gdulli

38 ms·

721.
by gdulli 5y ago
Maybe you're right that the odds that another company could be trusted are low enough not to be a distinction compared to companies I know I don't trust. That said, I mind signing up for throwaway services less because it's e
722.
by gdulli 5y ago
I bought a house last year and the first thing I did was remove the Ring video doorbell. But if it hadn't been a company with an Amazon or Google type reputation I'd have at least tried using it for a while.
723.
by gdulli 5y ago
Some people look for any excuse to be outraged. But I think people are more curious than outraged. I don't have any opinion about the existence this company but it did make me think. For example: > When I grew up in the 90s, it seem
724.
by gdulli 5y ago
I see stores obfuscate this all the time by showing some unit prices as per lb, some per oz, and some per 100 count, all for different versions of the same product.
725.
by gdulli 5y ago
I don't know where you get this idea that delta is going to hit blue states after red states. Blue states are open. I haven't worn a mask since before I started hearing about delta. Delta is here in my blue state and the neighbori
726.
by gdulli 5y ago
Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii all have rising cases starting a month ago. But a month in, deaths haven't gone up. They're in single digits. You don't have to wonder what kind of effect delta will have on those states, you ca
727.
by gdulli 5y ago
In 2007 I was considering a move to the Bay Area and I focused my job research first on Amazon. You can find negative anecdotes about any large company. But still, without even remembering the details, I remember that research resulting in
728.
by gdulli 5y ago
Deaths are essentially zero now in Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. That's great! That said, Sweden's per-capita death rate was: 3.3x higher than Denmark 9.8x higher than Norway 8.1x higher than Finland Not that I'm pro-
729.
by gdulli 5y ago
Neither safety nor freedom are absolute, or are intended to be. It's treating them like they are that makes the discussion unhelpful. We have structures to keep you safe from murder, or from breathing cigarette smoke in your workplace.
730.
by gdulli 5y ago
Human drivers aren't perfect, but their failure rate is known and predictable. The right software update, though, could have a bug that turns the whole fleet of autonomous cars into murder tanks overnight, invalidating all prior collec
731.
by gdulli 5y ago
A linked article says that he "held a critical oversight role in the Catholic Church’s response to the recent spate of sexual abuse and misconduct scandals."
732.
by gdulli 5y ago
> millions of people who don't know basic biology or medicine, and vaccines are no more fathomable than magic. But you could say the same about most things that most people do every day. Nobody needs to become an amateur biologist.
733.
by gdulli 5y ago
There's a movement away from evaluating people or teams qualitatively, which is difficult and prone to dumb biases, and towards quantitative measures, which are easy and prone to dumber biases. Presumably here (I don't know if it&
734.
by gdulli 5y ago
I have both a 9570 and a 9550, and both have "home"/"end" printed on the left/right keys and work as you would want. The current XPS on the Dell web site has "home"/"end" printed on the
735.
by gdulli 5y ago
Human nature
736.
by gdulli 6y ago
SEEKING WORK | Providence, RI | Remote, or partial on-site in Boston or NYC I have 20 years of software engineering experience across contract and employee roles in Boston, Silicon Valley, and southern California. My greatest broad areas of
737.
by gdulli 6y ago
You could ask that hypothetical about any of a million different things that aren't a protected status. Should you in theory have a hard time finding employment if you can't be what any employer anywhere wants you to be? Sure.
738.
by gdulli 6y ago
That's good for them, but I could randomly lose my own Google account at any time and I'm not famous enough to go viral and get on their customer service radar, so I'd be screwed and have no recourse. Even if I was interested
739.
by gdulli 6y ago
I quit Stardew the first time for the reason you just said. The day/night cycle was unforgiving. I started it again a few weeks ago when 1.5 came out. This time I'm using mods. I usually avoid mods because it feels like cheating,
740.
by gdulli 6y ago
The fact that each side believes Twitter is in favor of the other one should clue them both in to the very obvious truth that none of this is partisan to Twitter. They're only afraid of liability since people have now died.
741.
by gdulli 6y ago
I agree, and when I rent a car with a touchscreen it feels unusable and unsafe. I don't want to have to look at the screen every time I use it. What's even crazier to me is the way futuristic movies depict interfaces that float in
742.
by gdulli 6y ago
Lying was allowed because it made Google money, and it would have been unqualifiedly allowed until the end of time if it hadn't started getting people killed. Rest assured, though, lying will continue to be allowed except for this one
743.
by gdulli 6y ago
> I feel like at this point they are banning everyone against the status quo. Deciding that reality is whatever you "feel like" is how we got into this mess in the first place.
744.
by gdulli 6y ago
I'll take a Vizio TV with halfassed "smart" features I can leave unplugged from the network, but I have less trust in a Google or Roku branded TV where the smart features are front and center. A company that makes money from
745.
by gdulli 6y ago
I don't think that's an option anymore, the last time I tried to create an account it required a phone number that it could verify. It didn't even allow me to use an office phone number, only a real mobile number.
746.
by gdulli 6y ago
I don't understand. Why is it a disgrace that teenagers talk about politics, or are allowed to do so without being insulted?
747.
by gdulli 6y ago
People seem to project their personal biases onto the theoretical permanent societal effects of covid. When covid is over, nothing will have changed about human nature with regards to wanting to go out vs. stay in. At first there will be pe
748.
by gdulli 6y ago
They're not even close to being the same thing. The point here is that wisdom is more akin to judgment than mere possession of facts. For example, sufficient wisdom may give one the humility to reflect on the completeness of their unde
749.
by gdulli 6y ago
We don't tell people in wheelchairs to stay at home while the rest of us get on with life. We accommodate them because pure survival of the fittest is the baseline of how animals live and civilization is about evolving beyond that.
750.
by gdulli 6y ago
Inaction on smoking is tragic, and it serves more as cautionary example to avoid inaction elsewhere than justification for inaction. I'll take a better response to covid than to smoking even if that's technically an inconsistency.

More ›