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by gist 7y ago
> ideas came from these "silent drives" because he was forced to be creative and use his imagination to keep himself entertained. Driving is the classic 'zone' activity. As such I question if it's even a good ide
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by gist 7y ago
Why is it sad at all? What would it do for you? It would be about as relevant as being able to communicate in some way with people in the past. Would be interesting and entertaining but a leap to imagine it would yield some kind of better q
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by gist 7y ago
The woman on the video in the story states several facts very authoritatively however there is nothing that she points to to substantiate what she is saying. It's close to pure speculation (at least as presented). An example is statin
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by gist 7y ago
Not going to happen and not with that many people. It would be a nightmare in court. They'd have to also show that the people involved were actually part of the game and not in some way just at the store for unrelated reasons. Possibl
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by gist 7y ago
Well first I don't think the rightness or wrongness should be determined by a vote of either those in attendance or those on HN. If you asked kids if they like to take 3 less classes in high school they'd probably say 'sure s
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by gist 7y ago
If it were simple nobody would need you to unravel it.
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by gist 7y ago
> a combination that does not make me sympathetic towards Apple Apple does not want sympathy and is not concerned with what someone in the tech community with advanced knowledge (and opinions) think. They are concerned with what is thoug
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by gist 7y ago
> and stakes are raise: if you're found, you go to jail Go to jail? For what? What is the crime? I would say that at least in the US there would be no such thing for this type of activity. Can you imagine a prosecutor trying to mak
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by gist 7y ago
What I hate about articles and reporting like this is the emphasis (in the lead) on that fact that some people were 'shocked'. You can always find 'some people' that will force their point of view and unfortunately do it
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by gist 7y ago
> Love this, I’ve done some of my best work in hotel rooms. One of the things a hotel room has going for it is that it's very uncluttered and maybe even 'feng shui'. As such it doesn't have a lot of distractions (visu
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by gist 7y ago
Remember that in certain age groups they actually want to do something they shouldn't be doing.
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by gist 7y ago
> Levandowski was paid a bonus of $120 million while at Google, which is more money than any reasonable person will need for several lifetimes. There is not and there should not be any hard cap on what is 'reasonable' in a life
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by gist 7y ago
> Why someone would risk jail time doing something so clearly wrong (taking material trade secrets from an employer) for even more money In particular 'for even more money'. You are assuming that the motivating factor was money
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by gist 7y ago
Vulnerable? Maybe. But they are taking less pay because they have no other alternatives. Buying nothing from them does not improve their situation. In fact much of the Chinese (or other low cost countries) economy has come from the vast am
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by gist 7y ago
It can also mean that the writer, in a rush to get the story out, does not have time to get informed opinions to make a point.
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by gist 7y ago
And that is even more remarkable considering what he is trying to do (K12 ed) read this: https://shafyy.com/about/ What is really strange to me is how HN feasts on blog posts as if they were more special than a simple
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by gist 7y ago
Why cut the writer so much slack? Musk went to business school period. Undergraduate, graduate doesn't matter. Doesn't matter what classes he took either. That is not what is talked about in the statement. Curious why it even matt
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by gist 7y ago
> Bork’s consumer-based theory had many flaws. One of the most obvious was that it did not anticipate the rise of online companies such as Facebook and Google, which offer their products to consumers for free. Not entirely true [1]. For
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by gist 7y ago
> We had someone go completely mental at a manager on Slack the other day with the whole team on the same channel. This is what happens in a tight labor market where someone can do whatever they want w/o any consequences. In a norma
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by gist 7y ago
Love the way people seem to believe they have to walk on eggshells when someone is 'on the spectrum'. I wonder what is done if a person on the spectrum is accused of some form of sexual assault or reasonably offensive language. Do
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by gist 7y ago
Marketing and branding and some small coolness that matters. Real estate is emotional everyone already knows that when buying a house. You buy on emotion. Used to be the case in the past with autos also. (Not so much now though.) Saying wha
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by gist 7y ago
> Literally every CEO would laugh at this statement in the privacy of their office, while they engineer stock manipulation to trigger their stock options and retire in 5 years. It's coming from (see the members) presumably the most
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by gist 7y ago
I have always thought that calling this job 'showrunner' is a less impressive description than it actually is.
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by gist 7y ago
From the original: > As I went to pack my bag, I noticed that my co-workers had stopped working long enough to stare at the television screen, which showed thousands of protestors filling the New York City streets just blocks from where
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by gist 7y ago
Unclear to me why people seem to think that a major station announcing something that they got (very generally) from some official release makes the same info (obtained some other way) nefarious in nature. Could be as simple as someone at t
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by gist 7y ago
Maybe they are doing him a favor. Maybe he shouldn't be spending all of his time binge watching Netflix and perhaps he has a much larger problem ('why') that he should address instead.
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by gist 7y ago
When you look at some of the ideas that are being done you have to think that the idea here is simply the investors are funding acquihire special purpose vehicle (for lack of a better way to put it). That is they invest in a company that th
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by gist 7y ago
Extra effort? You have the anxiety of wondering if the spot will be open or not. Also as the method becomes more popular it would make sense that the spots will not be increased immediately and therefore will not be open. And of course th
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by gist 7y ago
> I used to run an extension cord out of my 2nd floor window > More recently, I had been parking an electric car in my apartment's lot, and running an extension cord from the exercise room, out to the car. Then the apartment deci
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by gist 7y ago
Exactly. I simply don't get this. All of that effort when it's (for lack of a better way to put it) 'not ready for prime time'. Other comments include running an electric extension cord out the window and other hacks. A

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