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When Grubhub acquired Eat24 from Yelp and removed the group order feature in favor of signing up for a "corporate" account, it sent much of my business to DoorDash.

The style of the art on that page is similar to HBO's Silicon Valley opening[1]. Until I scrolled down I thought the page might be some sort of satire. [1] https://www.youtube.com/…

Ed Yong rocks. Another well written science piece that is easy to digest without drifting into sensationalism.

What was the biggest blizzard you witnessed? I visited for a weekend and there was about 4 feet of snow in a 36 hour storm.

While I am not a huge music listener, it is largely true for me. Spotify launched in 2008. I signed up for an account in 2009. Since then I have bought physical/downloadable music …

There are some historical examples of corporate control of people's lives. Henry Ford's Sociological Department did unannounced visits to employees' homes to ensure they were "mode…

Does limiting government limit the powers of the wealthy? It would limit one channel for them to exercise their power, but other channels like corporate control would exist.

The closest I can see to someone asserting they do is https://www.mhpbooks.com/is-amazon-one-of-the-companies-work... But the thrust of that article is more suspicion that Amazon i…

Has this been substantiated? To my knowledge Amazon denies being a part of PRISM and the only thing a quick search reveals is that denial and Snowden criticizing Amazon for not bei…

I just found out that Alexa has a funny response to this sentence.

This got me wondering what the AWS services' work load per day was. Best numbers I could find were from this 2013 article about serving ≈95 billion requests per day for just S3. Th…

This an interesting story of data and infographics. I would be curious to see an updated version that includes other large employers of engineers like Amazon or Oracle.

Partner with Amazon? I know when I got a Galaxy S4 the OEM Android included the Amazon App and Google Play stores. While they may do something different in Korea, it seems like a r…

The paper is interesting, I am only partly through it but I am curious to see their code and data.

If we accept the premise of Reddit not as a forum, but as a host, perhaps a more apt analogy would be other hosts. For example, both AWS ( http://aws.amazon.com/aup/ ) and Google (…

I disagree, I think a great many people are willing to trade some privacy for convenience and contact. Even if we take privacy as great thing, isn't staying in touch and making con…

The direct source of this information is the github page mentioned in the article, https://github.com/elvanderb/TCP-32764

It seems as though this tangent has quickly turned into a discussion about consumerism (and indirectly its relation to capitalism).