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by dwoozle 7y ago
They have already taken out API support which for some smart home users was equivalent to bricking. I wonder if there will be a class action lawsuit.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I don’t know why Zuckerberg has so colossally failed to convince the world that Facebook, Inc. should not be an arbiter of what is true and what is false.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
https://www.politico.com/news/2019/10/10/lindsey-graham-trum...
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by dwoozle 7y ago
The US military is not actually very good at war — the nuts and bolts of combat and conquest. They maintain an aura of invincibility through PR which is questioned every time they fail at war (the majority of the times since World War II) o
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by dwoozle 7y ago
As soon as TGIFs started leaking, Pichai had to start treating them like public press conferences, resulting in them now being completely devoid of content.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Microsoft has a less passionate employee base. They want to show up and get their check and go home to their families. Not as many single twenty somethings who take a lot of pride in being “Googlers” and care a lot about what that means.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Look at the authors. China is really going to put the screws to the US and it’s going to be sooner rather than later.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
What’s the alternative? Hopefully not black text on white slides. That’s terrible for me and others.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
McKinsey’s advice on what makes a great CEO is like my advice for making it through menopause. They know absolutely nothing about it and their expertise is mainly in creating CYA documents for executives and assisting corrupt governments an
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I’m talking about a pickup game of basketball with Michael Jordan on one team. That obviously doesn’t work when your opponents have 90% of the skill of Jordan.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
This phenomenon arises from the way that TV shows are produced. The creators write ~6 episodes to showcase the concept and the funding/production decision is made based on these 6 episodes. So the shows are engineered for maximum drama
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by dwoozle 7y ago
The Jobs model works when you have a Jobs, or Gates, or Musk, someone whose inherent talent is so strong that the organization can look to him for all decisions. But the strategy for running a company in the long term cannot assume such a p
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by dwoozle 7y ago
The travel times between these two locations can be 60+ minutes depending on mode and time. It is a Big Deal.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
How? Paying by stock price ten years after the CEO leaves? Having the board make operational decisions about flight control systems?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
This doesn’t affect the game theoretic optimal decision making for other companies, since the executives who made these decisions were paid a long time ago and rode off into the sunset. We need to punish individuals for the decisions they m
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Sure, it’s called eminent domain, the land owner has no recourse but they do get compensated, and it’s an almost universal concept.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
What are the implications of the Higgs being discovered in 2000?
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by dwoozle 7y ago
You don’t need to give incumbent landowners a veto over development. That’s a choice, and one that can be made differently.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Exactly. Jeff Bezos tweets something that gets Xi’s panties in a ruffle and AWS is blocked in China and Bank of America can’t do cross border payments... no way should such a big company have their eggs in such a basket.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
No. The Chinese government is using this entire crisis as a way of testing the limits of its power. They wanted to test it in a 0-10 scale but found the needle zoomed up to the right stop, so they adjusted the scale to 0-100 by dialing up t
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by dwoozle 7y ago
If you know anything about Amazon, if you know what commingling means, or if you spend 5 minutes reading about this company you will steer well clear for baby formula, food, electronics, or anything else safety related. Stick to using Amazo
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by dwoozle 7y ago
No one runs a big pseudocongolomerate like Cisco for 20 years without making friends and enemies.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I see the following phenomenon repeat itself: someone convinces the world that a particular behavior, described by a particular term, is bad: bigotry, racism, emotional labor, transphobic, sexual assault. Usually this is straightforward bec
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Don’t know why we bother giving a second chance to people who stab people to death in their sleep. Sure, maybe they can be rehabilitated, but I don’t see why society has any obligation to make the effort.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
You cannot Reason a man out of Thrall.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
You may be in two different countries with two different sets of options available.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I forgot that! Once he started to recognize his name I printed several toys with his name on them. Like, a dinosaur off thingiverse with “Steve” in raised letters on his belly.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
I print a lot of stuff around the house with a toddler. I printed guards to prevent him from turning on the oven, a insert for the piano that prevents him from pressing the auto play demo, a shim to get a drawer to close more smoothly, a sh
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Charities report anonymous donations.
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by dwoozle 7y ago
Individual business owners often have that attitude. It’s when they go public that the profits are not also linked to the social standing of the owner and the appetite for dollars runs away.

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