Uhhrrr

69 ms·

571.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
Swearing is artificially powerful language, and kids are especially prone to abusing any shred of power they can get (because of fully justified insecurity about how much power they have). So if you allow swearing it they'd just ruin t
572.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
I agree that Uber has a net positive social impact, but the Kapors are nevertheless right to try to force change here. 1) They have more direct control over, and responsibility for, Uber corporate behavior. 2) Uber corporate culture might b
573.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
The counterparty was the Department of Justice.
574.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
Correction: Settled a federal racial discrimination lawsuit.
575.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
Of course they do. Netflix original content is specifically targeted towards its users. https://blog.kissmetrics.com/how-netflix-uses-analytics/
576.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
Survivor bias - someone who has is less likely to post.
577.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
Perhaps it was launched but it literally didn't matter whether that product went on to be successful.
578.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
Also, interviewing aside, someone incompetent enough to get fired after 3 weeks at another company surely wouldn't last more than a couple quarters at FB.
579.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
True, but of course the choice was up to Steve Jobs, not Apple. Also, how the hell would you hire "person like Steve" anyway?
580.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
I'm 4/5 through Oryx and Crake and it's one of the best SF books I've read in recent years.
581.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
It might take 50-60 years to declare it an unvarnished success, but it could take a very short amount of time to declare it a failure.
582.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
Keep in mind they have to defend against multiple state actors (Russia, China, even some much smaller countries with a lot of investment in SIGINT) who are also very competent and have a ton of attack vectors to work with.
583.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
Any time it places someone in a particular bin because of race, it's racist - whether that's eating watermelon, or rice, or hamburgers. The harm is that the assumption gets in the way of relating to a particular individual.
584.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
The reason I say that he would have noticed is that the book has many examples of him being careful with expenses and the numbers in general. From the same chapter as the quote above: As a former bookkeeper, Rockefeller devoted special atte
585.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
I don't think that sort of thing makes him more relatable to anyone except bean counters and engineers. It might have been company lore, though. In general the book shows him to be very good at seeing opportunities and at optimizing. I
586.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
This is my favorite passage from Titan: With a talent for seeing things anew, Rockefeller could study an operation, break it down into component parts, and devise ways to improve it. In many ways, he anticipated the efficiency studies of en
587.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
I was on the edge of my seat towards the end of the second third of Seveneves. The last third was mostly world building, though. I liked it, but I can understand why others would check out.
588.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
Another one: handicapping. Chess with rook odds, or Go with a few handicap stones.
589.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
What's the source for this?
590.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
Of course! And a lot of people called motherfuckers do not fuck their mothers, and the ones that call them that are possible fucking mothers themselves. But I think the meanings of both "motherfucker" and "SJW" are broad
591.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
The insulting component is that an SJW doesn't necessarily practice what they preach, but instead just uses any deviation from a very rigid (and not necessarily beneficial) behavior code to score points and undermine others.
592.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
In one bio ("Hard Drive", maybe?) it mentioned that he'd just go on a boat for a week with a huge stack of books once in a while.
593.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
I like this experiment, so long as we can have exceptions for obviously relevant new material, i.e. "Trump advocates backdoor for Linux kernel" or some such.
594.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
I tend to do this with a lot of cocktail books. Dale Degroff, for example, is a great writer but man does he like 'em sweet.
595.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
I don't like the idea of computer evaluation at all. The measure of whether one has a winning position should be winning.
596.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
That was actually one of the few services which looked interesting to me. $20 to save at least 40 minutes a month and they also regularly check your tires. Has anyone here used it?
597.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
Hm - I think Karaoke is a chance to express yourself with the help of a ready-made backing track. Together with the reverb of the mic and an audience of friendlies, karaoke is your best singing self, not a self-compromise.
598.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
One other thing: Jahmal is playing against the time signature in that section, which would be anathema to someone who just wants to make sounds to move bodies by.
599.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
I have a Lenovo Yoga with touch screen and it's frequently easier to just touch the screen than guide the mouse over. It is convenient enough that I probably will never go back (willingly). It doesn't mean that I'm pointing 8
600.
by Uhhrrr 10y ago
That section goes for 10 seconds. I guess if Tiesto only ever played for 10 seconds that would be cool.

More ›