everdrive

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by everdrive 4mo ago
Services are really never safe. Or at best, they should be considered temporary. If you like what they provide, know that what they provide could become worse and/or more expensive. This is the likeliest scenario. At best, you should u
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by everdrive 4mo ago
There's a mad dash right now. Everyone is sprinting as fast as possible to invent and propagate the worst technology possible. Oh, you thought smart phones ruined society? Well good news, smart glasses are finally viable. You just won&
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by everdrive 4mo ago
Perhaps it caused a mini baby-boom.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
Hopefully it stays down.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
It's a weird social psychology quirk. For whatever reason, the entire music industry has been captured by the delusion that mixing all the sounds louder is good. No one likes it, except for those guys. For reasons I'll never under
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by everdrive 4mo ago
Just think about your comment if we ever see for-real 1940s-style fascism at the same time we have all these stupid tracking devices on us all the time. If we made it through to better times people have no idea how so many people could have
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by everdrive 4mo ago
>I was required to install an app in order to enter and leave the Philippines That's good to know. Me and my family will definitely never be visting the philippines. My phone doesn't have mobile data enabled at the provider lev
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by everdrive 4mo ago
Could you expand on this? What happens at the national border? What happens if your phone just won't do a QR code? I'm not arguing with you or disagreeing with, I'm just curious what the process is.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
It's difficult in the sense that it's rare and much of it is out of your hands. That's a very different kind of difficulty than honing a technical skill. I'm happy to call it something other than difficult, but most of t
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by everdrive 4mo ago
Quite frankly speaking and acting as if you are from the upper crust is itself a criteria for success. It might be fine to say that this is not a skill, but people can definitely tell and they select for it. I spent most of my time in gover
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by everdrive 4mo ago
More engineers understand this than you may think. Many just dislike it. It doesn't fit with their disposition (for better or for worse) -- but they are not confused about the facts.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
I'm with you. On my list of things to do is seek out a a local credit union so I'm not reliant on a banking app.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
This is not meant as an argument or a counterpoint, I'm just not familiar with some of your examples. Would you be able to elaborate? >Scan this QR code to install the app to cross the border. Would this be a national border? I have
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by everdrive 4mo ago
There are a lot of bad CEOs, though. It's a lot like a politician -- it's quite difficult to become a CEO, and the skills to make it to that position don't always intersect nicely with the skills necessary to actually do the
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by everdrive 4mo ago
And people will keep carrying their phones with them. And keep using them. And keep installing apps. Yes, ideally we'd have laws against government infringement, but the capability to not use your phone is in your hands.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
I drink a lot of tea and I hadn't really thought about pesticides. I really don't know what's wrong with people. For so, so many products the thought process seems to be: - encounter minor problem - apply poison perman
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by everdrive 4mo ago
There's a problem here that people don't necessarily consider. Ignore motives for a bit. Lets say that large groups of people really, really wanted to spread positive, constructive messages on social media. Perhaps about how impor
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by everdrive 4mo ago
Exactly right. It's a good place to gather information, but it's not a good place for discussion or for community. It's very useful; but it's not a place to spend time.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
A bit of a tangent, but Google is doing everything they can to stash more "recommendations" everywhere. Even now, you need a browser filter to keep them out of the subscriptions view.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
Quite a twist, no? This generations of parents are telling their children "Well all your friends are jumping off a bridge, so you need to as well."
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by everdrive 4mo ago
In my case, I don't think most people who claim HN is social media are making a serious argument. They are taking two different things which have a few points of inter-comparison and using that as a basis to claim those two things are
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by everdrive 4mo ago
It's quite scary. I think a lot of these HR types are true believers. They think that 1) these tests are valid and objective 2) they are qualified to understand how personalities would interact in a complex system It's astrology f
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by everdrive 4mo ago
Social media is now exactly what cable television used to be, but worse; it exists solely to coerce you. You make you feel insecure, you leverage your emotions for someone else's aims. Due to the changes in technology, social media is
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by everdrive 4mo ago
You taunt but you've described the ideal state.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
What essays can you recommend?
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by everdrive 4mo ago
I've even considered printing off essays from the internet I find insightful. I want to reread them, read them in bed, preserve them for the future. Archive.org does exist, but everything on the internet seems to be ephemeral.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
I'm quite relieved as the S&P should be stable and slow. But with that caveat said, is this why the S&P 500 dropped off a cliff on Friday? If so, why?
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by everdrive 4mo ago
Yes, but it's a false equivalence.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
Ah yes, the hellscape that is Japan. The Japanese are currently fleeing to South Sudan and Darfur in hopes of a better life.
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by everdrive 4mo ago
It's got an effect but agreed it's not the biggest effect given what else is going on. I think time might be the bigger factor here when simply discussing biology. If you have kids every ~3 years and don't start until you&#x2

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