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by _bxg1 6y ago
Exactly. People 20-30 years ago ate that stuff up; these days I think most people see it as garish and tacky. Wealth signaling absolutely still happens, but today the facades it tends to orbit around involve words like "minimal",
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by _bxg1 6y ago
In fairness, conspicuous consumption is one of the primary draws of Vegas. Probably not a very representative example.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Just my anecdotal impression; it's possible I'm biased by the extents of my bubble
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by _bxg1 6y ago
There's also been a huge trend reversal on "conspicuous consumption". Even the wealthy now do their wealth-signaling through minimalism, instead of flash and excess. Self-proclaimed "luxury brands" have a dwindling
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by _bxg1 6y ago
A sibling comment says the non-mmWave one uses the same bands as 4G, which would suggest it's not the version the OP is talking about
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by _bxg1 6y ago
The term is hard to pin down when it's been diluted by things like AT&T rebranding their 4G towers as 5G towers overnight: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/01/att-decides-4g-is-no...
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Only Samsung's very latest flagship release has a 5G antenna, and Apple hasn't even announced a 5G phone yet. Even if it had, the average person keeps their phone for several years, so almost nobody has a 5G device in their pocket
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I think they're hoping it will inspire (strongarm?) people into buying new phones, which will juice a slowing smartphone market for both OEMs and the carriers that take a cut of sales.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Except: - It's shorter-range, so coverage will be spotty for a long time - It doesn't go through buildings , so even the urban centers most likely to get the first towers will have spotty coverage - It will require buying a new d
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Sure, but that's still the free market. Free-market purists (many of whom live in rural areas) have to realize that this is what comes from taking a hardline stance against government action when it comes to the economy. Stuff just s
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I have yet to hear anyone who's not a telecom CEO or a politician say they actually want 5G
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by _bxg1 6y ago
What is ERP?
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Edited for clarity. Didn't think about the ambiguity.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
This looks perfect, thank you! I knew there was no way I could've been the first person to think of this
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by _bxg1 6y ago
The way I see it is, a rural economy has to be propped up by at least one "export" of some kind. This usually isn't informational; the information economy gravitates toward urban centers. Whether or not the information econom
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by _bxg1 6y ago
One of my favorite things (at least for personal projects) about using the cloud is so-called "platform as a service" systems like Heroku, where I don't have to get down in the weeds, I just push code and the process starts (
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Products like this have existed in various forms for a few years now, but this is poised to set a new bar. I wonder at what point a significant number of companies will start issuing their developers lightweight laptops and just having them
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Seems like a pretty subtle and non-acute thing. Maybe even analogous to smoking: something that gradually erodes your health, not something that suddenly kills you.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Pretty sure any impact from that would be a very long-term thing. A lifetime without particulates might have an effect; a month seems pretty far-fetched.
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Compiler “optimizes” memcpy into infinite recursion(twitter.com)
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> For me, loving restaurants is about all the stuff that surrounds the thing on your plate. It’s the buzz and hum of a busy dining room. It’s the friendly banter with bartenders and servers. It’s celebrating milestones with friends and f
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by _bxg1 6y ago
And everyone I know IRL is saying they won't go out yet even as restrictions are lifted.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I wouldn't be shocked if Wordpress has singlehandedly tarnished the reputation of PHP in general
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by _bxg1 6y ago
Yes, there are lots of people out there who don't care remotely about the greater good. Maybe even more than there are people who do care. But there's also a defeatist phenomenon - a Prisoners' Dilemma sort of thing - where p
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I'm just saying it doesn't have to be either/or. Bad press has a real, if currently small, effect. Organization could have a bigger effect but is also harder to accomplish. All avenues should be explored.
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by _bxg1 6y ago
> without worker power, attention on its own doesn't actually do anything I don't think this is true. With enough bad press, it starts to make a difference both on the consumer side and the hiring side. I've turned down Am
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I think the only way to change Amazon's behavior is to hit them where it hurts: their bottom line. Right now these practices continue to be profitable - there are no consequences - and even among other giant corporations, Amazon stands
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I was paid to build a Wordpress extension once. It was the most miserable programming experience of my life. Wordpress is no doubt a powerful force on the web. As a no-code website-creation environment, it's fine. Maybe even good. But
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by _bxg1 6y ago
I don't think it's mutating. I think it's just very novel, and also came with its own red herring in the form of the respiratory symptoms. Doctors treated the problem in front of them and assumed it was like other things they
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by _bxg1 6y ago
People are taking more walks and runs in my neighborhood than ever before. Social distancing != hiding indoors.

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