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Re:Facebook Down?
on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:38PM (#26744084)
whatsapp.com as in the web-based client, which is down.
Re:Square buys $170M worth of bitcoins
on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @05:13PM (#26243619)
Lol!
Re:How much I made as a good Engineer at Facebook
on Thursday December 03, 2020 @04:46AM (#25287303)
Bear in mind the majority of that comp is equity.
My first software engineering job in London in 2011 was arguably $1m/year, if I'd hung on to the equity until now!
Re:Minimum salary required in London: £500k?
on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @07:00AM (#9804274)
£40,000 of salaried income is currently £30,287 net, after £5,880 income tax and £3,832 national insurance.
Re:Minimum salary required in London: £500k?
on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @06:57AM (#9804258)
Real estate is the biggest struggle.
A 3.5-bed family home in Clapham is around £1m, a 4% payment on which would consume their entire net income!
source - http://www.londonpropertywatch.co.uk/avg_prices.html
Re:Living Without a Cellphone
on Saturday March 14, 2015 @12:53PM (#9203232)
Don't forget those expensive plans typically bundle say a 700Eur+ iPhone into the plan on credit...
Re:Nothing succeeds like success
on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @04:55AM (#7709232)
I fail to see the difference between "real life" and "the Internet". Surely they're the same thing these days?
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Re:Letters of Last Resort
on Sunday February 02, 2014 @06:27AM (#7165674)
> one armed nuclear sub could be wiped out fairly easily if we're talking about a power like this, right?
The one that's in dock for service and repair, yes. But the others could be at sea anywhere in the world, in an unknown location.
> Would all four, if armed, be able to do much damage back?
Each sub can carry 16 x Trident D5 ballistic missiles, with a range of 6,000 mi. Each missile carries multiple warheads, each with much higher yields than those used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So certainly the potential to do lots of damage.
The US has a similar setup with their Ohio-class submarines, though I don't believe they carry such letters or equivalent.
Re:An IPv6-only VPS that costs less
on Friday November 29, 2013 @05:51AM (#6818857)
> "RIPE, the organization in charge of delegating IP addresses in Europe, ended the distribution of new IPv4 blocks about a year ago."
This is not true. All new LIRs can still receive a /22 - http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/allocat...
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Re:Ask HN: Who are the 100 people who most changed the world?
on Friday October 25, 2013 @09:38AM (#6611479)
Steve Jobs.
Re:Airline classes as wealth redistribution
on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @12:21PM (#6244670)
Care to give an example? I am not aware of a single programme outside of the US that offers this.
Re:Airline classes as wealth redistribution
on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @12:15PM (#6244624)
But what are the alternatives?
1. True segregation where the rich go to a separate school all-together / have separate planes, etc.
2. Everyone wears the same lowest-common denominator clothes / travel in the same travel class?
Each of these alternatives is economically inefficient, and the poor suffer more as a result as their fares cease to be subsidised by the rich.
I'd rather fly $500 return to Tokyo, because some rich guy upfront is paying $4000 for a flat bed, than pay $2000 because some left-wing loon demands everyone has the same class of travel.
Re:Airline classes as wealth redistribution
on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @12:11PM (#6244588)
s/complementary/complimentary
This is a fairly edge case, that only really occurs on US domestic flights. The majority of the world's frequent-flyer programmes do not give space-available upgrades in the way that say American or United do domestically.
The vast majority of those travelling in premium cabins (or their employers) paid cash for their ticket.
Re:Airline classes as wealth redistribution
on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @12:05PM (#6244537)
He was not seriously advocating such a system, merely saying that such a scenario would be the only way to get the richer parents to pay more, ala the airline model. Otherwise it's a simple act of charity.
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Re:A mother tongue spoken by millions of Americans still gets no respect
on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @04:15PM (#5481819)
As a programmer, double negatives make me reel with horror. I cannot parse an English sentence with a double negative as being a single negative; it's utterly illogical. At best, they're an unnecessary hindrance.
Re:‘The Shawshank Redemption’: A Simple But Powerful Message
on Monday March 04, 2013 @09:04AM (#5318193)
I'd agree, apart from that the "end result is binary".
When you aim to do something big, it's very hard to fail completely.
Re:Deal would bring Google jets, millions of dollars to San Jose airport
on Saturday February 09, 2013 @04:20PM (#5194050)
To be fair, this isn't a private airport, it's really just a private terminal at San Jose International (SJC). Don't get me wrong, that's pretty darn cool, though really no different to, say, Lufthansa's dedicated First Class Terminal at Frankfurt. Well, apart from the private Google planes, of course :-)
Re:How Syria Turned Off the Internet
on Thursday November 29, 2012 @06:31PM (#4850942)
The tool is http://bgplay.routeviews.org/
Re:How to travel around the world for a year (2011)
on Wednesday November 28, 2012 @11:56AM (#4843493)
Yes, but just book a fully-flexible return, the refund it after you've entered the country. Quite a stupid rule given it can be so easily circumvented.
Re:Gmail was down
on Wednesday October 31, 2012 @05:49PM (#4725058)
Works for me.
Re:Airplanes can't get much more efficient
on Friday October 12, 2012 @09:38AM (#4644946)
Have fun making a train that does San Francisco to New York in 6 hours.
Re:The Britishisation of American English
on Thursday September 27, 2012 @10:27AM (#4580832)
>"an American would say" is more than a little offensive
Wait, what? What's offensive about that?
Re:Wired Test-Drives Boeing’s New 787 Dreamliner
on Tuesday July 10, 2012 @11:36AM (#4224289)
Alas the 787's expectations are too high, as the aircraft is basically an update of the Boeing 767. As with all launches, there’s a lot of hype and Boeing has certainly made a big deal out of it, but it’s not a radically different experience for passengers. While aviation buffs will know better, I think most of the flying public are expecting an improvement on the 777 and unfortunately it’s not – at least from the passenger’s seat.
Re:Handling the London Waterloo rush hour on Twitter
on Monday July 02, 2012 @07:58AM (#4188454)
So about the same as the Caltrain, then.