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by dawg- 7y ago
As a hardcore book lover, I have the deepest hatred for all lists of books. They are pretentious wastes of time, usually written to make the author look like an eclectic and well-rounded person and for no other purpose. This is just about m
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by dawg- 7y ago
As a really close follower of the NBA, I can say they have been starting to show real concern with not wearing out their players, and they have incentive to take it even further. They haven't decreased the overall number of games, but
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by dawg- 7y ago
Surprise! They may have tanked Google+ on the face of things, but they are slowly morphing all of their services into a huge distributed version of the same thing. Combine Google Contacts, Messaging, Gmail, Hangouts, Duo, Photos, News, Maps
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by dawg- 7y ago
The enigma of Nir Eyal continues to evolve and turn in on itself. First he writes the manual for how to write addictive apps. Then he writes a book seemingly atoning for his previous work hijacking human psychology. And now it turns out he&
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by dawg- 7y ago
The physical services provided by these startups are fronts for erecting a mass surveillance infrastructure that collects user data. When you reach a certain point, you become a data company regardless of what particular service you start
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by dawg- 7y ago
This is true for most rules of thumb. "Show, don't tell" is great advice for beginning creative writers since most people struggle with that aspect of writing. But as you gain experience you learn how to break the rules grace
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by dawg- 7y ago
I don't really see the problem here, to be honest. Thoreau wrote that real reading is that which we have to "stand on our tiptoes", and "devote our most wakeful hours" to grasp. The French philosopher Gilles Deleuze
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by dawg- 7y ago
For what it's worth, Snopes did an article about these brain-wave trackers: https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/05/03/activists-skeptical-c... tl;dr is that they kinda work, but not nearly as effecti
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by dawg- 7y ago
She wrote a lot of valuable stuff about American visual culture at a time when television was dominant and just before the rise of the internet. Someone else cited On Photography, and Regarding the Pain of Others is another good one.
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I like to imagine that whatever company makes these little touchscreens employs the Michael Jordan of B2B salespeople.
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by dawg- 7y ago
Get cars out of all city centers, not just the big ones. I live in a small town pop. 15,000. Our little main street is clogged with parking spaces and cars. For 15,000 people! Instead they could rip out the asphalt and make it a pedestrian
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by dawg- 7y ago
Roast me a stork and make the legs extra crispy? Hmmm...
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by dawg- 7y ago
Lifting very heavy weights gets me out of a funk faster than anything. I'm talking intense exercise, not little rubber pink dumbbells or whatever. Suffering brings clarity for me. Literally. I think humans need a certain amount of stre
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by dawg- 7y ago
I agree completely. The only way they embrace change is when it impacts their bottom line. Visa and Mastercard are citing privacy and security as a reason they are not going to work with Facebook. That kind of thing will lose them money in
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by dawg- 7y ago
Facebook won't burn to the ground. Best case scenario is that companies like Facebook start looking at data security and privacy as assets that factor heavily into their competitiveness in their industry. If they aren't as secure
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>Not many people aim to spend their life working as a bank teller anyway. Very good point. But as low-skill customer service jobs go, it's a great stepping stone for someone who is yet to figure out their career path. What happens w
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by dawg- 7y ago
I don't know. Maybe. I am just talking about the experience of seeing a person's face every day, looking them in the eye, making small talk, interacting with other customers in the bank. That kind of every day stuff has value. I t
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by dawg- 7y ago
Exactly, it's a failure for now , but apple now owns the intellectual property to that forever. If anybody ever finds a better way to use it, they own it and can jump on the opportunity. That's why when you are a company like app
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by dawg- 7y ago
I don't understand, it seems like these are just rental services for expensive farming equipment? Are we just calling rentals [Blank] as a Service now? Maybe Enterprise should change their business model to Cars as a Service.
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by dawg- 7y ago
A few years ago my bank had a mini-branch in my local chain grocery store. They had a counter and some tellers working behind it. I went to it really often because I was being paid in cash at the time waiting tables. The employees were supe
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by dawg- 7y ago
I first heard about this while in Europe, and I was really confused by it. As an American it seems like a trivial thing to worry about. But it's really just because of different infrastructures and space issues. In the US if you want t
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by dawg- 7y ago
You actually have lots of control! Cities are representative democracies, and you have an elected official whose job is to represent the interests of you and others in your district. Your representatives make decisions about zoning codes an
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by dawg- 7y ago
This article defines exactly why I love replays in sports. All the men sitting around the TV arguing the minute details of what is a catch and what isn't a catch - it's the ultimate American folk epistemology. People flexing their
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by dawg- 7y ago
I'm a speech science student, not an engineer. So take this with a grain of salt, but here's what I know. In order to process speech with a computer you need to know two things: what is the source (vocal cords) doing? And what is
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by dawg- 7y ago
A big part of war is morale. People have to want to send their 20 year old children to die in a foreign country. No war happens without support from the people fighting it. But what happens to war when that's not a thing anymore? Wha
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by dawg- 7y ago
Hopefully it's not just a copy of Powerpoint and Keynote with a slick brand. If they decide to do something radical, like limit the number of text words per slide to something like 10-15, then I will really be interested.
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by dawg- 7y ago
That may be how you tell yourself the story of your old reading habit, but as a fellow voracious childhood reader I would disagree completely. I think reading is a very active process of imagination, analyzing characters and plots, and form
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by dawg- 7y ago
Any given Instagram reader may not have read a real book in their life - or maybe they are avid readers who read constantly. All the same, there will always be readers and non-readers. Literary snobs today imagine a past world where everybo
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by dawg- 7y ago
I thought the official definition of a parasite was an organism that benefits itself at the expense of the host? If the host gains from the relationship it would be called something else entirely. In that case, I think your statement that h
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The problem is that for lots of these services, some of the coolest features come from them having your real data. I would love to be able to yell across my house and tell google to re-order toilet paper, or check what's on my calendar

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