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by jbob2000 8y ago
Yes, the time commitment of having one person pickup the phone and place 100+ phone calls (and the suspicion on the other end when you call back with a new name but the same voice). You could write a screen scraper to book online through
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by jbob2000 8y ago
So now I can script a bot to book restaurant reservations all over the city at busy times. Then nobody shows up for the reservations, the busy time has passed, and customers have moved on or gone home. Restaurants make or break on one or tw
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Look at the pictures. They look about as similar as a Ford does to a Dodge. The grill, headlamps, body panels, windshield, hell, even the length of the truck is completely different between the two trucks. A truck is a truck, you can't
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Toronto, Canada. A somewhat major news item recently was that a guy was killed trying to sell his truck on Craigslist. These stories have popped on and off the news for a while now. Other than that, the pseudo anonymity makes people uncomfo
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Is this because the bites are actually making people ill, or are people finally going to the doctor for their illnesses because they have insurance? Could this also be that people who live in mosquito areas are getting older and thus more s
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Facebook marketplace has been a boon for buy/sell to me and my family. Kijiji and craigslist are very sketchy, but with FB marketplace, you can see who the person actually is. It makes us feel much more safe when we go to meet the pers
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by jbob2000 9y ago
> Why don’t cable companies charge by megabyte used, instead of by speed? Because they can and do charge you for both and laugh all the way to the bank.
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Speaking more pragmatically, larger companies are much more family friendly - people guard their personal lives fiercely at large companies. At least, this is my experience at an 80,000+ employee company. You're basically a huge asshol
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by jbob2000 9y ago
One-third of Americans probably also have full mobile phone and digital cable packages, the latest iPhone, eat out twice a week, and drive a brand new Ford. Every time I visit the states, I am shocked by the consumerism that pervades every
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Exactly. We already know when the elevator needs to be maintained. If it isn't being maintained, it's not because people don't know, it's because they are intentionally NOT doing the maintenance, maybe because it costs $
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by jbob2000 9y ago
The problem is that all of this AI and ML is being used to target Ads better. You don't need AI and ML to do this, it is a solution looking for a problem. Your example about routine elevator maintenance does't need AI at all. Whoe
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by jbob2000 9y ago
My criticism is that news orgs shoot first and ask questions later. Even the news orgs we hold in very high regard (NPR) do it. To me, that means it's a systemic problem with the profession. They need to operate more like the justice s
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by jbob2000 9y ago
It is no wonder people are turning to their echo chambers for news. Even the most established and respected (arguably) news organization can’t even do basic journalism.
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Talk all you want about taste preferences, but just like we have restrictions on what you can call "chicken wings" and "Champagne" (as compared to "chicken wyngz" and "sparkling wine"), so too should
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I think we’d soon find out that a brain without a body operates very differently than when the brain is in the body. The brain relies on the body’s sensory organs for much of its decisions, how can it compute things when these are removed?
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I have never gotten or even heard about someone getting a ticket for eating/drinking while driving. It would be national news if someone got one of these tickets. Going through the drive-through for a cup of coffee and drinking it on y
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I feel like this is a little different, though. Social dynamics in the West are shifting. In the past, men had a fairly good understanding of how to approach and date women, but nowadays, its not so cut and dry. I'm not arguing that we
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by jbob2000 9y ago
You are just muddying up a debate that should not be this hard. There are 2 countries in the world that do not have public healthcare; The US and Liberia. Whatever counterpoints there are to the public option, 196+ countries have already ha
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by jbob2000 9y ago
> In internet routing, the most specific always wins So is this flaw Amazon's fault? I think not. Even your accepted mitigation doesn't fix the hole completely. It's still an internet problem.
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by jbob2000 9y ago
The problem I have now is; How can I get the manager to read, understand, and respect Maker Schedule? Should I send them this link and then try to explain to them who Paul Graham is and why they should care about him? Should I send them the
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by jbob2000 9y ago
The article is missing the forest for the trees. Hollywood isn't snubbing Netflix (in my opinion, anyways). Hollywood is all about the cinema and the theatrical release. It is a completely different experience streaming a movie at home
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Instead of using if or switch statements to compute a value, you can use a prettier interface. So this: function getStatus(status) { if (status === 200){ return "Success"; } else if (status === 401){ return
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by jbob2000 9y ago
He built his own submarines, you could argue he has a bit of the hacker ethos in him.
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Inbox didn’t take off? That’s news to me! It’s the only way I use gmail, I haven’t used the old interface since inbox was released. It pairs with the mobile app really well.
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Funnily enough, this kinda matches how most people do their jobs now. "Just google it" is the solution to many problems in business. It's probably not the best long term strategy, but then again, neither is the stock market..
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Yeah, I ran their free trial and had a good experience. I did the same kind of tests you did, but I still don't feel comfortable with it. It's just too slick. That mixed with the fact that their entire team is Russian nationals...
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I am super skeptical about ad guard and I'm looking for someone to allay that skepticism. It's just... too clean. I don't trust software this perfect, especially since it's made in Russia and sees all the internet traf
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by jbob2000 9y ago
Yawn. Boring article that rehashes the same stuff we already know, mixed with a thin personal anecdote.
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by jbob2000 9y ago
I did read the article. I think my point still stands. It's possible to be overpaid, I see it in my company all the time. You can fire someone from one job and hire them for a job with a smaller scope, it happens all the time. It'
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by jbob2000 9y ago
But not all 20,000 had that happen to them, only some. And big organizations are weird like that. You get fired by one department, only to have another department hire you for something similar. And maybe you were doing a job that was inter

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