedy, he'll acknowledge them in a very sincere way.
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by gknight 9y ago
As an Iranian, I can't wait for the day where the online post of my death – should I become half the person Maryam Mirzakhani was – mutates into an argument about Iran's ties to terrorism and 9/11.
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by gknight 9y ago
This one hit very close to home. I too was born in Iran. My family too emigrated to the United States with my father staying behind. Our family too grew up poor in the United States and managed to work very, very hard collectively and indiv
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by gknight 13y ago
Have you tried Apache Hive? I believe it was meant to make Hadoop easier to use by way of SQL-like commands. Something like Qubole might be able to help too.