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by ballenf 6y ago
120Hz displays should be coming this fall, which would be worth the wait in my opinion.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Price gouging is the practice of using outsized leverage in a particular market to charge excessive prices. Like snow shovels doubling in price after a snow storm. Or $10 water bottles after a hurricane. So for AWS the term is arguably corr
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by ballenf 6y ago
Torrents or file sharing in general is maybe a good parallel. My impression of torrenting is that crackdowns have made file sharing a niche instead of mainstream activity. Of course it can't be 100% wiped out, but the general public is
574.
by ballenf 6y ago
Maybe we need a futures market for fab slots. Then we could just blame speculators for price swings instead of a particular industry.
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by ballenf 6y ago
We need an excise tax on advertising. It’s more destructive than alcohol. And a prohibition on adding it to any product after purchase.
576.
by ballenf 6y ago
I miss that wired Apple keyboard with the the two USB sockets on the sides. Still have one but don't use it since it's USB-A and would need dongle plus extra cable.
577.
by ballenf 6y ago
So it's like an .io game where each person is meant to think they're in a multiplayer game but in reality all the comments and replies live in their own slice of a multiverse. And each person leaving a comment is doing nothing mor
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by ballenf 6y ago
Why not just require that a car being worked on is registered to an owner at the address? edit: All good points in response. I'm convinced that there is no point in trying to tune the wording of a bad law.
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think people will one day demand higher pay for desk jobs over outdoor work. Looking back on my early life, the hard outdoor work was incredibly valuable to me. Desk jobs sometimes were soul-sucking, depression inducing. Not always and my
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by ballenf 6y ago
Problem: our customers don’t get exposed to our special offers often enough but they do spend time checking their bills. Let’s stop sending paper bills because ads on there are too easy to ignore and make a labyrinthine app where the bill c
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by ballenf 6y ago
Probably make it worse as it would get bought by some large company and then commercialized.
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by ballenf 6y ago
So we'll return to how guilt or provenance were determined for thousands of years. We've only had "reliable" non-human witnesses for a few decades. And even with deep fakes, we'll still have fingerprints, DNA, phone
583.
by ballenf 6y ago
Watching on YouTube and suffering through the compression artifacts made me think that the code has reached near absolute compression ratio of the resulting audio/video. Kind of astounding to think that the 720p50 video from YouTube is
584.
by ballenf 6y ago
Unpopular opinion: I think government services and offices should remain offline-first forever. They should offer online equivalents, but they should never assume or require digital adoption. I think this has two big benefits: - Minor point
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think this is more so just spring steel. Unless there's a heat source hidden in there. It's also kind of funny that they admit they'll have to wrap the metal in a rubbery substance for traction. So we're pretty much ba
586.
by ballenf 6y ago
Agreed. It's one of the only axiomatically false marketing claims. "Unlimited" storage/data is in that category if not for bandwidth/throttling disclaimers.
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by ballenf 6y ago
I'm always amazed in the land of the free and a forum for people who build tech products that so many people favor taking away your right to create a product and sell it on your own terms. I'm just not comfortable forcing Apple to
588.
by ballenf 6y ago
The concept of private property or ownership predates all government. Of course governments and police rarely get involved with small property disputes unless part of something larger like an assault. Smartphone locking is similar to NFTs i
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by ballenf 6y ago
In 2019, I'd argue that was true.
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by ballenf 6y ago
I really hope you're willing to share some metrics on your findings in regard what you said somewhere below was this exploration of the level of pain you're addressing. I would think that churn is going to be high and one of your
591.
by ballenf 6y ago
If they'd made the clause a kickback and they'd have gotten 100% uptake. Discounts after the contract is approved are actually a headache in some large orgs. You will have to answer multiple questions each quarter as to why your n
592.
by ballenf 6y ago
Great advice. Another variation on that is just getting them to look something up for you that is at least tangentially related to your work. Anything where they are now helping you changes the power dynamic and will make them super uncomfo
593.
by ballenf 6y ago
I wonder if the original purchaser of that antique dresser you love would have chosen a nice Ikea one if given the choice? (Especially if you adjusted the prices for relative purchasing power.)
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by ballenf 6y ago
One QOL consideration: consider allowing the last placed piece to be moved in one click. That is, if you click while "at capacity" the last placed piece gets removed and placed where you click.
595.
by ballenf 6y ago
ICD code licensing is highway robbery. I would guess most health tech startups also need those. And those prices look reasonable compared to drug database license costs. And the real killer is meaningful use certification. The whole field s
596.
by ballenf 6y ago
I wonder if the master recordings for WC3 were kept or still exist. Imagine taking them and remastering the game.
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by ballenf 6y ago
From the full-text article: > visits to different websites cannot be attributed to the same user using standard web development features. This was stated in a section about the limitations of CNAME tracking. Maybe the article mentions th
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by ballenf 6y ago
> stepping into unethical privacy breach territory Given oath's laughable privacy policy, I'm not sure any stepping would be required. Granted the shutdown came before the Verizon/Oath takeover, but somehow I doubt the dec
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by ballenf 6y ago
My father was so proud of having uploaded all his music to Google Play. It was the single largest source of loyalty for him to Android over iPhone. With the iPhone's missing back button being second. And since Hangout chat used to be i
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by ballenf 6y ago
As a developer I just don’t like the precedent that if I’m too successful at creating a great product that I therefore lose control over the very qualities of my product that made it successful.

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