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Re: 2, Does the freelance-written material attract more readers, cost less, or both? The statements in the report are ambiguous.

Long press and open in new tab seems to work for me in chrome/iOS.

Snowden didn't reveal anything even suggesting this "front door access". He's got some PowerPoint slides that say prism and some that have Google logo on them. All meaning of these materials has been supplied by internet conspiracy theorists.

You can't have an open ecosystem when part of the ecosystem is hundreds if not thousands of full-time security experts and 24x7 opsec analysts. It is an integrated software and operations system. The software alone doesn't get you anywhere.

1101 West isn't even built yet, and nobody has been living at 100 Moffett for more than a month. These seem like odd choices for your examples. But yes, these are better than what we had. Within 1000 feet of the train station there are chiefly 1-story buildings and parking lots. Replacing just that zone with dwellings over retail would transform Mountain View into a place worth visiting.

In which the internet pretends to know things.

Isn't it a false choice? Why can't the answer be "both"? Explain in detail.

There's a spacious middle ground between single family ranch-style houses, and "apartment towers". A handful of four-story buildings would make Mountain View a much nicer place. If there's a multi-story dwelling anywhere in Mountain View, I haven't seen it.

As for "built out", most of Silicon Valley consists of parking lots and freeway interchanges.

On account of Proposition 13, existing property owners in fact do not form the main tax base. Personal income taxes are in total greater than property taxes in California. If you earn more wages your income taxes increase, but if your property appreciates your property taxes do not increase.

Property owners get to vote and they stand to realize 100% of their capital gains, but they aren't really subject to taxation.

You must be thinking of Tony Fadell, ex-leader of Nest.

Sucks because it's practically the only tech company in Oakland.

I use Google Music. I have the family plan and I use role accounts in my "family" for my car and for my Sonos. It includes YouTube Red in the same subscription.

The entire HBO back catalog is free on Prime. Prime has a somewhat limited selection but Amazon Instant Video in general is excellent. If you think of it as pay per view you'll be a lot happier. I for one do not mind shelling out a few bucks for a movie.

I hope someone from amazon is reading this. Their new app on the roku is unbelievably slow, 5+ seconds for transitions.

I also confirm this works fine for me on Safari and iOS 10.2 (iPhone SE, not that I think it matters).

You don't seem to understand the technology or the argument you made. The URL bar says google.com because google.com is serving the content you are reading. In other words, it exactly honors the "fundamental contract" you find so important.

I also dispute your qualitative opinion that nbcnews.com works "just fine". If I load their top story currently from AMP it loads in about half a second. If I visit it from nbcnews.com it renders in about seven seconds and doesn't finish loading for about 90 seconds, and then when it does I get a big popover survey/ad thing with a dismiss button that's too small to touch. The mobile experience on this site is far from fine.

So you didn't watch the video, then.

Google released a video of their Prius driving a blind man through the drive-thru at Taco Bell, five years ago.

The popular idea that Tesla will just keep stuffing matrices down the throat of their training pipeline until a self-driving inference model emerges from the other end doesn't make a lot of sense.

Is it really Cubic's problem? The problem seems to be on Muni's side with outdated mobile equipment on the bus. Where operators are not quite as stupid, such as directly across the water in Oakland, NextBus continues to work.

The 38-Geary is actually the busiest, but since it's broken up in the the local, "rapid", and express variants it doesn't look that way in the tables.

ETA: also it's been 14 years since the fare was $1.

I don't know about other systems but I've spent time in the field analyzing NextMuni's predictions and they have no predictive power whatsoever. The first arrival time is weakly correlated with actual arrival, and the 2nd and 3rd times are not even correlated.

It's useless, essentially.

The problem is the terminals have been getting monotonically slower over the last 20 years, whereas the amount of build spew I need to grope around in to find the relevant error has not decreased :-/

It seems to be a OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) HD Graphics 5500 (Broadwell GT2)

I put this comment elsewhere in the thread, but maybe if I put it in this subthread you'll get to see it.

I tested on my laptop (a ThinkPad X250) and alacritty is slower than xterm. xterm can display find / at 80x24 in 11 seconds, but alacritty takes 17 seconds or more, depending on how large the window is (smaller seems to be slower) and whether it's on-screen or not (off-screen seems to be slower).

On my laptop this terminal is not very fast. A cached 'find /' runs in 11 seconds on an xterm, 17 seconds on maximized alacrity when it's on screen, 25 seconds on alacritty if it's off-screen, and 44 seconds on a 80x24 alacritty.

I don't know why it's slower when you make the window smaller, or when it's not being displayed. I expect the answer is "some kind of OpenGL bullshit" but beyond that...

gnome-terminal takes about 5 minutes to do this, but it has unlimited scrollback and as far as I can see alacritty has no scrollback whatsoever.

That's not what I said. What I said was that terminal was unbelievably fast. Especially for backwards scrolling which is an important use case to me.

Seriously. ^^^

How fast is it? I haven't had a terminal that was as fast as xterm with a matrox millenium ii. That was 20 years ago which is pretty sad. Of course the terminals look better these days.

This level of illumination is 20x or more what you'd expect in a household situation.

Sounds like the recruiter made a mistake. The committee rejects the vast majority. The executive review committee that comes after accepts most, though.

Greenland is the biggest island, by a large factor.