DavidWanjiru

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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Right now, Amazon tells me that customers who viewed a-given-book-on-this-list also viewed other books on this list. Is that the effect of being on this list? Interesting.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
The problem with trying to get rid of skeuomorphism is that skeuomorphism is built on the idea that human beings use single tools for single tasks. A pen to write, and only write. An old school phone to call, and only to call. A clock to te
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Does using Google products qualify my relationship with them as an association? In the same way that me buying you a cup of coffee is association? I realize that I'm suggesting calls that are difficult to make, but my wider contention
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
My two cents: rather than tell someone to change a word here, a colour shade there, what you should do is give your reasons for WHY. Why is this shade of blue better than the one I chose? Why is a given call to action better than another? T
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
My guess is that the reason why freedom of speech only protects you from being made to shut up by govt through prosecution, and not being made to shut up by a private company due to the space it occupies in the world's technology and i
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
According to the bulk of the response I saw on African Twitter when this was announced, the simpler (and much cheaper) thing to do would be to remove visa restrictions for anyone with an African passport.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
You're confusing "trust" with "use," which appears to be the cause of your apparent bewilderment. I could be wrong, however. Suppose you were handling snakes. Some snakes are not poisonous, and don't need to ha
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I don't know if this makes any sense, but let me try: Everything a computer does boils down to a binary signal. Is the current on, or is it off? Everything else is an abstraction built on that on/off business. Life, as I see it, s
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
The utility of Facebook to me is exactly the same as that of the post office. The post office derives value from me by directly charging me for it. Facebook doesn't, but it's not because they asked and I said I won't and so t
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
When my brother died in 2010, I posted to that effect on Facebook. Many friends (majority of them "real life," pre-Facebook/outside of Facebook friends) gave their condolences. Others called me. A few messaged me, etc. You ge
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
It is being disappeared. The exact same deployment of power, with practically no recourse other than a revolution (which I doubt fora such as HN can trigger).
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Out of curiosity, have you actually tested your ability to tell the difference? You know, someone other than you puts, say, 10 samples in identical cups, randomly makes 2 coke, 3 pepsi, 1 Dr Pepper, and 4 from another brand unfamiliar to yo
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I suspect this will eventually go the way domain names went. Initially, any random person would register microsoft.com, and Microsoft didn't have much recourse back then. Now they do, I believe, and I feel like this is a similar questi
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
If I understand you correctly, the point you are making is the question of obligation. Is Google obliged to us? Well, no, private company, other search engines available, etc. I contend, however, that being a publicly financed entity is not
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I think a human would drive over a kidnapper. Say your car is bullet proof. A man in a ski mask wielding a machine gun jumps in front of the road and orders you to stop. You refuse, he starts shooting at your car as you get near him (this i
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
If I'm not mistaken, they use a similar technique to makes satellite images of earth that don't have cloud cover, or maps without cars and stuff, yet we know it is highly likely these were present when pictures were taken. So it&#
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Wait, what do you mean black people are more likely to be pulled over, not because they're black, but because they're more likely to be young and hence more likely to speed? Which stat are you using, young black drivers as a propo
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Me, if I was working at Facebook, I'd have called it "Private Conversations." But hey, what's in a name?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
See? These are the types of reasons why the-moon-landing-was-staged conspiracy theories keep cropping up.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
This is not important, but how did they arrive at "E10S" when they went about shortening "electrolysis"? Anybody know?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Exactly how much more complex would the taxes be if you had non US people? Considering you're struggling with hiring, the complexity would have to be quite a bit to warrant missing out on non US talent, especially bearing in mind you c
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
My sense of Uber has been a company using technology innovatively to provide a much better user experience, while using currently existing but idle resources (the cars and drivers that serve customers on Uber but otherwise don't for va
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
The question them becomes, did Uber need to use similar subsidy tactics to become profitable in its mature markets? If yes, then this is just rinse and repeat, no problem. If no, then I'd argue there'll be trouble ahead.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
If Uber, at first anyway, pay drivers regardless of rides made, then aren't such tactics philosophically similar to the medallion racket in America? To subsidize some part of the equation strikes me as underhanded, as opposed to purely
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
"Keep" implies agency and control. Keep it simple. Keep me posted. Keep your identity small. The entire article is premised on the existence of this agency and control. If it is lacking, then I would argue that that's not the
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Since we're talking life and pseudo science, here's my pseudo scientific take on life: Everything everyone does in life is aimed at getting two things, love in all its degenerate cases, and knowledge. Love from ourselves to oursel
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
But if Kyle incorporated Cruise before being introduced to Jeremy as stated in the complaint, how can Jeremy claim to own stock in a company incorporated without his knowledge, and incorporated before he even knew the incorporator, unless s
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by DavidWanjiru 11y ago
"Can't recommend it enough" is what you meant to say, I want to believe.
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by DavidWanjiru 11y ago
Now I get it. The "beef" is that white replaced their white pawn with their opponents black knight, which of course the black king can't eat...
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by DavidWanjiru 11y ago
In the solution presented at the end of the article, whose turn to move is it? Who can't make any further moves coz they've been check-mated? That's what I don't get. If it's white, white can still move their king b

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