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by gmisra 8y ago
GMail doesn't really "leak" information about e-mail addresses, it just displays any public information tied to that address's Google Plus profile. Once upon a time, Google dedicated a massive amount of resources to laun
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by gmisra 9y ago
For those interested in other "legitimate" UFO sightings, I'd recommend "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record" by Leslie Kean [1]. The author is an investigative journalist who sets out t
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by gmisra 9y ago
Partially off topic: does anybody know of a hosted solution that turns a pdf into an html page, and hosts the output html (optionally, also hosts the pdf, with a downloadable link).
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by gmisra 9y ago
Price hacking is the new growth hacking, these drivers are truly disrupting a regulatory regime that limits their freedom.
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by gmisra 9y ago
Thanks for the response! Some follow-up questions 1. Does your market analysis differentiate between intra-city and inter-city move? It feels like the service is much more valuable for people moving inter-city. 2. Is there a better source f
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by gmisra 9y ago
What do you think about the fact that, in general, the percentage of Americans who move is on the decline? > In the mid-1960s, about 20 percent of the population moved in any given year, according to the United States Census Bureau. By 1
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by gmisra 9y ago
Is anyone aware of an entity that attempts to objectively quantify the economic impact of an event like this (ransoms paid, data lost, labor hours lost, new security costs, etc)?
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by gmisra 9y ago
These voids change moving up the distance scale - while our star system is visibly not inside a void, there is evidence that the Milky Way is inside a galactic-scale void. http://news.wisc.edu/celestial-boondocks-study-suppo
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by gmisra 9y ago
For reference, British Airways' parent company made a profit of €2.5 billion last year, and expects higher profits this year [0]. Without meaningful consequences at the top of the executive chain for sub-par IT/infrastructure qual
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by gmisra 9y ago
Many years ago I worked on the computer models used when developing the restoration plan. Happy to answers any questions.
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NASA Taking First Steps Toward High-Speed Space 'Internet'(solarsystem.nasa.gov)
3 points by gmisra 9y ago|0 comments
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by gmisra 9y ago
From https://www.wired.com/2013/08/outbox/ "Part of the trick was that the service could automatically weed out junk mail, and when U.S. Postmaster General Pat Donahoe got wind of this, he wasn’t happy —
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by gmisra 10y ago
Anecdata from a popular coffee shop ~1 mile from Square HQ: - Staff at the cafe are extremely frustrated, no real visibility into what's going on. - Finding the status page was a struggle. Following @square and @sqsupport was insuffici
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by gmisra 10y ago
Before getting too carried away, I'd suggest reading this piece [1], about the search for Randy Bilyeu, the missing treasure seeker mentioned int the NPR article. It provides lot more background and context, and is enjoyable as far as
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by gmisra 10y ago
Does anybody know what happens when an add-on augmented e-mail is opened outside of Gmail (or, presumably, Inbox)? There is a huge difference between: Google is enhancing e-mail in a way that makes e-mail better for everybody. and Google is
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by gmisra 10y ago
FYI to S3 customers, per the SLA, most of us are eligible for a 10% credit for this billing period. But the burden is on the customer to provide incident logs and file a support ticket requesting said credit (it must be really challenging t
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by gmisra 10y ago
I'm also a big fan of this approach, especially for sharing data responsibilities with non-technical colleagues. If you work in nodejs, the node-google-spreadsheet library is pretty good: https://www.npmjs.com/package&#
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by gmisra 10y ago
If app-fication of ride hailing is what you want, it's worth mentioning that in the SF bay area, Flywheel has done an excellent job of making a feature-rich app and network [0]. Personally, I have found it to be an excellent service, t
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by gmisra 10y ago
And, all of the underlying data is available on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/SIZZLE/2016electionmemes
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by gmisra 10y ago
...and all of the underlying data is available on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/SIZZLE/2016electionmemes
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Election Memes(iandennismiller.github.io)
4 points by gmisra 10y ago|1 comments
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by gmisra 10y ago
FTA: links are stored in a file - compact storage - no database required - easy backup: simply copy the datastore file
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by gmisra 10y ago
If Mike is still here in the comments, can you talk a little bit about versioning support? Is this something that's on the roadmap at all, or something that Homebrew has a strong opinion about? In general, it's a very useful (and
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by gmisra 10y ago
One of the early on-line responses was "maybe we can figure out how to 3D print these cases". It turns out that an Epi-pen is just a plastic safety housing around a normal syringe. Some discussions: https://www.reddit.c
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by gmisra 10y ago
Can you elaborate? What driving maneuvers do you expect these vehicles to be able to perform? Where is that feature set documented?
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by gmisra 10y ago
Trying to be both a platform and a community are goals which are often in conflict, especially in terms of operations. Communities really need things like trust, reputation, moderation, rules, and enforcement. These are things that are hard
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by gmisra 10y ago
> "Supervised by humans in the drivers seat" Ah, borrowing from the Musk marketing playbook, just say "self-driving" often enough, and enough uninformed people who have never seen contemporary luxury assisted-driving
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by gmisra 10y ago
A lot of commenters concerned about Bloomberg's potential editorial bias in running this piece, but it is interesting that it comes just a few days after they published "End of an Era as China’s Love Affair With U.S. Real Estate F
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by gmisra 10y ago
Maybe the prevalent mental model regarding models is wrong? The real elephant in the room is the idea that "all models" are similar, and therefore occupy the same space regarding interpretability, forecasting, and other uses. Mode
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by gmisra 10y ago
If the goal of Airbnb's investors/BoD was to grow a viable business, this would be a reasonable question - but their job is to increase the value of their (and their LPs') existing investment as much as possible, usually with

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