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by closetohome 5y ago
I think I disagree about the nature of the "hype cycle." Too often it's portrayed as a negative thing, or some kind of grift pulled on the hapless public. More optimistically it's like a period of brainstorming. Not a
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by closetohome 5y ago
> The "People also searched for" popup causes layout shifts nearly every time you go back to the search page I've also noticed that particular bit of irony. In fact it's the longest-running CLS issue I've seen a
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by closetohome 5y ago
Adding voice control to lights is surprisingly handy.
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by closetohome 6y ago
It doesn't. The authors don't seem to know the difference between an RFID tag and a microchip.
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by closetohome 6y ago
Yeah this kind of makes it sound like the EA should be running the company. The only work the CEO admits to actually doing when she's not taking cooking classes or surfing is "showing up and doing my thing" at pitch meetings
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by closetohome 6y ago
This seems like the only remotely plausible outcome. Everyone would reinvent the internet on a smaller scale, then eventually reconnect them.
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by closetohome 6y ago
Exactly. Focusing on capability gives you a very myopic view of the situation. Capabilities are a moving target, with very few truly revolutionary leaps between the first film-based spy satellites and whatever we've got today. Prolif
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by closetohome 6y ago
I feel like that's a critical detail that's missing from the headline. He didn't just say "these guys are a bunch of jerkbags and you shouldn't do business with them" he said "this company is operating a
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by closetohome 6y ago
Seems like taking a moment to think about monetization before beginning would have saved some trouble. When you run a service that provides information you either make money through ads or direct subscriptions. And if it's B, you bett
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by closetohome 6y ago
Same, late 80s/early 90s. I had one altercation in 2nd (?) grade where we mostly just pushed each other around and then wrestled on the ground. I can think of a couple times people got in each others faces in high school, but no knoc
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by closetohome 6y ago
The M1 Mac Mini also supports two displays, one of them just needs to be through HDMI.
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by closetohome 6y ago
That squares pretty well with the old rule of thumb for the cost of opening a restaurant or bar: Figure out what you think it will cost, then triple it and add a third.
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by closetohome 6y ago
Criticism of Soylent does often seem to imply that the alternative is a home-cooked meal of leafy greens.
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by closetohome 6y ago
I do like to point out that whatever shenanigans YouTube is doing with their discoverability and promotion features, they still provide unlimited lifetime 8K video hosting for free . And that's a pretty good deal.
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by closetohome 6y ago
I agree with your assessment. My point is just that search volume or user volume is an indicator of the size of the ad market, which is what any antitrust litigation will mostly be about. They're not concerned with the user experience
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by closetohome 6y ago
And what would you go after Facebook for? The same thing as google - advertising. But their market share is smaller than Google's.
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by closetohome 6y ago
I think you missed that it's third parties offering to perform these services. They target Yelp because it's one of the more prominent review sites, but I've gotten calls from people claiming to be able to manipulate Google
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by closetohome 6y ago
This issue is complicated by the fact that there's a thriving ecosystem of marketers and scammers who operate around Yelp, and will call and tell you they work for Yelp and can have negative reviews removed and other things. So people
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by closetohome 6y ago
The "reach" gesture was actually introduced with the iPhone 6 Plus, due to its larger size.
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by closetohome 6y ago
Another way of looking at it is that 1 in 10 people who were alerted to a potential health issue ended up needing medical assistance. That's actually pretty good for a basic non-medical screening.
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by closetohome 6y ago
> "Nuclear fusion. 30 years away since 1950" Those projections usually include the caveat "if properly funded" - https://i.imgur.com/3vYLQmm.png
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by closetohome 6y ago
DJI in fact advertises the fact that they'll happily broadcast your information to law enforcement in realtime - https://www.dji.com/aeroscope It's a little scary.
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by closetohome 6y ago
The difference is 2-day versus 1-day. Which doesn't sound that compelling to me.
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by closetohome 6y ago
I think that's the deal breaker for me. If I order $35 worth of stuff I already get free 2-day shipping. I use Prime because I don't have to think about order totals or shipping - it just shows up the next day.
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by closetohome 6y ago
I would say "hard pass" on this, but at some point in the future, it will no doubt be significantly more expensive to acquire car insurance without this kind of oversight. Ideally there would be some legislation in place that pre
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by closetohome 6y ago
Exactly. The counterpart to this is walking up to a touchscreen credit card reader ten years ago and going "uhh..." while looking for physical buttons to push.
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by closetohome 6y ago
If only the US were in dire need of massive infrastructure refurbishment projects.
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by closetohome 6y ago
The article then goes on to completely miss the point of that statement.
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by closetohome 6y ago
Someone upthread was talking about how, as a Salesman, you have to read the room and know how to talk to clients. I did that for awhile, and always got a lot of mileage out of asking the customer what they ultimately wanted to accomplish
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by closetohome 6y ago
My boss refused to use UPSs for years because he bought one once and couldn't get it to stop beeping.

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