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by frogpelt 7y ago
Honestly, who cares? A lot of people care now because they just filed for an IPO, which is why he returned the money. But if this was a private company and a co-founder thought he deserved $6 million for his efforts and wanted to label it a
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by frogpelt 7y ago
The reason the McDonald's lawsuit is framed that way in popular circles is because it is easily fits the mold for a frivolous lawsuit. 1. A woman willingly purchased hot coffee from McDonald's. 2. She spilled it on herself. 3. She
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by frogpelt 7y ago
NYT published a story/video recently featuring interviews with children and parents whose parents have overshared pictures of them on social media. I couldn't finish it because of the irony.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
One simple change to the statement accounts for your observation: "Where you are in life is a result of choices you AND YOUR PARENTS have made in the past." If by some remote chance there's a young person reading the
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by frogpelt 7y ago
My M.O. when I do a Google Search: 1. Type some search terms. 2. Look at the first page of results. 3. Fail to find any results that look promising. 4. Repeat. Surely, this accounts for a large chunk of non-click searches?
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Be honest. Did you write that wiki article?
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Most of the basis for a free society breaks down when people lose basic morals. Whether you choose to believe in God or not, many of the framers of our Constitution and those who penned the Declaration of Independence believed in the Suprem
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Likewise. Nuance is gone on almost all topics. It's very frustrating. I honestly believe the Internet, specifically places like Twitter have destroyed civil discussion and consideration of alternate viewpoints. Also, I don't think
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by frogpelt 7y ago
But do you endorse a company's right to meet their legal obligations to protect their brand? Nintendo had a similar campaign decades ago: https://i.redd.it/20vipleteraz.jpg
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by frogpelt 7y ago
The whole discussion around border walls has been thrown into the theater of the absurd. The issues are simple even if they are hard to implement. 1. Do we want to control who comes over our border or not? A. Where are the weakes
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by frogpelt 7y ago
His claims remind me of this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A1i_Ng%E1%BB%8Dc
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by frogpelt 7y ago
> die on the Vine Clever. Also, I think you nailed it. YouTube is trying to curate their content. Any site that stays around for a while and wants to attract top advertising dollars does it. Reddit curates to an extent. Facebook is in al
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by frogpelt 7y ago
That article immediately follows World War II and World War I and D-Day was June 6. I'm surprised by William Shakespeare coming in at #16.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Scalability is definitely the problem here.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
5) Some of all of the above? Although 3) doesn't have to be the explanation, it is definitely happening all the time.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Ok, but let's talk about your keyboard. Why does it have so many function keys?
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by frogpelt 7y ago
It was the 99 other cars that gave them the courage. I've faced the same situation but I was alone, and I didn't take the dirt road.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
I've taken a Google Maps detour before and I'm amazed at the number of other cars that are also apparently following the same route. It can be hard to not follow a crowd in those situations.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
They have a pretty big moat around their business. If you want to buy advertising online you're probably gonna end up dealing with them either directly or indirectly.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
How exactly are waste and pollution made worse by people delivering food to you versus you driving to the restaurant and buying it?
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by frogpelt 7y ago
https://vivaldi.com/#
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Is there a marketing person here who can help Apple come up with some good copy for the thicker laptops they need to make? They need to quit being so thin it seems.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
This story is somewhat true actually if you correct for the literary license taken. James Clear reached out to the authors of Art& Fear and this is his footnote: (Link: https://jamesclear.com/repetitions ) This story com
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Exactly. The downfall of Sears began with indoor plumbing and high-gloss paper in their catalogs.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Maybe phones should have a whitelist feature. Only allow my contacts to call me and anyone else hears a message saying they must text me first to be added to the whitelist.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
How are Q and Z getting reused so much? There can't be that many times they can be replaced with another letter can there? Also, after I saw how many "words" are in the Scrabble dictionary I realized that Scrabble was not a
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by frogpelt 7y ago
Anything other than a phone call or a face to face should be asynchronous. I think it's unhealthy to expect something different.
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by frogpelt 7y ago
If each person on the planet would plant 150 trees this year, we would be finished.
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by frogpelt 8y ago
I don't think this is much of a story whether it's bungled or not. Cal Newport wrote a book about quitting social media (I'm in the middle of the audio version of Digital Minimalism). He is leveraging AOC's popularity fo
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by frogpelt 8y ago
He makes an interesting statement: "Science advances when we’re wrong or surprised or both."

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