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by freepor 7y ago
It’s a 3 hour direct flight which can be a 3 hour trip in a private jet. But I don’t think you get to claim it was for lunch unless you can prove it. Why would someone go so far for lunch?
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by freepor 7y ago
A true all-star in his profession. Managed to protect one of the most unethical businesses in technology history from any substantial legal/regulatory consequences. His tenure at Google is comparable to OJ Simpson’s unforgettable 1973
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by freepor 7y ago
Farm employment has always been more informal, harder to track, and rife with illegal practices (child labor, illegal immigrants, minimum wage violations) that make reported data hard to trust/reason from.
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by freepor 7y ago
The question is really testing whether you can tell someone what they want to hear while making it seem like you’re being honest, which is a very useful skill both for internal politics and customer interactions.
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by freepor 7y ago
Why just end a career? Why not go to jail?
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by freepor 7y ago
That’s what you took away from this?
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by freepor 7y ago
The responsibility of the map has many different states based on the situation (long-term resident, tourist, disabled business visitor, non-English speaker, etc.)
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by freepor 7y ago
Why is this requirement particular to AR/VR, or is it just a desire to attach this requirement onto a big tech trend?
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by freepor 7y ago
I did exactly that in the period when we were waiting for the MAX to be grounded. I saw that Southwest owned MAX’s so I cancelled the ticket and rebooked on an airline that didn’t.
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by freepor 7y ago
That just doesn’t work. If a local leather tannery is polluting my water supply, I can’t make my water clean by avoiding leather goods.
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by freepor 7y ago
I’ll let you be the guy on the plane wondering why he made the choices he did as the ground zooms in. I’ll fly a different plane or not fly.
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by freepor 7y ago
But pilots are subject to Dunning Kruger. Most probably think they could figure out how to handle MCAS and give the OK but in reality it might be over optimistic.
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by freepor 7y ago
I had a Nokia N95 when I first used an iPhone. It was clear within 5 minutes of using the iPhone that regardless of specs the iPhone was a vastly better experience. That’s how Apple defines “best” and the market has demonstrated that a huge
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by freepor 7y ago
Or, build hardware for business verticals. Where market sizes are just double digit billions and Apple will not play.
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by freepor 7y ago
This is why Bay Area houses cost $2 million and why Enterprise SaaS is the only viable startup sector.
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by freepor 7y ago
It’s not just the marketing - it’s that if you buy all of your tech from Apple you have 1) top-quartile product quality and 2) remarkable little upkeep to do compared to compiling a collection of multiple brands.
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by freepor 7y ago
Lots of people need S classes... professional drivers for luxury coach services. Get an Elantra and your revenue goes to $0. People need the new Arduino if the scenario being implemented requires it.
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by freepor 7y ago
Can you answer the question of where the meaningful information is in the genome? In Shakespeare or Dr. Seuss it’s in the combinatorial power of language to express concepts. With just 200 words Seuss could write stories like the Cat in the
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by freepor 7y ago
I’ve owned both. An S class accelerates faster, is quieter at 80mph, has more tactile feedback in the switches and controls, is more comfortable to drive for 2+ hour trips, has more space in the trunk, has a better audio system, has a more
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by freepor 7y ago
He sold his startup at a loss to investors and walked away with millions of dollars and a plum role at YC. That’s not moving up the corporate ladder, it’s jetpacking up it.
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by freepor 7y ago
The very nature of The State is that it can do whatever it wants. The only issue here is that there are incompatible sets of rules that the State is going by, and has to resolve these to proceed.
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by freepor 7y ago
What’s weird is how Khosla doesn’t yet have the “upper class” mentality. The true upper class is obsessed with legacy and reputation and would ever allow their name to become synonymous with “asshole.” And the best he is going to get is a f
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by freepor 7y ago
They should eminent domain a teeny narrow strip right across the center of the property, and try to get it assessed as pro rata on acreage. Maybe two very narrow strips in different places for one way traffic in each direction.
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by freepor 7y ago
Somebody undercooked your Impossible Burger.
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by freepor 7y ago
Land ownership is a social construct. It's not like ownership over something you make with your hands or your mind, and in the US, all of the land is stolen property anyways so there's no rational claim to any of it. So land owner
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by freepor 7y ago
Religion has to be independent of reason because it exists to promulgate the continued power of the people who run it. If it was based on reason, then those authorities' authority would be subject to debate. "Don't eat carbs
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by freepor 7y ago
This doesn't describe why, in effectively the same system, almost everywhere I've worked has had people vastly outperforming others. I say this as one of the perennial bottom quartilers.
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by freepor 7y ago
Imagine if it uses facial recognition to tell you when the guy is next entering the neighborhood. Dystopian, but it could work.
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by freepor 7y ago
I don't owe a dandelion-free yard to my neighbors, nor do they owe one to me. Our yards are not hospital rooms.
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by freepor 7y ago
If that's "reasoning" then the Emperor's New Clothes are a three-piece suit made entirely out of buttonholes.

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