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by altairprime 2mo ago
Is this the first time that Flock has proactively alerted a customer to abusive behavior without being asked to do so?
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That’s the passive form of the experience, sure — and it often comes as a shock to people that this is a thing in human relations. If you set out to make it happen, and you don’t mind letting someone else execute on the idea, it can be quit
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by altairprime 2mo ago
Ironically, this is why one of the best ways to manage upwards is to prompt managers into coming up with your idea as if it were their own: they’re dramatically more likely to execute and deliver on it. Of course, this also obviously leads
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by altairprime 2mo ago
Consider a balloon. I don’t imagine in visuals but if you do, either a solid color or a patterned balloon works. Let’s say it’s a cow print design. Deflate it, then stretch the balloon over a vacuum cleaner tube and put on a rubber band to
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Suburbia requires land and desert land is very cheap when market-priced, so long as the true costs of drinking and lawn grass watering for the land are externalized. Unfortunately, that leaves the region exposed to the Colorado watershed co
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The same kind of people who want to overwork for the first twenty years of their life in order to not have to work for the last sixty. gestures at Amazon, tech founders, et al.
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I used to live five minutes walk from this intersection and a stone’s throw from the campus. These people fought for years to prevent a sandwich shop from opening nearby because it would bring non-wealthy people near their homes. If they do
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by altairprime 2mo ago
Refusing to maintain something isn't some sort of 'poorness signal', it's a wealth-neutral choice that could have any number of contextual drivers. Apple may not be eligible for 'too poor to maintain it' but in
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Yes, the military is typically better than this, agreed.
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Sadly, it’s spot-on for startups that have the power of belief as a core work ethic. They want devotees and they’ll find them. Most techies are no more immune to cults than average (‘I just want to feel like I belong somewhere’ etc.), and i
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by altairprime 2mo ago
Yes, they explicitly brag about this in their LinkedIn feed: (1 month ago) https://www.linkedin.com/posts/salespatriot_forward-deployed... > Forward Deployed Engineers in the wild. We said "go relax." The
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> Raising the noise floor like this only makes it that much harder to find "Smart" people, which we were already doing terrible at. Clarification: to value “smart” people, which we were already doing terrible at.
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cc Quanta which has some nice background explainer: https://www.quantamagazine.org/without-a-proof-mathematician...
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> Casio has been leaving a lot of money on the table in terms of nostalgia products Casio has been quite successful at not abusing trust in their brand by releasing lower-quality outsourced replicas like HP did with their calculators.
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by altairprime 2mo ago
Related: New paper shows that 37% of workers in US saw real wages decline from 2021-2024 (1 hour ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355142
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https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1XTtA — I broke apart individual wages into quintiles and applied some rudimentary inflation adjustment, and the result is definitely mixed . I would estimate this adds up to sub-1
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by altairprime 2mo ago
It may do equivalent functionality but it sure doesn't do equivalent aesthetic.
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There is also an IRL variation of one-handed clocks that someone launched back in 2011: https://thepresent.is/collections/the-shop/products/the-pres... The absence of a simple, single-handed watch face like D
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by altairprime 2mo ago
Perhaps your definition of 'household income' does not account for loans? Certainly loan issuers are accounting for active loan balances when evaluating income, and I see no reason to deviate from their standard. It's a sensi
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https://alfred.stlouisfed.org/series?seid=MEHOINUSA672N This is a better version of that chart; the Y-axis is pinned at $0 and it’s quite remarkable to see the year-over-year shift between 2024 and 2025 presented across the
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by altairprime 2mo ago
Saying @dang has no effect; it does not activate a batsignal or any other mechanism of mod summoning. The only way to be sure a mod see this is to email them; see the contact link in the footer and include a link to the comment.
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This needs three changes to support meaningful discussion and response: First, all values should be in the same unit; switching from B to T worsens readability here. Second, it should include the total change as % of GDP as a range across t
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For those in other countries wondering how the U.S. has sustained fifty years of household wage deflation and corporate profit inflation — it’s by issuing sequential waves of lower and lower ‘quality’ consumer credit (such as the subprime t
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On other forums than HN, but they surely do exist; check xda-developers, perhaps, for complaints from ancient Android users, as a theoretical sample of how to find them. Regardless, that’s one of the three certain customer outcomes when pro
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by altairprime 2mo ago
Perhaps it drowned in newslop when announced? The RUM Diaries: Enabling Web Analytics by Default (2 points, 11 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45291323 (1 point, 11 months ago): https://news.y
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Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM (79 days ago, 868 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309233 There’s no mandatory process; each college can DIY whatev
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The midterm grade spread in my Precalculus I course this summer was median 70% +/- 30% across all students, with four retakes allowed penalty-free. It was show your work with pencil and paper. The teacher noted that it’s the first ti
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One of the oddities in reporting about Flock is that no one’s considered who the silent customers are. Even Techdirt is focusing on municipal abuses and greed, calling out Flock for reactivating cameras for its own sake. But the real questi
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Not so much! Management is effort that needs to be contributed, and I think a lot of the engineering community division we're seeing around AI stems from "Do you enjoy management?". Either you do, in which case AI is a gods
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Considering another FP today about AI and ‘leadership’, perhaps it’s more on point to say that AI promotes Manager jobs, and Managers are writing manifestos about how Managers are the future of society. Yeah, money’s a factor, but if we liv

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