RickS

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by RickS 9y ago
Election related TV ads have stringent requirements about disclosing financiers, relative to other kinds of ads. Is this more insidious than running a blatant attack ad with a donor list? I'd say that it definitely is. The more pressin
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by RickS 9y ago
Yes. We only have a russian propaganda problem because we have a severe underlying critical thinking/education problem that makes large chunks of the populace susceptible to memes about Jesus arm wrestling.
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by RickS 9y ago
>born defective in the first place Basically all the music you've ever heard has gone through many versions of this and it's larger (1/4in') equivalent. If it's defective, it's making the world go round rega
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by RickS 9y ago
Location: Seattle Remote: Sure Portfolio: http://ricksteeledesign.com/ Email: In profile I'm a product designer with enough engineering chops to have meaningful technical conversations, and enough experience in regulat
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And nearly indistinguishable from iMessage on OSX. Chrysler shouldn't make their tires square just because Ford was first to the circle. I'm happy they're not burning cycles reinventing the wheel.
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Yes. The optionality relative to rural america is excellent. The optionality relative to the bay area is very poor.
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They are so effective it staggers me. I previously had a side project ecommerce biz doing mid 4 figures a month. My cofounder installed a shopify plugin that pops up an email form. That made me sick. It converts at 10%. That makes me sicker
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Relocated from SOMA to West Seattle ~2 years ago. Went from paying 2300 for an 800sf 1br above a liquor store to 1750 for a 3br house with a 30 minute commute by bus. They have beat cops for transit here, which means they're not rollin
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by RickS 9y ago
> I personally know I will never be able to afford housing close to work based on how things are now. Currently I'm just saving my pennies and hoping I can move to another job with a lower cost of living somewhere else in a few year
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Ask HN: West coast companies that offer private offices?
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1) site is incompatible with safari incognito mode? Weird. what non-creepy reason is behind this? 2) signal is a secure messaging app, and many other things. Consider naming yourself something more original.
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Betting the farm that mom and pop shippers can deliver a better customer experience than Amazon is a fast track to an earned death. Cest la vie.
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by RickS 9y ago
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair
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"My restaurant could have been successful, if only we could have been less safe!" is not an encouraging sentiment from the people who make my food.
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The absurdity of the headline makes every following point impossible to take seriously. Saying dumb stuff has a cost. It sounds like "facebook needs to start being about people you know, and stop being about everything else." That
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by RickS 9y ago
> They want breathing room but disdain the energy wastefulness, visual monotony and social conformity of postwar manufactured neighborhoods. then a few sentences later > Existing suburbs were developed to maximize house and lot sizes,
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by RickS 9y ago
It's the movie "The Interview" on platforms that happen to also do a lot of interviews themselves. False positive. If you filter trends to just that week and look at related searches, it's very clear. http://w
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by RickS 9y ago
Depends on what part of the interviewing process is slowing you down. Your other comment indicates that your question is not "what jobs interview with day-to-day challenges rather than google-scale hypotheticals" >They involve
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the NSA leaks have all been the result of internal employees leaking outward, rather than outside people reaching inward where they shouldn't. That's a meaningful distinction, IMO. They call for t
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by RickS 9y ago
From the article: > In particular, I’ve been hanging out at social.coop, which I co-own with the other users of the instance. Now, whether that's "own" like "founder" or "own" like "credit union me
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by RickS 9y ago
there's an irony to bashing the shallow corporatization of twitter while actively trying to manufacture outrage alongside a link to your competing service. gross.
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by RickS 9y ago
Re 3: read "behind" as "backing" not "orchestrating in the shadows" major US banks and whatnot have started to make crypto/bitcoin plays in the past few years. The idea is that these plays are early for th
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by RickS 9y ago
As a designer who's routinely on both sides of the hiring process, the writer is projecting, clearly. If you're experiencing these slights with such frequency that they appear endemic, take the hint about the value you're per
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you're not crazy. i have tried to come up with a scenario that would let SF match the material wealth I have in seattle for less than 300k/year (2x increase), but to no avail. It's just not a sensible place to have a family.
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take home at 130 was almost exactly 3k/check housing ate 48% of my monthly income
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What's the advantage of that comment style? 4chan's comment threading is effectively non-existent
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by RickS 9y ago
Can anyone comment on the performance of a newish MBP with this kit relative to a modest custom gaming PC?
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> and doesn’t do any more than using the wrong finger repeatedly in previous versions. pressing home 5x instead of triggering the wrong fingerprint lockout is probably 20x faster, and can be done in the pocket/blind much more easil
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There's a lot to unpack in that comment, and I'm not going to take a swing at much of it, except to say that you should be careful of confusing visibility with reality. Both the haves and the have nots are equipped with increasing
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by RickS 9y ago
Thanks for that link. Interesting rundown of the topic.

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