ttam

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In Ethiopia, Echoes of Yugoslavia(politico.eu)
3 points by ttam 5y ago|0 comments
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by ttam 5y ago
Ironically, Klarna, a Swedish-founded company, is pretty big in the BNPL market according to https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-buy-now-pay-later-wave... "In Sweden, home to BNPL provider Klarna, installments a
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by ttam 5y ago
Zoox was acquired by Amazon last year.
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by ttam 5y ago
https://twitter.com/UnderTheBreach/status/141888964970820813... this tweet says it's BS (they validated the japan sample)
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by ttam 5y ago
> "I can think of a number of countries who would love to convince Amazon to modify Facebook Messenger to bypass end-to-end encryption, for example." How exactly can this be done?
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by ttam 5y ago
If it's an important meeting, it's expected that you've gone through previous reviews with other people who would've given you that feedback If there are issues that have not been caught until that important meeting, you
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by ttam 5y ago
You are right that HM have little influence, you "hire for Amazon", not for any specific team. And with the process changes in the US (and EU), candidates are now given the option of picking the team they want to join (which can b
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by ttam 5y ago
This needs to be upvoted a bit more. The article is clickbait, and most comments in this thread reflect how effective it is at it. The hiring process for corp employees makes the practice the article is claiming very, very, very hard to do.
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by ttam 5y ago
video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJcKWtiFzIY
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by ttam 6y ago
Recommended listening: https://a16z.com/2019/10/21/free-software-and-open-source-bu...
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by ttam 6y ago
I always found it curious that Whitney would associate herself with Badoo, but I guess that's business as usual. Pre-Tinder, Badoo was a fast growing dating app that was shady af, full of dark patterns on the site/app - https:&#x
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by ttam 6y ago
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B008GRDKPG expands to https://www.amazon.com/Disciplined-Minds-Professionals-Soul-... are you really claiming that "redir_mobile_desktop" or anything
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by ttam 6y ago
I don't think he said anything particularly insightful irt all those topics. A lot of the statements were superficial things that you'll pick up while working on adjacent areas (and as we know, it's pretty easy to jump around
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by ttam 6y ago
I can imagine that there are literally 100s of engineers involved in trying to fix this ASAP, since this is not only bringing down the systems of external customers, but also critical internal systems, plus the bad PR. All on the eve of tha
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by ttam 6y ago
https://wa.aws.amazon.com/wat.concept.coe.en.html
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by ttam 6y ago
sunset?
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by ttam 6y ago
As a Chinese, I care.
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by ttam 6y ago
> But, IMO, the thing that will actually move the needle more than anything else is if Amazon takes that 2B and actually goes out and builds out renewable sources and replaces their delivery vehicles with EVs. Even better, they're d
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by ttam 6y ago
What's the best way to clear up your immigration record? e.g. when you overstay less than 6 months, you get "blacklisted" - it becomes hard(er) for you to get a new travel visa, but more importantly, even if you do get it, ev
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by ttam 8y ago
if your default address is in ireland, then you don't need to get to checkout to know that the product can't be delivered to you I always see in the product page an info saying "THIS SELLER DOES NOT DELIVER TO IRELAND"
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by ttam 8y ago
these talks are actually not new. the same rumor appeared back in 2016 https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/07/github-is-raising-a-second... imho, github feels a bit too slow innovating, which is kinda surprising s
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by ttam 8y ago
Will this be Google+ v2?
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by ttam 9y ago
Can I recommend a tv series? Travelers http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5651844
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by ttam 9y ago
a truly amazing show. it became one of my all time favorites
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by ttam 9y ago
a lot of the altcoins are premined, so you don't really need to be mining there's a lot of money being made in ICO's
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by ttam 9y ago
you only paid 1640 in taxes out of an 8650 income?! that's crazy! even if we include the health insurance, it's still only 2k in taxes out of an 8650 income (less than 25%) a lot of countries in europe will tax you 40% for that in
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by ttam 9y ago
https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/apax-to-buy-thoughtworks/#
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by ttam 9y ago
from the article: > Since Trezor has finally provided the hot-fix for this particular hack we can also fully disclose how it works. But they claim there are other similar hacks
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Forget Shorter Showers (2009)(orionmagazine.org)
3 points by ttam 9y ago|0 comments
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by ttam 9y ago
> Japanese exchange run by Frenchy gets hacked by Russian, fences BTC through a Bulgarian exchange and is arrested in Greece for USA warrant https://twitter.com/cactuspits/status/890358676300718081

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