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by augment001 4y ago
I think it’s going to be hard for them to make an iPhone like splash. On the other hand it seems like they need to ship and start iterating. It will be very interesting to see what they market it for. Seems like a hard sell for consumer,
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by augment001 4y ago
As has been pointed out in other media, NPR gets about 2% of its funding from the federal government. Twitter on the other hand, is 4% owned by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund.
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by augment001 4y ago
Nope. It doesn’t take much research to confirm this.
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by augment001 4y ago
It seemed to be getting better between Deng Xiaoping and Hu Jintao. Obviously not great, but it took a much darker turn with Xi.
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by augment001 4y ago
They didn’t have the benefit of seeing the example of what happened in Hong Kong.
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by augment001 4y ago
> a similarly small percent want to formally declare independence Given that doing so would put them on a path to an invasion by the mainland, this would seem expedient. > indicating that both sides still see themselves as part of an
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by augment001 4y ago
So true. Even the CCP wasn’t so clearly problematic until Xi.
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by augment001 4y ago
It’s really not clear what you’re saying other than that 6pm would be too late for you personally. As I’ve explained - I picked that time as the latest people were allowed to work in the office. Before I adopted this, people were randoml
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by augment001 4y ago
It’s true that the team was made up of mostly young, unmarried men. I think only one senior person had children. I don’t recall what his needs were, but I wasn’t a hard-ass about not leaving early if people were productive. And certainly
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by augment001 4y ago
> A strict timing rule does only help if you are statistically more often at a point where it's easy to pick up again. I doubt that you are though, so I'd try a more concious approach than a clock. Although I disagree with you
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by augment001 4y ago
> Maybe they were in the middle of something hard that's difficult to pick up from. Certainly some of them said that, and I had to push for them to leave anyway. I also feel like that when I’m coding myself sometimes. But I think t
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by augment001 4y ago
I had both, and frankly it’s like comparing a TRS-80 to a Mac.
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by augment001 4y ago
It’s very unrealistic to believe that it was developers begging that caused Apple to create the App Store. It’s possible the begging might have accelerated the process because apple wanted to capitalize on the demand, but there is no way t
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by augment001 4y ago
You are actually forced to do it if you choose to work for a place like that.
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by augment001 4y ago
Yeah - I couldn’t enforce a late start, 9am was too early to ask people to come in.
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by augment001 4y ago
> The US imprisons more of its own citizens per capita and in absolute terms than an "authoritarian" nation-state 4x its population. This is often raised as some kind of trump card, but it of course completely ignores the Chine
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by augment001 4y ago
As an engineering director years ago I had the rule that engineers hours were 10am-6pm, and I'd walk around the office at 6pm and send people home. I'd get complaints that I was making people stop when they were in the middle of
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by augment001 4y ago
Unfortunately so, but by comparison to China it has a very long way to go.
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by augment001 4y ago
You’ve completely misunderstood. My comment said nothing about preventing car break-ins. I was pointing out that car break-ins are treated very differently from violent crime. If there is an inference to be drawn, I’d say it is that we sho
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by augment001 4y ago
> Hayes Valley used to be crack dens until Twitter money, Mission District was a Latino ghetto until FB money, and Portrero Hill and West Add were the African American projects I lived in Potrero hill and Hayes valley in the early 2000s
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by augment001 4y ago
Broken auto glass is pretty much the default in SF if you leave anything at all visible in a parked car. Pretty much anyone I’ve ever spoken to has had it happen to them, and it happened to me 3 times. This is because there is simply no l
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by augment001 4y ago
I think you overestimate how huge that proportion of the population actually is. Android users heavily skew older and less interested in technology. Yes there are some tech users who use android for ideological reasons, but they are a sma
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by augment001 4y ago
If true, this means that it’s not actually a relevant competitor for end users yet.
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by augment001 4y ago
Awesome idea!