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by gavin_gee 4y ago
Agreed. I'm excited to see what the Twitter "business" becomes under Musk's leadership. For too long Twitter has flirted with being a public utility and not a company. For sure it will be a hard time for the current tea
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by gavin_gee 4y ago
Adobe really is just the Telco or siriusXM of software companies. complicated and dark pattern pricing models free subscription extension to avoid cancelling bundle installers of unrequested software like antivirus its all a sign that the
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by gavin_gee 4y ago
all appears like the classic playbook of "Acquisition by a big company who predominantly has an enterprise sales GTM which then kills the self serve channel as they cannot evaluate the value it brings". in a few years said compan
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by gavin_gee 4y ago
yeah and have you see the awful performance of Hulu? its basically unusable. poster child for under investing in the streaming platform.
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by gavin_gee 5y ago
I may have missed it, but this needs to be more than email. for many personal connections I need text, whatsapp, signal integration etc. and now you are in the world of accessing encrypted data. but without all the messaging protocols, the
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by gavin_gee 5y ago
because the media needs something to talk about. its entertainment through fear driving the revenue. What else will CNN have as "Breaking News"
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by gavin_gee 5y ago
one hope is innovation in creating virtual worlds will distract the population from what is already happening. the question is whether these worlds are a mirror or a replacement for the physical reality
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by gavin_gee 5y ago
we see lots of houses here in the pacific northwest in the US have generators like this. For me as a european it was a foreign concept because the reliability of the network seems to be higher in europe. I think much of the difference is th
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by gavin_gee 5y ago
Whilst there will be lots of folks who complain at performance - its not as if notion is designed to be the backend api for a website, but i have to believe that continuing to drop the barrier to entry even below wix and squarespace has to
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by gavin_gee 5y ago
(caveat i worked at MS for years but now don't) One of Microsoft's greatest strengths on show here. Embrace and extend. They made a mess of trying to build an app business with windows RT, Windows 8, windows 10. They can't g
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by gavin_gee 5y ago
ELI5: why not pay more per hour for drivers to get more drivers? and pass on the costs leading to inflation.
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by gavin_gee 5y ago
The intel investment is too little too late to have any impact on the current shortage.
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by gavin_gee 5y ago
isnt this already known as social engineering data collection for hackers for use in later attacks?
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by gavin_gee 5y ago
text output? where's the AR viewer of starlink overlayed on the sky!?
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by gavin_gee 5y ago
LOL, Apple announces its event: windows launch team: "shit post the blog post now!"
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
thats not 100% true. it wasnt SDK driven but it was console driven. no need to talk to people back in the days of the hosting market.
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
For any business running at scale, this is a math problem. if the cost of human labor rises, more investment will be made to remove humans from the process and replace them with technology. Amazon was one of the great employers through Cor
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
just Elon commuting to work
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
im not sure how minimum wage workers are being branded middle class here. These are minimum wage workers. unfortunately they will have less choices through lack of education and opportunity.
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
Vice.com with the clickbait divisive headlines.
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
where does Intel go from here? we are in the tech wave of propriety chips vertically integrated. cloud providers building their own CPU designs for their service offerings, consumer computer providers integrating cpu, hardware, and software
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
and describes the difference between AWS and MS circa 2008-2021
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
didnt they also make some interesting hires a few years ago like Anand from Anandtech and some other silicon vets that likely helped them design the M1 approach?
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
Yes. Id pay significantly more to have a good panel that is dumb. no apps, no privacy concerns, fast boot. Pioneer years ago used to make the elite panels that were exactly this.
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
With the recent MS to Google hires, I would expect a lot of Microsoft like price squeezing to start happening on google services as they bring cost out of the business. The photo storage changes bring familiarity to the unlimited storage op
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
all depends on how niche or diverse you previous listening history is
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
is it me, or does the photo of broccoli look decidedly unimpressive in the article!
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
Despite trying to avoid this facet of the discussion in my original post, this response is where the argument becomes irrational: "businesses can certainly afford to pay them" is not a valid argument to justify a tax.
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
It does seem that the divide is growing between two fundamental groups in Seattle. Unfortunately one group is mobile and the other not so much.
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by gavin_gee 6y ago
I'm not going to comment on the pro's and con's of this tax, but rather want to discuss the implications. With COVID forcing many employers and employees to prove out the model of remote working, isn't the net of this ta

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