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by ForrestN 9y ago
Nice work. Just a note to say I’d go twice a month if there were events in Los Angeles! I run a small tech-centric nonprofit and could definitely use this kind of help exactly.
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A lot of Tumblr porn is actually very specifically (and astutely) curated. The few times I've visited, it's actually a much nicer experience than porn websites. If anything, I think Tumblr would be wise to lean into being, among
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I'm from the vicinity of one of those cities, and my spouse is from another one. The idea that a "blue" place isn't subject to the larger culture of its state and region is, sadly, completely disconnected from reality. I
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I think sometimes there's a tendency to conflate overt racism, like someone verbally abusing you using racial epithets, with racism in general. Racism still exists everywhere in the United States, but having grown up in the south, an
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It's interesting how little culture figures in to this conversation. It seems to me that the North and the South (Canada aside) are drastically different in ways that will really matter to a lot of people. I don't work at Amazon,
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Is this a fair way to express your problem? You're being asked to use AI to replace an entire process all at once, rather than to assist with or replace a step in that process. Instead of being asked "how do I solve this problem&q
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I agree, and would go a step further: inadequate parking is a feature, not a bug, because it creates incentives that benefit all of the people living in the area regardless of socioeconomic status.
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I agree with you. It's an interesting situation: a cultural problem that one side argues can be solved via a technical solution. The problem is that some people want a more just housing policy and some other people want a housing polic
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It’s now perfectly clear that Facebook’s business is predicated on its ability to divide us up. This is already playing out destructively in more and more visible ways, but imagine all the invisible consequences of these categorizations.
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This. I run a small non-profit. We would love to be hyper-transparent, but there are three of us working full time just to do the work that donors are supporting. We'd need to spend a lot of time and effort to release and contextualize
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I think this personification of companies as people is misleading. Whose "focus?" Do you mean you think that the same people within Apple are working on both hardware and software, and are focusing more on hardware? Or that you th
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Facebook intentionally addicts it’s users, and research increasingly shows that the use of its product is associated with declining mental health. Facebook plays a clearly negative role in society and is apparently run by people who don’t r
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Just do whatever you wish you had done at 18 now
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My dream is to have the watch, and then a cell-enabled iPad in my backpack for when I need more space. It would be perfect!
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This can apply to any monopoly that undercuts on price to destroy competition. Can't you imagine the danger of a scenario in which super-high capitalization + magical shareholder expectations = "awesome" enough to destroy com
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I'm not talking about driving down consumer costs, I'm talking about driving down profit. In addition to the usual benefits of any consolidation, Amazon is generally not expected to be profitable in the way that grocers are. How c
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I would imagine the argument for concern (not saying I agree with it) goes like this: If Amazon Whole Foods is freed from the need to be profitable (like the rest of Amazon), and has the access to all of Amazon's other infrastructure,
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It is not at all clear that this new publication indicates that researchers will not also be allowed to publish in existing journals.
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Thank you all! Will investigate! Maybe we need an api for finding apis??
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An API for handling image processing/uploading to S3: Use 1: Send a high-res image in any format (like, say, tiff), the original, a web-optimal jpg at full resolution, and any sizes that might be needed in various contexts (thumbnail,
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by ForrestN 9y ago
Hi Peter, From your perspective, how related is tech immigration policy to broader immigration policy? Does pushing for better access for well educated, successful people help or hurt the broader plight of people wishing to enter the United
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Why was this downvoted? Asking sincerely in an effort to understand and learn.
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Apple Culture After Ten Years of iPhone(mondaynote.com)
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That's not how news works. The New York Times generally doesn't publish rumors. Multiple trusted sources told famous, celebrated journalists the same thing in independent conversations. If it's a dupe that has nothing to do w
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Agreed! Here's hoping they cancel the Mountainview expansion and focus on replicating the New York approach.
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From a quick google search, it appears 20,000 of Google's 60,000 or so employees are headquartered in Mountain View, and it is widely considered the company's "headquarters." I'm not sure it's apt to think of i
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I think it's more that the fact of having a giant, expensive separate campus is itself not a particularly progressive situation, regulations aside. Just a few common sense examples of the problems with this approach: massive, custom-bu
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That's not really much of an argument, and I can't imagine why. As a society we decide what information is hidden and what isn't all the time. Some cultures make women cover their faces even. And, that doesn't address th
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So even if, say, Thiel being out saved four teenagers from committing suicide, that has no bearing on his right to hide himself? Do you disagree generally with US law that public figures do not have the same rights to privacy as other peopl
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I'm not prepared to disagree with you, but it's at least a complex question, right? Maybe there is a real social benefit to rich, powerful people being "out." Maybe there is something bad about who you are attracted to b

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