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by RickS 10y ago
Lots of subjectivity here, to the point that it becomes near nonsense. But, playing the game: "Yuppies" and "Hippies" cover swaths so wide that they contain different people. The "income redistribution" yuppies
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Smallest possible data point, but here: I'm moving to Seattle in 2 weeks and was recently there for a few days interviewing and whatnot. I read extensively about the Seattle Freeze and nonetheless tried to strike up conversations every
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> Tesla is important but will never sell anywhere near like an iPhone. One of the best parts about victories that large is that the benefit decouples from the original product. You don't have to buy an iPhone anymore, you can buy th
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> Indeed has become much more relevant than during my last job search Can you expand on this? I've long written off indeed as one of the generic monster.com types that just scrapes stuff from elsewhere and doesn't actually crea
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by RickS 10y ago
Has a very precipitous downturn in VC funding actually occurred? There's been convincing clatter for awhile now that it's expected, but my feeling was that while it was lower, it wasn't the kind of downturn that would shave 4
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by RickS 10y ago
> - Perhaps job boards are slowly dying as a way to fill jobs There certainly seems to be a new class of job site. Hired, underdog, and greenhouse are what everyone seems to use these days. With the exception of angellist, nobody I know
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> Feels a bit like we are at the tail end of a pretty big macro cycle of tech companies green lighting big initiatives with optimistic mindset and now a few years later the due bill is coming and the bets just didn't pay off. Exactl
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This could certainly be done well sans deep model, but a motion detector alone would probably end up soaking the occasional delivery guy / neighborhood kid.
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This is great. There's a project that's the inverse as well: http://www.quantumpicture.com/Flo_Control/flo_control.htm A door that only lets cats in, based on image recognition. As an aside, I've really
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Right - that's a good explanation, but I'm clear on the persistence of the media after deletion. What I'm wondering about is how it explicitly became genuinely available (as opposed to a lingering cached copy here and there)
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That's a good point. It's not clear yet if it's THE original video (same content ID, old comments/likes, etc)
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From a technical/operations perspective: That the police used her phone to delete it via vanilla facebook app is 100% plausible, but what's far more implausible is whatever mechanism was used to restore it. What are the options? F
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I have no idea, and that's what makes it difficult. It's the purpose of the sentence you quoted. Consequences are almost always about losing something, and you have to have something to lose it, so you can't punish those who
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I haven't encouraged locking anybody up, or fining anybody. They don't care. It doesn't work. I know. Please don't put words in my mouth. "They're just doing what they must to survive" doesn't justify
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> The problem here isn't just homelessness, but acceptance of bad behaviors and almost no penalties for crimes committed by those without means -- citations are ignored, many arrests are catch and release. I couldn't agree more
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Are there fleshed-out arguments for why one has the right to be forgotten by the web more than they have the right to be forgotten by the mind?
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Note for others: had to click "text only version" to read
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HN readers: Do you think the engineers knew? I ask because I've worked on various products, and single units change hands between engineers constantly . Phones for testing, accounts with shared dev passwords, the actual hardware, all
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> This doesn't need to be a legal issue. It's simply a rule of the building. People violating it are violating their contract with their building just like when they violate any other rule. This sounds good in writing, but in p
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The practice of creating accounts on a site and making "real" seeming posts for a long time so that when you want to flip the switch and use them for something corporate, they look like they have a background and aren't flagg
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I am currently in this situation. It's case by case. Guy screaming "help, I'm dying!" I called 911. Two bums fighting over a bike? It will be over before the cruiser arrives.
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not the OP, but my guess: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/fbi-overstated-fo... >The Justice Department and FBI have formally acknowledged that nearly every examiner in an elite FBI forensic unit gave
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by RickS 10y ago
1) no: https://twitter.com/puellavulnerata/status/73523010215444889... 2) waiting to comment until after your org has made an official statement is, if anything, erring on the side of being professional 3) Attempt
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SEEKING WORK (DESIGN) Location: San Francisco Remote: yes Portfolio: http://livemethoddesign.com/ Resume: http://livemethoddesign.com/img/RickSteele_Resume_2016.pdf Email: patrickjsteele@gmail.com If y
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Location: San Francisco (open to relocate!) Remote: tentatively Willing to relocate: Extremely. Preference for a larger tech city (austin, seattle, portland?) but open to consider anything. Portfolio: http://livemethoddesign.com&
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> restoring old cars, remodeling my home, building robots. May I ask what city/neighborhood you're in? I'm looking to escape from San Francisco to do that exact list of things.
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Devil's Advocate: If the court system is presumed to be functional here, billionaire is funding a just outcome that could not otherwise come to pass.
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Uber has an extremely adversarial relationship with the US gov, so while I doubt they're doing this out of love for their users, citizen privacy and uber's profits happen to have a shared enemy.
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by RickS 11y ago
Media programs that use the codecs - namely adobe video stuff, but pro tools/cubase and some audio tools as well.
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by RickS 11y ago
This is marketing spam disguised as a complaint letter, with uncompelling comparisons given the number of established patterns in the messaging space. Gross.

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