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by drb91 8y ago
I dunno, I’d say people probably worry more about health care than their optimal productivity.
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by drb91 8y ago
Only to short term business interests. Long term the costs of cars to society are absolutely abysmal compared to bulk transit.
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by drb91 8y ago
Algorithmic ability has no correlation to the ability to write maintainable code, though. Most time at work is not spent demonstrating ability to regurgitate algorithms.
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by drb91 8y ago
How much does it sell for at walmart now?
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by drb91 8y ago
It says “out of stock”, dammit.
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by drb91 8y ago
But cars are already broken: see LA, SF, NYC. Why double down rather than invest in infrastructure?
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by drb91 8y ago
How on earth do people measure demand if the market doesn’t supply?
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, it fits in any pocket, it has a headphone jack, and i don’t need to stretch to use it one handed.
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by drb91 8y ago
The idea that I am forced to drive the car myself doesn’t even crack the top 1000 problems worth solving. Transformational is not always good, and is often a terrible argument for prioritizing it. No, this looks like SV companies drinking t
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by drb91 8y ago
How do you calculate actual value if you aren’t even getting a resalable asset? Whatever the price is is evidentally the actual value. In this case, a recurring price. A la carte just doesn’t make sense with DRM; there’s no way to compete t
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by drb91 8y ago
C’mon, this ain’t Kaczynski, you’re reading the damn article through a browser and computer and they are actively selling the data you make on their site. If anything, the new york times is pathetically and dogmatically pro tech.
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by drb91 8y ago
Data is not renewable. When humans die the economy will die with them. Humans will die soon if we do not change how we produce energy. Why invest in data at all when the world as we know it is likely to not exist in 100 years? Tech companie
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by drb91 8y ago
So it copies the user interface of windows, with all its problems, but it doesn’t carry over the reliable variable DPI support, a notifications framework, a unified reliable software management interface, and consensus on how to provide bas
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by drb91 8y ago
All the ala carte options are too expensive. Itunes charges $6(!!!) for new rentals. It is trivial to find six higher quality movies in the $1 purchase bins at walmart and target or at redbox.
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by drb91 8y ago
> Ubuntu with a Mate GUI "just works", has all the software I need and lacks BS like the Windows interface. How do you figure? Every part about Ubuntu, from keybindings to menus to window management to user interface expectatio
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by drb91 8y ago
You can bootstrap a forth system with a few words. Very convenient for individual architectures.
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by drb91 8y ago
Ok... so most mental “disorders” with high functioning people aren’t actually disorders? The definition seems useless without meaning simply “nonconforming”.
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by drb91 8y ago
The violin was not built for a studio.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, you could mandate that they be called novelty tests.
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by drb91 8y ago
Compared to what? Compared to no chat app, slack is amazing. Compared to any commodity chat app, it’s a commodity chat app. The main pitch is that you can just throw money at it and not maintain it. Could have been gchat if google had any c
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by drb91 8y ago
Maybe you just need to know better people.
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by drb91 8y ago
Well, if functioning and fluorishing is defined by conformity, this doesn’t seem very meaningful. Some personality disorders allow a high functioning career and social life. To be clear I am trying to illustrate the idea that a disorder see
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by drb91 8y ago
Well yes, I am openly trying to manipulate you, but at least I don’t treat you like a euphoric wallet to sell you crap.
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by drb91 8y ago
Building quickly is rarely a good sign about the quality of the thing that is built. I think a better pitch for electron is simply consistency across platforms, albeit the lowest common denominator sort: slack is pretty terrible on all plat
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by drb91 8y ago
The real creepy behavior is that companies can openly pay to manipulate you for most of your waking life, and people are fine with it.
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by drb91 8y ago
The entire industry seems to prey on the old and weak.
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by drb91 8y ago
While I won’t agree with “lack of real world experience”, I have noticed that many engineers tend to invest a lot of emotion in language choice when it rarely belongs there.
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by drb91 8y ago
Bad investments hurt everyone and increase inequality.
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by drb91 8y ago
The risk to the CEO here is pretty small.
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by drb91 8y ago
> It sounds quite stressful. So does being shot by police.

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