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by hwestiii 7y ago
What’s the matter with Ohio?
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by hwestiii 7y ago
So you think only boomers will find this sort of thing off putting or creepy?
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by hwestiii 7y ago
I’ve been reading “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism” recently, and this is totally the classic case for her argument. We’ve clearly reached the point where our utility to the technology providers has surpassed their utility to us. I hav
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by hwestiii 7y ago
This all points up the glaring conflicts of interest in the corporate business environment. Most of us think that Boeing is the business of building airplanes, but as a publicly traded company, its real business is making money for its sha
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by hwestiii 7y ago
This article reads to me like Boeing and the FAA have gotten their stories straight with each other and in naming names have settled upon someone who is no longer associated with either in an effort to take the heat off of both.
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by hwestiii 7y ago
I always thought Quidditch sounded like it had been developed by an AI.
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by hwestiii 8y ago
Emacs has multiple vi emulation modes. I've been using emacs for going on 20 years, using the VIPER package, and I've never bothered to learn the emacs native key binding. Best of both worlds.
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by hwestiii 8y ago
Nassem Taleb is an arrogant asshole who can't write. I tried reading "The Black Swan" and gave up in a flurry of swearing after less than 100 pages because he utterly failed to justify any of his breathless assertions with a
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by hwestiii 8y ago
Wait a minute. Isn't bitcoin supposed to be immune from this?
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by hwestiii 8y ago
This pretty much confirms my suspicion that Apple is|was not a company I'd ever want to work at. Making cool stuff might be cool, but I don't want to sacrifice large chunks of my life for it.
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by hwestiii 9y ago
I always thought Emacs was the one that needed foot pedals.
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by hwestiii 9y ago
I was personally amused at the number of purchasers of these fake followers "did not respond to request for comment"
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by hwestiii 9y ago
tl;dr - I asked for it. - They gave it to me.
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by hwestiii 10y ago
Nice to see. Uber, Lyft, et al have always seemed like exactly the wrong solution here. The availability of the vehicle and the demand for it are inherently local phenomnena, so why should some arbitrary company who knows where be the maj