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by dwoozle 7y ago
And rarely do the biggest vendors ever blame anything on one of their own vendors.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I work in an FAANG where the director in charge takes people like this and just forces them to work from home. WFH is normally not allowed so you have to be in the exceptional tier to be offered it, and that gives you the flexibility to man
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Yup. That explains what happened to both Alan Turing and Donald Trump.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
That guidance, often framed in religious terms, is a core tool with which sociopaths in power neuter their opponents.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Have you seen the “Black Museum” episode of Black Mirror?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
The article is about the ethical/philosophical implications of having dead performers holographically “brought to life,” so Hatsune Miku isn’t really relevant to the topic.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I’ve never bought a bra but somehow they manage to sell a lot of them.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I like robotic conversations at work because my work is not important to me, and I don’t want to bring my “full self” to work. I like to get in, do my shit, conduct communication in a formalized manner, and get out in 6 hours and go do stuf
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Yeah - a vigilante commits violent crimes to punish crimes that go unpunished by the authorities. This is... a person using above board methods to expose junk science.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Unintended, but not unforeseeable, consequences of the Schengen Zone.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Yeah, they trash the brand for a few quarters of returns and ride off into the sunset.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I forget where I read about a very early and simple attack on Amazon Alexas. Some people knew that their neighbors were going on a long vacation. So they just shouted into their house orders for the Alexa through the front door. They ordere
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by dwoozle 7y ago
This is highly rational behavior for hired CEOs — you’re there for 5-10 years and paid based on stock price, so it’s in your best interest to sell shoddy products under the venerable brand name in the highest quantities possible, and cash o
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Outcome 3 is that the SEC revokes your broker-dealer license for violation of Regulation T and your entire company disappears into a puff of smoke. You become one more company “disappeared” by the law, like Accenture or Aereo.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
That’s if you expect to be on the hook for downside risk. If you’re a teenager willing to go bankrupt (and face criminal charges) if the bet goes south then you should maximize your risk.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I’m too busy with my kids and my job to deal with it.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I have a Rails 1 product making $10K a year but I don’t have even the ability to log into the box anymore so if even the tiniest thing falls over that revenue is permanently gone for me.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Yes, what I’m saying is that 3 days bereavement for the death of a child is pathologically inhumane, even if it is depressingly common. It’s not “naive” to call out terrible things, even when they’ve been so around that we have come to thin
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Exactly. I had 30 days bereavement leave when my mother died but decided to return to work after a week. It was a world of difference from just having the week.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Sure, but the bereavement leave for a child should be much more than 8 weeks. And it costs so little to provide since it is relatively rare in the developed world.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
It’s not like Apple can’t use UserVoice — Microsoft does for some products. Apple just doesn’t need to care about customer feedback very much.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
A personal example is that where I live, Uber has basically exterminated yellow cabs. So if your phone is dead and you can’t get an Uber, you’ve got no chance of flagging a yellow cab like you could do ten years ago. So if you have to get s
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by dwoozle 7y ago
What does “dynamic languages” mean?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
What do you think of a world where Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, and Paul Ryan get to decide what is and isn’t “political propaganda and deliberate lies”? Because until very recently, they were “the government.”
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by dwoozle 7y ago
This isn’t that cool because Arepo is not a word.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Smart. The revenue is hardly worth getting regularly dragged in front of Congress. Best to leave influence over the political discourse to the Internet Research Agency.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I think sadly (or deliberately) this has been framed as murder vs suicide. Either way, it’s deliberate... Osama Bin Laden would have never been allowed to commit suicide in his cell. Someone looked the other way on purpose.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
FYI this is the Vitter that was caught with hookers.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
The reasoning is that airlines used to ban all wireless communication during flight. Now they permit Bluetooth and WiFi but still forbid cellular. The iOS behavior is calibrated to the air travel rules.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
This would be great if it helped me rent the cars I’m interested in buying. I’m trying to evaluate an Audi Q5 vs an Acura MDX right now and an extremely annoying thing is that I can’t easily rent one from the dealership to take on a weekend

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