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by _jal 5y ago
> However our [...] results show that personalization improves overall store conversion ... So many questions of the form "this thing annoys me, how do I fix it" are answered by "These other people are making money annoyin
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by _jal 5y ago
Last time I moved between states, I asked and was able to pay a deposit to avoid the credit check. I randomly got it refunded several years later after I'd forgotten about it. Of course that was over a decade ago. And if this data beco
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by _jal 5y ago
He's pointing out that many (not all) people complaining are asking for criticism - other peoples' speech - to be shut down. There are a few sincere people out there. But most whining about cancel culture are just asking to be fr
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by _jal 5y ago
And here's where how something is used makes all the difference. I have zero issues with my neighbors having my phone number. If I lived in a smallish place, extending that would be fine. I have huge issues with spammers and con artist
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by _jal 5y ago
The best justice money can buy. If you look past the silly complaints about word choice and such, people like Weiss are complaining that people want to change that. Same as the nonsense about 'cancelling' - the actual complaint i
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by _jal 5y ago
Approximately one half of a giraffe.
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by _jal 5y ago
_Secondhand Time_ is good, although a Russian friend who lived through it has quibbles with parts of it. For coverage of the formation of the "new Russia", _Nothing is True and Everything is Possible_ is good.
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by _jal 5y ago
> If not, what's the difference Political valence. It is a term a certain flavor of culture warrior likes to employ in attempts to devalue public statements by their opponents.
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by _jal 5y ago
For me personally, absolutely. I loathe subscriptions. It is the mental overhead. Since the shift to subscriptions, my personal spending on software is down something like 80% from what it was ca. 2015. Replacements mainly have been open so
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by _jal 5y ago
Maybe St. Peter's bones?
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by _jal 5y ago
What makes you think this was unclear?
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by _jal 5y ago
Mousetraps do not depend on patents to exist. You can still have your mousetrap set, you just can't prevent others from re-deriving the same set.
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by _jal 5y ago
Speaking only for me, I'm OK with paying, but trusting browser extensions, as they currently exist, is hard.
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by _jal 5y ago
> Bank of America doesn't deserve to represent itself as the bank of America Oh, this story is quintessential US Americana, right down to the name. I've long maintained that one of the biggest gifts to US corporations is how fe
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by _jal 5y ago
"Carry a gun" ngram frequency: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=carry+a+gun&ye... "Wear a gun": https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=wear+a+gun&yea
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by _jal 5y ago
That's is not a moral panic. It is a continual, ongoing policy disagreement. Leftier-than-thou types may yell at you, but they're not taking your children away or trying to throw you in jail. (Come to think of it, it looks an awfu
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by _jal 5y ago
Yeah, it is tricky. Chat sits in this in-between semi-synchronous zone that different people want to treat as slightly more or slightly less synced. And that's where the disconnect happens. "Helloers" want more sync, it appea
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by _jal 5y ago
It is just part of a human-centric session initiation protocol. A major reason people do it is to query presence-at-keyboard before continuing. Maybe the matter is time sensitive, maybe they don't want to disclose something immediately
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by _jal 5y ago
Depends on your threat model. Generally probably not, but there's always a risk, and network stacks are not becoming simpler. There are disclosure risks - bluetooth trackers are common in retail stores. I disable Bluetooth on almost ev
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by _jal 5y ago
"They sent a slamhound on Turner's trail in New Delhi, slotted it to his pheromones and the color of his hair."
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by _jal 5y ago
Your food will taste really gross well before it is dangerous. And cooking acidic foods in cast iron ruins the seasoning, so anyone who uses it regularly already doesn't do that.
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by _jal 5y ago
Welcome to being an adult. People will do all sorts of things you think are not "OK", including people you're attached to. If you have kids, they will, too. How we choose to deal with watching people do things we think they s
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by _jal 5y ago
> Google does make money from ads, but that is not their primary business. Per their 10K, ads are >80% of their revenue. I'm sorry, carry on.
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by _jal 5y ago
Google can censor. Censorship is necessarily performed by an entity with the power to restrict information conveyance, but it is not necessary for them to be a government. It is true that it is impossible for Google to violate the 1st Amend
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by _jal 5y ago
Yeah, I refuse to resubcribe to them or the Times. If the only way these ailing news orgs* can survive is by being manipulative jerks to people trying to stop paying them, then let them burn. * Neither the Economist nor the Times is ailing
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by _jal 5y ago
Billionaires are not required for civilization. Put aside the hereditary wealthy, whom I don't think you're thinking of, either. The existence of billionaires is an artifact of inefficient legal and economic systems, and the set o
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by _jal 5y ago
Personally, I blame Charlie Babbage for voice mail spam.
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by _jal 5y ago
Can't speak for everywhere, but in SF, I've never heard of enforcement, at least towards residential waste producers.
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by _jal 5y ago
Aside from the general lack of quality documentation these days, the decline of technical writing as a profession has been a big loss. They didn't just organize and write documentation. I recall doc interviews where tech writers would
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by _jal 5y ago
Different 'good schools' are received differently, though. If you work in Bay Area tech, a Stanford degree is more equal than others. --Someone who went to a good non-Stanford school and works for a well-known company

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