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by jordanpg 7y ago
I hear you, but I remain skeptical about any sort of significant uptick in adoption of, not of e-reading in general, but of these particular books . You mention a friend who read chose to read "Madame Bovary" and "Anna Karen
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Am I the only one that's skeptical of the claim that "300,000 people are reading books this way"? That there are 300k people who are now suddenly "reading" books that have been available in a huge variety of forma
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by jordanpg 7y ago
> It's not a great look that those guys can't make any money in their college career. Especially since someone else with none of the talent and assuming none of the risk, is making wheelbarrows full of money.
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The problem with this is that one of the best way to learn real lessons that stick in this line of work is to do it the hard way first. Being told you’re doing it the hard way and never learning firsthand why is no kind of lesson. These XY
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I choose to define "unsolicited attempts to take my attention away from things I care about" as harm. I am happy to be sold things, on my own terms. I don't need ads to find out about things to buy.
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Music to my ears. It is always breathtaking to see the number of people who cling to the religion of ad-supported content as _the only way forward_. Bad UX as a business model? It can't go away soon enough.
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Right now, there's teams of people at companies like Spotify and Stitcher, frantic in front of whiteboards, trying to plan a future for podcasts wherein it will be harder/impossible to skip the ads. First, they have to control the
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Algorithms Should’ve Made Courts More Fair. What Went Wrong?(wired.com)
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That was my first thought too -- it seems profound, although it's difficult to articulate why. It's not like high-profile individuals have special security protocols available to them. Just the same password/2FA like the re
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What if it's the case that advertising (placing unwanted audio/visual solicitations in front of people) as a business model just goes away completely? And businesses have to instead find other ways to get people to buy their stuf
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What else is the data being sold for besides advertising?
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And all in the service of vacuuming up tiny fractions of pennies in advertising revenue. What a silly, fragile business model whose days are numbered. It's amazing to consider how much revenue has been generated, predicated on complete
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Let us hope that we are entering the last chapter in the life of the absurd ad-based business model that the internet has been built upon thus far. It makes me giddy to consider how much the quality of the internet will improve when the bot
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by jordanpg 7y ago
TL;DR or BLUF line should be mandatory. Full stop.
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They are competing in the free market. Users are free to not use their software and there are many other choices. You seem to be objecting to the manner in which they compete.
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This embarrassing early era of an internet built on the ludicrous house of cards of advertising can't come to an end soon enough. I look forward to reading in the history books about how some of the world's greatest minds spent th
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More like 50-10000 years.
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Fashion, expensive clothes, makeup, hairstyles: all of it feels like the last gasp of a historical precedent that is, ultimately, shallow and meaningless. In the same way that sports is meaningless. Mostly harmless, totally meaningless.
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by jordanpg 7y ago
https://support.1password.com/export/ > Comma Delimited Text (.csv) to move data to a different app.
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As an FYI, how difficult is it to migrate from 1Password to something else? Is this even possible without manual steps?
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Could it be the case that contemporary governments and economies are just simply not structured to be forward thinking in this way? What if, in analogy to the transition out of feudalism, the next evolution of government and economies is on
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by jordanpg 7y ago
The worst thing about this is that I'm _so completely uninterested_ in SO's stupid social/team/hiring product that will supposedly forever revolutionize the tech world. I'm sure there are little teams of product man
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As with most American enterprises, they must continue to grow -- indefinitely. They cannot be content to exist statically, even with whatever profit margins they currently have (if any). I'm no economist, but this precept is obvious n
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The same line of thinking applies to programming, of course. In practice, however, the life of a programmer is usually split up into too many tiny async slices by email, chat, meetings, etc. to even attempt to enumerate here. It's so
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by jordanpg 7y ago
My main objection to this sort of thing is the logistical overhead of living with it and dealing with the eventual returns. You have to keep track, mentally or otherwise, of what's rented and what's not. You will treat the rented
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Deep work is to focus as enlightenment is to meditation. It's an asymptotic, unattainable state to strive for. You can be sure that if anyone is (humble) bragging about attaining it that they have not.
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https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/7afc686e-640b-4fb0-b902-666baad...
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Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs See also: https://www.amazon.com/Bullshit-Jobs-Theory-David-Graeber/dp...
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This made me think of time in science fiction, eg. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interste... . On a long enough horizon, I take it as a foregone conclusion that simple metric measurements will beco
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by jordanpg 7y ago
Science, and especially certain scientific conclusions have very obviously become politicized. Yes, that's unfortunate but it is the state of affairs. Perhaps the problem is that scientists themselves are increasingly having to fight

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