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by dangrover 6y ago
The wall I hit with this game was that once I figured out how to get the country self-sustaining enough to mine and refine uranium for export, it effectively gave unlimited money, and less point in figuring out all the other industries.
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by dangrover 6y ago
You might like the game City State. The actual citybuilding part of the game is pretty inconsequential, but there are a ton of policy choices that play out in interesting ways.
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by dangrover 6y ago
This happened to a friend too, got totally ghosted by Stripe. This is generally how our industry works, though, which is that it's not worth it to go through loop for a job unless you were referred by someone on the inside.
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by dangrover 6y ago
There is a better, already-coined name for this: context collapse. Because everything is shared "globally" on social networks, we share less than in environments where we're with specific groups of people.
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by dangrover 6y ago
Google used to literally have a feature for this! It was called Google Sets, back when Google Labs was still a thing. https://www.ghacks.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/google_lab...
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by dangrover 6y ago
The framing he speaks of in the beginning is the crappy framing developers, by default, apply to themselves. I remember when I was an engineer I had a similar mentality and felt like I was at the kids' table. Maybe that's why I go
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by dangrover 6y ago
Something like Trader Joes would be great for this. Very limited number of SKUs (e.g. 1-2 kinds of wheat bread, rather than 10). If you combine with automation, could get the costs down considerably. But I'd bet most of the labor hours
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How Chinese Apps Handled Covid-19(dangrover.com)
3 points by dangrover 7y ago|1 comments
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A Sanity Test for Large Groups of PMs(dangrover.com)
2 points by dangrover 7y ago|0 comments
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Selective Availability (GPS)(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by dangrover 7y ago|0 comments
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by dangrover 7y ago
oracle.com!
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by dangrover 7y ago
What's wrong with hammers?
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by dangrover 7y ago
I agree having an OS on a TV is gratuitous. But that doesn't change that the claims the headline made are not actually proven by the evidence presented.
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by dangrover 7y ago
It is not clear why we should necessarily be suspicious of smart TVs based on the findings here. The lines seem to be blurred between what data is being sent by the TV OS itself versus a third party app that someone may have decided to us
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by dangrover 7y ago
I can't separate what actually happened from the sensationalizing in the article. It says the websites had Google cookies and others. OK, anybody using Google Analytics has Google cookies. Anyone using FB plugins has FB cookies. Yes, w
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by dangrover 7y ago
Of course there's money in original content. You need that to keep people coming back to the feed to make any money on the ads. What you're seeing is the results of dozens of teams individually optimizing against growth goals, whi
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by dangrover 7y ago
They forgot the most notorious, 12306.cn. Basically Healthcare.gov for train tickets.
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by dangrover 8y ago
> Schweng said the culture around this election, from the outset, was different than what she’d seen in the past. There were more reports of students taking down candidates’ posters, and more activity on social media. Some students sugge
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by dangrover 8y ago
This. I never tell Alexa to set a timer for 15 or 50 minutes (only 16 or 49) due to tendency to confuse.
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by dangrover 8y ago
Yes, you can have other people send you money in this way, but it is actually pretty easy to get a Chinese bank account, even as a tourist. It will take you 20 minutes. Punch it into WeChat, taking into account how your name was entered on
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by dangrover 8y ago
In China, when you get a phone number, you have to give them your national ID/身份证. So anything you authenticate with a phone number could be traced back to you.
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by dangrover 8y ago
Aside from Dale Carnegie, I found "Stealing the Corner Office" very useful (despite the cornball title).
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by dangrover 8y ago
Used to live in China. Can vouch completely for the Shadowsocks approach. It can't be blocked yet. Set up an endpoint at home or on EC2 and configure Streisand. Works great on mobile and desktop.
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by dangrover 8y ago
More impressive is that, while this was going on, the original QQ quickly pivoted the actual mobile version of QQ in competition with WeChat. Mobile QQ had more users than WeChat until 2015, and even today, there remain parts of the country
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by dangrover 8y ago
This is set differently based on account region. International users have a higher expiry time.
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by dangrover 8y ago
Inaccurate headline. Being targetable is different than them "giving access" to the information. The actual information is not shared with anyone.
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by dangrover 8y ago
Didn't we try this in the 90's with Java applets?
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by dangrover 8y ago
It's gettin' there!
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by dangrover 8y ago
What is advantage over Bootstrap, other than working cleanly with Vue?
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by dangrover 8y ago
The whole point of a city is people aren't dependent on cars/parking. Otherwise, it's not a city.

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