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by frogpelt 7y ago
When it comes to bots (especially of the Russian variety), there is evidence that there may not be a compelling motive other than to create divisive conversations.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Ok, you didn't define "rich" or "insanely lucky" so there's probably no point in a discussion about it. But there are people all over the United States who have started their own businesses doing very basic thi
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by frogpelt 7y ago
1. What do you consider "rich"? 2. Do you honestly not know of anyone who has gotten rich by good, hard, honest work? EDIT: Let me rephrase question 2: Do you honestly feel that most "rich" people got that way by being d
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by frogpelt 7y ago
"We all assume the government is going to make sure the food supply is maintained" Do you assume this? I assume that capitalism is keeping the food supply maintained. When that fails, I think we're up the creek.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
People need to put the pitchforks away. I don't think Zoom has done anything malicious. I think they just built their software quickly and just made it work. Now that it's under a lot of scrutiny they're paying a bit of PR pr
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Tactile buttons and switches are much easier to use by muscle memory. There is very little muscle memory with touch buttons and touch screens. Also, touch screens are much harder (thus more dangerous) to use while you are in motion, hitting
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by frogpelt 7y ago
I was worried about where you were going with that. But yes, the magic eraser do clean walls very well.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
But maybe more of a target?
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by frogpelt 7y ago
I couldn't for several seconds. It was amazingly ironic. Then after it finally loaded, I scrolled to the bottom to make sure there was one.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
I never read positive reviews. If the negative reviews sound whiny, I ignore them. If they bring up valid concerns I stay away from the product/business.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
I guess what you mean is, after we have liked someone's work for a while we should stop. Because I tend to think he has a lot of great ideas. Is that the beginning of a personality cult? This new psychology of thinking that someone who
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by frogpelt 7y ago
I've read Atomic Habits. Are these habits even smaller?
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Are alcohol companies responsible when a person drinks and drives?
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by frogpelt 7y ago
How Cars Work by Tom Newton OR Auto Mechanics Fundamentals by Martin T. Stockel Maybe?
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by frogpelt 7y ago
I get the analogy. My point is most people buying used cars will not see used cars and used computers as analogous. And the other point is, even if someone sells a car that supposedly has FDC and EAP enabled it would be foolish to pay for i
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Another HUGE part of this is if you are going to sell your Tesla to a third party, you cannot guarantee the feature set they will get. So, if you pay $8,000 for auto pilot etc. you should not expect to recoup a dime of that money when you
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by frogpelt 7y ago
If they're wearing glasses do the glasses look they were beaten into shape with a mallet?
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by frogpelt 7y ago
The argument as stated was that Tim Cook is more focused on sales than engineering. You counter argue that they have sold a lot of Apple watches. That does not compute. The guy at the top will always get more than his share of blame and mo
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by frogpelt 7y ago
I guess Peloton® is too then.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Same. I ate at a food court that had a Chick Fil A and the Chick Fil A employee refilled everyone's drinks at our table even though they weren't all bought at Chick Fil A. That's just not normal for fast food workers.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Because there's no way to address GP's situation. People get to make their own choices. They can also overdose on meds.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
That's neat. But trees don't cut you off in traffic or steal your packages off your porch or murder your aunt or cuss you out or talk too much or tell lies, etc. etc. etc. They also don't make you soup, buy a birthday card,
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by frogpelt 7y ago
So, now instead of paying 5% sales tax on your Starbuck purchase you can also pay 15% capital gains tax for realized gains. If you're going to pay it anyway it won't matter but it would really stink to pay $1,000 worth of stock on
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by frogpelt 7y ago
I think you can get from level 1 to level 4 just by being careful and wise. You might even get to level 5 by the time you die. But level 6 will require taking risk and that risk paying off big-time. Usually it requires taking several risks.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
The silly thing about all of this is when you are buying physical products, they actually exist somewhere. You can (or at least should be able to) go to a store look at the product, try it on, look at the quality first hand and then buy the
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by frogpelt 7y ago
You are correct. But that also frees us to study what we want. Which is why some people end up studying Liberal Arts and have very little employable market demand. When corporations start sponsoring degrees you will see a lot less "flu
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Obviously, it's Facebook. Because there has to be one giant tech company that everyone hates and Microsoft lost interest in the position over 5 years ago.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
As a fellow Hacker News commenter, thanks for pointing this out.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Adjusting it at all assumes that supply and demand do not apply to the labor market. Why isn't there a minimum wage for computer engineers?
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Sorry but this is a very disingenuous stance. The only way you would find new products or services is by 20th century word of mouth or search. And search is built on a mountain of ad dollars. Are you claiming that you don't need Google

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