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Median posted rental prices may not be a great metric. Some comparisons don't pass the smell test - West Oakland should not be more expensive than Glen Park or Berkeley. Berkeley should not be cheaper than Fruitvale or Lake Merritt.

They do. tDCS isn't exactly the first thing that's been attempted here.

Nobody has agreed to send your traffic the 'shortest way' to the target IP address (despite your demand). They routinely send it whichever way is cheapest for themselves, which leads to hot-potato routing among other things.

Yeah, the speculation that nitrates in bacon fat would somehow be unhealthy was a bit weird too.

Well, in principle you can divide one transmitter's attention to several devices over time. (Either by changing the direction of the antenna, or more sophisticatedly via beamforming.)

Otherwise I agree with you. Even the tone of this article is unconvincing. I wonder what Andreessen’s due diligence team was thinking, maybe the patents have value?

> There are more gut bacteria than human cells in our body

"[That] is technically true, in the sense that Vin Diesel is outnumbered by a small bag of crickets."

http://carcinisation.com/2014/08/14/science-journalism-march...

Well, the original article makes a claim that this was caused by a margin call feedback loop (thanks pash for finding the right term and some analysis).

There could be other causes. It's hard to untangle whether BitFinex caused the other exchanges to drop, or if it just dropped faster due to margin but had no real effect on the other exchanges.

This is not called a liquidity trap. That's a concept in macro econ, it has nothing to do with trading or (this kind of) finance.

Be careful, stop orders only help if there is a reasonable amount of liquidity when you reach your stop price. If it's not there (and often isn't during a flash crash) you may get terrible execution.

Airports involve a ton of extra regulatory hassle.

The annoying thing is that some of them are commonly-abused statistics (such as the SMB export statistic). Seeing that early on immediately marks this as low-quality political editorial. Look elsewhere for a history lesson.

Funny thing about that random comparator shuffle - Microsoft used it for their browser selection screen (part of the EU antitrust settlement). Oops!

http://www.robweir.com/blog/2010/02/microsoft-random-browser...

Neither. You can add a leering guy to the picture and it will still be offensive. There are probably pictures with beautiful women that would not be offensive.

The 'issue' has been described several times in the comments and in the original article. Trying to reduce it to one feature isn't helpful.

As far as business in Russia goes, this sounds like a fairly normal course of events. Almost every large company has someone Putin-connected at the top, and when the Kremlin wants more control that's how they exercise it. (Either that, or corrupt court judgments that directly change corporate control.)

Don't be surprised if there are a rash of allegations of corruption, embezzlement, etc., against Durov. The sad thing about Russia is that they could be true, they could be part of a conspiracy against Durov, or both. You'll never know.

TL;DR: blurby article from last year that confuses the academic job market in general, the private job market for an average PhD, and one person's bizarre experience looking for a private job despite graduating from an elite CS PhD program in a very good economy.

Something went terribly, consistently wrong in his job search for a Stanford CS PhD in that economy to fail to land. I've always found his article to be an odd piece of self-antipromotion. He's publicly admitting he landed a ton of interviews and couldn't find common ground with a single company, which means he either doesn't know how to choose companies or can't carry a conversation for the duration of his interviews.

Why not, it worked against TJX, right?

Orders of magnitude more likely to find an open WiFi in a bank's parking lot than you are to find a WAN-facing consumer-grade router. Any employee in the company could screw up the former ("I didn't get good wifi so I brought in a router from home!"). The latter requires grossly incompetent netsec.

The parent specifically mentioned Nigeria. Africa is not a country, and his comment may not apply to say, South Africa or Morocco. You're the one generalizing about 3rd world countries, not him.

If you think LLE or even the FBI is going to open the diplomatic channels necessary to pursue someone in Nigeria over access to a consumer-grade router, you're kidding yourself. For all practical purposes, these laws do not in fact apply there.

1906 was somewhere between 7.8 and 8.25. Pretty far from 9. "8 or 9" is a huge range at that scale.

And when that chance is perceived to be particularly high at Google people will act accordingly.

Even if you think it's equal, we're probably in a regime of "nobody got fired for building on AWS".

I'd really like to see a public statement (hopefully a denial) by Google about this. As a matter of policy large tech companies often don't discuss how they track down leakers, or even permit speculation about it.

We called them 'script kiddies'. I don't think they qualify as hackers any more than someone who spends time on 4chan and runs LOIC.

Didn't Zecco already prove this wasn't a sustainable business model?

I was thinking the same thing. At least it could be a fun toy for low-volume trading.

This could be a great move for Simple. It could allow them to execute really quickly on the core product and user experience, while giving them access and expertise to backend banking support. Staying independent meant the latter was more challenging than any engineering/product problem they could want to solve.

It's not easy for me to put myself in the mind of an Internet troll, but I have to imagine I'd also be the kind of person who would enjoy trolling researchers by filling out their personality tests in the most shocking way possible. No idea if the study accounts for this possibility.

Some pretty horrific things happen if a baby is exposed to HSV during childbirth. And recent research into asymptomatic viral shedding indicates that simply checking for lesions at the time (and conducting a C-section if they're visible) is woefully inadequate.

It's not about transferring value - it's about substituting currency-equivalent value. What's the substitution going on in a mining pool? (And don't say electricity for coin, electricity is not valued similarly to a currency. Similarly 'claim on mining output'.)

Considering buying Starbucks gift cards with stolen credit cards is already an activity of scammers, this seems a bit dangerous. Let alone the FinCEN issues.

While there's potentially a debate to have over that topic (I'm sure the creators and some users of this site disagree with those concerns), the University's decision to censor the site strikes me as far less defensible than the existence of the site itself. So respectfully the fact that there's "more to the story" on that basis alone isn't terribly salient.