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by ggg9990 8y ago
I have basically always assumed that all governments are conducting the maximum amount of espionage on their citizens and adversaries as they are able to within the constraints of their technology and budget.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I know the “correct” Silicon Valley position is to be anti-death penalty, but damn there are some people who need to be doused in gasoline and set on fire.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Also... there is a severely reduced dating pool for someone actively in the middle of addiction recovery. If I had met a girl when I was single who said “I’m a recovering X addict with 32 days sober” I most likely would have not been very r
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by ggg9990 8y ago
> Government is notoriously inefficient, especially at scale. This is simply not true. It’s true for many branches of American government, partly due to the efforts of anti-tax advocates, but there are many highly effective governments w
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Advertising can help people become aware of products they never though could exist. One recent example is a baby toy that sticks onto the high chair tray with a suction cup. I bought this $10 toy from an advertisement and because my daughte
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by ggg9990 8y ago
That’s what privatization can get you. They’re probably not paying some union “inspectors” $70/hr to sit around playing poker.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Well of course, in a way, nobody could be, because software didn’t have the impact on the world then as it does now.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It’s easy to forget that Bill Gates was once the Jeff Dean of his time.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
That is simply an overgeneralization. I work with two very talented engineers from “Red America” and they are eager to leave the Bay Area and get back to a place where people drive trucks, listen to country music, and hunt and fish. Their p
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Pricing can turn a good business into a dumb idea that doesn’t really deserve to exist. MoviePass in one direction, Juicero in the other.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Yes, it’s ironic that the people closest to AI, who should be able to see that the brain is a physical organ like all others, often have the hardest time recognizing that cognitive deficits are as real as physical deficits. Some people can’
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by ggg9990 8y ago
you do realize that the president is in charge of enforcing laws?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Bigger lesson is to buy a house as soon as you can. I’ve made more money on paper living in this house than building the company. I kind of needed to raise the money. The wheels were falling off the bus because the software was so bad and i
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by ggg9990 8y ago
One thing is that various video domains have almost expected levels of quality. I assume that any video link to Facebook.com is likely garbage, and I almost always click a link to Vimeo.com, even though of course any file could be uploaded
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I work at a big company and we are expending huge effort and expense to become GDPR compliant, even though we weren’t really doing anything sketchy beforehand.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I didn’t have any idea what I was doing. When my cofounder arrived and looked at the code base... he looked like he was going to puke. Took him less than 5 minutes to decide that there wasn’t even a line worth keeping.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I made just over $1m because we raised a bunch of money for growth that didn’t pan out. Because LOL California the money went straight into a house. I still have a mortgage and a day job.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Two big problems with docked remain with “pseudodocked” — 1) need to get approval to eliminate a parking space and 2) users have to walk a bit at the start and/or end of the journey.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
This is exactly the recipe I used and sold a company for $10m. Also, I am a absolutely terrible programmer and v1 of the product, with which this recipe was executed, was full of copy pasted code, unhashed passwords, all of the hallmarks of
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by ggg9990 8y ago
That turns it into an effectively docked scooter. It’s been tried and isn’t terrible, but not as beloved as true dockless.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I see it myself. I used to see people’s baby pictures and vacation pictures on Facebook. Now it’s mostly people breathlessly writing about the Mueller investigation or other pointless political shit. My visits have probably dropped 1/3
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by ggg9990 8y ago
These articles always land all over the place because the reality is that “college” is a pretty wide term covering everything from a CS degree at MIT (worth millions) to a communications degree from Beaver College (probably not worth much a
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by ggg9990 8y ago
When I had a landline, I literally never picked it up and had no dial tone. When I had an ADT security system, I never had a single failure with it. Meanwhile I have never regularly used a web service that didn’t have at least one outage.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Great. I hope they can call it n thousand counts of extortion and effectively get a life without parole sentence.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Hey I don’t mean to pile on you. This is cool work that you did that highlights an important issue.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
All over the world, the watt-hour is the unit of electrical power consumption among the general public.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Rather than just being flat out wrong, why not use gigawatt-hours which is a well known unit.
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That’s why people move to the suburbs and exurbs to avoid urban violence but end up with higher non natural death rates due to the greater than offsetting increase in auto deaths.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I think it’s a jab at Floyd Mayweather.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Hot desking is actually a positive indicator for some people. It means they only expect you in the office intermittently.

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