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by jariel 6y ago
Also 'a month or two' ? This is not in line with any projections. In the US it's around summertime. In Canada, it was 'by end of summer' - and now - it's 'anyone who wants a vaccine by end of 2021'.
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, but as people 'open up' it may happen explosively as they feel more confident, leading to a material increase in cases. COVID spreads pretty easily, we've taken quite a number of measures to keep it wrapped up. If people
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by jariel 6y ago
Probably the #1 reason by far is geoblocking. Security interests are niche compared to people wanting to watch 'xyz program' or 'xyz super game'.
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by jariel 6y ago
??? Apple absolutely takes 30% of Enterprise services, depending on how they are paid for, and as they gain more power, they will absolutely lever that power into other sectors. "Apple is demanding 30% commission from Airbnb and ClassP
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by jariel 6y ago
Well, the trades do vary a lot in quality. Especially carpentry, which is the most varied. You can work on a construction site, framing and drywalling and never pick up any real skills outside of that narrow set. Carpentry skills generally
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by jariel 6y ago
"a title she is entitled to, so what value is there in not respecting her wishes?" Because it's pompous, self-aggrandizing and totally deserving of ridicule for people to use highly formal titles when it is not normative. Mor
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by jariel 6y ago
The selfish assholes that think they can tell people who live in other communities what those communities ought to be - are the the root of the problem. There are vast, open, free spaces for people to build and live in communities as they s
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by jariel 6y ago
"It's unfortunate that big tech decided to make this place their home" Big Tech was established when much of that area was literally little bits separated by fields and farmland. I think our living spaces are more important t
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by jariel 6y ago
It seems like an outrageously simple and fundamental thing, to the point wherein one might wonder how many other positive things could be achieved - and - why on earth some people have such a deficit. Could it be diet, exercise, other thing
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by jariel 6y ago
This seems like a neat idea, but wouldn't it be more pragmatic to teach them skills they can use more universally to get jobs for which maybe there's much more cultural inclination? Like carpentry, electrician, construction, plumb
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by jariel 6y ago
Evidence of Apple's monopoly are actually baked right into that rate. They are price-setters, not subject to the whims of the market, and adjust their prices given non-market forces (press, threat of regulation etc.) It's a high e
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by jariel 6y ago
I personally worked for a large tech company and was involved with 'content filtering discussions' with questionable regimes. HN doesn't like such arguments, it's not an argument, just an experience. It's common. P
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by jariel 6y ago
This is not a very god argument and it that can be used to justify the worst possible actions including genocide. The 'problem' here - is that outside actors are forced to become 'complicit' with all sorts of laws that a
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by jariel 6y ago
"These may seem fair to you" I don't see 'seeming fair' to most people. This is just yet another example of Google and Apple's monopoly preferences being leveraged by entities that have more leverage than them.
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by jariel 6y ago
Here's a little wayback machine request to see maybe what's changed over time, and whether or not 'things are bad' is maybe subjective, but there's an unequivocally different editorial focus. Today [1] 2003 [2] At t
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by jariel 6y ago
Working code (beyond super basic CRUD) that maintains a companies revenues is 'priceless' not 'worthless'. It's 'worthless' to outside parties, but that's completely besides the point. I worked at a
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by jariel 6y ago
ISIS had Twitter accounts in which they showed beheadings and other things [1], largely as a recruiting tool in order to bring young Western Men to Syria to commit atrocities. "The Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham (ISIS) continues to
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by jariel 6y ago
If AT&T started banning any traffic: emails, websites etc. that 'talked poorly about AT&T' then it would be a breach of net neutrality, right? And totally unacceptable. Twitter and Partler are content platforms, AWS is not
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by jariel 6y ago
It's interesting because McK is a club, not a company. They are a relatively disparate group of people operating on the basis of culture, it's not top down. Some partners can go way off the reservation compared to others, and they
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by jariel 6y ago
It depends on what you want in life. In my own exposure - they are more loyal. Of course, you're probably not going to get to the top. But that's not what everyone wants.
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by jariel 6y ago
Superficially, it seems crazy. That said, testosterone rates actually have been falling for a while now [1][2], and 'that's a thing'. Scientifically. Also, we spend way too much time indoors as a species and there may possibl
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by jariel 6y ago
Imagine how many little SaaS services they depend on dumped them for spite. I don't care about Parler, but this is getting bad. Voted for that angry guy? Sorry, you're off my Contact Management platform and your business is frozen
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by jariel 6y ago
I don't think it's quite right. People on HN are so much into 'technical' issues. The notion 'The CEO must be fired' because he allows messages to be saved but the mission is privacy - is far too getting hung u
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by jariel 6y ago
Wow. Total Genius.
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by jariel 6y ago
He would have preferred that the emancipated slaves return to Africa. You can believe slavery is an abomination, while at the same time have views which might widely be considered racist even by today's most colloquial standards. That
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by jariel 6y ago
When there are 100 'large firms' calling, it's the 'friends' calls the get answered first, if at all, because hey, we're all busy. When Masayoshi got 45 minutes in Trump Tower to convince Trump to push forward
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by jariel 6y ago
Yes, but also, when the next business cycle market crash happens, and the plebes are screaming about hedge funds, Citadel can also pick up the phone and call their 'friend' Janet Yellen, to introduce them to the Sec. Treasury, and
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by jariel 6y ago
It's a material amount that can only be spent in the context of 'getting something for it'. What that is is nebulous, and it could be something as simple as an introduction to someone as of yet unknown at a future date. But i
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by jariel 6y ago
This is a very fair question and shouldn't be down-voted. It's a way for powerful people to pay other powerful people for arbitrary things like 'speeches' so that they can exchange favours off the books in a very indirec
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by jariel 6y ago
'Speaking Fees' are absolutely the new form of fraud/bribery/kickback. It's the most arbitrarily thing imaginable, and you can just throw up any number for 'services performed'. After Obama completed his t

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