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gmisra

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    Comment #17115077

    GMail doesn't really "leak" information about e-mail addresses, it just displays any public information tied to that address's Google Plus profile. Once upon a time, Google dedicat…

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    Comment #15962052

    For those interested in other "legitimate" UFO sightings, I'd recommend "UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record" by Leslie Kean [1]. The author is an inve…

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    Comment #15411240

    Partially off topic: does anybody know of a hosted solution that turns a pdf into an html page, and hosts the output html (optionally, also hosts the pdf, with a downloadable link)…

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    Comment #14911562

    Price hacking is the new growth hacking, these drivers are truly disrupting a regulatory regime that limits their freedom.

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    Comment #14666448

    Thanks for the response! Some follow-up questions 1. Does your market analysis differentiate between intra-city and inter-city move? It feels like the service is much more valuable…

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    Comment #14666272

    What do you think about the fact that, in general, the percentage of Americans who move is on the decline? > In the mid-1960s, about 20 percent of the population moved in any given…

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    Comment #14646809

    Is anyone aware of an entity that attempts to objectively quantify the economic impact of an event like this (ransoms paid, data lost, labor hours lost, new security costs, etc)?

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    Comment #14553691

    These voids change moving up the distance scale - while our star system is visibly not inside a void, there is evidence that the Milky Way is inside a galactic-scale void. http://n…

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    Comment #14430947

    For reference, British Airways' parent company made a profit of €2.5 billion last year, and expects higher profits this year [0]. Without meaningful consequences at the top of the …

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    Comment #14276552

    Many years ago I worked on the computer models used when developing the restoration plan. Happy to answers any questions.

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    Comment #13932311

    From https://www.wired.com/2013/08/outbox/ "Part of the trick was that the service could automatically weed out junk mail, and when U.S. Postmaster General Pat Donahoe got wind of …

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    Comment #13888568

    Anecdata from a popular coffee shop ~1 mile from Square HQ: - Staff at the cafe are extremely frustrated, no real visibility into what's going on. - Finding the status page was a s…

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    Comment #13878324

    Before getting too carried away, I'd suggest reading this piece [1], about the search for Randy Bilyeu, the missing treasure seeker mentioned int the NPR article. It provides lot m…

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    Comment #13833022

    Does anybody know what happens when an add-on augmented e-mail is opened outside of Gmail (or, presumably, Inbox)? There is a huge difference between: Google is enhancing e-mail in…

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    Comment #13757131

    FYI to S3 customers, per the SLA, most of us are eligible for a 10% credit for this billing period. But the burden is on the customer to provide incident logs and file a support ti…

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    Comment #13670017

    I'm also a big fan of this approach, especially for sharing data responsibilities with non-technical colleagues. If you work in nodejs, the node-google-spreadsheet library is prett…

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    Comment #13533423

    If app-fication of ride hailing is what you want, it's worth mentioning that in the SF bay area, Flywheel has done an excellent job of making a feature-rich app and network [0]. Pe…

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    Comment #12901643

    And, all of the underlying data is available on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/SIZZLE/2016electionmemes

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    Comment #12901634

    ...and all of the underlying data is available on Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/SIZZLE/2016electionmemes

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    Comment #12552460

    FTA: links are stored in a file - compact storage - no database required - easy backup: simply copy the datastore file

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    Comment #12549733

    If Mike is still here in the comments, can you talk a little bit about versioning support? Is this something that's on the roadmap at all, or something that Homebrew has a strong o…

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    Comment #12340455

    One of the early on-line responses was "maybe we can figure out how to 3D print these cases". It turns out that an Epi-pen is just a plastic safety housing around a normal syringe.…

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    Comment #12314649

    Can you elaborate? What driving maneuvers do you expect these vehicles to be able to perform? Where is that feature set documented?