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thomasthomas

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    Comment #27886571

    Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality

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    Comment #25124185

    1. Come to an agreed upon format with clients 2. SSIS

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    Comment #19483014

    Similar to the rule of thumb I use: if adding 1 to the number gives you anything meaningful its a number.

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    Comment #19392560

    Needs an "Are you still watching?" prompt as well. It will play every episode of a series if you fall asleep while watching. Would cut costs for them too.

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    Comment #19338173

    "Im yet to see one that works as expected" it might be wasabi wallet. not 100% though

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    Comment #18816721

    it's not "seen as a problem," the company just gets valued differently if growth is expected to slow

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    Comment #17231863

    communities are moats too

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    Comment #16905478

    add up all their expenses on all their 10k's and you have a baseline starting point.

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    Comment #16494836

    Put it in and be proud. Its an achievement, that's what resumes are for.

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    Comment #16226766

    Same reason google doesn't offer this for gmail.

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    Comment #16110455

    bezos has the worlds information on a device in his pocket. he can go to the grocery store and buy 1000s of different affordable items. yeah, hes the richest.

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    Comment #15815645

    just curious, what are you doing with ETH contracts? working on a product or just hobby?

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    Comment #15561289

    i think their past issue was having to hire more sales people to scale revenue in a manual fashion talking to companies rather than having a robust programmatic platform they can r…

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    Comment #15264596

    these comparisons are fine and fun. but a single iphone isnt that valuable if youre the only person on all the different networks an iphone gives you access to

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    Comment #15149055

    makes sense. as majority of the population moves away from desktops, windows and mac will lose market share. the hardcore Linux users that aren't going anywhere will gain market sh…

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    Comment #15076315

    visa fees? way less. total fees to the merchant per swipe is way under 3% for any sizable businesses. something like 1.2% + $0.10 was average when I worked for a payment processor.…

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    Comment #15066036

    what is defined as a search? searching within social networks is most definitely a 'search' but probably not counted. I would estimate almost half my daily searches are on a social…

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    Comment #14866280

    No investor pushes for more money back when the company can get a better ROI than the investor. Apple buybacks are a result of not having any better ideas on what to do with their …

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    Comment #14839718

    I agree except when you watch a game on twitter they force the generic #[whatever game it is] feed down your throat instead of being able to see your curated feed you spent years p…

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    Comment #14607636

    win7 is totally fine if you're up to date on patches.

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    Comment #14597412

    I think the author means XP and not Win7?

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    Comment #14569243

    they're called 10-k's. https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&S...

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    Comment #14541024

    stand outside the building. ask to borrow some shares.

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    Comment #14420079

    ticketmaster is now really good at preventing and detecting bots. I think the guys in the article are clever by taking their customer's payment info and using that in the bot. that…

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    Comment #14361243

    By one consultant's estimate, moreover, carrying sailors accounts for 44 percent of a ship's costs. I find this hard to believe even if autonomous ships can be done without a bridg…