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by anbop 7y ago
Which consumer brand at this scale isn’t tarnished? Amazon? Google? Apple (not even applicable since they build only for their device users? Walmart? Bank of America?
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by anbop 7y ago
Ethical: no Useful: yes
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by anbop 7y ago
When used benevolently this is an important tool for seed stage startups to gauge product market fit. I used to silently join user interactions in real time and observe them. really helped improve the product quickly
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by anbop 7y ago
Is this based on physician diagnosis or some objective metric like fraction of teens with BMI < X?
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by anbop 7y ago
Eventually we will see an air superiority war play out with drones the same way it did with fighter jets, although the drones are going to do far more insane maneuvers. The "Top Gun" dogfight scene for this era will be amazing.
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by anbop 7y ago
There are a lot of people who have been helped by religion though, and to make a fair accounting you need to count them. I know a devoutly Catholic couple who has taken in several foster kids and adopted them because they think it’s the Chr
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by anbop 7y ago
I mean this article and its moronic title do not support the claim of “pretty great place for journalism,” even though it might be that in other articles it publishes.
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by anbop 7y ago
Luck is often a better determinant than willingness to pay because it biases towards more “superfans” who will have the time of their lives at your show. Jeff Bezos might be willing to pay $100K for a ticket even if he had only the slightes
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by anbop 7y ago
I’m funded by my employer and my parents are assigned to and owned by them. Why isn’t this analogous?
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by anbop 7y ago
With no personal punishment for the execs, they’re probably gearing up for Decade #2 as I write this.
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by anbop 7y ago
I moved from a 3500 square foot house to a 1400 square foot house with 3 kids and my quality of life has not gone down at all. Threw out most of my stuff out of necessity, haven’t needed it.
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by anbop 7y ago
Unlike Alexa, every time you ask it a question it replies “Nevermore.”
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by anbop 7y ago
Not always, since a lot of jobs demand that you’re “available” way more than they actually schedule you, and ready to come in at a moments notice. They are trying to legislate this though.
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by anbop 7y ago
Minimum wage should provide a minimal lifestyle. Not penury, but perhaps a room in a shared accommodation. Why would the legally minimal wage support housing an entire family?
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by anbop 7y ago
The only meaningful reduction is to near zero? Reducing human trafficking by 50% is not a meaningful reduction?
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by anbop 7y ago
You absolutely can reduce the demand for anything by making it more costly. Prostitution is far more prevalent where it less costly in dollars and punishment (e.g. Canada vs USA) You can’t just assert a falsehood as axiomatic.
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by anbop 7y ago
Because legalizing sex work has empirically not reduced the amount of sex trafficking / nonconsensual sex work that occurs. That’s what happened in Amsterdam and why they reduced the size of their brothel economy.
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by anbop 7y ago
So the solution to trafficked 14 year olds is to legalize 14 year old prostitutes?
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by anbop 7y ago
The paint on the outside of a truck or rail car is not necessarily correlated with the owner or the contents. The livery can and sometimes is sold/transacted independently of the actual cargo.
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by anbop 7y ago
I never give my TV Wi-Fi credentials, only the Roku and Prime stick.
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by anbop 7y ago
Despite any problems they have, they are able to retain enough devs to get their work done. Are they losing out on even $1 of earnings because of their inability to hire devs? Even with the arbitrary hazing ritual in place?
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by anbop 7y ago
How much more money do you think Google or Facebook can make by improving their engineering recruiting?
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by anbop 7y ago
This isn’t going to change in the near term, because the companies in the middle emulate the companies at the top, and the companies at the top are doing just fine with their current hiring processes. Sure, they’re missing out on some good
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by anbop 7y ago
Why do you say that FAANG isn’t paying enough for this? They seem to be, since they are hiring more than enough engineers in this manner to build even trillion-dollar companies. I doubt they give two shits about the developers who decide to
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by anbop 7y ago
But the company doesn’t really suffer if they don’t hire that disadvantaged developer who doesn’t have the resources to study for the test. Sure they have to spend some more $$$ on recruiting but there aren’t a ton of companies in America e
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by anbop 7y ago
It’s certainly possible but it’s obviously much harder to do. Let’s say I own a professional basketball team and need to make a hiring decision on a player who walks in the door. Am I going to be able to, with just an interview, determine
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by anbop 7y ago
There are three reasons to use a touchscreen for a UI: 1) minimal cost for a device that already has a display, e.g. e-book reader 2) reconfigurable UI for device that performs different tasks, e.g. smartphone 3) paging UI for vastly comple
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by anbop 7y ago
Actually of all the restaurants in your vicinity, the McDonalds probably has the highest food safety.
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by anbop 7y ago
Yeah, I don’t use /s tags, because I like to use the downvote count as a sort of inverse metric.
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by anbop 7y ago
Even allowing this link on this website is pretty close to hate speech.

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