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by BryantD 7y ago
I've lived in both those cities this decade; the results are in some cases similar, but the issues are in fact different. The thing that's similar : both cities are warm enough so that you can reasonably live on the streets year
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by BryantD 7y ago
It's always amusing to me to hear people complain about taxes in Seattle. Washington State doesn't have an income tax, y'all. If you haven't figured out that a lot of the weird (and bad) city tax issues arise from that,
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by BryantD 7y ago
I think it's useful to describe the features in terms that make it very clear what's going on. On the other hand, I disagree with the assumption that users should not be willing to make the tradeoff of using the software anyway.
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by BryantD 7y ago
The new client makes it much easier to distinguish the characters, but there are still plenty of barcodes in the game.
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by BryantD 7y ago
Yeah, you knew you were toaded. (Source: I still remember my original TinyMUD ID number, way back in the day. #17086.)
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by BryantD 7y ago
Yep. Check out https://www.choiceofgames.com/ .
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by BryantD 7y ago
The roots of this are probably in Western PBM gaming back in the 1980s. Flying Buffalo ran several popular computer-moderated wargames in this format, but companies like Schubel & Son ran human moderated games such as Tribes of Crane.
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by BryantD 7y ago
Zillow | Fulltime | Seattle, WA | ONSITE | https://zillow.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/Zillow_Group_External/j... We make it easier to buy, rent, sell, and own homes. This is a wildly complex process in the United States. Ev
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by BryantD 7y ago
The Scoble post he linked to in the above is now located here: https://scobleizer.blog/2006/03/30/three-audiences-three-dif...
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by BryantD 7y ago
This is absolutely true -- Amazon sets a high bar for customer service when it comes to returns, making things right, etc. And yet there's this problem with fraud! Counterfeit products, Kindle Unlimited scammers, etc. I'm not tota
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by BryantD 7y ago
That's interesting. Where exactly did I say these particular videos were edited? I only have one comment in this thread, should be pretty easy to point it out. In the event that you realize you read something into my words that wasn&#x
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by BryantD 7y ago
Also worth noting that the FIRE data and the other source I found aren't measuring the same thing -- one is speaking engagements, one is professors getting fired/not promoted. (Thanks, btw, this is a cordial exchange of views and
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by BryantD 7y ago
Nope, reputation is definitely still important. As it turns out, you can edit videos to produce a desired effect/impression -- just saying "it's a video" doesn't really establish objective truth. Since O'Keefe
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by BryantD 7y ago
So... the linked article doesn't really limit itself to public universities when offering examples of free speech issues. Haidt talks about Oberlin (favorably); they're a private college. Brown University is cited as an example of
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by BryantD 7y ago
So how do you personally test that perception?
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by BryantD 7y ago
There's a thoughtful examination of Haidt's claims here ( https://niskanencenter.org/blog/there-is-no-campus-free-spee... ), which agrees in part and disagrees in part. Worth reading before passing judgement.
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by BryantD 7y ago
Neat. How would your neck of the woods deal with people pepper spraying a bar's patrons and fracturing someone's vertebrae? See the notoriously left-wing publication Eater for details: https://pdx.eater.com/2019&#x
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by BryantD 7y ago
I do technical operations for a living. If I had a buck for every time I've seen an alert with unclear or non-actionable information, I would have retired ten years ago. This article describes a tragic situation, but it's not terr
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by BryantD 7y ago
Yeah, that seems like the right answer. However, I think you still have to hold developers responsible for clever tricks that violate the intent of the Android permissions system. There are always going to be loopholes. (This likewise means
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by BryantD 7y ago
There's a paper linked from the article which contains details on the sidechannels: https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/public_events/141... Example: if you have an SD card installed, one adv
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by BryantD 7y ago
Seattle is not a good sample of the country as a whole, but I think it's still worth reading the various studies that have been done on our minimum wage increase. https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/02/0
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by BryantD 7y ago
Values work really well if the company is actually serious about them. Having a third party consultant write down your values is usually an indication that you're not too serious about it. Amazon's values work because management i
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by BryantD 7y ago
> What's key, in 2019, an era when "brands" are easy to create anew, to the point where even kids and the poor have the resources to do so and organize around them, it is not the brand, but the behavior, the semantics, whi
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by BryantD 7y ago
That is not what bar raising is intended to be. There's always a bar raiser in an Amazon interview loop who is not affiliated with the hiring team. They ask the same kinds of questions as the rest of the interviewers in the same way, b
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by BryantD 7y ago
This seems very plausible to me.
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by BryantD 7y ago
Agreed, but that claim intersects in an interesting way with phone OS vendors who also make their own hardware. I’m not sure Google wants to go down that path either. Man, now I really do want to see the original source material.
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by BryantD 7y ago
That seems like it’s also an argument for blocking competition. If you think that Google is more able to secure phones than any other entity, and you think that any compromise to phone security is a national security threat, that implies th
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by BryantD 8y ago
The logging issue is something we've become aware of more recently, but it's just as bad. There is no intrinsic difference between the statement "don't store passwords in plain text" and "don't log PII or
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by BryantD 8y ago
That's to be a video of Beto arguing that walls should be torn down. I'm asking about this claim that he wants to dissolve borders.
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by BryantD 8y ago
Hey, I may have missed something -- do you have a cite for the claim that he wants to dissolve the border?

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