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by aylmao 7y ago
> Many factors can influence an outcome. But it's reasonable to focus on the illegal (or just shady) ones. I disagree, let me illustrate with examples. The electoral college is a very legal and established process, but it has costed
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by aylmao 7y ago
> We also know that the winning margin of the 2016 election was only 79,316 votes[1]. The smaller the number, the less clearly one can point at a single cause though, right? I mean, to an extreme, say it had been a 1 vote difference. The
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by aylmao 7y ago
I recently had a conversation with someone who works at Google, and she mentioned how in her opinion Google hires a lot of smart people but has a good chunk of them doing very lame work. So perhaps that's not too far fetched. I've
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by aylmao 7y ago
Is striking not an option for Toptal's employees? I imagine, especially at the size the company is operating, it'd probably be a very effective way for employees to make their voice heard and have negotiating leverage. Plus, this
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by aylmao 7y ago
Random. No joke, it's fair. I also doubt Google is auctioning this space for the sake of fairness. Their competitors are going to take a slice of their cake, and this is the most efficient (and legal) way to get as much of it back as p
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by aylmao 7y ago
> But it is also true that Tumblr was bypassed by native mobile applications like Instagram and Snapchat where it was even easier to post about your life. This. It's understated how much Tumblr's clunky composing hurt it as a p
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by aylmao 7y ago
> Now Youtube is doing the same. They used focus on being a search and distribution mechanism. Now they produce content, allow sponsorships, have more ads per minute of viewing then television, ... jobs there are again, repackaging jobs.
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by aylmao 7y ago
This move excites me a lot. Tumblr isn't really about "brands" (in spite of what Oath would've wanted you to believe)— it's a lot of things, but at the end of the day, at it's core, it's a blogging platfor
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by aylmao 7y ago
In my experience Google Assistant has better voice recognition and seems to be faster. I've had it recognize things like titles for songs, which are easy to mix up.
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by aylmao 7y ago
Glad to see someone actually comment and not just downvote haha. > Many free-market oriented people would disagree that we've let the free market run amok, as measured by the percentage of the economy that the government spends dire
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by aylmao 7y ago
Isn't this what philosophy in government and economics are? I took a Critical Theory course in college. We read Kant, Hagel, Marx, Marcuse and Adorno, and that's what their writing is all about— what all this we call "progres
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by aylmao 7y ago
> Every time someone in history has tried to remove the gap it's ended in horror. Has it? It's easy to recall the times it has because they make it to the history books, but there's been peaceful periods of reduction in in
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by aylmao 7y ago
> The Tech Industry Is Building a Vast Digital Underclass It'd change this title to "capitalism is building a vast digital underclass". Decisions are carried out by algorithms, but made by people. All "the tech indust
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by aylmao 7y ago
In broad strokes, purely considering survivalism or hedonism, sure. From the perspective of what's moral and what's not, you start seeing less differences between old inequality and "new" inequality. And from the perspec
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by aylmao 7y ago
Amazing news! Thanks for sharing.
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by aylmao 7y ago
Gotcha, thanks for reaching back!
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by aylmao 7y ago
I'm less worried about resource extraction, and more worried about pollution. Sure, mining pollutes and we have a limited number of minerals in the world. The bigger problem IMO is the destruction of the biosphere. Trees are being cut
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by aylmao 7y ago
Interesting article, though I wish there were more details on why this was cheaper, and where the hundreds of thousands of dollars saved annually came from.
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by aylmao 7y ago
I've lived in SF before— this is so accurate to my experience. Went to SoMa a lot and actually never visited the Golden Gate bridge.
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by aylmao 7y ago
This is actually huge and will probably only get better, especially considering now they own their whole JS stack: the framework (React/RN), the language (Flow [1]) and now the VM. It sounds like Hermes is exclusively for running React
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by aylmao 7y ago
They also probably know about the tradeoffs. V8 has to choose when interpret and when to compile, when to load things into memory, when to garbage-collect, etc. and they do so keeping in mind it is running javascript from the internet, for
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by aylmao 7y ago
The Touch Bar is just poorly executed— for the gimmick instead of the experience. It would be good if it had haptic feedback and was activated by a force touch like the trackpad does. Allow me to touch it without pressing anything. Let me s
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by aylmao 7y ago
I haven't built it yet, but I want to buy some clickable rotary encoders, some knobs and build a light switch for my smart lights. A knob you can click to turn the lights on or off, and turn to control the brightness. A knob you can cl
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by aylmao 7y ago
> And what I've seen is that it has become cool or fashionable to be depressed, anxious and to have some mild mental disorder I think this has always been the case. Isn't this what being emo, metal, punk, etc. was about in the
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by aylmao 7y ago
Gotcha, makes sense. This is definitely better for the interests of the consumer.
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by aylmao 7y ago
I don't know how trade-marks work, but Tesla is also just a name, isn't it? Maybe they just need to hire someone whose last name is Tesla and claim it was named after them haha.
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by aylmao 7y ago
Yes, it's owned by Facebook. I went back to check, and noticed I visited these profiles through Chrome and not the app. That's how they ended up here, I was confused there for a second.
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by aylmao 7y ago
Oh, never mind. Went back to check, and apparently I visited these profiles through Chrome and not the app.
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by aylmao 7y ago
This goes deep. I see not only when I have used Instagram, but it knows which instagram profiles and direct messages I opened. I'm using Android at the moment, of course.
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by aylmao 8y ago
I think this is a very American view of things, because I hear you guys keep getting screwed over by old people's voting. The way I view it is this will be good, because old people have lived long enough to be satisfied with life, and

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