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by ggg9990 9y ago
Reminds me of the recent recommendation to not use metal barbecue brushes as the bristles can get on the food and lodge in one's throat, leading to debilitating disease and death.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It's not really a customer service issue. That team isn't equipped to handle it.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It's taking care of your own before taking care of others. Same reason I'd rather save my son's life rather than a million babies who are equally valuable and deserving of life.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Even if one doesn't want to make a quick buck, making one is the best way to get companies to behave. If Netflix ends up paying $200K every few months with a negative PR hit for IP infringement they will improve their processes to avoi
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by ggg9990 9y ago
What's your definition of consenting adult? A person with a gambling problem is about as able to give informed consent as a mentally retarded person.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Etsy did things way too well. An online crafts market should not have a well-known engineering team and blog -- they should be running a patchwork of shitty technology that crashes every month because they only hired one guy to run the webs
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by ggg9990 9y ago
I've never heard of a Reality TV character who is as trashy as Ignatius but has also read the Great Books and earnestly believes himself to be a Great Man
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Lack of detail can often create stronger imagery because the reader/viewer's brain fills in the textures. With a lo-fi King's Quest I imagined gallant heroes on trusty steeds. The same way that cartoons can be more expressive
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by ggg9990 9y ago
New York is the only one I'd feel comfortable in of the ones you've listed. Others are Seattle, Austin.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
There are plenty of places in the US where I can comfortably leave $8,000 of camera equipment in my van. SF isn't one of them.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
A nice quote but getting data between SaaS apps is much harder than between Excel sheets, and modifying a SaaS app with that one little thing you need for your particular case is of course impossible.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
They can just advertise to people who like Bing Crosby instead.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
This article introduced me to HQ trivia which I just installed.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
This CEO just might be taking the Donald Trump approach to publicity. I had never heard of HQ trivia but from this article it sounds fun and I just installed the app and signed up. Mission accomplished?
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It could just as easily be that he was the lead cheerleader for the project and when he left there was nobody there to advocate for it, so it was first to go.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
If you are in South India and are poor, how are you going to find a gurdwara? Might be quite far away and require bus fare that you don't have.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Outside of the religious elites and the "leftist elites" who are virtually nonexistent, these are all the same group of people. They basically believe in the primacy of education and intelligence which not everyone agrees with.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
As someone with a solid but not exceptional education in both, I would agree with both statements.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The book "Chickenshit" describes how the DOJ has become incapable and unwilling to prosecute white collar crime.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
If you fail at working from home it's going to cost you a hell of a lot more than $400 a month. Time to move on that ASAP. Later when you're in a better place you can think about alternatives.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Yes, the NSA is surveilling the populace 24/7 through Microsoft Equation Editor.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
People in their 30s without kids are willing to spend considerable sums on their pet.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
That's messed up and makes it certain that I will never use iCloud. Losing my family photos is a much worse outcome than having them accessed by a hacker.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
More likely to AIs, although the medical lobby is quite strong and will probably manage to get the benefits of AIs but still require a radiologist to certify.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
No reason to, as they're targeting military applications. In fact the robots' super-strength may intimidate enemy soldiers into surrender.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
That was an unconstitutional disgrace and should not be a model for the future.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The federal government has no Constitutional authority to outlaw sales taxes on intrastate sales.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
It's a paid service that integrates with other paid Azure services. It's strategic for Microsoft because you give them money.
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by ggg9990 9y ago
Browsers became a way to deliver general-purpose applications over the Internet rather than just structured documents. Once they did, then all of the features that are being maliciously used here have very useful applications like respondin
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by ggg9990 9y ago
The scale is impressive, but the site hasn't changed meaningfully since I started using it a long time ago. This is a sign of 1) a perfected product 2) a team that doesn't know why they're successful so is scared to change an

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