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by cirgue 7y ago
That worked in China when they needed us more than we needed them. Now, we’ve demonstrated ourselves to be unwilling to use the leverage we’ve built, so right now engagement doesn’t mean a damn thing.
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by cirgue 7y ago
Literally, using Mensa membership as a proxy for IQ was an example of selection bias in one of my undergrad research methods classes.
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by cirgue 7y ago
"Major US brand tries to enter well-developed foreign market, faces challenges, abandons attempt." This happens all the time. It shouldn't be surprising that it is hard to compete with a) the already-translated version of you
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by cirgue 7y ago
> Visit or don't, but HK has a unique history, from its troubled beginning as a british colony to its difficult chinese integration. We prefer to slowly build it compromise by compromise rather than shun any sign of progress in the
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by cirgue 7y ago
> the government wanted a firm to "address negative perceptions in key markets overseas to maintain confidence in Hong Kong" It seems like the point of this particular exercise wasn't to convince citizens of anything, but
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by cirgue 7y ago
I set out to build a product I would want to use from scratch. I succeeded in that I deployed a web app that does everything it's supposed to do (More or less a Metafilter clone). This is the first thing I've ever put on the inter
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by cirgue 7y ago
I’ve been building a forum. The software part is done, I worked for like 9 months on and off to get it deployed, and now I just don’t have the motivation to do the work involved in building the community.
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by cirgue 7y ago
This reads like marketing material shoehorned into a soft-peddled criticism about human rights in order to generate buzz. What stretched my suspension of disbelief more than anything is that the author seems to think that people use this pr
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by cirgue 7y ago
> Here's a hot take: you shouldn't be trusting intenet comments written by humans anyway. I remember an old New Yorker cartoon from the 90s that says 'On the internet, no one knows you're a dog'. Lying has been a
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by cirgue 7y ago
Of course it does, but we can say with confidence that attention and capital are misallocated toward a specific, identifiable set of activities. That's rare.
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by cirgue 7y ago
There is a massive positive, though, for the 'geeks building the future": AI is where everyone else is looking. If you know where you should be looking, you have a decisive advantage over the rest of the market.
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by cirgue 7y ago
That's not Ludditism, it's good engineering intuition.
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by cirgue 7y ago
That was refreshing to the point of being cathartic. I feel like the tech industry can get so far up its own ass about image and perception that it has lost its once-great sense of humor wrt bullshit.
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by cirgue 7y ago
NotPaidToPost Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
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by cirgue 7y ago
At my last job I had a nontechnical boss, and I would have been ecstatic if he had a) enough of a clue to try screwing around with SQL, and b) the wisdom and humility to ask for help.
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by cirgue 7y ago
No, but most of them know what a v-lookup is, and almost all of them know when they need the result that a join accomplishes.
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by cirgue 7y ago
I am sure that other patterns of interaction happen on medium, but I know of no one for whom this isn’t their entire interaction with the service: it’s literally a hosting site that people are vaguely aware of because their modal has their
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by cirgue 7y ago
The people working in the sharing economy because they don't have other options for income get counted in employment statistics. The PhD working at starbucks gets counted in the employment statistics. People who are not actively seekin
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by cirgue 7y ago
“We sell authenticity”
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by cirgue 7y ago
Not really, I would bet that twitter, reddit, facebook, and links from other news-like content generate the lion's share of traffic.
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by cirgue 7y ago
Agreed, this is an absolutely terrible idea. If you want to say whatever you want and be free from censorship, host your content on your own site.
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by cirgue 7y ago
> Facebook used to be popular because it was, at one point, fun. If they're going to remove all the voices they think are "dangerous", what they're left with won't be fun or interesting. Just lukewarm, milquetoas
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by cirgue 7y ago
I feel like 'agile' has become similar to capitalism or socialism in that it exists to solve a set of problems, and the internal structure of the idea does in fact solve the problems it seeks to solve, but has a whole bunch of rea
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by cirgue 7y ago
I would be stoked to read about your projects with embedded systems or your unpublished short stories. Hell, even if they suck, that’s more authentic and more interesting than 99% of the internet right now.
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by cirgue 7y ago
The bigger factor is that it indicates that someone had the gumption to get there without the benefit of an academic and social system to motivate them. That is an impressive and unusual tendency of personality, and one that makes you an as
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by cirgue 7y ago
> I feel like if you leave it off your resume, you probably wouldn't be able to land the interview to begin with. The nanodegree is step zero in teaching yourself to program and definitely isn't necessary. Demonstrating what y
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by cirgue 7y ago
Vices or virtues of the article aside, what a great title.
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by cirgue 7y ago
Watson is a constellation of consulting services and software. It's basically a marketing meme.
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by cirgue 8y ago
I don’t think that any business that makes money by taking advantage of people’s foolishness or stupidity has any particular moral right to be free from regulation. Caveat emptor and all that, but if you cause enough damage to enough people
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by cirgue 8y ago
Also, the notion that dark UI patterns are exploitative of teenagers but acceptable for adults is ridiculous. Plenty of adults are just as (if not more-so) vulnerable to these things than kids.

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