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by efsavage 3y ago
While there are plenty of historical thoughts on this, a recent and profound take on it is Everything Everywhere All at Once. If you haven't seen it, check it out.
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by efsavage 3y ago
My beer journey started in the 90s and Anchor had good distribution when such things were difficult for smaller brands, but even back then it was always the last beer in the cooler at a party. I'm surprised they lasted this long.
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by efsavage 3y ago
I don't think it's a _bad law_* as much as it's an _incomplete law_. I don't know what the complete version looks like, but it would include both customer cost controls and reward innovation-based efficiency gains. Alt
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by efsavage 3y ago
It's probably not greed like in a supervillain way, it's more of the following (which I've heard almost verbatim multiple times from business owners): "Our costs have gone up 7%, so we should raise prices" &qu
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by efsavage 3y ago
A good collection, I especially like the Mediterranean-in-Australia one. Responding to the title itself, if you think "Maps Distort How We See the World" you should see what not having a map does!
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by efsavage 3y ago
Westworld is not underrated. It's a pretty bad movie as far as craft goes, but gets and deserves credit for being early in the genre. It had good ideas but they weren't developed well. Fortunately other movies, and the first se
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by efsavage 4y ago
> What's driving this? That's what the article is about. Is it actually pull from customers, or is it push from the manufacturers? It's both. Most people don't want a gray car as their first choice, but it's pro
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by efsavage 4y ago
He paid his iCloud with his Apple Card, but didn't pay the credit card bill properly, so they basically clawed back the purchase. The analogy is that if I pay for Netflix with Amex and miss an Amex payment, they can't directly can
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by efsavage 4y ago
> perhaps in a coarse or low utility way. I think this is right, and a lot of the "this is astrology" people seem to be conflating the fact that something can be useful (which, to be clear, I don't believe astrology is) wi
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by efsavage 4y ago
I think you'd be surprised what even a little manufactured exposure can do. It doesn't need to be undercover. At almost every company I've worked at that asks for feedback I recommend some version of this. Some things I th
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by efsavage 4y ago
Nice job, a material improvement over the mentioned blur hash. A nice CSS transition for when the image loaded would be the cherry on top ;)
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by efsavage 4y ago
I get your point, "biodegradable" is not necessarily indicating the end state, but I think it's generally a better idea than using previously sequestered carbon like oil (depending on the energy needed to produce useful goods
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by efsavage 4y ago
I don't mean to be snarky, but if you're looking for a linear flow or singular root cause, you're doing it wrong. It's literally just getting you in the door and past the most immediate symptoms. If you can work your wa
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by efsavage 4y ago
This is actually a legitimate cause, though not always expressed that way ;) Many problems don't get solved well (or at all) because nobody in the organization finds them interesting. The only way to fix this that I've seen is to
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by efsavage 4y ago
> If you can come up with a single answer for a complex causality problem, something hints to me that you would probably point to the same “cause”for other problems too. That's basically the point of the 5 whys approach. You work u
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by efsavage 4y ago
In Ryan's defense, the firm he hired wrote an even prettier and more expensive report supporting his decision.
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by efsavage 4y ago
> What does it mean to be "loyal to" a company or employee, though? I think there are different flavors of this but they generally fall into one of two categories: 1. Short-term vs. Long-term * Employee: I'm not gettin
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by efsavage 4y ago
> If anything, companies try to double-dip and serve multiple masters. See: the security and privacy mess in smart TVs. Last I checked, LG wasn't giving their TVs away. This is true, and you transition from customer to eyeballs once
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by efsavage 4y ago
When people can't work you get product shortages, and then inflation, but UBI isn't about paying people not to work, it's about people electing to work for more money beyond the "basic".
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by efsavage 4y ago
> It is assumed that ad spending will always be worth it This is mostly true. If it wasn't worth it, businesses wouldn't spend money on it. At my last startup we spent money on ads that were worth it, for us, so we stopped.
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by efsavage 4y ago
I'd venture to say that the demographics of science fiction/fantasy authors differ greatly between the deceased greats and the active contributors, and that would be something I would be afraid to miss out on by limiting myself to
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by efsavage 4y ago
I've taken a similar approach for reading sci-fi/fantasy, where authors/publishers seem obligated to make everything a trilogy. I'm tired of reading a great book and waiting years for the next, so now I just don't
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by efsavage 4y ago
I feel that some version of that is not a bad standing policy for any company.
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by efsavage 4y ago
Massachusetts recently mandated cage-free eggs, which I assume adds some cost, not sure if that's a thing elsewhere.
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by efsavage 4y ago
> They're just running a Mastodon instance, why so many people? My first reaction was surprise that there were 20 people at Parler to begin with! From what I've heard of people running Mastodon servers, they are not exactly lig
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by efsavage 4y ago
If the fees were set appropriately, it would be difficult to abuse. Under this scheme, "High Noon" would be leaving copyright this year. If the fee was 5% and the current owners said it was worth $500k they would have to pay $25k
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by efsavage 4y ago
I think Apple's decision to mostly name products based on dictionary words is a good one, and well-executed. Google tries this too but usually misses the mark a bit by being overly generic (Play, Chat, Calendar, etc.) and failing to b
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by efsavage 4y ago
Yes, they should be able to pay a fee to extend beyond a fair time (~50 years?) based on a declared value of the work. To ensure the declared value is realistic, they then must sell the work to anyone that offers more than the declared val
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by efsavage 4y ago
I doubt many people really want to use them, any more than they really want to use any other megabank. A lot of people just use the bank that's closest to their house/work, thinking (and often not wrong from a retail point of
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by efsavage 4y ago
Agreed, it seems odd to be a fan of a team when they aren't "your" team, as in you can go and actually see them on a regular basis. Racing and golf are examples of successful sports that don't have geographic ties, and t

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