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Is mobile number portability a thing in every country?

I suspect that relying on IDs owned by another system can have its drawbacks. Maybe it's not likely that an entire country is forced to change phone numbers. It's still possible to lose a number for various reasons (most entirely benign). An oppressive government could definitely disrupt communication of suspects by forcing the phone company(-ies) to terminate their contracts and unlist their numbers.

(But IDs being piggy-backed to a different system which is not easily disrupted on a mass scale does have some advantages, too.)
Java Remote Debugging through Websocket Proxy is a proxy for Java remote debugging. It likes Microsoft's azure-websites-java-remote-debugging, but includes all of client and server side implementation(azure-websites-java-remote-debugging repo only published client side, the serverside is not opensource now).
The undertones of VB jokingly writing Chief Martial Officer is pretty sad from an equality perspective IMO.
Also a Texan who lived in NYC :D and now lives in the bay area. I'm constantly amazed that we haven't placed a solid, high speed rail throughout this area.

Housing costs are skyrocketing and you have people who work for all ends of the spectrum (Google down to dishwashers) moving away because they can't afford the lifestyle they envision here. Hour long commutes are the norm and every day I see at least one wreck on my way to work.

Coming from NYC where you can get anywhere in Manhattan w/in 20 minutes by train.. it's incredibly frustrating.

I agree we should also be looking outside of the bay area (connecting cities across America), but also see a pressing need here with a market that would use the rail system like crazy.
The key is not to detail your life in minute details. It'll never hold anyway. But having a (long term) goal (starting a company, become viable, sell, ect.) and then actively plan to work towards it. If you want to retire at the age of 50, then work towards that. If you want to climb the 7 tallest mountains, then work towards that. As long as you get a little bit closer to your goal every week, you on the right track.
Would you notice? There's so much crap in company suffixes, I probably wouldn't.

This attack also requires the user to ignore the suffix.
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No kidding. I once read an article where a lady at Google was giving resume advice for how to stand out and get hired by an awesome company, like Google. She gives her own resume as an example, and after one glance I'm frankly pissed off.

Why? Her resume shows she graduated college at age 12. Well Hells bells, señorita, if I was a genius like that getting hired at Google would be (more of a) cinch for me, too.
If everyone moved on, was it really important to give your input anyway?

With IM you can turn it off if you need to focus, and turn it on when you are doing busy work anyway.
I stand corrected on the resignations. You know that's how the Wall Street Journal reported it, so accusing me of lying is out of line, but I appreciate you correcting the record.

"Curtail civil rights" is exactly right, though. Prop 8 didn't nullify existing marriages, but it did prevent new ones. Whatever philosophical reasons you had for supporting the measure, its language and effect were specific.
This is not about simply finding work. It's about finding the work you want in the long run, which is different.
The iPhone is sort of like a face, maybe?

The Segway looks likes farm equipment
Why not (complain about and be against) both?
Fake news make little harm to Google, like an atomic bomb fired into the sun. Google supporting fake news, intentionally and actively, does marvelous things for that piece of misinformation and it gives credit to the publisher.

I hope this AMP experiment is soon over. As someone already said here, the web is confusing as it is. Google used to want to make things clearer, better. AMP is not. It's fixing symptoms instead of causes.
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I think he used the word more abstractly, like in terms of having a direct human interface to it, like using your finger on the iPhone's touchscreen almost like turning the page of a book, etc. I don't know how that would translate to a Segway, though - maybe something that made motion feel more immediate than just leaning.
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> Furthermore, about 20% of South Korea's GDP is produced by Samsung. There is no comparable situation in Japan or most other developed economies.

Precisely because the domestic market in Korea is small compared to Japan's or any other developed country. When you have a worldwide market leader industry coming from a small country, this situation is bound to happen.

EDIT: note that in other developed countries you see the exact same phenomenon at region/metropolis level - look how Detroit was dependent on the whole GMC business and factories. This is the very same thing at play at a different level.
pay wall, didnt read.
http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index..., truly great read, especially if one learning python.
Tab stacking <3

I really dont get why this is not the most normal feature
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Yeah, one could live in the middle of Texas for $400/month in a place with low crime...and nothing to do, no infrastructure, and no jobs. Jobs won't come there any time soon, because people don't want to be there, hence the low CoL.
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Cool! I really like the animations!
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Mall cops and airport security also have them now, so that ship has more or less sailed. They still do Segway tours across the country in tourist trap areas. They're a novelty with some limited niche commercial uses.
I don't generally disagree with this article but I'd be interested to see research behind "it is a lot easier to stop using the Facebook app or Apple News app than it is to avoid Google search." - for Facebook specifically.

I know a few people who view Facebook's app on their phone as the Internet and who would never think to Google search a question. I'd be interested to know how widespread that actually is among Facebook's vast user base, in comparison to how many use Google and avoid Facebook.
I'm no expert, just a man with a calculator, but I'll take a stab.

A. Do the multiplication - each share class only accounts for about half the market cap, so presumably Google Finance (or its source) knows that GOOG and GOOGL are the same company and sums them. I don't know why Z/ZG don't have the same property, though.

B. I don't think the per-share spread is particularly illuminating here, because the distribution of outstanding shares between voting and nonvoting is different for each company (if there are relatively few voting shares, then I would expect the per-share spread to be higher proportionally, since each vote is more valuable). I'd be more interested in the total price of all votes - calculated as:

(((price per voting share) - (price per non-voting share)) * (# of voting shares))

as a percentage of overall market cap:

Google: $6.8B / $565.7B = 1.2%
Zillow: $23.3M / $6.59B = 0.35%

so I'd say investors actually value voting in Google at about 3.5x their vote in Zillow, proportional to overall company value. I'd be somewhat interested to see if this metric correlates with things like P/E ratio (e.g., are investors more or less interested in voting rights in fast-growing companies?), founder share status (e.g., does a high Google vote price mean that investors think the founders are more likely to cede their majority stake?), etc., or if it's just a case-by-case thing (e.g., due to liquidity issues like the other response talked about with CMG).

C. That number should be "only" about 6.8B (per-share premium * number of shares of GOOGL); parent's calculation roughly double-counts the value of the vote (not exactly double since there are more shares of GOOG than GOOGL).

Total control over Google would be immensely valuable - worth much, much more than $7B - so presumably the difference that large investors are willing to pay is based on a probability distribution of how many shares one would expect to need to control to have any influence on the board, weighted by what that influence would actually be worth (presumably fairly little, since Page/Brin/Schmidt hold a controlling majority of votes). The marginal value per vote is also different depending on how many you have - for an average investor, it's probably zero; for the institution trying to muscle its way onto the board, it's probably much more than $26/vote.

D. This reads like a college essay question, and I feel like you have an answer in mind, but it's not immediately obvious to me what the two have to do with each other.
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> Motorola held a special appeal for Mr. Yang. It was the brand of the first cellphone he bought in the mid-1990s.

I wonder if Yang's decision to stick with the Motorola brand doomed the entire effort. Once a brand loses its market cachet (for whatever reason), it's very difficult to restore it. Steve Jobs managed to revive the Apple brand, but apparently Yang is no Steve Jobs.
This just seems to make up for Google never implementing a reading mode for Chrome. I wonder if they plan to use AMP to provide one only for AMP sites.
How does it differ from XMPP server-to-server gateways?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#Connecting_to_other_proto...
Make no mistake, Facebook is also about the lock-in. Splitting the main app from Messenger makes a lot of sense in retrospect and is 100% about locking in users and their communication to be within the Facebook platform. Being in a situation where most of your communication goes through one platform, it's absolutely harder to abandon Facebook without abandoning a very important communication tool. Changing a search engine is somewhat easier in my opinion.
And many English people are racist towards French people as well. Let's not encourage either group...
What sample size or methodology for the question at hand would satisfy you at this point?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science
I think the only way it really could have been revolutionary is if it were faster, smaller, lighter, and safer (both for riders and for people around them) at once. Think of something that doesn't measurably increase a human's form factor, slows to human speeds when around walkers but can go much faster otherwise, packs down to be easily carried, etc. Then you'd have the use case where an individual person could take walkways for car-commute distances. But since that wasn't possible, it ended up being a worst-of-many worlds kind of device - too unsafe (for riders) for roads, too unsafe (for pedestrians) for sidewalks, too slow (in practice) for its cost, too expensive for its benefits, too heavy, etc, etc.
That’s interesting, thanks for the data points. Maybe I could chime in w/ comparison – living in Sofia, Bulgaria; doing consulting/contracting for Austrian company.

Brutto salary is €40k w/o bonuses; There’s flat 10% income tax and after maxing out fully the pension and health insurance payments the take-home pay roughly €35k.

I’m living w/ my girlfriend as well, so below numbers are to be divided. The expenses are as follow.

Rent

€250,00/mo for 70m2 / 1 bedroom apartment, fully equiped w/ new furniture in a nice and quiet neighbourhood.

Utilities

€30,00/mo electricity, €10,00/mo phone, €10,00/mo internet

Transportation

I’ve recently bought VW Golf 1.6TDI 2013’ in cash, so no car payments. Taxes and insurance are roughly €170,00/year. I’ve budgeted about €100,00/mo for fuel. Public transportation is fine, but we don’t use it.

Other

We don’t go to bars/restaurants and normally cook daily at home. About €250,00 are going for food, as this is mostly organic and local produced food w/ paleo-ish eating habits.

Total expenses are about ~€600/mo, which is 20% of my take-home pay; the rest is going to a generic savings account at the moment.
I find this interesting as for long decades I gained weight (~1kg/year), topping at a BMI of 34.

Then I had some health problems and decided to weight myself everyday in exactly the same conditions, which is not easy to achieve over a long period of time. At the same time I refused any of the small social transactions like shared cookies, etc. I also wrote my daily weight in an Excel file.

Since 1.5 years I lost 1.5kg each month, then weight stabilized at a BMI of 31 (still obese).

Loosing so much weight (25kg) is frightening, is it a cancer? My wife and myself joked about the power of the Excel file. When I read this article I made a correlation between the proposed approach and mine.

However in the article the duration was only one month, often people gain more weight afterward than they lost (I learnt it the hard way several times), and in only one month the social cost is bearable, try to do that for years, your friends and family will slowly learn to hate you, even if doing that means your health is improving.

(edited for typos and clarity)
To develop the technology for further exploration into space. Why explore? Man has been asking that question since the beginning.
Wow: that screenshot makes so much more sense; I wonder why they dropped it... maybe because "back" was confusing with their "swipe left/right to get other articles" hijack?
Modern superscalar CPUs are computing the branch at the same time they're doing the operation. They're also renaming registers, so that the reuse of the same register on the next iteration may actually use a different register internal to the CPU. It's entirely possible for five or so iterations of the loop to be running simultaneously.

Classic loop unrolling is more appropriate to machines with lots of registers, like a SPARC. There, you wrote load, load, load, load, operate, operate, operate, operate, store, store, store, store. All the loads, all the operates, and all the stores would overlap. AMD-64, unlike IA-32, has enough registers that you could do this. But it may not be a win on a deeply pipelined CPU.
Some companies in the Bay had them for getting around campus and eventually got rid of them because of too many incidents, so the helmet and small bumps thing was probably for the best. I rode one and it seriously goes faster than I'd be comfortable ditching it. It's also very possible to fling yourself off, tip over, etc. I'm not generally comfortable with a transportation device until I find the limits (so I know where they are), but it was scarier than it should have been. You have to basically trust it not to slam your head into the pavement, but I guess I've just been around dodgy electronics long enough to not be so naive.

Then again, now we have electric longboards, which are like an order of magnitude more dangerous. At least with the longboard, you still have 4 wheels if all the electronics give out. Then again, some of the DIY stuff out there...I would not trust my life to a rPi descending a hill in SF with traffic. The foot brake always works.
Because if it weren't for google forcing AMP on everyone then no one would care about it at all.
Nope, I ended up exchanging a few emails with the guy about this strategy - it was not a bot. I removed identifying info to shorten the emails but it was quite obviously not a mass email.
That wire is pretty special though, it's a coil of coil, with extremely tight tolerance. i.e. if you look at it it looks like a coil, but actually the wire that makes up that first coil is itself an even smaller coil.

You have to wind it such that no part of the wire touches (or it will burn out at that spot).

It's titanium which is not an easy material to make wire out of without special industrial equipment. And not pure titanium either, but has special additives.

You have to make it without any variation in thickness! Even a 1% variation will cause it to rapidly overheat and burn out.

It's also not a vacuum in there, but a mixture of nitrogen and argon, which needs special equipment to gather.

In short they could make a bulb like what Edison made, but without an industrial base not anything like a modern bulb.

And despite all that, those bulbs sell for pennies.......
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It wasn't, I emailed him back right away and we ended up exchanging multiple emails in a very brief period of time. Either that or chat bots are smarter than most humans these days.
Wiki2 is a similar idea [1], but keeps the general feel of Wikipedia. IMO, it does a better job of managing media (images, video, etc.) than vanilla Wikipedia.

[1] https://en.wiki2.org/
I don't swear because I lack self-control. I swear because those words are powerful and useful. "Bullshit" is an immeasurably better word than any of the alternatives. Some people are entirely deserving of the label "arsehole" or "bastard".

I fundamentally distrust people who don't swear. To me it has always signalled priggishness, timidity and conformity. People who see swearing as a sign of poor education or a limited vocabulary are, in my experience, invariably petty, snobbish and bigoted.

If I want an honest opinion, I'll ask someone who isn't afraid to speak plainly. If I need someone to help me out in a difficult situation, I'll call on someone who swears like a wounded pirate - they're not going to be afraid to get their hands dirty.

We are sacks of meat that fuck and piss and shit. We always will be. If you want to pretend otherwise then good luck to you, but I don't trust you for a second.
A: Market capitalization is of an enterprise, not of a share class.

B: I think you're overthinking this a little bit.

C: GOOG and GOOGL have subtle differences between them beyond just the voting rights. For example, GOOG != GOOGL. If you have a contract which obligates you to give someone a share of GOOG, a share of GOOGL does not settle that contract. There are some liquidity-related problems, as there is substantial retail interest in Google and retail traders generally disproportionately have access only to one share class.

One of my favorite examples for this: back in the day, there were two classes of Chipotle, CMG and CMG.B. They were identical in every way except CMG.B had 5x the voting rights. Which traded at a discount to which? Answer: CMG.B routinely traded at a 10% discount. That's either enough to shake one's faith in the efficient markets hypothesis or it's a powerful illustration that in the short run market microstructure matters A LOT.

(I had originally become a shareholder in the A class and started buying B after I was aware of the mispricing. That worked out pretty well. I was far from the only person who realized this, but it was impossible to arbitrage away the difference profitably due to overwhelming short interest in CMG, which meant the cost of borrowing CMG to buy CMG.B and holding them to convergence was untenable. Eventually, some larger institutional buyers just crowded into CMG.B and voted to convert the B shares on a 1:1 basis to the A shares, immediately cutting off their voting power and realizing massive gains.)
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"Screw the lead times. You don't have a great product yet!" - Steve Jobs

Advice every struggling startup needs to hear. Great products are rare and the best way to succeed is not to settle on product quality.
This is the first release of WebSlides. I don't want to build a better Speakerdeck. WebSlides is about telling/sharing engaging stories (css, indexable content...).
I get the sense that every generation has their very own chat app. Each was poised to take over the world yet they all eventually faded. One thing my GF pointed out, imagine how we would feel about FB today had they not owned Instagram? Of course instagram may not have become what it is without FB but a bit scary to see such a dramatic shift away from the core platform.

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Why should I take the extra effort to make publisher's poor websites usable when something like AMP does it out of the box? I don't really have any ideological objections to Googleplex which would warrant such extra effort.
'spammer buying votes'

Wait, so posting your own writing counts as 'buying votes'? It was something I enjoyed writing, apparently to be pure I should never tell others when I write something?

'comment karma farmers'
The intense bitterness makes it seem that you have an irrational devotion to who gets your imaginary internet karma.
As another person who spent a long time on there, I now feel like the opposite effect ends up happening.

Sure, it's anonymous. But the short-term nature means that the prime objective when posting something is to get replies. So you get some troll bait or other things sure to get replies.

Everyone else is doing the same, so you develop a vocabulary based primarily around saying and responding to memes.

If the communication were natural, why is 80% of it memes?

Because of the FOMO, you get an effect similar to many MMOs. In order to participate, you must spend a lot of time on the image board, on IRC, making sure that you're doing your thing.

So you end up with a bunch of people who spend their (usually teenage) lives online absorbing as much image board culture as possible to "get good" at it. It's the ultimate clique. Everyone wants to be part of the secret club (sometimes quite literal: the IRC channels like #/v/ would spend their time creating private sub-channels to have "real talk").

I know on some of the lower-traffic boards you'll find some "real talk" happening, but even then it's usually layered underneath snarky "contrarian trueisms".

It's the ultimate secret club for people who think they get the internet, and gets pretty close to a religion. Remember: don't say you came from reddit.
I thought it a rather novel strategy and an interesting experience.
I'm guessing that they looked up the domain, saw the email associated with it and then emailed me directly.
Honestly, if Toyota fails, so will several thousand large to small companies that are part of the vast pyramidal supply chain. That would be catastrophic.

If you remove their top three automobile companies and their top 3 Shosha firms (and maybe UFJ + Mizuho), they are not in good shape.
That's pretty much grounded theory in a nutshell ;P
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I remember asking a college roommate (a Korean IMO gold medalist) about this. I asked if the chaebols influenced the government.

His reply: "they do not influence the government. They are above the government."
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Applied to the program with my last company. There was no response and no interview other than a rejection email. The business is now running millions in orders and several hundred thousands a year in revenue.

I had wanted to go and thought the company was a shoo-in since it was 100% bootstrapped and profitable at the time of application. Also growing like a weed. So I have no idea what they are doing, but they don't seem terribly competent and it was a waste of time to apply.
I hope one day the in-joke world of startup job titles will produce an "intergalactic alien consultant" :)
strange, I always put quote marks, as I see them as totally necessary. Not in the browser, obviously, but in my mind. It helps me recording those are strings, not variables. I made too many mistakes in the likes of

var foo = "bar";
var baz = {
foo: "qux"
};
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At some point, you have to take your phone off airplane mode. So you'd have to delete the app, and never install it again.
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