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by closetohome 5y ago
> talking about tech has always tended to lead to a certain amount of political discussion, especially in terms of things like encryption policy, DRM, etc. Growing up in the era of peak Slashdot it was hard not to view politics through t
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by closetohome 5y ago
I'm not clear if this is a list of suggested SEO tasks, or if it's just a shared checklist (that can be populated with suggested SEO tasks). If the former, it would be nice to see some examples, and I'm not sure why I would
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by closetohome 5y ago
I think the asset generation part is often wildly underestimated. Art is hard - commercial art can be harder. Sure you can buy assets, but then you need to be an art director - which is also hard. And the cost can get out of control very
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by closetohome 5y ago
I'm not sure I follow the distinction between Steam going away (and having to pirate your games) and Stadia going away (and having to pirate your games).
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by closetohome 5y ago
This is going to sound ridiculous, but ecommerce? Between the .com crash, and a few high-profile failures like Kozmo, Outpost, and Pets.com, there was definitely an era of skepticism about the whole idea. Also keep in mind Amazon didn&#x27
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by closetohome 5y ago
Two is one, one is none.
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by closetohome 5y ago
My old boss was very disturbed when we explained to him that our small business with one IT guy can't really defend against state-level actors who are intent on getting into our systems. I'm still not sure why he was worried about
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by closetohome 5y ago
I get how this probably reduces spam a little, but it's another one of those things like capchas that can be a massive impediment for legitimate users, but barely a speedbump for actual spammers.
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by closetohome 5y ago
It's awfully hard to establish any kind of online presence without a mobile phone number these days. Google used to have the option to get a confirmation code by voice if you couldn't receive texts, but they discontinued it, and
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by closetohome 5y ago
> it would probably behoove them to increase their joy by ridding themselves of whatever it was they typically leave behind That's some wisdom right there.
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by closetohome 5y ago
Reminds me of a helpdesk job I had back when Windows 98 was the standard. Before the display settings had that handy confirmation countdown, it was surprisingly easy to set your display to something the monitor couldn't handle, leavin
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by closetohome 5y ago
Being able to share AirTags via a family iCloud account seems to be a pretty commonly requested feature. It does seem a little silly that I can track every device attached to the account but not AirTags.
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by closetohome 5y ago
A long time ago I was headed to a photo shoot with the owner of a Ford GT40. As we cruised along he commented that it was the perfect road trip vehicle. Being young and a chronic over-packer and over-preparer, I asked how that was possibl
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by closetohome 5y ago
Their contractor talked them into building it without a fixed budget. That's a pretty good financial incentive to just say "can do!" to every suggestion the owner makes.
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by closetohome 5y ago
Also most airliners follow fairly standard routes between cities. Starlink satellites, by nature, have to be evenly distributed. Each one is also visible from a larger patch of ground because it's 300 miles farther away than a plane.
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by closetohome 5y ago
Interruptions are a good theory, but it seems unlikely they would have people use their own phones for the experiment, as that would introduce as many variables as there are participants. I would think they just hand everyone a 'clean
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by closetohome 5y ago
> improving the user experience was clearly not their priority Basically. Reddit's updates are meant to drive ad engagement. The redesign makes it harder to browse without identifying yourself (requiring an account to see comments,
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by closetohome 5y ago
There are at least a couple of rotary wing UAVs like the K-Max and Fire Scout that are just retrofitted conventional airframes. So in a way it's almost like the technology skipped manned flight and was put directly into unmanned aircr
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by closetohome 5y ago
It's almost as though repeatedly raising prices increases revenue at the cost of subscriber numbers. Wild.
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by closetohome 5y ago
I find this muddied even more by the shortcut for "start a new sentence" being a double space on mobile keyboards. Seems like a habit I'd pick up even if I'd learned to type on a phone.
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by closetohome 5y ago
Yeah it's integration of OCR and a lightweight CMS that also conveniently rolls together fees for hosting and GPT3. I was a little surprised that the paper part is used only for plain text. It would sort of make sense to have at lea
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by closetohome 5y ago
A conservative investor who doesn't believe in passive/index investing. If he'd bought BABA stock outright instead of optioning it, he'd have $200,000 right now instead of $0.
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by closetohome 5y ago
Failure rate isn't the only metric that affects customer satisfaction. If the product works better than any of its competition, but has a 10% rate of complete failure (which is insanely high for a retail product), you're still go
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by closetohome 5y ago
I use it for the same thing, though most videos seem to fall into one of three categories: -Millions of views, 99% liked -Videos without ridiculous view counts, where the like/dislike ratio actually helps -Brigaded with dislikes
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by closetohome 5y ago
Thanks, I'd never really thought about eye surgery before and now am deathly afraid of literally every aspect of it.
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by closetohome 5y ago
Google discontinued the "read you a number over a landline" feature a little while back and only supports texting now.
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by closetohome 5y ago
I think this speaks to my issue. Facebook is far too ban-happy and obsessed with verifiable identity for me to ever be comfortable associating it with an expensive piece of hardware.
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by closetohome 5y ago
Walmart is Amazon's biggest competitor in online sales with ~7% market share to Amazon's ~40%.
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by closetohome 5y ago
Did you know that the first VR office was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire interns were lost.
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by closetohome 5y ago
You'd think Google breaks into your house, uploads your data, and deletes the originals. Think of cloud accounts like any other form of backup. Two is one, one is none. Hard drives die, cloud services come and go. No backup is foreve

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