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by josho 7y ago
Globalization isn’t necessarily the problem. It’s the rules surrounding trade that perpetuates the problem you outlined. In some alternate universe we could have free trade laws that enshrined environmental, labor, and other protections int
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by josho 7y ago
> if you are buying food with the money you have to do that anyway I assume when purchasing the foodbank can standardize and become much more effective. E.g. A family of 4 gets package type A, a family with a newborn gets package B, etc.
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by josho 7y ago
I am a safari user and don’t keep _that_ many tabs. I experienced tab reloading, which I didn’t mind. But even after a week of use I found I benefitted from rebooting to clear out memory.
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by josho 7y ago
Not sure of the Air specs, but I generally recommend paying for 16gb of memory. I found google docs and other web apps quickly consumed my 8gb memory. But, if you don't mind closing tabs and being mindful of running programs you can ge
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by josho 7y ago
The Touch Bar was what finally pushed me over the edge to remap caps lock to escape. I'm shocked at how much I enjoy ESC being close to the home row (I'm not even a big vim user). For this change alone I am glad to have the Touch
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by josho 7y ago
I no longer watch debates because I've realized that the broadcasters prefer the format you mentioned. They prefer it because it's more entertaining and that drives ratings which drives revenue. The media conglomerates are not int
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Apple iCloud Experiencing Issues(apple.com)
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by josho 7y ago
Yes. And there is no supply and no demand. I don’t see how you bring back either unless you are willing to support tariffs.
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by josho 7y ago
Apple previously (years ago) spoke about the importance of the supply chain, not price as the reason to mfg in China. Steve Jobs gave an example that if you needed to change the design to use a different type of screw then you'd have s
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by josho 7y ago
I had hoped this was a howto for building an LTE booster. I know the spectrum isn’t licensed for us, but wouldn’t it be great if someone figures out how to build a booster for those of us with a weak signal.
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by josho 7y ago
> Sadly, it's all about price. It’s about price because consumers can’t measure by anything else. Eg. I can’t tell which of two products is manufactured to higher standards, nor which one isn’t infested with formaldehyde. Until cons
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by josho 7y ago
The reason why consumers are unwilling to pay for service is because VCs have funded companies ability to give away tremendous value to achieve fast growth. Because of this consumers now have an expectation for free. Previously when softwar
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by josho 7y ago
“the rate of increase is accelerating”. I was under the impression that we were reducing emissions. It’s terrifying that the progress combating climate change is nothing more than lip service.
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by josho 7y ago
I have an Apple Thunderbolt Display and a generic 4k. The Apple display powers on instantly, the speakers are fantastic, it functions as a dock, and I can control brightness from the keyboard. The generic 4k display has none of those benefi
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by josho 7y ago
Read Steve Blank’s blog. He has several articles outlining how Silicon Valley started, why it continues, and why it isn’t easily replicated elsewhere.
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by josho 7y ago
> If you try and map tasks to strategic goal then you just up window-dressing everything If you don't understand how your daily work is related to management's priorities then probability is high that you are going to do a lot
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by josho 7y ago
> Do you really want to trust this step to a rocket that has to be assembled and fueled in space? Yes. Isn’t that the next logical step to developing space—the ability to build structures in orbit? That aside I wouldn’t object to buildin
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by josho 7y ago
> When we modeled that to the earth, it predicted much higher temperatures than we have. Source? I did find one a year or so ago (from a site like 'skeptical science' or similar name), but when I dug into it the author cherry p
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by josho 7y ago
The book is Storms of My Grandchildren, I mis-remembered the title. It's written by James Hansen a NASA scientist. So, don't dismiss it as mass market rubbish. The book does address each and every point that you've made in th
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by josho 7y ago
Your comment seems completely rational but ignores that we have science refuting your opinion. Not only that, the research on this comes from different branches of science that all converge on the same conclusions. I suggest you do a little
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by josho 7y ago
Meanwhile I’ve worked at places with poor management that treats question marks like that as a one off problem. Teams scramble to fix that instance of the problem then return back to the way things were done before.
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by josho 7y ago
> They should require amazon to randomly sample. If governments cared about safety they would do the sampling and fine companies a meaningful percent of profit. That would fix these problems once and for all. Unfortunately we’ve elected
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by josho 7y ago
> of course they do. They are in business to make money, after all. Companies can fulfill their obligations without resorting to trickery. They clearly aren't meeting the spirit of their obligation/commitment and therefore shou
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by josho 7y ago
If you are waiting at your desk for a reply and are truly blocked have you considered getting out of your desk to ask in person or similarly phoning them? If you truly aren’t blocked then what’s the problem waiting a few hours?
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by josho 8y ago
> spend 30 minutes of research and get a superior product cheaper. I'll humor you. dell.com * Choose between home or work → I'll go with work since it's for development * Choose between Latitude, Vostro, Inspiron, Precisio
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by josho 8y ago
While I agree, in our current political climate it’s not going to happen. In the interim I would be willing to settle on significant punitive damages. Eg. Make getting caught very expensive and those corporate nudges will start nudging in t
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by josho 8y ago
> The incentives aren’t aligned properly Then explain the success of schools outside of the US that have similar government based funding?
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by josho 8y ago
My manual has a hill assist feature, that while you let go of the brake to engage the clutch the brake keeps its hold for a moment to stop from rolling backwards. Problem solved.
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by josho 8y ago
It’s the right thing because airbnb distorts house prices (among other factors too). In some cases pricing locals out of the market in place of tourists. Which is why those rules are often in place.
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by josho 8y ago
> find a butcher you trust, or grind your own. Or you could not allow meat scraps to be called ground beef and trust all ground beef that you buy. For context this meat wasn’t waste it was used for other products. But by allowing it to b

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