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by _rpd 9y ago
I think it is pretty clear that we should automate box packing as soon as possible. It is a waste of human talent to have people doing this.
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No one reads "everything is okay" stories. Journalists need people to click through to their stories and view their advertisements. It's how they get paid.
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Amazon is already working to fully automate these warehouses. Actions that increase the cost of labor will simply accelerate this process.
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> Freedom of the Press Foundation is launching an online archives collection in partnership with Archive-It, a service developed by the Internet Archive It looks like this project uses this Internet Archive. I agree that https:/&#x
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by _rpd 9y ago
There are a lot of ego games. Non-anonymous philanthropy is probably the last one we should discourage.
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Yeah, it is less like a high school drama, and more like buying a guaranteed tax revenue stream so large that it makes Goldman Sachs jealous.
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by _rpd 9y ago
> Facebook News Feed change hides news, hurts nation ... or, at least, hurts sfchronicle.com ad revenue.
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by _rpd 9y ago
Being (perceived as) healthy has been a factor in social status since antiquity. For every status competition, you are going to find people who are willing to pay for high perceived status.
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by _rpd 9y ago
> Minorities are not joining the ranks of teachers and instead the diversity of teachers is getting more and more white. The link you cited seems to contradict this statement ... > Figure 2 shows that the population of public school t
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by _rpd 9y ago
Advances in personalized medicine can't come soon enough.
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by _rpd 9y ago
It's difficult to argue that touchscreen isn't more natural in some sense. I've seen a 2 year old competently use an iPad to access media and play simple games. Programming seems to require a more sophisticated UI though, s
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by _rpd 9y ago
Yeah but my nieces and nephews are practically touchscreen only users, so maybe for them. I'm personally holding out for decent voice controlled UI - should be any year now.
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by _rpd 9y ago
My laptop has a touchscreen. I didn't even realize until I needed to clean it. Maybe they'll require all new macOS screens to be touchscreens?
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> I generally hate when websites redesign to "look nicer" based on the aesthetic du jour and in doing so throws away a significant portion of the functionality. I'm right there with you. On the other hand, some of my acco
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by _rpd 9y ago
I don't think it is possible. Different hardware means different user experience. You can pretend it is the same application, make one sale and provide different software for each device. But this is more of a marketing gimmick than
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by _rpd 9y ago
Ad blocking will always be an arms race. But even small imposed expenses on advertisers seems to eliminate most ads.
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by _rpd 9y ago
Adblock Plus works for Safari on iOS.
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by _rpd 9y ago
> What makes those malls so... relevant? One factor not mentioned so far is that they are large employers of low skilled labor. If malls disappear, this will be one less employment option.
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by _rpd 9y ago
I strongly suggest that anyone considering denying someone employment for the reason "I don't like felons" seek legal counsel before putting this reason in writing to the rejected applicant.
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by _rpd 9y ago
Every "good job" I've applied for has had an explicit warning that lying during the interview process will result in automatic dismissal. It's perfectly justifiable.
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Yes, but every time you make such a decision to deny, you are opening yourself to a lawsuit. it just isn't worth it. The exclusion clause will likely find more use as a loophole ... > [Does not apply] to a position where an employe
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by _rpd 9y ago
It does seem to be the case ... > (c) An employer, upon reasonable request, shall provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant applying for employment. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.
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by _rpd 9y ago
Firefighting, search and rescue, power line maintenance, home inspection and of course, military/law enforcement night operations.
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by _rpd 9y ago
> "Modern Media is a DoS Attack on Your Free Will" > Only if you allow it to be, just like with any other compulsive activity, if it starts affecting your life negatively, you should probably make some personal life changes.
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Their competitors don't appear to be much cheaper ($40 per bulb), and their pitch materials cite home lighting automation kits that start in the thousands (possibly wired?). They seemed to think that they had a significant price advan
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by _rpd 9y ago
They did a lot of things right. It seems like they just couldn't compete with copycats. Maybe they overestimated demand at that price point?
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by _rpd 9y ago
The Disable HTML5 Autoplay plugin for Chrome still works pretty well ... https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/disable-html5-auto... The author has stopped maintaining the plugin though because Google is suppo
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by _rpd 9y ago
Referenced paper ... Powering prolonged hydrothermal activity inside Enceladus https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0289-8.epdf?refer...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
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News brands are in a losing battle to give people a reason to go to their web site first before facebook, google, twitter, etc. They are practically obligated to take every chance they can to persuade people. Failing that, getting some ne

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