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by eli 3y ago
I think the goal is to have a less obviously racist product. This is a business and PR concern, not a moral one.
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by eli 3y ago
The etymology of that sense of "fluke" is from the game of billiards. It's when you make a successful stroke by accident. And yes it was a lucky stroke for journalism that the same newspapers that carried their words happened
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by eli 3y ago
It was a fluke that it worked so well for so long.
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by eli 3y ago
So are nearly all security vulnerabilities. Is bypassing the lock screen a security bug?
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by eli 3y ago
Isn't that the point of reserving something like .internal? So that people don't "borrow" a TLD that could get assigned to something else later?
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by eli 3y ago
The polls implied about a 20% chance of Trump beating Clinton too. I guess I'm not sure what you're getting at. That seems like the perfect example of not a sure thing.
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by eli 3y ago
But those things at least partly explain the apparent irrationality. PredictIt charges 10% fee on profits and another 5% fee on withdrawals. So bets that have the potential to earn a few cents on the dollar aren't necessarily worth it.
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by eli 3y ago
What a clever strategy of spending the money they were allocated in the ways they were directed to use it.
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by eli 3y ago
He's objecting to the question. How well you feel you can answer it doesn't matter.
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by eli 3y ago
Yes, though it's usually the founders coming to that realization and not the professional investors who are supposed to know better.
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by eli 3y ago
If investors wanted information rights they should have made that one of the terms.
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by eli 3y ago
It's actually even less successful if that's the metric. The people who care about how it works are mostly on Masto. BlueSky has a dedicated user base, but it's not among protocol nerds.
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by eli 3y ago
Client testing is a fair point, but I'm skeptical of the claims that plaintext improves bounce rate and I don't follow how it improves security unless you mean exploits that target the HTML renderer itself.
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by eli 3y ago
far more consequential emails are sent with HTML mail
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by eli 3y ago
Insofar as that’s true, I do not think I want plaintext. Especially if it’s a message that would otherwise have inline links or images or any sort of rich text. I would like the content of my emails to be memorable. Not an unusual UX. Maybe
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by eli 3y ago
I'm not sure I want the styling of my email to be especially noteworthy
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by eli 3y ago
Most Americans are city dwellers. It's not even close. And the trend has been consistently towards increased urbanization since the country's founding. I'm not arguing we should ignore rural communities, just that we shouldn&
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by eli 3y ago
What percentage of Americans live in a community with 600 or fewer people? There are very few policy decisions that will be universally good for everyone. That doesn't automatically make them bad policies.
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by eli 3y ago
They bought Drizly before UberEats did alcohol. Now it does.
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by eli 3y ago
It’s the same in the US. The US Postal Inspector is federal law enforcement within the post office.
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by eli 3y ago
Isn't that Sublime Text?
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by eli 3y ago
Correct, this isn't an eval it is "stack ranking" which was made famous by GE. Some companies still do it. But not most.
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by eli 3y ago
California has its own WARN Act with less lenient rules
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by eli 3y ago
Just about all companies have performance evaluations. This is not an explicit tactic in most companies.
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by eli 3y ago
Ah, my mistake. The MAILTO: style unsubscribes were a bit of a pain to deal with anyway.
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by eli 3y ago
Yes, that's the List-Unsubscribe header and it doesn't require a POST request. Email deliverability has always meant staying on top of changing requirements.
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by eli 3y ago
I recently used Wise (formerly transferwise) to send money to someone in Pakistan. It was about $10 to send $1000USD. The exchange rates are competitive too. And the recipient is guaranteed to get the correct amount in their destination cur
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by eli 3y ago
1) that’s very rarely the most important feature to me and 2) no it isn’t. Moving crypto around is fast but I don’t want crypto, I want money I can spend. USD -> crypto -> USD is not fast. There are faster ways to send money you can’t
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by eli 3y ago
it’s also not a particularly good way to send money from one person to another
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by eli 3y ago
There are tons of contractors that are just middlemen, collecting and packaging data from other companies. See https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/how-federal-government... This way the government doesn&#x2

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