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by hrktb 6y ago
To note, some vendors deal with that rule by staling orders for 14 days. Some will give an option to have it processed immediately, but only if you agree to a waiver clearing your 14 days cooling off window.
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Watched both, and it was clearer to me to go through the sped up version three times than watching the whole 3 min on youtube. Most of us are used to faster paced information delivery, and we still go back to what we missed or want to chec
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I couldn’t get what types those would be fit in but in general: - train/bus stations: the biggest ones are notoriously hard to navigate, even for people going in everyday, if they ever have to choose another path. In the US I expect fe
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by hrktb 6y ago
NTT Docomo has its quirks from the customer POV (in particular they are pricy), but as a company I see them as stellar and incredibly flexible in their operating context. I mean, they brought customer installable java apps way earlier to t
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by hrktb 6y ago
Lightning cables break if the phone falls at a weird angle or if you pull while twisting on the weakest side. I thing the “safe” monicker is still warranted.
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> driving through an unpopulated desert where there are no cell towers or other people These kind of cars can and do fail for many other reasons, basically parts reliability is not a top priority. Being in a desert with no possible assi
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That effort is huge because the “other side” accelerating these effects is also huge and and lead by big centralized companies. I tend to think that if these companies didn’t have as much power they couldn’t have bent the rules in their fa
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by hrktb 6y ago
They’re more annoyed by persisting bugs and apps that stop working altogether though. Autoupdating is the way to go for most users IMO.
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The most interesting part to me with the manufactor doing it themself, is the manipulation and maintenance advices. Bonus point being the official name of each parts. It sure is way more interesting than going through the handbook.
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I think the difference is less on small or big company, but wether it’s an open topic or not. You don’t want a password reset confirmation mail from Andre, or in this case a simple account creation notification from Tom. If it’s a full onbo
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by hrktb 6y ago
To echo izacus's comment, they are very sensible and there's dozens of variations of the keywords that they accept. We have a Nest Hub, and saying Google twenty times a day was a deal breaker so we all use some other variation tha
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by hrktb 6y ago
That's surely where the financing model is important. Schools here get money based on the number of students, and the dispatch of teachers is done at a region level depending on the needs. A school with "bad" teachers would j
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by hrktb 6y ago
> how could amazon _do this to me_? This is the main complain IMHO. Most people trust amazon to be around in 10 years, and do not mind to be bound to a specific company. It would be fine if there was a recourse when getting kicked out of
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by hrktb 6y ago
Can’t you fail them during the previous year, where they don’t have enough grades to graduate ? That’s the system in France, where public schools can’t refuse kids, but those kids can only move classes if they passed. If you aren’t interes
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by hrktb 6y ago
Continuously feeding someone false information can change their perception of what’s right in the first place. That’s the whole point of impression ads. That’s why companies will pay so much to imprint an image on viewers. If you are lookin
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Regarding elections, that would be gaining, or staying in power. In other ways it could be for insurance or other intangible services that scale well but need to be perceived as somewhat valuable. Even in cases where you still use goods to
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by hrktb 6y ago
Ads are not just data gathering, but behavior nudging as well. Directing people on what to do could be more valuable than actually selling goods, in aggregate. In particular when their actions have long term ramifications (e.g. politics)
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by hrktb 6y ago
> saying crazy things, insults, conspiracy theories, hate Sadly, I think this is par for the course, and often those "crazy" things are accepted by a large enough part of society that the cooling effect is very low.
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by hrktb 6y ago
It heavily depends on why the thread is getting long. If people are talking past each other on trivial matters, sure a call should be faster. Or if the core issue is to take a simple decision or iron internal politics. If it’s a complex is
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by hrktb 6y ago
I get the feeling that pronouns are also not explicit in Chinese most of the time, making it as hard to properly translate in english. And I’d assume that could be the most common language people would want to translate from online platform
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by hrktb 6y ago
The market hasn’t fully adjusted yet, but once a lot more people are remote, salaries might also fluctuate depending on how far(cheap) you are allowed to live, with a higher price tag if you are required to be close to the office. For now s
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I can’t think of a single instance of a technology where we thought that failure wasn’t an option, were supposed to put everything behind it to succeed and had a 100% clear success. Dams fail. Rockets fail. Medical devices fail. Do you see
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by hrktb 6y ago
I think in 20~50 years those random software issues will be what we knew for our all life, basically what reality is, and we’ll just give warm patronizing looks to kids complaining stuff doesn’t work.
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> Houses, cars, etc are far more reliable and well designed than software Buy software the price of a house and you’ll be right to expect the same build level. Then even at the price of your house you’ll have fun with mold growing inside
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by hrktb 6y ago
A lot of these look like pricing and marketing issues to me. Fridges have been with us long enough in a ‘pay everything upfront’ setting that we‘d battle to the bitter end if we had to do micro-payments or aggressive planned obsolescence. T
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On book font size, there actually is a market solution for the issue: if enough sales are expected the same book (same content) will be sold in different formats, pocket size, deluxe paperback, standard edition etc. Same for translations, w
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by hrktb 6y ago
I’d argue computer programs failing mode are often less gruesome that real life’s gas and electric failures. As a kid we had a gas range, and it was pretty easy turn on a burner and just leave it open without lighting it. Or just start cook
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by hrktb 6y ago
> never had a problem with a refrigerator These turn of phrases make me wonder what we are really expecting from software. I can’t imagine you never slapped the door of your fridge and it didn’t properly close. You gave it a nudge when y
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by hrktb 6y ago
I hear you, but feel like we are biased by what we accepted as normal in our formative years, and that filter doesn’t apply on what we are discovering now that we’re grown up professionals. For instance books have been with us for centuries
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Technology sucks because it works. Otherwise it would be in the junkyard and nobody would be complaining about constant annoyances. All the annoyance cited come from having a pocket computer that is reliable enough that we use day in day ou

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