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by gffrd 2y ago
They have good clocks, still. Not sure who manufactures them. They have a clock-specific website, braun-clocks.com, that shows P&G as the registrant.
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by gffrd 2y ago
Their 2022 revenue was 32B yen, or 202M USD. The financial figures in Wikipedia for Square Enix are in Yen.
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by gffrd 2y ago
How is it that he ended up targeting a therapy organization? Did he have some history with the profession / company that he's acting out against? Or was it just a random mark with a lot to lose?
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by gffrd 2y ago
YES! Wonderful! Two things you mention that are powerful: 1. Keep it really simple. Just show up. You don’t have to solve what happens next, or make a perfect first impression, or be a perfect person. Give yourself the same grace you would
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by gffrd 2y ago
“Get out there” means “just pick something—anything!!—and show up.” Go to a local gathering place (cafe, bar, church, literally wherever people hang out), look at the pinboard to find an upcoming thing to go to. Ask people what they do for
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by gffrd 2y ago
> the org has been given 5M euro and so far has come up with: >> strategies such as joining clubs or pursuing hobbies I could have saved them $5M by loaning them my copy of “Bowling Alone”
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by gffrd 2y ago
What is the mistake that parent has made?
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by gffrd 2y ago
Hogwash! I demand a free market for my business, but a closed market for my assets.
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by gffrd 2y ago
Parent means it figuratively: you're majoring in the minors if your reason for not relying on services / others is the _possibility_ that one day they go away.
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by gffrd 3y ago
“before each investigative piece is published, the newsroom would send it to Hunterbrook’s affiliated hedge fund (Hunterbrook Capital), which could trade on the news” via Math Levine’s piece on Hunterbrook from Bloomberg earlier today: htt
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by gffrd 3y ago
Parent is not trying to draw similarity, but contrast: Edgar takes while to get to rewarding feedback (but has rich gameplay), while Flappy Bird gets to gratification immediately (but has shallow gameplay)
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by gffrd 3y ago
Has having ShotSpotter in your neighborhood increased the safety? Is there faster response? higher arrest rate? decrease in crime?
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by gffrd 3y ago
It's almost as if they're giant companies employing thousands of people, and quality varies across geography …
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by gffrd 3y ago
I'm on the floor just listening to the sample calls. <heavy breathing> "Can you tell more about how … uh, how account holder services can help me? And by the way, do you have any tips for growing tomatoes? I've been try
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by gffrd 3y ago
Pray tell, where should we be talking about?
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by gffrd 3y ago
I’ve wondered the same. Apple has been a “given” for 20 years because they somehow keep shipping great stuff and avoid the Microsoft trap of looking like total dorks by existing in an echo chamber. Even if they made a small misstep or had a
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by gffrd 3y ago
100% of my social circle works outside tech, and nobody uses memojis
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by gffrd 3y ago
> The buy-in of Adobe's subscription model was a compelling reason for my employers to provide only XD to me for my work. And this is how we all end up using spatulas to drive nails.
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by gffrd 3y ago
Isn't that a griddle?
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by gffrd 3y ago
Agree with everything you're saying. Watching the keynote, I found myself thinking how unhappy Uber would be with skipping over interacting with them entirely: there's no "Uber experience" you have when you're in th
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by gffrd 3y ago
I've been surprised that Apple hasn't done more to keep pushing beyond the app boundary. The primary pitch for Rabbit from the keynote is basically "it's a layer that sits atop the broken model of modern phones." I
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by gffrd 3y ago
Or: it just "shows" better when they're demo'ing the TV to a potential customer, not unlike the hyper-saturated nature footage they use to get you to look at their TV and not the one next to it.
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by gffrd 3y ago
> we're giving that effort, that learning, that struggle (and its impact on us) to unaccountable entities Boy did this ring true. We're engaging with parties that are able to exhibit an immense amount of power over our lives, a
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by gffrd 3y ago
> I don't think I have ever had an interesting or engaging conversation with a stranger How have you ever met a person? Everyone was a stranger to you at some point.
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by gffrd 3y ago
I’m not saying that the professors aren’t keen for the best—I mean the universities. If the professors don’t leave / the pipeline doesn’t dry up as a result, why pay more?
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by gffrd 3y ago
> terrible incentive for attracting some of the best and the brightest to enter the funnel Maybe they don't want the best and the brightest?
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by gffrd 3y ago
One thing I’m curious about … Having done a lot of user research, sometimes the most important things to a person aren’t stated, or even consciously known. If I’m shopping for chocolate chip cookies, they’re a proxy for another need: hunger
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by gffrd 3y ago
"steak frites lasagna with cream base and avocado mash tartare"
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by gffrd 3y ago
Are you thinking "Rather than having a cook compose recipes with 1000 variations based on permutations of allergies, just produce one recipe with intended outcome, and let an AI figure out the variants"? How do you train an AI on
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by gffrd 3y ago
Crypto companies attacking eachothers' websites?! Color me surprised …

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