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Why is this scummy exactly? If a salesperson was to try to sell to you in a store, they would take into account how you appear and act to tailor the sale. There's nothing wrong wit…

Excellent! One of GCPs many advantages (outside of it's technical ones) is it's simpler pricing model.

To scale up the principle a little... Uber acts like a real estate agent, they charge the seller a percentage of the total for the service of connecting a buyer and a seller. Imagi…

Can you explain? The analogy seems like a terrible one to me. We are not talking about charging different amounts of money depending on the brand of device you are consuming the da…

If that's true about this tech, then it will be awesome. The focus issue is the only thing that kills my enjoyment in 3D movies.

These types of articles seem to always get the same mixture of responses. The biggest problem that I see is that everyone starts with completely different sets of assumptions and t…

This is spot on. What makes the above probabilities look incorrect is that people are assuming that the algorithm understands the relationship between tiger and animal the same way…

This seems like a PR-based defensive move to me, rather that one rooted in principle. This practice has been known for some time (the recent news is not new at all) and has been us…

A cache seems like a particularly odd example to choose for this. If you are changing the way a cache functions, then presumably you either have fairly short expiration times (prob…

Does anyone know why GCP isn't one of the supported cloud providers for EE? This is surprising to me since they had docker-related offerings a long time before AWS and Azure.

Can someone explain this to me? If I own something, I want to sell it for as much as the market will bear. I don't want to sell it and have someone flip it for a huge margin almost…

> companies normally try to price it so it goes up about 20 percent on the first day Can someone explain this to me? Why would a company try to sell its shares for less than they c…

There have been a lot of articles and suggestions for mitigating S3's single-region architecture (design flaw?) since the outage. One solution that I haven't seen much of is to jus…

Did Uber fire the driver? Or are they ok with passengers being recorded and those recordings being made public?

#23: Scrolljacking is still annoying as hell.

This isn't obviously true (nor obviously false) to me. If airbnb added a unique index to the SSN (or a two-column index with SSN and locality) would you consider that a TOS violati…

This is a weird, seemingly openly biased article. Tesla should make their seats more visible because someone was a moron? Someone being a moron means Tesla isn't putting users firs…

This headline is really bad. No evidence whatsoever was provided to suggest that being black causes you to get a lower salary. What it does tell us is that black people ask for les…

Can anyone recommend good non-smart TVs?

They also only have SMS as a 2FA option, which is neither convenient nor secure. I've been a customer of theirs for a long time, but they do indeed make some poor decisions every n…

This seems absurd. Are there any examples you can point to, or legal principle you are referencing here?

I understand that people underestimate the difficulty, but this guy was paying others to do his interview tasks, so I think this fits into an entirely different category.

I find these stories somewhat amazing. I could not in a million years imagine taking a job that I had no real idea about how to do. How is this scenario supposed to end exactly? Wh…

It seems quite odd to list "Human Error" as a cause. This is only a secondary cause, because if a human is able to accidentally bring down an entire system, it's the system itself …

Why is it unfair? Both the human and computer players are unable to make reads on the other based on physical cues.