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sirbearingtonon I Quit Google Over Its Censored Chinese Search Engine

Isn't this the same guy who quit back in September?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17980424

https://theintercept.com/2018/09/13/google-china-search-engi...

sirbearingtonon Why I love the Detroit startup scene

I dunno... the polygon the author drew is only about half the area of California.

On the other hand it's kinda cheating to put the major cities at the corners.

sirbearingtonon American energy use

The US is a net exporter of food.

sirbearingtonon The Utter Uselessness of Job Interviews

I feel like 90% of writing software is identifying which "trick" applies to the problem you're trying to solve and applying it correctly.

sirbearingtonon Chrome 56 will mark HTTP pages with password fields as non-secure

It doesn't matter what the password is protecting on any particular site. Password reuse is common enough -- who knows what else the user is protecting with that password.

sirbearingtonon Did Pixar accidentally delete Toy Story 2 during production? (2012)

Also, this was way back in 1998, when what we would consider sloppy today was par for the course.