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by adjkant 7y ago
> A simple example of this is the ridiculous concentration of tech and aerospace companies inside of a zone that requires almost everyone to use the 405 freeway. That's a reason why mass transit in LA doesn't work now, not how
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by adjkant 7y ago
It's not about population but rather density. LA's big public transit problem (outside of the driving first culture lobbied for by American car companies) is actually one of zoning and building.
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by adjkant 7y ago
> Why do people keep blaming the company. The socially accepted responsibilities of companies are changing. The more Google goes down this road, the more they transition from being liked to being disliked but having power not to care. Ev
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by adjkant 7y ago
A fair point, but the actions of the past few years align with that PR statement as well. There are also completely ways for the content team to say better things that would fit that unified front. Or perhaps that would worry investors that
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by adjkant 7y ago
The thing is, they built the library from scratch already! That was explicitly done in the "Bojack era" referenced, by doing exactly what they are not doing now. We're now at the point where a library exists, and they are now
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by adjkant 7y ago
I never said it wasn't a balancing act (in fact I explicitly noted they should care about money) but the content team is exactly the team that should be fighting tooth and nail internally against those constraints. That quote makes it
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by adjkant 7y ago
> The sole purpose of Netflix is to make money. No, that's the capitalist investors view. The problem is that Netflix now sees it as theirs. I'd bet quite a good sum of money that was not the goal when it started. I'd be s
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by adjkant 7y ago
1. I don't believe a show is defined by its widespread popularity. I don't think someone on the content side should believe that either. TV and movies are forms of art, and good art is good art. If Netflix doesn't value that,
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by adjkant 7y ago
> Cindy Holland, Netflix’s VP of content, said in 2019 that critical acclaim is important, “but we’re really about trying to stretch our investment dollars as far as we can and make good on our investors’ money — it’s theirs, not ours.”
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by adjkant 7y ago
Getting a database error currently: https://web.archive.org/web/20200128215945/https://portlandp...
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by adjkant 7y ago
You can work during a good deal of those nine months on pregnancy with only minor adjustments towards the second trimester. > they need a lot of investment from both parents in order to develop harmoniously Completely agreed, I said noth
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by adjkant 7y ago
Implication, grammatical choices (such as capitalizing mother consistently), and topic focus are of course not the full picture, but they are not mind reading either. The internet can lose a lot in translation, and I think I was quite chari
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by adjkant 7y ago
I find it quite interesting that an article focusing on raising children versus careers uses the word "father" or "man" exactly zero times.
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by adjkant 7y ago
Birth control research would love to have a talk with you.
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by adjkant 7y ago
Why is 6 months of time dictating the entirety of childcare?
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by adjkant 7y ago
While implication versus what was literally written is quite muddy with this comment, what is missing from the entire comment is why it has to be a mother and not a father. The ending part also shows a lack of understanding of how childcare
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by adjkant 7y ago
For younger people who want easy choices I have 100% seen this lead people to default to Casper. I send around the article on their practices regularly due to this, and buy my mattresses off Wayfair mostly based on price and basic sanity ch
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by adjkant 7y ago
This is the real key. The only notable thing is that Azure was built well enough to play ball against AWS so that the sales team could really work. For developers it seems that Azure tends to settle at a clear #3 behind AWS/GCP for mos
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by adjkant 7y ago
This is perhaps a good read to understand why your claim 100% not the case: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/04/why-is-...
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by adjkant 7y ago
I think while the ratings system is a dumpster fire, it does a huge service for readers still. You can easily track your reading list, books you're read (and sharing it with friends), and their app's scan feature is lovely for me
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by adjkant 7y ago
I think the issue is that people are going expecting a movie version of a musical with an entertaining plot, and Cats in any form just isn't going to supply that. The casting is all over the place, and the way they animated the cats se
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by adjkant 7y ago
Availability is key though. Juul brand pods are simply the default, and for people on here we should know the power of sane defaults. Especially when we are talking underage users who are not really able to take advantage of the full market
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by adjkant 7y ago
It sounds to me like there were 2000 reported bugs. You likely had better coverage due to smaller scope.
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by adjkant 7y ago
> Where did you get the idea from that you or anybody else should get to make people’s decisions for them? Where did you get the idea that I made anyone else's decision? I am literally just asking for the option of vaping without
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by adjkant 7y ago
That's an active choice for a specific use case, mind you one that's not healthy to have regularly. If people want nicotine, let's sell its on its own. There is literally no reason to package it into vaping unless you're
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by adjkant 7y ago
If you don't get hooked to start, no habit forming needed. Isn't the point to stop the cycle? You also have to remember that these are teens as young as 9th grade that are doing it for social reasons. Let them play around with som
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by adjkant 7y ago
How about requiring companies to produce non-nicotine versions of equal quality? The addictive part is optional, unlike with sugar for example. Video games and Facebook are more of a grey area but removing the addictive elements is more com
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by adjkant 7y ago
I think the flaw in that flow is that no one cares about nicotine, they just want vaping. As long as vaping without nicotine exists, there's no reason to go after the other version. Unless you're already addicted, and in that case
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by adjkant 7y ago
If I may offer, technical skills are only one part of a person and can be small or large in importance. It's completely okay for programming to be a day job. Personal projects can take many forms outside of the CS world, or sometimes t
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by adjkant 7y ago
Some math to really drill this home: that's 32K per employee. Literally a livable wage around 50% higher than the minimum they offer currently for someone working 40 hours year round, no vacation.

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