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inanutshellus
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inanutshellus
5d ago
DELL was an innovator in this "incomparable pricing" model for normal consumers. You'd price out a machine and then go look at comparable machines (difficult) from other vendors, then the next day your machine wouldn't b
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inanutshellus
5d ago
I'll bite. - Nothing like it in style and execution. - Superb and unique universe. It's brilliant. Fight me. ;) - Charming, engaging storytelling full of wit and humor. Charm and humor are particularly hard to pull
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inanutshellus
9d ago
Yeah but you really could just guess and be right most of the time, since the question was likely "A/S/L?" ;)
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inanutshellus
10d ago
Curious how/why all this negative attention is focused directly on the Flock brand (current example notwithstanding)? Seems like if I were a competitor of Flock I'd be pretty happy right now and all this negative press is making t
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inanutshellus
10d ago
"As brevity is the soul of wit, I shall be brief. [then bloviates on and on.]" ~Polonius
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inanutshellus
12d ago
My guess is your sessions are interactive conversations rather than planning a course of action then, separately, executing each piece.
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inanutshellus
12d ago
No. It's a typo.
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inanutshellus
15d ago
Instant armchair pundit: just add tokens!
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inanutshellus
23d ago
Customer/Doctor/Insurance is the classic blame triangle.
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inanutshellus
23d ago
Valid point! I believe they weren't.
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inanutshellus
23d ago
I appreciate the opportunity to clarify; I see I wasn't clear earlier. sfm42: "MC should buy a hospital and fix it!" cmiles8: "MC isn't some armchair pundit, he has improved similar areas!" cmiles8
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inanutshellus
23d ago
I'd guess the majority of those success stories are invisible to the end user. e.g. simply keeping the company afloat via PE cash. If I recall correctly, this is what happened to Hilton Hotels. They were collapsing during the housing c
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inanutshellus
23d ago
That said... even though it reads like you're correcting him, you're simply reinforcing @sfn42's message...
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inanutshellus
23d ago
Reminds me of the Surgery Center of Oklahoma which cause such a huge news buzz back in 2009ish for publishing packaged pricing. Brilliant move. (And they still do it!)
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26d ago
hopefully the MD that passes all the tests is still worth his salt even if he only chose the profession for the paycheck. but as one of the nearby professors is famous for saying: "C students gotta go somewhere." ( and since this
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29d ago
It's definitely a normal-sounding, memorable word for us native English speakers. Meanwhile I won't be able to remember that German word longer than it takes me to close this tab. Vershumthingsomething.
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inanutshellus
1mo ago
Interesting way to say "never".
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inanutshellus
1mo ago
Wow, thanks! Somehow I've missed the 39 times the Onion has carried that headline. I guess I'm part of today's 10,000.
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1mo ago
OK how is this on the homepage? The title means nothing without clicking the link and... I generally refuse to click on clickbait just to see whether there's a hook in it.
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1mo ago
because it's a fad-ish response right now. A decade ago every "omg just use [answer]!" was to suggest blockchain solve your problem. Every possible problem seemed to have a solution that involved blockchain. ... now that &quo
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1mo ago
My first thought was that I'd argue that tally marks are "counting" not "writing" ...but... if "writing" is the act of conveying ideas through markings then... I guess it is kinda writing.
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1mo ago
I'm 3 days late on this so folks likely won't ever read or reply but I hope y'all will! I'm super curious about this point: > Name who deserves credit, in public. Use actual names, not “Thanks to the team.” I read a s
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1mo ago
I was the same til I had kids. Now I'm trapped just like most everyone else. Every photo is just "okay" in the moment but .. five years later the difference is so big. 99.999% of these "precious" photos are dumped i
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2mo ago
A "lab" is a place to experiment and grow. That the subject to experiment and grow with would be "crime" is a reasonable extension of the word, I suppose...
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2mo ago
> Are you thinking what I'm thinking, Pinky? > I think so, Brain, but -- > YES! Time to take over the world [utilizing these philosopher kings]! To jump from one dated pop culture reference to another, it is
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inanutshellus
2mo ago
The concept that's MAGICAL in Reveal.js is vertical slides. e.g. https://revealjs.com/#/2/1 <-- from here you can go up or down, then go right to continue the presentation. You just make one slide deck wit
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inanutshellus
2mo ago
Oof. Pain may well be the "seasoning of life" but work is not pain. Work is the thing that helps one lift society up. We're all connected beings and one's occupation is how we each contribute to that society. The idea th
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inanutshellus
2mo ago
"we're training the public that they're 'buying' a revokable license, not the song" ~MPAA ;)
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2mo ago
it's a frustrating pattern for sure. makes it so you can't reward good companies with return business. instead, we get the amazon-seller-experience: an ever-churning alphabet soup of fly-by-night companies hocking low-quality stuf
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3mo ago
if you wear yourself out mentally all day as part of your occupation, digging into a "good" book is often too much work. As anecdata: My wife has a "brainy" occupation and her brilliant sister does not. Correspondingly,
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