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theelfismike··on First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV
St Peter was the first Pope; all Popes after are successors to him
theelfismike··on Cargo airships could be big
agreed, a huge, slow-moving target for a bad actor to try to shoot down
theelfismike··on Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q3 2020
> Are there any other examples of companies doing similar releases of valuable internal data?

the early OkCupid blog was really good at this

This one has always stuck with me (archive version: https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/whyyoushouldne...)

> It turns out you are 12.4 times more likely to get married this year if you don't subscribe to Match.com.

more archives: https://www.reddit.com/r/gwern/comments/aapn1l/okcupid_blog_...

theelfismike··on Never Hertz to Ask
The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now. Enjoy It While You Can.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-econ...

theelfismike··on The death of corporate research labs
I mean, isn't that what Peter Thiel is doing? Giving college age people $100k to drop out and do a startup?

https://thielfellowship.org/

theelfismike··on Facebook exodus: Nearly half of young users have deleted the app
TripAdvisor was owned by Expedia from 2004-2011
theelfismike··on Ask HN: What are your favorite podcasts?
Acquired - history of (mainly) tech mergers/acquisitions/IPOs
theelfismike··on Fake Obama created using AI tool to make phoney speeches [video]
I hope they call it Fauxbama.
theelfismike··on 6 Corporations Control 90% of the Media in America
There's a note in the text, but the infographic is way out of date.
theelfismike··on Netflix Originals: Production and Post-Production Requirements v2.1
presumably they're storing the raw, uncompressed video? at the same time, I would imagine storing a couple extra terabytes of data isn't a significant cost in the scheme of a production.
theelfismike··on Alphabet Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2016 Results
Interesting the effective tax rate went from 5% last year to 22% this year.

What would cause that?

theelfismike··on A native Python IDE built for data science
See also: Pycharm

https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/

theelfismike··on Bootcards
fix the aspect ratio on the ipad screenshot
theelfismike··on More Boeing 787 issues – Generator controls shut off after 248 days
248 days * 24 hours/day * 60 min/hour * 60 sec/min * 1000 ms/sec ~ MAX_INT
theelfismike··on A new team at Reddit
Said statement: http://www.quora.com/Why-did-Yishan-Wong-resign-as-Reddit-CE...
theelfismike··on Facebook's git repo is 54GB
With Android, ant makes naive assumptions.

For example, most open source library projects that you include in a project don't change from build to build, but ant dutifully recompiles them each time instead of caching the output until the files in that project are changed or I manually clean the build output.

theelfismike··on Google I/O Registration 2014
I think they absolutely wanted people to write crawlers and scrapers for codes.

Google was created by creating web crawlers that indexed the content to rank pages. This exercise was a tribute to those algorithms.

theelfismike··on The right way to ask users for iOS permissions
Makes me wish Android could request some permissions at runtime.

It's painful to have a bunch of permissions in the manifest that aren't used by 100% of users, but 100% of them have to allow them if they want to install the app.

theelfismike··on Show HN – Apptimize: A/B testing for native Android, iOS apps
It'd be nice if the text were selectable instead of an image.
theelfismike··on The man behind Google Docs is now trying to reinvent the web app at Box
Good. The Box web app really could use some work.
theelfismike··on JSTOR Statement on Aaron Swartz
They _can_ do it all for free. They should just start doing what JSTOR does, but don't charge for it.

Seriously, make a competing site if you think you can do it for free.