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by jdrc 5y ago
you mean we didn't
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by jdrc 5y ago
maybe my use of twitter is wrong, but it's where i go to find interesting news, articles, breaking news and somewhat uncensored opinions. Most 'aggregators' are saturated with the most mindbogglingly boring groupthink. Twitte
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by jdrc 5y ago
Email is still there, still decentralized in principle (which matters). Why not build identity on top of it, extend the protocol. And while you re at it, add notifications, which are a major reason why people use phones. Not professional en
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this happens in english windows as well, it s not some local version. i just got a new laptop and noticed that MS has become a lot more aggressive: i couldn't complete install without logging in to some MS account and it kept chasing m
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by jdrc 5y ago
it's true that in second life most people spend on clothing
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I think consumerist isn't limited to fashion.
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ok. how do we make managers and execs feel better even when everyoen is working remotely then? lots of opportunity for dashboard-sellers there
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by jdrc 5y ago
we need to target specifically the lack of social element in remote work, not remote work itself. remote work has to change cities and create an ecosystem around it, like the office did. We haven't even started, are there startups work
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by jdrc 5y ago
to begin with, that's logically false [unless u mean it's undecideable which is a vanishingly small probability] i also have no interest in replying to flame bait
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by jdrc 5y ago
Sorry, you put a lot of buzzwords there, but buzzwords do not constitute any proof. It's certainly true in low-skill businesses like , i dunno, agriculture that production scales linearly. If nonlinear interactions occur it would be i
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by jdrc 5y ago
well, if we accept that the success of business is the sum of its parts, then it is implied that the diverse people add something more than others
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by jdrc 5y ago
> I anecdotally recall studies that found organizations with greater diversity deliver better financial results People also tout these studies for getting more women in business leadership. in reality that's a weird argument, women
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> The negotiations on Tuesday, in particular, seemed to produce something that many, especially in the West, were eager to cling to as a ray of hope No the west isnt hoping for a swift end. What for? Russia and any occupied terrotiry wil
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by jdrc 5y ago
well, they are less likely to be invaded at the current time
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by jdrc 5y ago
sure transformer models may not be intelligence as people often claim, but undeniably ML has been conquering all the sensory modalities one after another. And the human brain itself is mostly devoted to sensory processing. It is conceivable
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by jdrc 5y ago
airbnb needs to categorize listings by purpose rather than popularity. They have a huge network of users that have already solved the issues that other users will face.
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by jdrc 5y ago
that s not what real estate agents do here. but it might work with some kind of "local agents" that arrange all things for you before and after , making the moving easy and seamless. there are relocation experts in many major citi
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by jdrc 5y ago
or you can up-bundle airbnb. I would like to be able to pick "2 years in <nice place>" as a package that includes everything from home to food/gym/car etc
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by jdrc 5y ago
> Once an intelligence is loose on the internet, it will be able to learn from all of humanity’s data, replicate and mutate itself infinitely many times, take over physical manufacturing lines remotely, and hack important infrastructure.
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by jdrc 5y ago
i can see this working. there's little excuse to not have financial data that is open and in real time in this day, other than profiteering.
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by jdrc 5y ago
Yes. The question is now: Is Instagram dying?
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They use Instagram
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In an entirely financialized world, control of money is used as a substitute for violence. Demonetization, sanctions, unbanking are increasingly used for behavioral adjustment. People who want to reduce the risk of monetary violence will le
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by jdrc 5y ago
ah . well that's also not true, nowadays there is a job market and toil is reserved for the working class / service class perhaps. Most people are middle or above class in modern societies
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by jdrc 5y ago
Those are 0.001% of the population. Most people work because they have to
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Roman houses had a commercial thing at the front. Cities had lavish public baths, people had banquets, socialized in the market. The Industrial era lasted too long
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by jdrc 5y ago
It seems the whole industry considers underhanded tactics a good thing. Facebook has been exploiting users' phonebooks from Day 1, it's not new. It's just that the industry bent towards facebook-like rather than the reverse
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by jdrc 5y ago
You have probably not experienced i18n of american websites
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Told you. Remote work is a trap you can't escape from so learn to live with it
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by jdrc 5y ago
We didn't pay he did not expect support. The advertisers did

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