Jcowell

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by Jcowell 4y ago
> and it could be argued that giving someone like that airtime would harm the lizard-people conspiracy. It's the more mainstream (but still niche) be Not necessarily. The thing about arguments is that it’s like businesses. What dete
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I don’t doubt that private schools teacher have students that score better than public school students (we can argue the weight of all the factors later) and I don’t think GP is doubting that. His doubt is that private teachers that are pa
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by Jcowell 4y ago
Can’t the same be said about going to an amusement park since it’s not something you leave with other than an experience? (The experience in the GP case being access to the open betas)
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> it remains one of the most desired places in the world for software engineers to work The word desired here feels weird to me. I just wouldn’t describe it as people desiring to work there. People desire to work at Apple. People
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by Jcowell 4y ago
> Norfolk Southern, the railway company responsible for an apocalyptic plume of gas rose over East Palestine, Ohio, has offered a $25,000 donation to assist the area’s nearly 5,000 residents I read this as $25,000 in total not per pers
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by Jcowell 4y ago
I can envision many ways that can happen in America.
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by Jcowell 4y ago
> Maybe a couple decided to buy a second home or a duplex instead of investing in the S&P500. Just want to address this particular point. That’s the problem. People want to use houses as an investment vehicle rather than a place to a
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by Jcowell 4y ago
It’s been a year since I’ve used teams but my biggest gripe is search. Conversations are contextual. My work often requires me to find conversations that happens months ago. When unused Skype I could god into my email and recover it that wa
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by Jcowell 4y ago
Also read: Remote Work is saving workers 12B a Year
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Couldn’t you just bribe people?
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by Jcowell 4y ago
> A few days ago we were criticizing Nintendo because it was making too much money per employee and didn't hire enough. From what I recall Nintendo’s hiring was never the issue but the pay
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by Jcowell 4y ago
It’s shouldn’t but when your health insurance relies on it , it pretty much is
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How would people get answers and information without looking for answers and information? You need to query before you receive and search is the prime input that people are use to.
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You need to be a place that people go to ask and answer these questions. It doesn’t matter how big or small you are if you don’t exist because the people answering the questions don’t go to you in the first place. You’re right that there’
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by Jcowell 4y ago
Doesn’t help when the administration makes it hard to do effective oversight[1] 1. https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/trump-removes-indep...
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> Wikipedia is a better source for common usage than the US state department, and they've explicitly resisted changing the spelling. Why would common usage matter for something that recently changed? Of course the former name is m
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by Jcowell 4y ago
Yes but in the end it’s all about choice . It’s not some creation of chaotic coincidences and circumstances. It’s not some accidental discovery. It’s an active choice by whoever decides to make it for whoever purpose. The argument isn’t
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by Jcowell 4y ago
Taxes have always been means to control civilian behavior. I.e Sugar Tax
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I think my issue with this is that the main idea is that intelligence is the determiner on where or not any of these those can happen when it’s far from the truth. Intelligent people (whatever that means) can also fall victim to any of thes
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by Jcowell 4y ago
Honestly the (last I used) inability to go back to a conversation months ago via search is a much higher cost.
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by Jcowell 4y ago
One of the best thing about google is that outta free. Charging a premium subscription for Google is no longer google but a different product all together
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by Jcowell 4y ago
Gives me the following error on an iPhone: “Sorry, there was an error: The request is not allowed by the user agent or the platform in the current context, possibly because the user denied permission.”
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Ah sorry!
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> ..people are still referred to as “Black Americans” and “Asian Americans” instead of just “Americans” (similar in other countries) although they have lived there for generations, while there simply aren’t many non-Asian looking foreign
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by Jcowell 4y ago
> This letter, if it's real Just to call out that this is very real. It’s from the tcifund domain itself and there’s a previous letter written in November[1] where they share the same sentiments. [1] https://www.tcifund.c
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Letter to Sundar Pichai from TCI Fund Management [pdf](tcifund.com)
152 points by Jcowell 4y ago|322 comments
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Thor love and thunder was just bad. WW1988 is a crime against humanity
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Why exactly is this an issue if they target audience are those who own intel Macs?
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Yeah I never understand that saying. The internet isn’t a physical place but it’s still a place.
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Isn’t the word “innovation” doing a shit ton of heavy lifting here. It’s different for sure.

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