throwawaay

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by throwawaay 12y ago
While it's true that increased competition among market makers have driven spreads down, decimalization was also a factor. For example: http://www.sec.gov/news/testimony/052401tslu.htm "For example,
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by throwawaay 12y ago
Put up or shut up: Please provide evidence that Chrome sends private URLs to Google.
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by throwawaay 13y ago
Please. Like this project was just sitting there, waiting for a media shitstorm to pop up. The knee-jerk cynicism on these threads is truly getting stupid. The timing is almost certainly because the project's secrecy had been recently
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by throwawaay 13y ago
Well, sorry to say that you're failing pretty hard at your mission then. But do keep ramping up the snarky rhetoric. It looks like I hit a nerve. I didn't say anything about total miles; I was comparing Mercedes' single 62 mi
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by throwawaay 13y ago
"... Mercedes-Benz announced Monday that it had successfully driven an autonomous S-Class sedan 62 miles on German city streets." Well, shit, that quote right there plus your hostile attitude sure have me impressed. 62 whole miles
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by throwawaay 13y ago
The new base map imagery was preceded by the Timelapse release last month, which used basically the same techniques on historical data. See: < http://world.time.com/timelapse/> and < http://earthengin
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by throwawaay 13y ago
You're so absolutely and completely wrong that you're probably trolling, but: Google implemented vector maps on Android long before Apple introduced their own maps (i.e. ~years). Likewise, 3D buildings have been available through
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by throwawaay 13y ago
When someone spouts big talk like "start doing things right. Since you don't know how, you have to hire someone like me and give that person lots of autonomy, but it can be done" and all they're known for (please correct me if I'm wrong her
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by throwawaay 13y ago
Excuse me, but given your history of writing overly verbose, self-important Grand Proclamations: I imagine the only reason someone would have to hire you is if they wanted tomes written about how they could Do Things Right while probably
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by throwawaay 13y ago
First, you imply that underlying intention behind the Fiber deployment in Provo is to make surveillance a piece of cake by practically serving up data on a platter. You admit no other possibility, since this "only helps support" your thesis
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by throwawaay 13y ago
Batshit insane. What kind of implications could this tool possibly have for witness protection? It returns data that was explicitly entered in connection with a specific disaster, and you can only search by name. Someone who's in hiding isn
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by throwawaay 14y ago
The guy with a username that references an utterly failed Apple operating system project might have an agenda? Well color me surprised!
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by throwawaay 14y ago
> Without looking I can safely say [...] Without looking, you and your misplaced confidence just ended up spouting the exact opposite of the truth: "Further, the use of the service does not require a Google account" Whoops. Try reading
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by throwawaay 14y ago
Pure bullshit. If you seriously believe that Glass doesn't have a CPU or has under 20 minutes of battery life, your raging Apple partisanship is showing through even more than normal. I'm willing to bet that you haven't used Glass, but don'
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by throwawaay 14y ago
Seriously? You're actually saying that a service[1] with millions of customers and still growing is "already unpopular"? Show your work, please. [1] http://www.google.com/intl/en/enterprise/apps/business/custo...
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by throwawaay 14y ago
There are a number of examples floating around that make it appear as if Apple is deriving map feature types from their names. For example, a water pumping station labelled as a gas station. http://theamazingios6maps.tumblr.com/post/319333
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by throwawaay 14y ago
It worked for me.
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by throwawaay 14y ago
Imagine one of these payloads landing on someone's head. Wolfram Alpha offers up "2.4x impulse force acting on a baseball being hit by a bat" as a comparison when you plug in "5 lbs * 30 mph". I like the idea, but there probably needs to be
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by throwawaay 14y ago
> [...] and a good amount of that work can be copied for free by competitors in the absence of patent protection [...] Really? I would guess a good amount of that work was writing millions of lines of code, electrical and circuit design
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by throwawaay 14y ago
You keep accusing people of not understanding what patents are, but most people aren't objecting to Apple having the exclusive right to an ornamental design (even if it isn't purely ornamental). Harping on this technicality allows you to di
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by throwawaay 14y ago
Well surely any demonstrations of these ideas by other parties weren't thrown together at the last second either, so what's your point? Even in the worst case, they hint at the possibility of independent invention; imagine that.
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by throwawaay 14y ago
Email, of course, contains tons of personal information. If linked to a user's identity, it could clearly be used to inform advertising. However, emails in aggregate probably don't give you any more useful advertising insight than the Web c
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by throwawaay 14y ago
I'm tired of people making insinuations about some sinister motive behind the WiFi logging without evidence. How did that debacle "align with Google's business interests"? What use is there for fragments of WiFi payload data logged from a m
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by throwawaay 14y ago
The acquisition closed on May 22nd [1]. While 'months' is technically true, it barely squeaks over the bar, and really not that long when you consider that they might have other priorities, like not losing money. Thanks for your consistent
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by throwawaay 14y ago
I'm saying that speculating about what Google can and cannot do to competitors in public is definitely not Communicating with Care, and that your comment history is littered with borderline cases like this one. Just stop. Further, you don't
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by throwawaay 14y ago
Remember Communicating with Care? You might want to go review that. Or just stop posting so much about Google altogether.