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by accountyaccount 9y ago
It seems a little backwards though right? Imagine if they offered a Netflix-style service (or akin to PlayStation Plus). They could grant access to their back catalog for something like $10/mo, and roll out segments of the back catalog
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Rumor is that the NES Mini was just a way to burn through left over hardware stock.
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Mobile ads are much better than web ads, in my experience. You just need to wait X amount of seconds and it's gone. Apps don't have pop-unders or any of those insufferable loop traps. Plus you can often pay to make them go away. Y
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Except that Nintendo doesn't offer the vast majority of their back catalog in any shape or form.
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
I don't think they're quite small enough to be pocketable, but some cities do sweeps with specialized on-car air quality equipment to find natural gas leaks (Boston leaks like a sieve, for example - https://www.edf.org
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
I actually had a FiOS installer tell me that he cut a neighboring building's Comcast line because my line needed to run through their property and they were dicks about letting him on the property to run my lines. He was almost unreaso
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
They're currently being investigated by the Justice Department and fired dozens of people over sexual harassment. They also maybe knowingly stole self-driving tech. Seems like a few big deals. And those are just the bigger issues, ther
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
"The Human Fabric of the Facebook Pyramid" There are so many terrifying layers to this headline
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Fair. Personally I'll occasionally look at the source to see if there's any obvious trickery going on. It would be interesting to do a study to see what people consciously think about that type of thing.
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Still a net loss against public transportation, the current savings are also largely driven by artificially low fares that Uber subsidizes with driver bonuses (to undercut the market).
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
AirBnB does a lot of these — and they aren't necessarily dick moves when you're looking at something with limited availability. If 1,000 people have looked at an AirBnB listing, it does actually make sense to book faster than a pr
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Capitalism isn't the best way to solve public infrastructure problems. Public transportation better serves: the poor, those without smartphones, people with small children, people in trafficked areas, the handicapped... Uber/Lyft
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
This is too short-sighted. In my city a lot of people use Uber INSTEAD of readily available public transit (anecdotal observation). That's kind of a bad deal if it's a widespread truth. This would continue to hurt public transport
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Because Americans get really mad when someone else gets something for free.
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
I wish I were in the position to call 300m+ monthly active users a "small number of kids"
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
In my experience conferences are just a huge waste of money. I can leisurely read everything covered at a 2-day conference in half a day, and I don't have to suffer through people trying to pepper in memes. I only go to them because my
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
That's the thing though, the user base is largely a bunch of high school kids that go to the same school - they likely see each other daily. They don't need to "live" anywhere and to the contrary, they don't want to
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Snapchat has a certain demo cornered though. Kids aren't using Facebook like their parents are; it's a brand thing more than a feature thing.
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
We have mild, flat, and dense. Boston and NYC, for example. I think the only missing piece in many cities is funding and prioritization.
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
The US has mild and flat cities; none of them touch the Netherlands when it comes to cycling support.
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
I'm defending the use of "usability" as a blanket term used to argue against subjective visual changes. Unless you can show me evidence one way or the other, your use of the term "usability" is subjective bunk.
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
It proves there's nothing special about Casper — their market sways entirely amongst competitors by who has the best deal on an almost identical product. It's like selling entry-level Windows laptops. The average consumer doesn&#x
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Generally I've found that any forum project that also doesn't include reply-by-email functionality is a waste of time.
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
good luck, there are like 10 clones out there already
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
also helps to have a big ol' safety net
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Even a confidence level would go a long way. If I get a notification that says "motion detected" I have to look at it, but if it said "motion detected, person with 75% confidence" that suddenly becomes much more valuable
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
This would be great to run a security camera still feed through. It could completely eliminate false positives.
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Tested on samples of actual users. Unsure of size because I don't work there. If you think making avatars round is a usability issue this conversation isn't even worth having. You seem bent on deriding change regardless of what I
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
I know someone on the design team and they actually did user testing against the changes, and it's a mix of usability improvements and aesthetics. You can't really say something is less usable without some evidence.
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by accountyaccount 9y ago
Likely, but I've worked with a lot of people who will do that and also turn around and give you shit for leaving at 5.

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