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by fipple 8y ago
There are different levels of “mainstream.” I talk to my nephew and games like Minecraft / Fortnite / FIFA and Twitch have the mindshare of a 13 year old boy that they categorically did not have 10 years ago. I ask him what he doe
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by fipple 8y ago
This is how blockchain nerds report about Facebook cloning PayPal.
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by fipple 8y ago
The popularity of it doesn’t affect whether it is or is not inane and whether it is or is not morally right to protect with state power.
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by fipple 8y ago
But isn’t a pretty reasonable assumption that a drone flying around an airport in a furtive manner, in clear contravention of law, would try to purposefully strike an aircraft? Much more so than a bird, which would have nothing to gain an
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by fipple 8y ago
An interesting factoid illustrating power begetting power is that in 2004, the two major candidates for US President were both members of Skull and Bones, which admits 15 college juniors per year.
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by fipple 8y ago
Interesting. So one could identify areas of a product that a company needs to keep secret, and sue for patent infringement saying your reverse engineering shows they are infringing.
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by fipple 8y ago
I've made a fairly well-considered decision to use most of these new services. I keep virtually all of my content on services run by five major corporations because I'd rather have my entire phone's photos published on the fr
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by fipple 8y ago
Yeah, obviously people who don't care about their friends aren't interested in Facebook. You're no more the market than I am for a curling iron.
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by fipple 8y ago
There are 100 million non autonomous cars which do get vandalized, damaged, destroyed, and salvaged, but not at a rate which has obviated the concept.
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by fipple 8y ago
Company hired by company finds finding that will make company hire it again in the future. Not news. Not saying the story is true ofc.
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by fipple 8y ago
LOL, those bank fines are like 2% of earnings.
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by fipple 8y ago
On the contrary, body-odor based mating and other biological drivers of attraction is basically how >99% of mammalian couplings have been formed, with great success. It may be due to the link between immune system diversity and body odor
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by fipple 8y ago
I don’t think it’s an excuse. I’m admitting the ways in which I am a bad person in a way I can only do on a web site not associates with my real name.
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by fipple 8y ago
It would completely set up my family and children for life. I’d get to quit my job and spend all day with my kids. If some people I don’t know get fucked over for that, whatever. And that kind of thinking is why the world is such a wretched
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by fipple 8y ago
Evil is more banal than that. I have no ostrich jacket but I’d create a spying tool for an authoritarian government for the right price. For me it would be about $5-10 million.
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by fipple 8y ago
And Amazon Video.
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by fipple 8y ago
Usually human lives are a continuous process of self-selecting our social circle to include those most similar to us in most ways. This is unusual because the two friends were so different, but still found common ground. Celebrities become
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by fipple 8y ago
McKinsey ultimately can get away with far more mediocre people than Google. Google has to keep the website up at the end of the day — McKinsey just needs to make a slick PowerPoint.
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by fipple 8y ago
My theory is that most people who don’t like Silent Night never got to have a truly silent winter night... which of course requires active snowfall with no wind.
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by fipple 8y ago
Can I speculate that you grew up in a warm climate?
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by fipple 8y ago
It’s because the CEO making the decision will have exercised his options and sold them and retired before the chickens come home to roost.
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by fipple 8y ago
Duck.com would have been worth $500K+ on the open market.
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by fipple 8y ago
Why are you certain it’s irrational? If your employer is going to go bust anyways, better to be paid $100,000 for one year than $40,000 for three years. You get an extra two years to earn money somewhere else.
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by fipple 8y ago
Maybe they want to be beyond suspicion of self-dealing.
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by fipple 8y ago
It's how the world works after 50 years of American CEOs shipped all of their employer's IP to China in return for the margin boost that would give them a better stock option bonus for the 5-7 years before they could wash their ha
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by fipple 8y ago
Well you can't unlick a turd. They get all their cameras knocked off for $30 and now they want to move their production out of China?
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by fipple 8y ago
For fires, reducing the incidence rate increases the severity when they do happen.
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by fipple 8y ago
Lacking the wealth and power of Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg I’ve adopted in the last 5 years or so a policy of not discussing anything other than work at work, and nothing at all on social media under my real name (deleted all Facebook
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by fipple 8y ago
I’ve never seen anything in an “open letter” format that didn’t sound like it was written by an asshole.
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by fipple 8y ago
There's plenty of content on YouTube that's at the highest level of professional production. It's 0.01% of what's on YouTube, compared to 100% of what's on Netflix, so you will not find it by just going to YouTube.c

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