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by awat 8y ago
I would also say it’s one of the reasons they are getting so much flack at the moment. If the extent of data brokering was crappy mailers I would be far less passionate about the topic.
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by awat 8y ago
Here’s a pretty literal example: https://variety.com/2017/biz/news/alec-baldwin-snl-photo-new... *I don’t know this example is particularly harmful but nonetheless it illustrates things don’t always transfer
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Adrian Lamo’s cause of death remains a mystery(arstechnica.com)
45 points by awat 8y ago|6 comments
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by awat 8y ago
I have to agree with him on Unity, the reaction to it seemed to outweigh it’s presentation. I gave it a try and liked some aspects but ultimately ended up on Cinnamon. I realize that’s a totally subjective statement but I was surprised by s
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by awat 8y ago
Particularly that last point stands out to me. Lots of automations I’ve seen assume the customer knows the problem. Which they may not they are contacting with a symptom to which they may not know the problem. They aren’t necessarily going
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by awat 8y ago
I agree but really only to a certain extent. Coaxing out of humans what thier actual issue is, is more of an art than a science. IMHO and from antecdotal experience this problem seems easier to automate than I think it really is which is wh
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by awat 8y ago
Jump off point for VirnetX https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirnetX
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by awat 8y ago
Exactly, the bottles are a clear and understandable symptom (literal, figurative, or somewhere inbetween) not the sickness they are trying to highlight.
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by awat 8y ago
Also maybe they dont care. When you make it clear that you aren’t going to share the wealth with your frontline employees. They probably don’t care what your wealth looks like. I grew up with many union democrats around my father. A lot of
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by awat 8y ago
This is really the question that throw’s people for loops in my experience. Not contextually what you were addressing but in comparison to my parents in the US. Many things are much more inexpensive jeans, shoes (functional not trendiest),
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by awat 8y ago
History doesnt repeat itself but it rhymes.
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by awat 8y ago
There is so much to appreciate here. The bit about starting to create an elvish language really stands out to me in painting his passion for this world.
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by awat 8y ago
Totally I had a power mac G5 i was using as a vpn, vnc server, and for some random legacy software up until last year. Eventually replaced it (sold it 10 years later, crazy!) for the poor power efficiency but thats not the machines fault it
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by awat 8y ago
I don’t consider myself phone addicted but it could be sobering to see my app usage broken into times instead of battery consumption percentages.
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by awat 8y ago
I really have to agree with this. It used to be a selling point for me that Apple gave free OS upgrades (cost baked into hardware I know). But lately I’m on the fence wether some of this is really a free OS upgrade or really even fully just
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by awat 8y ago
Absolutely but overnight successes tend to have that moment.
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by awat 8y ago
My understanding is that this is more or less how Gary Vaynerchuk sky-rocketed to the center of media through a similar(ish) comment about Facebook. Best of luck!
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by awat 8y ago
This, I was trying to think of the right way to state this. Looks like I’ll be looking for alternatives.
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by awat 8y ago
The part about being “unemployed” to me immediately made me think about the prevalence of future tense pressures for modern kids. I’m in my mid 20s and I went through it. While my parents had good intentions and many others I’m sure did too
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by awat 8y ago
Good share this an interesting read.
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by awat 8y ago
Who watches the watchers?
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Someone Set Us Up The Compiler Bomb(hackaday.com)
1 points by awat 8y ago|0 comments
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by awat 8y ago
Speaking of Sal Soghoian I’ve always loved this little party trick Applescript that sings Happy Birthday. I can’t remember the old Mac site I got it from but I remember him being credited for it. https://hastebin.com/becorik
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by awat 8y ago
Same for me I’ve tried a few apps but always run into a few quirks that steered me back to the site itself. It’s essentially a pinned tab in Safari on my iPhone at this point.
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by awat 8y ago
That would make sense to me. Not to over simplify the issue but I would settle with Amazon having skin in the game period. They seem to be extremely good at engineering ways to deflect responsibility (financially or ethically).
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by awat 8y ago
Phrased another way this is a great example of why the breakdown of a cumulative score (verbal vs quant, etc) is important on standardized tests.
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by awat 8y ago
One of my favorite quotes I’ve mentioned on HN a few times applies here. It’s only a crime if it occurs on the street level anything above that and it’s called politics.
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by awat 8y ago
I got a set of counterfeit guitar strings that was fulfilled by Amazon. Ordered them on Amazon purely out of convenance only to realize someone had sent a fake set of $4 strings. The counterfeit packaging was almost perfect and the strings
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by awat 8y ago
If I could like this comment ten times I would. You start stuffing your earnings report with little extra revenues and then all of the sudden you forgot about your original customer while someone else moves in. Then comes the part where you
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by awat 8y ago
That was my first takeaway too. It’s one of the biggie no-no’s in banking to not know the customer. I’m at a loss on why that would be ok here. I’m also fine with the manufacturer taking the liability but for the retailer to say we don’t kn

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