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by indymike 3y ago
Subpoena = "Ask firmly, but nicely" Warrant = "Back up the van and haul it away"
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by indymike 3y ago
> But if that's the case, are we basically still in the early innings of this crisis? We might be, but more likely is that Meta is facing a reality that all huge companies eventually face: there isn't a play for megagrowth anym
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by indymike 3y ago
Parallel construction is unethical and often is unconstitutional. https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2018/may/14/parallel-...
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> talk-shows This is what the whole thing is about.
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Mostly because writers think carmelized means sauté until brown.
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One of the differences in the US is that evidence obtained by espionage is rarely admissible in court. Often spying bypasses constitutional and legal protections and renders evidence unusable. In the US, cases get dismissed all the time bec
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by indymike 3y ago
Depends on the actual cost of that first ink cartridge. If it's $3 or less, then by all means let them have it. If it is over, then adjust your subscription's start cost to fit.
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by indymike 3y ago
> If you could keep the cartridges, canceling would potentially net you many hundreds of extra pages for free. And you could cancel again and again Solution: non-refundable first month, make it greater than cost of first ink cartridge. R
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by indymike 3y ago
> The problem is that OP cancelled their subscription shortly after receiving a new cartridge. So now the options are: >• Make OP return the cartridge. >• Charge OP for the remainder of their cartridge as a cancellation fee. (Yuck!
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by indymike 3y ago
About 15 years a go I worked with a web designer that would take a photo and apply a filter to it in Photoshop and claim it was now copyright free and could be used. Fortunately, we told him to get something where we could either license it
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by indymike 3y ago
There are really three drivers for work from the office: 1. Investment in real estate. Unoccupied large campuses are very expensive to maintain. 2. Management style. 3. Collaboration (this is really limited as most office workers don't
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by indymike 3y ago
Yes.
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by indymike 3y ago
The NeXT was priced above a PC, but just below a SGI, DEC or Sun workstation. When compared to a top of the line PS/2 model 80 (at $4500 for the tower, and $1000 for the monitor, plus an extra $200 for Windows 386), the NeXT Cube ($6K
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by indymike 3y ago
Actually, a witness who can vouch that the video depicts what they saw of a live event.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Yeah, just like Perl. Or Latin. No one uses them, these are dead languages that belong to a museum. The best analogy I have for Lisp is that it is the wheelbarrow of languages. It was invented long ago and is in no way obsolete. In man
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by indymike 3y ago
This is a huge failure. Google Keep was really, really good.
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by indymike 3y ago
> pushing the voice assistant By doing so, they are putting lots of things at risk. Up until the last year Android Auto has been so good that I think most people would rather use it than the in-built system in their car. The last UI upda
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by indymike 3y ago
Honestly, this just creates opportunities for people to try out new products when they rage quit because some deeply buried feature in Google’s to-do feature makes their personal workflow crash.
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by indymike 3y ago
I think in this case content is being blended with functionality since the AI is actually in the business of delivering content. Regardless, I can’t agree with you more about functionality and reliability. Functionality sells, and reliabili
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by indymike 3y ago
I Amazon really bad? Their transaction volume would seem to indicate that users are succeeding in placing orders at a very high frequency. This is exactly why Amazon is a great study for new designers and engineers.
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> Why won’t existing companies that already have the users and existing connections fast follow anything the startup does? In this case, I think the founders realized that by focusing on UI and data engineering, they were not focused on
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by indymike 3y ago
When I onboard a new designer, I usually talk with them about Craig's List, Amazon versus "beautiful" UI. The point is exactly the last line of this article: "Focus on content and functionality when you’re designing new
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by indymike 3y ago
> Vascular ultrasound devices are still supported because they were expensive, and support was probably paid on top of the initial price. I'm sure 80s and early 90s era vascular ultrasound devices are long obsolete, out of service a
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by indymike 3y ago
> . FAAMG can run much larger immediate deficits in order to corner the market on the eventual profitability of AI. This assumes that there is a corner-able market. Previously, the cost of training was the moat. That appears to have been
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by indymike 3y ago
One of my younger kids bought $7,200 worth of currency and content on a game on a Kindle. She did so in a single afternoon. I contacted Amazon support and the refund was issued on the spot. After they issued the refund, the only question th
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by indymike 3y ago
> Don't you want software upgrades? Yes, but that doesn't require I give up freedom or control. The number of years a vendor provides upgrades adds value to the product (i.e. long term commitment or not). The cost of a car is
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by indymike 3y ago
> low marketability going forward. I'm not so sure that will continue to be the case. Fortran has moved up substantially in TIOBE (to #20), so there's clearly growing interest.
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> Is C++ going away soon? Or is it holding steady and even growing? How can someone objectively know either way? No. It's not going away anytime soon, but you can look at high-performance languages that are gaining in popularity, an
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Rough edges like this are what make people like the experience better on other operating systems. Edge is a nice browser. But I want to use something else, and these kinds of things make me not want your software. As a developer, I just sto
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by indymike 3y ago
> In fact this aggregation only commingles all sort of risks inside a gigantic opaque pool, makes the private-public dependency (TBTF) and all its perverse incentives even more entrenched, and ultimately creates the conditions for system

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