anbop

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by anbop 8y ago
In 15 years Zuckerberg has manufactured half a trillion dollars out of thin air. Canning him would be like firing Tom Brady: not necessarily stupid but not a decision you would want to make hastily.
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by anbop 8y ago
Microsoft is actually lobbying pretty hard in Washington to ban private use of facial recognition. The cynic will say that it’s because they realize that Google and Facebook will outdo them here, but I couldn’t care less about their motives
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by anbop 8y ago
Hmm... there should be digital photo frames, and a stapler with LEDs inside. When you “check in” to your station, your phone activated, your family photos go on the photo frames, and the stapler lights up in your preferred color.
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by anbop 8y ago
How much money is a company losing because its Korean string is nonsense?
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by anbop 8y ago
The stock symbol is a way of divorcing the discussion from the actual company, its culture, employees, role in society, etc. To traders, different companies are just different machines for turning money into more money, like the numbered me
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by anbop 8y ago
Musk and West are certainly in a different level of achievement in non-marketing activities than Trump (and he is in a different level than them in marketing achievements). However along this parameter of puffery I see nearly identical psyc
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by anbop 8y ago
With this category of blowhard (Musk, Trump, Kanye West) I think it’s a self-reinforcing cycle of saying something rhetorically and then starting to believe your own bullshit.
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by anbop 8y ago
Leaving aside the questions around the ethics of 996... is this kind of schedule actually effective? Do companies that work knowledge workers like this actually outperform competitors?
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by anbop 8y ago
That’s an absurd level of luxury that people have become accommodated to. To the nearest percentage point, 0% of people in human history have grown up with the expectation of an entire dwelling as their personal domain. It’s wasteful and ab
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by anbop 8y ago
Musk doesn’t have any “oracle” credibility to squander though. He’s known for many absurd utterances from his SEC violations to his pedophile accusations. The words coming out of his mouth are not given high credence by the investor class.
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by anbop 8y ago
Why would you expect that a bank teller has their own apartment? Your own apartment isn’t some kind of birthright. I had roommates until I was 27.
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by anbop 8y ago
It should be requestable by snail mail and token payment or with a similar amount of friction.
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by anbop 8y ago
That gives him the different benefit of experiencing life as a teenager without a phone.
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by anbop 8y ago
One thing that obviates the need for colonies is international trade. You used to need to actually hold countries to make sure you had minerals, rubber, spices, etc. With the formalization of trade it's not as necessary.
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by anbop 8y ago
Well a non-owner CEO only cares about the company for the duration of his compensation package. He’s cutting costs now to boost the stock price. Why should he give a flying fuck what happens to the company when everyone but Ford has a self
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by anbop 8y ago
Just read the news less often. Nobody really needs to know the news on a day to day basis unless your personal safety is at risk. Just read a monthly magazine like the Atlantic and learn the overall themes of what’s happening.
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by anbop 8y ago
I refuse to use a plain text editor for my personal notes. Bold, italic, underline, text highlighting... these are all things that help me organize text and draw my attention to certain areas. Asterisks simply don't do the same job, vi
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by anbop 8y ago
Do you have a link? Would love to read up more.
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by anbop 8y ago
Then why isn't every high profile font from Hoefler etc. immediately cloned by a generic competitor?
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by anbop 8y ago
Well the program was always for helping the broader community, whether by writing tools, or participating in StackOverflow, or whatever... it was never a “Hall of Fame” for the best Windows programmers.
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by anbop 8y ago
Wouldn’t the libertarian position be that a group of people looking to secede from a municipality be allowed to do so? Even if they do so in a bloc that includes only wealthy neighborhoods plus lucrative commercial real estate?
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by anbop 8y ago
LOL. Reminds me of LBJ’s Senate election in 1948.
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by anbop 8y ago
That’s true of the Electoral College as well, but doesn’t and shouldn’t insulate it from criticism.
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by anbop 8y ago
It’s in most countries’ political interests to increase their populations, if they can feed them.
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by anbop 8y ago
MEPs are not directly proportional to population, but degressively so, where the smallest countries have more and the largest countries have less representation than they would on a purely proportional basis. But this is about Sweden's
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by anbop 8y ago
Well GCP is mostly targeting highly sophisticated companies who need low cost but don’t need much handholding. Microsoft is on the opposite end. Amazon is in between. Google is DigiKey, Amazon is Adafruit, and Microsoft is Best Buy.
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by anbop 8y ago
Have you paid attention to the “cityhood” movement in Atlanta, where white people are using their friends in state government to split themselves off from the black neighborhoods in their towns?
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by anbop 8y ago
Most prisons do visits through glass now, so no contraband that way either.
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by anbop 8y ago
If you go by the “original intent” standard, the amendment was clearly written to mean face-to-face contact since no other type existed.
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by anbop 8y ago
What you’d get with this compensation scheme is prison classes in how to destroy evidence and how to avoid getting caught.

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