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> If I went to a bank with a billion dollars I could likely negotiate an even higher rate for such a savings account. I don't think that's how it works. As others have mentioned, F…

Are "Senior" titles meaningless in many companies? Absolutely. But they also matter in many others. It seems as though the author's "juniorness" is showing through while writing th…

UW grad here. Running has really helped me maintain motivation and life outlook throughout the years. When I was at Waterloo during the winter I would switch to swimming, which whi…

I actually don't even like -Werror for development. When I'm developing/testing/debugging, I frequently want to run partially implemented functions (a good example of this is repea…

I'm surprised you place so much trust in our system of laws. With that proposal, we'd be one small step away (e.g. terrorist attack, etc.) from something truly Orwellian. Look what…

Yeah, it was decent. My experience was that it provided a lot of leads in a short amount of time. In a matter of a week, my plate was completely full, doing phone screens, take-hom…

I work at a large, well-known Silicon Valley company. I interned at the company while I was in college, but decided to work elsewhere after I graduated. After a few years, one of t…

I don’t think that’s what “intrinsic” means. Would Bitcoin have any value if no one else were using it?

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Fair enough. But it sounds like this technology is being developed for airports, not land crossings or ferries. How would you setup this facial scanning when people leave the count…

As the report notes, though, they already have exit information from passenger manifests, and land border entry sharing from Canada and Mexico. I would have assumed this informatio…

The reason I posted the workaround is because I feel like the publisher is trying to have their cake and eat it too. In other words, they enjoy the publicity they get from having t…

If anyone's looking for another workaround, the article actually hints at the solution: Facebook's l.php redirect that it uses when you click on a link shared through the platform.…

As brilliantcode mentioned, Facebook, Microsoft et al are using Vancouver as a visa staging ground for people outside of North America. Most Canadian software engineers can work in…

Wow. That's almost straight out of an episode of Black Mirror [1]. Looks like the episode premiered just days before the news story came out. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shut…

To add on to this, my understanding is that technically "calories in, calories out" is correct in the sense that weight gain/loss depends on the net caloric intake for your body. B…

> I think you're also wrong that local governments are frequently committing abuses; the federal government seems to do that much more frequently I think I read a study not too lon…

Admittedly I'm not an expert in this, but isn't demand for housing relatively inelastic? I have no idea whether 13% foreign buyers is considered high for a city, but it seems conce…

Vancouver's market isn't really comparable to the Bay Area. They have actually been building quite a lot of new housing, and have been for some years. Vancouver's real estate boom …

US CBP definitely can ask for your passcode/passwords. There was a post on HN last week about a guy who refused to turn over his passcode: https://vc.gg/blog/so-its-been-a-while.ht…

The original post should be updated to point to this link. Interesting read. Also seems like a subtle jab at Microsoft and Apple when they said, "We're happy to have such a good wo…

Yes, I just found out yesterday that setting your referrer to facebook.com/l.php allows you to reliably bypass the paywall. E.g. http://facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.wsj.com/arti…

This is so true. When I first moved to the Bay Area after finishing college, I was astounded by the amount of recruiter spam I got, but at the time I didn't recognize it as such. T…

Right, I wasn't suggesting Uber was hopelessly behind the other major players, but that it seems unlikely they'll beat everyone else to market. If they can't maintain their market …

Is there any evidence that Uber is even on par with the self-driving technology of Google, Cruise, or Tesla?