GabrielF00

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‘Customers First’ Becomes the Law in Retirement Investing(nytimes.com)
4 points by GabrielF00 11y ago|0 comments
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
My experience has been that the thought process involved in creating accessible designs results in systems that are easier to use for people without disabilities. For example, curb cuts were designed to benefit people in wheelchairs, but th
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
I don't buy enough video games to really answer that - usually I buy a couple of games a year during Steam sales and that's about it. I usually buy a couple of books a month (print and ebooks).
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
When I'm looking at prices at an online bookstore, I don't care what the list price is, I care what the price I have to pay is. When a physical object that has to be manufactured and shipped costs more than a text file, I feel ri
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
I don't think the US "made" Saudi Arabia. My recollection is that the Saud family defeated their local rivals and established the Saudi state in the 20s and 30s, and that American political involvement with Saudi Arabia reall
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Plus a lot of stuff that's probably not very interesting.
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Sen. Blumenthal Demands Lifting of IT “Gag Order”(computerworld.com)
11 points by GabrielF00 11y ago|0 comments
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Neighborhood or block-level repeaters are a big challenge. Landlords can be very difficult to reach, and very risk averse. Cell carriers generally solve this problem by paying building owners tens of thousands of dollars a year.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
It seems unlikely that a covert operative would take job as CFO of the EPA, but what do I know.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Her father has a high-level job at USAID. https://www.usaid.gov/who-we-are/organization/christian-holm...
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Does the composition of Theranos' board strike anyone else as very weird? It seems much more like the board of a foreign policy think thank than a biotech start up. There are three former cabinet secretaries (state and defense), two fo
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Technically, Dash is a different product from Dash Button. The Dash is a barcode scanner/voice device for Amazon's grocery business (Amazon Fresh). You say a product's name or scan its barcode and it adds it to your cart on A
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
IBM did this through the 50s or 60s. The songs definitely feel totalitarian. http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/08/tripping-through-ibm...
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
My understanding is that Verizon decided about five years ago not to commit to any new FIOS buildout. All they've been doing since then is finishing what they already committed to. So the tech was probably right.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
A relic from the days when people thought that cheesy animated gifs that played continuously constituted good design.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
It's super smarmy, but pretty much par for the course for how TNR and other bastions of American literary tradition treat Amazon. They published an op-ed arguing that ordinary readers (as opposed to trained book reviewers) shouldn&#x27
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Did Bezos ever actually compare Amazon's work culture to Darwinism? The Times article quotes a former HR executive as saying that, not Bezos. I've often seen newspaper articles that report XYZ, and then follow-up articles that com
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
The impression that I got from the Times article was that excessive workload led her to go for four days without sleep and to hire someone overseas to do part of her job for her. The fuller story from her LinkedIn post was that she was work
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
I was pretty shocked by how over-the-top and lacking in context the Times piece was. Lots of industries have pretty intense work cultures (management consulting, medicine, wall street). The focus on Amazon and the exaggerated language made
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Why are people buying black market prozac? Isn't it pretty trivial to get a prescription?
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Setting aside all the political stuff, it's hard to see how this deal made any sense for HP. Apple got better distribution for their iPods, kept a competitor out of the market, and got their software installed on a ton of Windows compu
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Unless people start looting artifacts because they know there will be a buyer who won't prosecute them.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
I think a big chunk of the low savings rate comes from skyrocketing college and healthcare costs combined with stagnant salaries for a long time.
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
I looked at the data and was struck by the fact that the top schools by ten-year earnings were medical schools. This led me to believe that the data doesn't distinguish between undergraduate and graduate programs. If that's the ca
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
>Care to elaborate? I don't see how that would be a problem. Agricultural areas would shift, and maybe we'd have to move some stuff further inland/build dikes/turn cities into Venice. Anything I'm missing? All of
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I was quoted in the NY Times article about working at Amazon. Here is my story(linkedin.com)
5 points by GabrielF00 11y ago|0 comments
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China and Russia are cross-indexing hacked data to target U.S. spies(latimes.com)
3 points by GabrielF00 11y ago|1 comments
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
Minor correction - that's Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, not Boston Women's
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
This discussion reminds me of an interesting story. In the South under Jim Crow, whites were very reluctant to call a black man "Mr.", which made things difficult when they had to discuss prominent people (like Booker T. Washingto
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by GabrielF00 11y ago
A lot of those were obviously fake emails though (foxmulder@fbi.gov for example)

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