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by cptaj 5y ago
I bet he means like "Copy stories in instagram!" by "Products". I've heard a lot of social media devs talk about features as products. I'm guessing because that's how product managers see them in those org
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by cptaj 5y ago
This is the thing about teslas. They're very anti-repair. I would never in my life buy a car that can only be fixed in official company-licensed shops. I have never gone to one of these overpriced shitholes in my entire car-owning life
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by cptaj 5y ago
I've never seen outside consultants make useful contributions to a project. This is even worse. Thanks, I hate it.
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by cptaj 5y ago
To me the biggest offense is forcing me to download your shitty app XD
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by cptaj 5y ago
The whole smart keys trend is the worst case of taking a perfectly functional thing and ruining it with unnecessary features. I hate them so much. They all cost a boatload of cash to replace and give me absolutely no benefit over a regular
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by cptaj 5y ago
India shakes fist at the sky
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by cptaj 5y ago
Can you give examples of these "hacky domain specific scripts"? I love hearing about niche custom computing.
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by cptaj 5y ago
The other issue is that a really aggressive price cut hasn't happened yet because SpaceX doesn't have any competitors that can cut prices to match. Why cut further when you're already the cheapest?
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by cptaj 5y ago
The thing about edtech is its B2B nature with a mostly public sector that drives it. Its hard to make a neat product because you have to accommodate the whims of as many institutions as possible. You might have to bite the bullet with moodl
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by cptaj 5y ago
Some countries and ISPs do this as well. Lots of uses for download managers
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by cptaj 5y ago
I live in Venezuela and we've had forex controls for 2 decades now. Our currency has also depreciated massively over the years to the point of being useless. We've unofficially dollarized a lot of cash operations so I bet a bunch
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by cptaj 5y ago
Probably not. In latin america, government ID is pretty public and you share it for a lot of trivial stuff. It isnt considered a secret
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by cptaj 5y ago
Managers excited about a new tech idea are probably the most destructive thing in the industry.
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by cptaj 5y ago
With the rise of dictatorships worldwide and the complete inability of liberal democracies to fight back, I would guess there's a lot of growth in this market
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by cptaj 5y ago
Well you should otherwise you don't really have the right to leave. I live in a dictatorship that actively suppresses passport requests by its citizens. You have no idea how much I support this initiative. You have no idea what its lik
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by cptaj 5y ago
Man, this is always such a spicy comment to make. Americans always get mad but its true. As a Venezuelan I always find the racism stuff coming from the US completely baffling. I think most of the world is just completely weirded out by how
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by cptaj 5y ago
You think they're doing this to make you feel... good?
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by cptaj 5y ago
I think he means under the current life expectancy and quality of life in the final decades. He probably means those final decades are completely unproductive and taxing on the whole economy, so a productive person dying just before becomin
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by cptaj 5y ago
I've never understood why most millionaires don't use the money to do interesting things at all
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by cptaj 5y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=352P0sLMnsw Quick explanation of orbital vs suborbital spaceflight
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by cptaj 5y ago
Yeah, the question "do they kill innovation?" is too simplistic. They exist for a valid reason and they also have negative side effects. The current implementation has a lot of systemic problems. The ones you mention, patent troll
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by cptaj 5y ago
Of course I wouldn't have the same reaction. North Korea is a brutal dictatorship. What are you trying to imply with the question? That brutal dictatorships are not so bad an we've been lied to? Do you live or have you ever spent
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by cptaj 5y ago
The problem with this is selection bias. When you say you've studied the "history of ideas", what you've actually studied is the history of notorious ideas that worked. You have nothing remotely resembling a proper sampl
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by cptaj 5y ago
I know this one! Lets freak out in cable news networks and social media until we reach a fever pitch of cultural overheating where all rationality collapses and we lose our ability to function as a civilization.
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by cptaj 6y ago
I hold him in low regard because he defended Chavez for years while his dictatorship destroyed my country.
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by cptaj 6y ago
In Venezuela we've had a crippling gasoline shortage since last year (Don't vote for communist dictators). Within months we saw EVs appear everywhere. Tiny Fiat EVs imported for the rich who could buy a new car on a whim, sure, bu
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by cptaj 6y ago
The problem isn't an awkward exchange of ideas. The problem is industrial-scale disinformation campaigns manipulating public opinion and discrediting every single thing you can imagine, grinding the free exchange of ideas to a halt at
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by cptaj 6y ago
I think the useful takeaway for Norway is that there is no evidence that they need to change their national recommended guidelines for physical activity.
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by cptaj 6y ago
Another thought is comparing its durability with just buying more of a cheaper version. If I have a 500 shoe, does it last the same as 5 similar shoes in a row?
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by cptaj 6y ago
I think the organisms that might've been in those probes are not the kind that would either survive in Venus or produce phosphine

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