LaundroMat

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by LaundroMat 3y ago
That's a great idea! Someone should create a bank that specifically serves entertainment businesses. Install an ethics/business practices review process to weed out the bad players and reputational risk is turned into opportunity.
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
Agreed, it was unexpected for Mattel. My issue with the movie is that it's corporate whitewashing and people are just eating it up. But that's just the way of the world.
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
I didn't think the Barbie movie was that unexpected. It was a thinly veiled attempt at making Mattel seem authentic (in the corporate marketing sense). It's just a step up from having a snarky Twitter account to "connect with
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
That's because they are premium members too and chose not to tell you who they were.
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
The Video Game History Foundation is working to "get expanded exemptions for libraries and organizations preserving video games, which are currently far more limited than their ability to preserve books, movies, audio, etc." They
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
> I was an early adapter I see what you did there.
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
Well, it's vague, but not that meaningless. For one, it refutes the notion that populists' actions are actually what the people want, let alone benefit the people, because populists only claim to act against the elites and for the
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
I don't have access to the article, but do they define "populism" in it? The same Wikipedia article you linked to also says > In popular discourse—where the term has often been used pejoratively—it has sometimes been used
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
What did you learn from these experiments?
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
Do you know that first link's security certificate fails and the website is under construction. I'd love to visit the museum when I'm in Vienna. Not that it will happen in the very near future, but I plan on revisiting Vienna
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
If you're worried about GDPR or your users' privacy when using Google Fonts, someone wrote privacy-friendly drop-in replacement at https://github.com/coollabsio/fonts
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
Ah, that's interesting. I always thought it was a selective quote lifted from Deming. Can you tell where it originated? Taylor, or even before?
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
"At some level" is the crucial point. But all too often metrics are a stand-in for the overall goal, and people forget their reductive nature, thereby allowing the system to optimize for the metrics instead of the underlying goal.
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
Exactly. Most people I witnessed saying this never even heard of Deming.
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
The most vivid (and horrific) example of what relying too much on metrics can lead to are Robert McNamara's policies during the Vietnam War. [1] Also, because defenders of KPI-driven management love to use the saying that "you can
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
More and more services are refusing to let you use a single-use Revolut credit card ("This card cannot be used for recurrent payments"). You could of course just create and cancel a regular credit card, but that's an extra st
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Ask HN: Was the introduction of computers deemed as transformative as AI is now?
4 points by LaundroMat 3y ago|2 comments
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
Well, it's still not easy, but I'm so much more aware of it. Actually, I was aware of it, and rationally knew I was creating stress that could be avoided, but I persisted. What made it click in my situation was how my therapist
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
I can relate to this 90%. The only difference with me was that I had stressful home situation and I postponed things that I knew I'd be able to get away with at the last minute. The former is being resolved but is mostly out of my hand
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
Also: incentives are aligned. Kagi gets money from its users, so it will do what's best for them. Google's incentives are more muddled, to put it mildly.
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
At the risk of being obvious, see also Dreyer's 1928 La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc ( https://vimeo.com/169369684 ).
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
That's my pick too. I played it when I was 12 on my Amiga and the ending made me cry.
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
... deceptive and click baity content too.
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
Have you tested it with real users before launching? What did you learn that was different from your initial theories (on e.g. incentives, handling low value content, ...) for realizing your ideal?
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
This is great (for people who want to signal they're in the know).
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
I found that too reductive too (emails aren't always tasks either). Making the point that notes are emails are tasks wasn't even necessary as an introduction to the main ideas of the article.
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
That's exactly what Brin and Page said in the paper where they presented Google... "[W]e expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers&quot
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
In Belgium, that's not the case for phone calls. You can't email or fax someone without their prior permission, but you can call them, as long as they're not on the do-not-call-list. Of course, that list is dead in the water.
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
Reading this felt like reading the beginning of a cyberpunk novel. (I do not mean to dismiss your post, only the strangeness of the situation).
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by LaundroMat 3y ago
My email mentions two group id's. I had to look at each group's page to see its id (no other way of finding out what group we're talking about). I have _no_ groups with the id's mentioned in the email. Also, I'm a s

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