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by gffrd 2y ago
Thanks for noting this. I was surprised how little it featured into today's announcement, so this fills in the picture.
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by gffrd 2y ago
> there's no killer feature You know when you go to a restaurant and the menu is like 3 different cuisines, it's 12 pages, and each page has 20+ items? The Intelligence section of the presentation felt a bit like that. Generall
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by gffrd 2y ago
Joking aside, I'm very curious how (or if) this gets implemented in a way that doesn't isn't suffocating.
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by gffrd 2y ago
Did you say spam?? Boy have we got the thing for you! Take a picture of a restaurant? Hey, did you know it's a place you can make a reservation at? Your friend mentions a song offhand? Psst … wanna play it now? Don't forget about
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by gffrd 2y ago
> just lying in bed for 10 minutes […] Let yourself be bored. This has been very effective for me. On nights where I take a few minutes before conking out to just rest (not sleep, but _rest_) and let my subconscious bubble up whatever&#x
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by gffrd 2y ago
I love the ambitions and values in this work: that programs are physical so are shared and discoverable, that things are learnable through play, that the goal is people together. It's as if you asked someone to redesign the computer (a
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by gffrd 2y ago
Let me see if I can un-tangible that for you … Let's say you live to be 97—quite old!! 1 Billion years is … 10,309,278 of those 97-year lifetimes, if strung end-to-end.
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by gffrd 2y ago
> if such thinking is taken as dogma, innovation suffers. I don’t think there’s anything about the original post, with quote about oxen, that reads as dogmatic, or invites such perspective. Also, I think we can all agree most innovation
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by gffrd 2y ago
> By the early 2000s, parts from the heavy presses were in every U.S. military aircraft in service, and every airplane built by Airbus and Boeing. >The savings on a heavy bomber was estimated to be even greater, around 5-10% of its to
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by gffrd 2y ago
> people who definitely won’t use the product they can convince to think “I will definitely use this product”. Not unlike the iPad market.
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by gffrd 2y ago
First, great book recommendation: _Never Split the Difference_ is packed with insights about negotiating, bargaining, and generally cooperation and decision-making. Reader: if you haven't, read it. On starting with incentive before qua
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by gffrd 2y ago
While it's not explicitly stated, the stats indicate this is gift cards that have been paid in advance. That means "Get $20 back when you spend $100" and "Get a $20 gift card when you spend $100" wouldn't be in
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by gffrd 2y ago
Ready to cry a little bit? "47% of American adults have unused gift cards, and the total value of these unspent funds in the U.S. is around $23 billion." source: https://capitaloneshopping.com/research/gift-ca
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by gffrd 2y ago
Reminds me of this article from a few years ago about guys getting leg-lengthening surgery: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/leg-lengthen...
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by gffrd 2y ago
You're asking questions already and looking for input with an open hand, so you're already on the right frame of mind. Before anything else: just start asking people in your target industry/demographic questions. "Hey, I
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by gffrd 2y ago
Not so much ruin, as make me ask questions. I'll admit, I feel a certain cruelty to using AI-generated imagery alongside writing or information: it's disrespectful to the audience, and it cheapens the work.
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by gffrd 2y ago
And you're not the audience.
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by gffrd 2y ago
If you downshift with RPM too high, UI breaks off and falls to floor of screen Whole Page turns red when you hit RPM limit Shift score. Can you pick the perfect shift point based on sound alone?
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by gffrd 2y ago
So … how most companies are already designing experiences?
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by gffrd 2y ago
Where is the boundary between appropriately protective parenting and overprotective parenting?
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by gffrd 2y ago
> something akin to the network effect Yes. Kids are tuned in to the negative effect of phones/social media on themselves, don't want them, but feel they can't not have them because … everyone else is on them. This is more
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by gffrd 2y ago
I'm with you: I'm happy to pay a recurring fee for a good service, usability, and dependability. I've been a 1password customer for as long as I can recall, and it feels weird dumping my subscription to save a few bucks when
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by gffrd 2y ago
"Now tell me more about my stylish industrial space and great lighting setup"
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by gffrd 2y ago
Hmm! Tell me more: why not want real? What are the upsides? And downsides?
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by gffrd 2y ago
Ah, I see. What I'm missing: if business scales down, thus population and culture scale down (unless populated by people independent of these things). This means higher vacancies of existing residential, so how much new residential is
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by gffrd 2y ago
I know many people whose companies have an RTO mandate, and would put themselves in that "90% of employers with forced RTO" group … but where the rubber meets the road, many are not in office and enforcement is more of an unspoken
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by gffrd 2y ago
I think you're ignoring that fact that once you remove the commerce function of a city, a lot of the factors that create a vibrant culture go away. If it's not a place where people make money / strive / want to make some
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by gffrd 2y ago
I think the separation happens organically, and is driven by efficiency. The environment needed for maximizing work is often at odds with the environment for maximizing leisure.
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by gffrd 2y ago
This was my experience as well. Loved reading when I was younger, but lots of assigned reading from elementary onward poisoned the well, so to speak. In retrospect, it's surprising how rigid the required reading was at my school: no ch
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by gffrd 2y ago
TL;DR: No.

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