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An error that large may be rare, but the overall experience of massive/unexpected financial load is fairly common via my experience hearing from customers (full disclosure: I found…

I was also thinking through which rules would apply here. (What entity owns a Stripe account? What constitutes a transfer of data? How does this case differ from say, an acquisitio…

Interesting case study - he's "just" a full-time gamer, but there are tons of parallels in market timing, luck, peristence, positioning yourself in the market, getting to your firs…

Just verified this myself... pretty cool! I searched for the following: * Mutex lock (from the article) * Mutex lock C++ * Python list comprehension Third time's a charm! The promp…

Haha I don't mind. Was more worried about having to scale up my little blog server if it took off :) Do I know you in real life by the way?

lol. uh oh.

If your position is that the word censorship does not have a negative connotation, I don't know anyone who would agree with you, including, it would seem, your earlier comments. I'…

Filtering is not always bad, especially not when it's done transparently, and in pursuit of a better community. To claim that filtering out those low-quality sites, when there are …

A couple problems with your analysis: the population down-voting that post was preselected for those who had not already left/unsubscribed as /r/politics went downhill for the last…

This is a good point, and one I hadn't thought of. But I wasn't smelling cat pee often either. If we had two sets of items, one of which we had some cats pee on, and one of which w…

Users do vote: with their subreddit subscriptions (also PMs to moderators, and/or text submissions complaining about policy). I don't get the sense that this was unwanted from the …

Specifically cat urine, not other urine? I must be thankfully smell-deficient because I wouldn't be able to tell the difference, and I grew up with cats for 20 years

Thanks for the article. It seems unlikely that you could scale the first step: harvesting the iPhone profiles in the first place. I was under the impression this is a one-time down…

"Growth slackers", perhaps. You know, because rhyming :)

Somehow I don't think my mom would trade her iPad for an e1505 with a broken display, external monitor, plus the periodic need to upgrade the hard-drive and install/upgrade Ubuntu …

Two friends and I are working on exactly this! Would love to talk. I'll PM you with my contact info. Another good place to start understanding the (dis)incentives in US healthcare …

Heh, yeah in this first case the optimal economic choice would've been to bid, then lose the auction but get the 10% off code, then buy at slimfoldwallet.com for a price of $18. ED…

Bug report: I got the email Subject: "Your graph has been updated!". But the link inside took me to http://knowitapp.com//graph

Is that an employee trying to sell? Or a dealer trying to get employees to buy? Because that would be an ingeniously evil strategy, had it been timed close to IPO.

I don't know how I feel about a blog that drives you to click an Amazon affiliate link. Nevertheless, the points seem valid and thought-provoking. Thanks for sharing.