MrMember

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by MrMember 8y ago
NPR isn't perfect, but in my experience they're leagues ahead of most other major news outlets.
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by MrMember 8y ago
Anecdotal, but I've had several friends who went to school for air traffic control give up and find work in other industries because there weren't any openings for them in ATC.
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by MrMember 8y ago
Target overhauled their self checkout system a year or so ago and it's much better. You can scan items as fast as the cashier at a standard checkout would. When I'm at a different store that uses the old "please place item in
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by MrMember 8y ago
There was a Black Mirror episode sort of like this. The person on the date wore glasses with a camera and an earpiece so the "matchmaker" could tell them what to say and do.
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by MrMember 8y ago
>Unless you have a very transactional attitude to relationships (e.g. a sort of elite-dating style situation where you just want a partner that earns well and looks good at social occasions) I can't see this working out well. Your e
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by MrMember 8y ago
When I see them I make a mental note to not visit that site again. That's getting more difficult with more sites going that route, though.
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by MrMember 8y ago
It's an issue of scale. If someone acts against societal norms and is "called out" for it from within their social group, that can be a good thing. We all sometimes need a reminder that we're acting like a dick. Bring th
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by MrMember 8y ago
>I don’t understand the need for insane UI’s, do companies feel they must make major UI changes so it looks like they’re not stagnating? I've noticed this on more than Netflix. The entire lifecycle of the Xbox 360 I think they made
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by MrMember 8y ago
I still use Kraft singles for burgers and grilled cheese sandwiches but for everything else I switched to higher quality cheese.
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by MrMember 8y ago
Not just the super rich pay capital gains tax. Reclassifying capital gains as earned income would hit me pretty solidly and I'm just a middle class guy hoping to one day achieve financial independence.
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by MrMember 8y ago
$141 million and 100 employees seems pretty light for what their goals are.
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Lawsuit: Weather Channel illegally shared user location data with advertisers(arstechnica.com)
5 points by MrMember 8y ago|1 comments
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by MrMember 8y ago
Not a bad idea if they can properly prepare for the oil money eventually drying up, like Norway with their Oil Fund.
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by MrMember 8y ago
A lot of small issues that added up to an overall negative experience. The web UI redesign a few years ago that made it the same as the UI in Android, smart TVs, etc, but also slower and more difficult to use. Autoplaying something if you h
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by MrMember 8y ago
I was kind of surprised when I canceled my Netflix account. I had a laundry list of complaints I was going to put in the "why are you canceling" box but they never gave me one. Making it easy and painless to cancel is one of the f
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by MrMember 8y ago
I'm not sure I can think of a python application I've worked on that didn't use dictionaries in some way.
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by MrMember 8y ago
I've never used a fountain pen, how well do they work for lefties? I sometimes have problems smearing ballpoint ink with my palm, do fountain pens smear more, less, or about the same?
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by MrMember 8y ago
The lead designer on PUBG, Brendan Greene, had previously made a Battle Royale Arma 2 mod.
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by MrMember 8y ago
If your rent is doubling in a week that means demand for housing is sky high and supply is low. The solution is to build more housing.
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by MrMember 8y ago
I'd love to be a pilot. I've wanted to be a commercial pilot my whole life but when I was getting ready to go to college the job market was absolutely terrible. It isn't a whole lot better today.
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by MrMember 8y ago
The police in the US have no legal duty to protect people, and several Supreme Court cases have affirmed this.
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by MrMember 8y ago
In this instance Activision doesn't even know if they own the copyright to anything in the auction. They think they might and forced him to take it down just in case.
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by MrMember 8y ago
That's great. It's like the "chicken wyngz" you can buy at the grocery store that are probably chicken but can't legally be called wings.
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by MrMember 8y ago
By all accounts Mr. Rogers wasn't a persona, though, that was the real him. He really did want to be everybody's friend, not for fame or fortune, but because he wanted to make the world a better place.
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by MrMember 8y ago
My parents had four kids when they were my age with a combined income likely less than mine (inflation adjusted). I don't know how they did it.
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by MrMember 8y ago
I've been waiting for such a device for years and it looks like we're finally getting closer to it happening. Between Samsung's Linux on Dex, the Librem 5 hopefully next year, and the ever-present rumors of Microsoft's A
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by MrMember 8y ago
Depending on how well this works it could single handedly convince me to buy a Note 9. I've been wanting something like this for years.
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Police decrypt messages after breaking pricey IronChat crypto app(arstechnica.com)
92 points by MrMember 8y ago|72 comments
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by MrMember 8y ago
Not only that but having to come up with an answer on the fly in a super high pressure situation like a job interview. I'm sure I'd fumble it somehow, and then eternally wonder if I didn't get the job because I couldn't
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by MrMember 8y ago
I read Diaspora last year and Permutation City this year. They both blew me away. Some of the most original, thought provoking science fiction I've ever read.

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