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by Talyen42 7y ago
This is why I don't buy the "IoT smart home" future. There's no such thing as a "smart" device that doesn't typically break within 4-5 years. Dozens of such devices in a house means you'd be dealing w
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by Talyen42 7y ago
Apparently not, I live in a metropolitan area of >1m people and there are just countless markers for "Dumpster (non-edible)" spanning the map.
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by Talyen42 7y ago
If you placed your order with Yellow Pages or with Google, then yes, definitely.
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by Talyen42 7y ago
He's just a scam artist who wants media coverage to further his scams.
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by Talyen42 7y ago
This is not true. Using apple's in-app billing system is optional. You can always keep your billing entirely out of your free app.
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by Talyen42 8y ago
> “Having your earphones in is the universal ‘don’t talk to me’ sign. There’s something strange about that.” What is strange about not wanting to interact with people? It's a nice, easy way to signal that.
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by Talyen42 8y ago
Is this buzzfeed's "The Onion"?
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by Talyen42 8y ago
Equity-based student loan funding is way less predatory than debt-based student loans, in my opinion, but every comment I read screams "slavery" and "wage-slave". Of course, both types of funding can be benevolent and&#x
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by Talyen42 8y ago
A lot of BS in this post: "People who are happy and have hope for the future rarely become drug addicts." Completely ignorant of the context and causes of opioid addiction and overdose.
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by Talyen42 8y ago
As an employed person making 100k, if given UBI I would quit and not do anything productive-to-society for most of the rest of my life. So yes, that is a legitimate argument. The counter-argument is that the benefit coming from more people
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by Talyen42 8y ago
If aramco is a company, so is the united states IMHO
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by Talyen42 8y ago
3rd largest bank in the world offline for an entire day because a smoke alarm went off great job guys
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by Talyen42 8y ago
"That’s because we were trialing a lot of things in Louisville, including a different type of construction method — namely, placing fiber in much shallower trenches than we’ve done elsewhere." Read as: We messed around with your s
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by Talyen42 8y ago
In Amazon's case, it's more like you walk in for Heineken and see three advertisements: * Best Heineken (a Chinese no-name brand with 1,551 fake reviews) * Top Rated Heinekan (a Chinese no-name brand with 6,731 fake reviews) * Gen
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by Talyen42 8y ago
If Amazon's growth rate decelerates by 1% each year for 10 years, they'd end up with ~$1.7 trillion in revenue, more than 3x walmart. That's more in line with what Amazon shareholders are expecting with the current valuation
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by Talyen42 8y ago
We live in a golden age of storytelling. Long-form TV and long-form podcasts have almost entirely replaced literature in my life, as someone who loves both grandiose fiction and nitty gritty non-fiction. Coincidentally, I don't watch m
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by Talyen42 8y ago
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by Talyen42 8y ago
Is Google responsible for racism people send in emails to each other? Is AT&T responsible for racism people send over group text messages? As much as I dislike FB, you can't just say everything people talk about on a given platform
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by Talyen42 8y ago
While it was a great deal, I don't like to use services that change the rules every 24 hours, so I canceled my subscription.
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by Talyen42 8y ago
> Two San Francisco supervisors introduced an ordinance last week that would forbid employee cafeterias in new corporate construction. Yeah, we could use some more traffic and pollution from everyone driving 10 miles for lunch. As a prog
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by Talyen42 8y ago
“I do this to my dog — why wouldn’t I do it to myself?” Because my dog keeps losing his wallet. There is no good use case for chipping humans outside of imaginary ultra-security-required situations.
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by Talyen42 8y ago
This is the only really true, non-theoretical advice in the thread. OP's description is generally how every project at every company has ever worked, forever.
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by Talyen42 8y ago
The average person spends almost exactly as much as they make as income rises. It's a hedonic treadmill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill
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by Talyen42 8y ago
great job getting by my mission impossible style laser beams, hackerman now please enter your non-SMS two-factor authentication code
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by Talyen42 8y ago
"We lost the contract to Amazon"
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by Talyen42 8y ago
It's all in the marketing. Scammy ICO promises? It's a security. The number of promises the Ethereum foundation and developers have made with regard to expected ROI? Pretty much zero in centralized fashion. Not a security. If I se
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by Talyen42 8y ago
sources said, every year since the beginning of time
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by Talyen42 8y ago
Same. I felt like I was racist and sexist while trying to hire people, based on the results (a team of 90% white males). But it was not a problem I could solve.
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by Talyen42 8y ago
Someone's name + linkedin profile (almost always included) tends to give it away 90% of the time. Sometimes you don't know, sure, but usually you do. Just like gender. We didn't ask, of course.
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by Talyen42 8y ago
No, but someone's name + linkedin profile (almost always included) tends to give it away 90% of the time. Sometimes you don't know, sure, but usually you do. Just like gender. We didn't ask, of course.

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