an_opabinia

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by an_opabinia 5y ago
I own AirPods, I like them, but it sucks that they die when their battery dies, and they have to be thrown away for pretty much no good reason - just because that's how Apple designed it, and it could have many design priorities, and o
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> last multiples of the time I would get out of wired earphones, which always die in a few months from work-hardening the copper wires until they break Hmm... > It's just the Discourse in action... I'm fairly confident that
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
I'm not sure why this is being downvoted. There's no evidence that the kind of instruction that e.g. Facebook gives its junior developers is meaningful for performance on average. However I bet hiring from top universities is defi
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
It doesn't sound like the writer was fired for doing her job. It sounds like she did a really good job, given the circumstances, and that her bosses used two pretty quintessential management techniques - deadlines and negging - to moti
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
At least you're engaging with the premise. You could also get a $980 with tax M1 MacBook Air. A Dell prebuilt - even the Alienware, which does not have to pay scalper prices and comes with a 3070 - is $2,611. These are all comparable o
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> it's nice to have computers that "just work" with modern software Yeah I never understood people who work with computers all day economizing on their computers. Even from scalpers you’ll pay ~$6500 for top of the line pa
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
I’m not sure why you’re being downvoted. It’s true, new writers get a big leg up breaking with “based on a true story.”
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> it was so frustrating not only the amount of cheating that occurred Yeah, it's crazy that cheaters are the protagonist of the ban e-proctoring story. What if the university only admitted students who don't cheat? How do we kn
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> FAANG and tech stocks that don’t require capital to grow Facebook lobbied intensely for TikTok to be banned, which went nowhere, and its discounted threat price was $55b, which went nowhere, and also, Facebook could not afford to buy t
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
It sounds like both of you guys are wildly off the mark. Steam, the App Store, the Android stores, now Roblox... they have paid out like hundreds of billions to game developers over the years, more money per year directly to IP creators tha
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> So the landlords just make the rent more expensive to account for having to pay the broker, what changed? Nothing. Clearly brokers are doing something or else people wouldn't pay for them. My theory is the broker fee has positive
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Index investing was not pervasive then like it was today.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> I am utterly unconcerned by what people choose to do to their own bodies and minds. I don't know, do you think the world would be better if people could sell their organs? "Voluntarily?" Also, I'm confident you thin
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
The people living there want this. People in the Soviet Union believed in a lot of ineffective things too. If opposing viewpoints were better accepted there would be no restrictions. People aren’t stupid, the system just ill informs them.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> I can understand why some Homebrew devs think it's just an attempt from someone to pad their resume. It's one Homebrew dev.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> open source laundering Microsoft already launders open source code by just hiring people in China and Romania to rewrite it. Copilot is their engineering culture distilled. However most big companies do this.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
There's a great study that shows how the "homeboys" driving their buddies to the hospital after gunshot / stabbing trauma have better outcomes than the paramedics because (1) the police mostly delay paramedics' arri
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
It is worth looking at the obstacles typical end users face. In my experience, the #1 issue is poor WiFi deployment. Then, users of cable broadband use Ookla for speed tests instead of Fast - Ookla is scammed by Comcast and Frontier. What i
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
I’m going to make the stupidest comment ever here, but it’s obvious to anyone who’s played Sim City that you build out your revenue generating neighborhoods all at once, with all your money. I’m relieved that city managers in some places ca
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Wait until people on the toxic orange site find out what has happened to AI Dungeon.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> people without formal education That's an odd way to write, "modern educations for gifted people so fancy that their brand comes from their status at the world's biggest corporations instead of universities, but have not
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> only if you can manufacture the car in a way that the reduced emissions over its lifetime are not offset by additional emissions during manufacturing and decommissioning. This is a really bad faith argument I hear, a real eye roller. I
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
If you make the easiest to use Ponzi consuming tool, it doesn’t matter. There will always be more ponzis.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> the very first problem you should be tackling is what you're going to do to deal with asshats I agree. One solution is "have a real human identity you can't delegate with real stakes if you're banned." What we
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Both you and the parent describe my experience. If I ran Stripe I’d acquire CorpNet (and Gusto and TaxAct while we’re at it) to make a complete C Corp package. Ironically if you go to a typical small town venture lawyer you get copy and pas
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
From a former Gap exec: > How did your time at The Gap shape your thinking about what you do at Herman Miller? > I interviewed a guy who became my head of digital. He had worked in retail, and he said, “Do you know what excites me mos
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> giant waste of my time and energy Telling people not to go to school is bad life advice. > I was [in school and thriving] I don't, would you go into the time machine and like, not go to school, as a young person?
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> the idea that peaceful protesting or rule-abiding political opposition is generally effective. I understand you are making a stylized appeal for liberal political change via violence. China's leadership has peaks and troughs of l
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
Yes, definitely, he is the template for the "thought leader" scheme.
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by an_opabinia 5y ago
> On these days I'd typically try playing a video game (my hobby before college)… wasting time… hard work was not healthy It sounds like playing video games was your medicine, and denying it from yourself traded “wasting time” for s

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