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No, they don't. It's just a top position on Google. It's like showing up in the first position, but with way less click-through.

The essence of what Xerox taught was: to sell, find out what problems your customer has, and figure out how your product/service can help him/her solve the problem. That's it.

Oh, cool! That's the SPIN model[1], implemented by Neil Rackham at Xerox in the 70s.

https://books.google.com/books/about/SPIN_Selling.html?id=0n...

I suggest you look into the companies that are actually hiring and getting the bulk of the H1B visas. Because it may surprise you, it's not top tier tech engineers at Facebook, Apple, etc. It's companies like InfoSys and Cognizant. [1]

The business model of these companies is to provide workers at a cost below what it costs in the US. This business model is a big reason why they are so successful. At scale these companies drive cost, and wages down. US workers then need to accept lower paying jobs. The worst thing about it is the wage depression here is most felt by the low-tier tech workers, not the well paid SV engineers.

And they don't always follow the rules either. Infosys and Cognizant have been caught up in legal trouble for visa fraud. [2]

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employe... [2] https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1347409-usa-v-infosy...

Yeah, it's odd to see that omitted, especially for headaches that are related to muscle and joint issues.

The fact that it got newbies started doesn't mean it was built for newbies. I think you're making too many assumptions here.

Check out Jellyfin: https://jellyfin.org/

"That's one of the problems with murdering all your oppressors and seizing all their assets -- at that point you have no one left to blame when things go bad over the next few hundred years."

Haiti was indebted to France for over 100 years after the revolution. They were forced to pay the losses sustained by the French, which included slaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiti_indemnity_controversy

It doesn't get more unjust and wrong than that. To say they have no one to blame for their country's condition is misguided.

Wow, that's a striking photo.

"It has been widely reported that in 1923 over 60% of Haiti's land was forested; the source of this assertion remains unknown but may be linked to the U.S. Marine Occupation in Haiti. In 2006, the country was claimed to have less than 2% forest cover."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation_in_Haiti#Estimat...

Vitalik was a big blocks supporter for a long time. I saw this post as a 180 as well.

"Now I personally can see that it’s not axiomatically true that doing nothing is safest, especially in the context of a changing environment (for example I continue to believe that Bitcoin’s failure to raise its blocksize by a significant amount in 2016–17 was a travesty and a great violation of many people’s expectations of the protocol, and one that led to more total losses due to excess txfees than the amount lost in the MtGox hack), but this is the argument that you need to be arguing against."[1]

[1] 12/26/2018 https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/he-imagines-a-world-in-wh...

What miners are blacklisting addresses? $623m in hacked Bitfinex funds were moved today without issue.[1]

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/623m-in-bitcoin-from-2016-bitfinex-...

It's not clear if the prosthetic is removable or not. Removable dentures can be supported by implants.

Lol, they really laid it on thick. It was an fun read.

Perhaps, if it wasn't a fork of Bitcoin. If was originally called Cash Coin and rebranded to Bitcoin Cash, then it would seem likely that group is trying to capitalize on the name. That's not the case here. This name came naturally, just like similar names occur in other forked software.[0]

Bitcoin Cash came from a minority group (big blocks) in the Bitcoin community.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice [1] https://medium.com/hackernoon/the-great-bitcoin-scaling-deba...

Can you really call Bisq decentralized when they've pulled moves like this: https://github.com/bisq-network/proposals/issues/61

The term "Bcash" is a social engineering attack against big blocks[0]. This attack has been so successful, the name still shows on Wikipedia[1].

[0] https://medium.com/@jonaldfyookball/why-some-people-call-bit... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_Cash

The takeaway for me was this:

"The deal, announced in December 2017, also allowed Amazon’s video service to integrate with Apple’s voice-activated digital assistant, Siri, and the iPhone maker’s TV app, which launched in 2016."

To me this means that development for Siri is partly bound to whoever's willing to pay Apple enough money. This is really disappointing from the accessibility side.

It's entirely possible that your friend's "migraines" are actually the headaches experienced by persons with TMJ (caused by bruxism). I say this as someone who has this condition and was previously misdiagnosed with migraines.

I delivered for Pita & Sticks in 2015 when it was a new restaurant. The owner refused to pay me my last paycheck after I quit and found another delivery job.

Point is.. delivery drivers were treated like shit before GrubHub and Uber. Before it was restaurant owners. Not all, but many.

Now that the deliveries are all centralized to a few companies, it’s an opportunity to get delivery workers better wages and benefits.

I've found them to have a consistent bias, often claiming things are "partially true" when they conflict with the site's overall left-leaning narrative. I noticed this during the 2016 election, so that may have changed.

Great point, this was my first thought also. Google has been doing a slow creep of this type of content for the past through years through the featured snippet you mentioned, and other knowledge panel material. They now serve sports, weather, math, translation, flights, etc.

Yelp is now in free for all mode and monetizing whatever they can. They forced a bad ZocDoc integration, which was an absolute nightmare, and broke our Yelp pages overnight. Not surprised at all to see this.

Off topic: this company’s advertising on Reddit is beyond annoying. Has anyone else experienced this?

uMatrix works in Firefox stable as of last night

Lots of small business as well. Want to deploy to the cloud but lack the skill set to manage a real server.

Tencent owns less than 50% of Epic, FWIW.

Their main revenue is actually Adwords.

You can’t get extract search query, not from referrer or with analytics software. Google changed that starting around 2011 for logged in users.

The only “trick” here is that the author of the website has a fake name. Otherwise, having good content that people link to is not a trick.

Is it just me or is the hamburger menu broken?

It got me within one city block of my location. I’m in NYC.