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by fipple 8y ago
I saw multiple of my most talented high school friends lose their spark to pot. They’ve now made about 2 years of progress in 20 years’ time.
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by fipple 8y ago
> I disagree because time estimation in software is not a useful activity. Anyone who can say this has the privilege of being fully insulated from revenue generation. But at some level of the company, resourcing decisions are made, and t
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by fipple 8y ago
These dweebs are trying to claim the name “Web 3.0” for blockchain of all things.
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by fipple 8y ago
A lot of business lines of credit for small companies are personally backed.
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by fipple 8y ago
To continue your analogy, the revenue that Trump has made to date has been by selling the furniture. It's like a new Google CEO came in and sold the datacenters and said "look at the revenue!"
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by fipple 8y ago
Yes, because cellular providers now mostly bill by GB rather than unlimited. If you can suck down a GB in 10 seconds that's a GB of bandwidth they sold in 10 seconds instead of 1 minute.
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by fipple 8y ago
At least there's a standard for junk science -- it replicates or it doesn't.
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by fipple 8y ago
Corporations don't have souls.
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by fipple 8y ago
The advantage of using open source crypto is that when you get hacked so do a lot of other sites, so you become only one part of a big story.
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by fipple 8y ago
LOL! Bezos is doing this to fuck Walmart. They employ much more minimum wage labor than Amazon does.
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by fipple 8y ago
Why not a single logo on the boot screen, and if you hold down Shift you can get the full dump of everything that's going on.
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by fipple 8y ago
Amazon is good at getting ahead of the political winds. They started collecting sales tax just before it would have become a legal requirement.
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by fipple 8y ago
Ultimately, the government will do what it wants with respect to wiretapping because the ruling class of both political parties in the US support it, so there is no electoral accountability. Thus Facebook would be wise to give the appearanc
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by fipple 8y ago
I'm sure that was for one person or a small handful. And that is rational, one engineer can add a million dollars of value in a day if they are really capable and focus on the most important problem.
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by fipple 8y ago
Almost everyone who created a giant tech company is an "unknown" when they started. Few exceptions are Musk and Benioff.
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by fipple 8y ago
I find that the easiest explanation is the God complex that has brought down many men before Musk and will bring down many more after him.
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by fipple 8y ago
The proposed punishment is statutorily allowed for the infraction. Sadly, in this climate, it's not clear whether this is standard operating procedure for this, though, or whether a particularly vindictive response because of some poli
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by fipple 8y ago
People go from perfectly fine to having ruined their life by jaywalking.
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by fipple 8y ago
This kind of thinking makes sense (Musk is smart, he must make decisions rationally) but it is sort of empirically denied. If Musk was so smart he wouldn't have called a random guy a pedo or violated securities law in public. After all
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by fipple 8y ago
It's because top dogs get more criticism. There are simply more people interested in reading criticism of Apple and Donald Trump's than of Dell or Mike Pence.
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by fipple 8y ago
It is a great strategy because a user scrolling Facebook for one hour generates more ad revenue than a user scrolling Instagram for three hours
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by fipple 8y ago
The upside is that if you learn to apologize with the sufficient apparent contrition you can get away with a lot of asking forgiveness rather than permission.
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by fipple 8y ago
Lol! It's not digital cameras that created selfie sticks, it's social media. I had a Konica disposable super wide angle camera with a mirror on the front that showed the field of view. And an Olympus with a recessed LED that was o
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by fipple 8y ago
That’s a great market for an SAT style exam but the idea has been tried and has failed many times.
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by fipple 8y ago
This is where Singapore style caning can be much more humane than incarceration without throwing the whole city to the dogs. A few minutes of searing agony, a few days of recovery, a lifelong lesson to never do that shit again, without putt
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by fipple 8y ago
Maybe don’t commit felonies?
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by fipple 8y ago
Why is it bad to judge an individual by the statistics of the group they belong to? I assume that drunk drivers are dangerous because many are, even though I know that some people can safely drive drunk. I assume that tigers are dangerous e
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by fipple 8y ago
I actually find ageism to be one of the most overt forms of illegal discrimination. People talk about how they are looking for young devs in a way that would seem insane if they were talking about white devs or male.
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by fipple 8y ago
If every country has this then China’s is the Lebron James of them.
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by fipple 8y ago
It is a marketing move with game theoretic implications for the user. If Facebook and Apple are both considering Shady Feature X, it’s much more financially risky for Apple, since it’s discovery would jeopardize billions of brand building.

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