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The spirit of GoDaddy's founder soldiers on in it's current policies and behaviors. Disappointing but unsurprising.

My anecdote: I work for a F100 company that's in the midst of a (long) transition to Office 365. In a mid-level engineering staff meeting 2 days ago where we spent 20 minutes discu…

Quoting from the article: 'Regarding the policy of suppressing videos featuring unattractive, disabled, or poor users, Gartner stated that the rules “represented an early blunt att…

And taller?

So cars are using OCR on speed limit signs? Next step: sql injection. https://hackaday.com/2014/04/04/sql-injection-fools-speed-tr...

Coming soon - a service to screen prospective software developer hires via fMRI.

I accidentally called one back a few days ago and incoming robocalls have gone through the roof. I have no proof that that's why, but I won't rule it out. On a more positive note, …

Meanwhile in the US: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/20/reader-center/insider-cle...

Maybe they're not bothering to replace burned out bulbs? Neither's a good look, though.

No layoffs according to CNBC: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/16/boeing-will-suspend-737-max-...

Literally the only curve I see on it is on the fascia.

Even routes increase from south to north (e.g. I-10 runs through Arizona, I-90 runs through Washington).

Bigotry.

13:1 better survivability with CAPS deployed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28539144

What's "a little extra risk"? A 5% chance you'll die? 1%? 0.1%? Compared to what? Those are actually very large risks when the cost is your life. When the survival rate of using CA…

Photography runs the gamut from straight from the camera to heavily manipulated. Straight out of the camera shots are pretty popular these days: https://www.amazon.com/Instant-Came…

It's worse than that. The actual award to the class is a 10% off coupon. So, to get compensation, a class member would need to send Zappos money.

Not that I know of. Waymo is still Waymo whether they're running rides on their own behalf, or under the Lyft name. Someone who's ridden Waymo in an early adopter program may make …

All I can say is NDAs are a hell of a thing.

Lyft has been dispatching Waymo self-driving vans (with safety drivers) in Chandler AZ for a while now. I've opted out of Waymo for my occasional rides with Lyft, so I can't say ho…

The motivation for the OP's argument is that "tax has already been paid" on certain income. It's an arbitrary "rule" put forward by advocates for the wealthy. There's no reason cap…

I saw someone write a check at a supermarket just a couple of weeks ago. I think it's the first time I've seen a checkbook in the wild in 5 or 10 years.