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It's possible they are trying to avoid making people think of memory swapping which is existing jargon and usually means something more complex.

Consider Alli, the drug that blocks fat absorption in the body. It already exists and works reasonably well for weight loss. The side effects can be gross and unpleasant though.

In general we want the richest and most powerful members of society to behave predictably, and ideally rationally, so that we can make long term plans without worrying about the fickleness of a small number of people. We have a lot of problems to solve over the next few decades and chaos agents in the billionaire ranks won't help. Global economic growth depends on predictability.

If we want another chaos agent in charge we should elect them democratically.

What about arson?

They have to take out loans and exercise their options before they expire.

Any relation to John Dewar, of Dewar's whiskey? They're both Scottish.

I think they're implying that someone else took the phone interview for them.

The site is being served directly by CloudFlare's CDN, hard to make it much faster than that.

There was a pretty good HN comment thread about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16723099

From the linked thread:

""" 5. The stupid toilet bowl lid only fell about 8 inches. How could it damage my hearing so badly? I looked up the speed of sound in ceramic, divided by the length of the toilet bowl lid (and divided by 2 since the fundamental vibration is a half wavelength). This predicts 3.5 kHz.

6. This frequency is in the audible range. Using the short dimension of the toilet bowl predicts another (higher) frequency. The toilet bowl lid probably resonated at both those frequencies and their harmonics, putting all the energy into just those specific wavelengths.

7. The toilet bowl lid was not chipped or damaged, so the impact energy went mainly into sound (& internal heat) Maybe like half the impact energy went into sound energy. This lid was concave up like an antenna, near my face when it hit, focusing the energy into my face.

8. The energy travels into your inner ear and the cochlea. The pressure wave is strongest at some distance down the cochlea depending on frequency. Since the toilet bowl lid put all the energy into SPECIFIC FREQUENCIES, it was concentrated onto specific spots in the cochlea.

9. Apparently, this concentration of energy was enough to damage the hairs -- to bend them over like trampled grass -- and I was concerned it could be permanent. My hearing was only slightly better the next morning. It was like everybody was still talking at me through kazoos. """

Fascinating. Be careful around dropping shatter-proof ceramics, I suppose!

This is a Javascript module, not a web standard. It goes through TC39

It's ~200 miles each way from SF to Tahoe. I imagine that's a pretty important number for people considering an electric SUV.

Model 3 advertises a 325mi range, and Musk says the Y will get about 10% less than the 3.

They're probably using this: https://hootsuite.com/platform/scheduling

This isn't bullying a tiny competitor. McD's would have no problem with a company called "SuperBurger" instead of "SuperMacs". They want to protect their customers from potential confusion.

There might be data limits/throttling on the consumer's side.

Yup, this is exactly the problem. Currently JSON.parse() will silently truncate large numbers. This behavior made sense when there was only one numeric type in the language, but BigInt opens the door for arbitrary precision integers.

What is the value of JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(BigInt(Number.MAX_SAFE_INTEGER) + 2n))?

> Finally, BigInts cannot be serialized to JSON.

Hmm, ok. I guess that's fine. But what about large numbers coming from over the network? Can we get a BigInt-aware JSON.parse() standardized ASAP?

Since you can assign the same label to multiple faces, it seems like you could construct a fair die that's not a Platonic solid.

I wonder if the rule is that the total face area for each label must be the same?

Ring is a digital doorbell. Looks like they also have a "neighborhood watch" app: https://ring.com/neighborhoods

Have you tried using google.com/ncr?

Why would you do this?

He's a designer. Lots of designers come in on O-1, most of them with far less impressive portfolios than his.

H-1B, O-1, L-1, and perhaps more.

Off topic, but what's the current status of flow-replacing-PropTypes?

Look at how fast they're monetizing: https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/snapcha... (from the article). I'm sure the first half of 2016 has been insane.

If I make a plan to murder a person, the police shouldn't have to wait until after the murder to arrest me.

Seems they forgot to fill out this page: https://www.tumblr.com/txtventure/song.txt

No, but most companies filter out the most unreasonable people in their hiring process. I think you're making a caricature of these people's attempts to support their coworkers. "Microaggressions" in this context means that you should be careful about the little things you say, because you're in a multicultural workplace.

No, I don't agree. Nobody should feel uncomfortable in their workplace, especially if the reason for discomfort has nothing to do with work. Comments about gender, sexual orientation, and race are almost never appropriate. College is a very different environment because people go there to learn holistically.

Isn't a "sovereign" wealth fund effectively the Chinese government investing in Australia?

Facebook's quarterly net income is in the ballpark of $1 billion. $2B is a reasonable amount of money for a social media monopoly.