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How does this tighten the lock in?

http://pool.ntp.org/ takes me to an "It works!" default Apache 2 page for an Ubuntu installation. As the comment in the issue describes, http://pool.ntp.org/ takes you to a random ntp server.

Either way, the ask was for a difference in www.example.com vs example.com. Not a difference in www.pool.example.com vs pool.example.com. In the latter case, the different subdomains will still be shown (AFAIK).

Even if you ultimately end up at the same site through redirects, you're clearly not going to the same site initially.

Which is nothing that an end user is going to care about and doesn't provide an example to the asked question.

Those go to the same place for me

there's a difference between "www.example.com" and "example.com"

Can you link to a site where these two are different?

Tesla suck around and made electric cars cool and economically viable while the industry had it's backs turned

This isn't really accurate. Nissan and GM both had electric cars 20 years ago. And Tesla loses billions of dollars every year so they've hardly proven anything to be economically viable. The reason electric cars are coming now is because battery technology has gotten to the point of them being viable cars albeit with a slightly premium cost.

Plus you have to look at the total operating cost. Electric cars need basically no maintenance while ICEs you have oil changes and brake changes plus a more complicated engine.

They have absolutely changed the direction of television in pretty much all respects, from release cycle, to delivery to even marketing.

A lot of this is the classic play of using investor money to buy users. Netflix has been burning billions because they don't charge enough for the content they provide. That problem is getting worse as the streaming market becomes more of a primary distribution channel driving the cost of streaming rights up. We've already seen that happen as Netflix catalog shrinks despite all of their original programming.

Basically, Netflix's product is getting steadily worse while their costs are going through the roof.

This is a rare case where the insurance company is entirely blameless. According to the article, they paid much more than what experts say is reasonable for the care provided.

You pick back and forth though, right? How does one screw up the draft so badly as to have only 10% chance of winning?

Many games are draft wins, i.e. a >90% chance of winning solely due to the heroes you've picked.

Can you explain?

Amazon Whole Foods delivery is the worst offender in this area. You finish your order and on the confirmation screen they add a tiny little line item for a preselected 10% tip. Suddenly your "free" delivery is now $15.

Whole Foods allowed Amazon to move into grocery delivery much quicker and bigger than they would have otherwise. That purchase made a lot of sense because even though Whole Foods is brick and mortar it extended Amazon's online offerings.

This is more of a head scratcher. The only thing I can think of is adding 1/2 tickets a month to Prime benefits. I suppose it also makes them more competitive in buying/producing content because they can get part of the theater sales.

It will have an impact, no doubt, but probably more like a few points higher inflation than a total crash. Either way, the point is that owing money in a currency you control is vastly different than owing money in a currency you don't.

Not an exam but:

An event in Dantzig's life became the origin of a famous story in 1939, while he was a graduate student at UC Berkeley. Near the beginning of a class for which Dantzig was late, professor Jerzy Neyman wrote two examples of famously unsolved statistics problems on the blackboard. When Dantzig arrived, he assumed that the two problems were a homework assignment and wrote them down. According to Dantzig, the problems "seemed to be a little harder than usual", but a few days later he handed in completed solutions for the two problems, still believing that they were an assignment that was overdue.[4][7]

Six weeks later, Dantzig received a visit from an excited professor Neyman, who was eager to tell him that the homework problems he had solved were two of the most famous unsolved problems in statistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dantzig

The US owes China gazillion dollars. Not a gazillion dollars in services and stuff. That's a huge difference because at any point the US can create a gazillion dollars for virtually no effort.

Right, and my point is that you essentially can't. For my address the best you could do is narrow it down to ~30 or so homes that share the same first digit as my address. For this to work you have to:

(1) Have the IP address return the right location

(2) Not have duplicate street names in that location

(3) Have a single digit address OR be the only home starting with that number

That's going to be a pretty rare combo. Probably less than 1%.

Finding a location by IP address is not always reliable. The first result when googling my IP address yields a city 1,000 miles away (other results have the correct city). Then, knowing the first digit of a street address gets you a range of addresses that can represent anywhere from 1 to hundreds of homes. It's theoretically possible to get a specific address from this method but it's unlikely and not reliable.

I think it's the price for eBooks. A good example is Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:

Kindle - $15

Paperback (new) - $10

Paperback (used) - $6

Paperback (library) - Free

The Kindle version is a significant premium and I don't think there is a matching convenience factor. It's unfortunate that is the case because I'm sure it'd be a lot more eco-friendly and efficient to distribute ebooks.

Tesla only raised $270 million in their IPO. They've subsequently raised more, but their initial a pretty far cry from the billions Snap/Uber needed.

You probably don't even need to do that. Facial recognition is to the point where a drone can navigate to a predefined area and find a specific person before detonating. Especially in a situation like this where a politician is giving a speech at a very specific known location (i.e. behind the podium on the platform).

Even if you manage to reduce the hard stuff to 1 mile out of 200, you still need to deal with it.

I think the minimum required to deal with it is to have the car pull over when it identifies a situation it can't handle. Even an onramp to exit car that pulls over if it sees construction will be extremely valuable to anyone routinely doing highway driving.

I think what has changed is the shocking amount of money that recent start ups are burning. Snap burns more in a year (~$1 billion) than Facebook did in it's entire life. Uber has burned ~$10 billion during its existence. It's hard for me to picture a company raising that amount of money on the stock market.

It should be a binary decision:

Pose a threat to society -> Jail pending trial

Not a threat -> Released pending trial

There shouldn't be an option for:

Pose a threat to society + Rich -> Bail pending trial

I don't quite get how you can have a self driving car but not also a self driving truck. If you have the sensors and code to power a self driving car you ought to be 99.9% of the way to a truck. It should be a relatively small effort to account for a trucks different physics.

I ordered these boxing wraps a year apart. The second time they were noticably thinner and worse quality. I suspect they were counterfeit but I suppose it's possibld that the manufacturerchanged how they were made. Either way that doesnt changed that i did a buy it again and got something different.

Amazon "won" in this case because for the cost it wasnt worth my time in returning them.

Https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CHV2WI8/ref=twister_B00J29O7AO?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

The issues you mentioned are relatively minor. Drivers will still cross if they are paid enough. The UK can easily recognize EU truck licenses on their own. Undoubtably Brexit will cause some disruption to UK/EU trade, but it's pretty far fetched that it will completely break down.

It's not so much the tariffs as the customs clearance per se. Everyone seems to have forgotten that transporting goods across a border has VAT implications, and if you don't check and aren't part of the same VAT area there's a huge opportunity for "carousel fraud".

That would give the EU reason to block imports from the UK. It doesn't give much of a reason for the UK to block imports from the EU. So there's no reason to expect that the UK will starve or Amazon will shut down. The only way for that to happen is for the UK to shoot themselves in the foot (again).

Exports, of course, are a whole different story and that's where the risk lies. General economic damage from increased friction in exporting to the EU.

I don't think you understood the GP. Their point was that your experience was, relatively, a cake walk so you dont really understand the difficulty of raising money. A bit like a woman complaining that it took her 20 minutes of labor to give birth. Certainly an unpleasant experience but most have it a lot worse.

Really yall did a phenomenal job of raising money. Thats hoe you should have framed your post, not how terrible of an experience it was.

headline more like "Here's how to get yourself into this privileged class of people who VC's are eager to fund".

Not to mention become paper millionaires because some VC think you have a 1% chance of being the next Instagram.

I mean, that $1.7 million is more than I expect to bring home after tax for the next 10 years. And my income is probably top 95-99% for the area I live in so it's not like I have a hard life. I can't imagine what someone who is actually struggling thinks of their "terrible experience"

I think the analogy of Google's castle being search and everything else a scorched earth tactic to protect that is perfect. It's the heart of my strongly ambivalent feelings about Google. If you take their major successes like Maps, Android, Chrome, GMail, Analytics they are all really good products. They aren't examples of a monopoly giving bad service or forcing an inferior product on consumers.

The problem is that it sucks the oxygen out of the room for so many fundamental technologies that we use today. How do you compete with the combination of massive resources and a willingness to give away things for free?