OedipusRex

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by OedipusRex 7y ago
I have a feeling these food delivery services are going to fade into obscurity or outright die. They cost way too much already and prices are only going to increase.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
Website's currently down: https://web.archive.org/web/20200131200026/https://think-bou...
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
Medium started out so well and now I hate it.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
>Should be obvious that it directly interferes with the business model of the company so it's probably never going to happen. Bingo. Facebook started out as social media platform for humans, now every local news station, your favori
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
I used it up through college and then switched over to Discord/Slack for all my text based conversations outside of texting from my phone. I really do miss the IRC crowd sometimes but the people I want to talk to are on Discord or Slac
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
I said this in another thread about Stadia, the market for Stadia is vanishingly small. The people who have high enough internet speeds that either can't or won't get a "traditional" console or PC is extremely small. Too
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
Same thing happens to website owners, I get a ton of mail with convincing enough fake bills for scam services.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
This is basically the same trap they're falling for with Stadia. It's been proven that streaming games is not really worth it. OnLive failed for the same reason's Stadia will. The number of people with fast enough Internet bu
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
SketchUp and FreeCAD are competitors in the same market.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
Will Smith is all over YouTube now, he just did a show with the SlowMoGuys. Can't help but feel like YouTube has turned into late night television.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
This is in the same vein as some other complaints around China's involvement in the gaming industry. There are calls to separate Chinese players from the rest of a game's population because of rampant cheating and unsportman like
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21175225
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
"We are writing to request that Facebook does not proceed with its plan to implement end-to-end encryption across its messaging services without ensuring that there is no reduction to user safety." Isn't the entire point of E
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
Got some on right now, love them.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
>a good idea if you don't actually care about human suffering. Capitalism.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
Who deems what is "productive"? I've seen plenty of apps that were really great get turned into shit because they were monetized or put under new leadership. See Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Reddit.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
Why all the recent IPOs?
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
I work in the EdTech realm writing software to keep students on track. Technology in the classroom is a means and not and ends, it all depends on usage. We have two "model" teachers. The old guard teacher who started their career
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
Joseph Kennedy made his fortune off securities fraud, and was appointed by FDR as the first SEC Chairman, saying "set a thief to catch a thief". https://www.professorbainbridge.com/professorbainbridgecom/2...
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
In my youth I lived off a well and did not have access to fluoridated water. My parents still live in that house. There are large swaths of people who live off of a well in the United States. We started adding fluoride to water because our
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
There are drugs that help with specific complications that are just simply not made because the market for them is too small, they're call orphan drugs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan_drug ). The drugs that m
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
It's turtles all the way down.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
Of all of these IPOs, this is the one with the most "product" behind it IMO.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
99% Invisible did an episode on Sand and it's black market: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-on-sand/
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
It's hard not to get really depressed when you think about all the political institutions that were setup to protect consumers and have since been hijacked by the corporations to protect them from the consumers.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
"Use Huawei's products, which are not controlled by the Chinese government, or the Chinese government will sanction you". The Chinese government is about as subtle as an atom bomb.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
RAID
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
This culture of sacrificing everything for the bottom line is a cancer on our industry.
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by OedipusRex 7y ago
ARPNET didn't turn into what it is today because of military usage, and OGAS didn't fail because of it's resource management use. They lived or died because of money. The United States and Soviet Union both had to build all o

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