theelfismike
Joined 15 years ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
St Peter was the first Pope; all Popes after are successors to him
Comment · 3 years ago
agreed, a huge, slow-moving target for a bad actor to try to shoot down
Comment · 6 years ago
> 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_...
Comment · 6 years ago
The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now. Enjoy It While You Can.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/moviepass-econ...
Comment · 6 years ago
I mean, isn't that what Peter Thiel is doing? Giving college age people $100k to drop out and do a startup?
Comment · 8 years ago
TripAdvisor was owned by Expedia from 2004-2011
Comment · 9 years ago
Acquired - history of (mainly) tech mergers/acquisitions/IPOs
Comment · 9 years ago
I hope they call it Fauxbama.
Comment · 9 years ago
There's a note in the text, but the infographic is way out of date.
Comment · 9 years ago
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.
Comment · 9 years ago
Interesting the effective tax rate went from 5% last year to 22% this year.
What would cause that?
Comment · 11 years ago
See also: Pycharm