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by josho 4y ago
A push is potentially a better experience. You could long press the push notification and the app could increase its bid by 10%. You can't do things like that through email. To your point, maybe we should innovate on email and add thes
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by josho 4y ago
Pharma would market a phase 2 trial drug as a “potential revolution in treatment. Only a select few can receive this treatment and as a result it costs 10x more than existing drugs. Ps. We don’t guarantee results.” Is that really the outcom
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by josho 4y ago
> illegal monopoly It's not illegal to have a monopoly, so I'm curious to learn what makes their monopoly illegal?
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by josho 4y ago
Translation: AI has the potential to transform society. When we release this model to the public it will be used in ways we haven’t anticipated. We know the model has bias and we need more time to consider releasing this to the public out o
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by josho 4y ago
What due diligence occurs when buying a public company? We already have access to the company’s financial filings.
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by josho 4y ago
Be careful with that workflow. If you ever share the modified PDF that rectangle likely hasn't redacted anything. On a digital PDF the underlying text is still accessible, and even if the PDF was a scan, the original image likely hasn&
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by josho 4y ago
I encourage candidates submitting something like this ask the hiring manager what will the process be. Questions like: - Will feedback be provided on the submitted application? - What does that feedback look like, are you spending 60 minute
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by josho 4y ago
I know we are getting off track here somewhat. But it's group A wants this data to better understand society in order to save lives, while every other group want this data to increase their profits. To your point, yes we shouldn't
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by josho 5y ago
They do. On Windows it's msi, and Mac it's pkg. But, for whatever reason folks have preferred to build their own package solution instead of learning the OS native approach. I'm guessing because building your own makes for an
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by josho 5y ago
Or double click on the window to perform the original Mac Zoom function.
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by josho 5y ago
If you have a good realtor they will confirm the competing offer exists. Eg. my realtor called up the selling realtor and asked for the name of the realtor that submitted a competing offer. My realtor called the competing realtor to confirm
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by josho 5y ago
That's solved by adjusting the scroll starting position so that the first element is partially offscreen. It may initially look jarring, like the designer made a mistake but it provides a nice visual affordance that you can scroll and
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by josho 5y ago
I encourage you to go watch a novice computer user. After seeing them struggle I suspect you'll change your mind. I personally view the hamburger menu similar to my junk drawer at home. It's where the designer stuffs crap that isn
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by josho 5y ago
The author is close to an epiphany, but I feel doesn't quite reach it. Yes, the last few years has seen iOS design trends to learn towards sterile apps where there is little uniqueness across apps. This is good for novice users, the co
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by josho 5y ago
To your point any efficiency gained by a newer model is lost by the increased replacement cost and energy to produce a new unit every 7-10 years.
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by josho 5y ago
Really great points. It also manifests in other strange ways that I'd summarize as killing our culture. Think of nursery songs as an example. Recall Little Miss Muffet sitting on a tuffet eating her curds and whey. I mean what is a tuf
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by josho 5y ago
Seeing as the default font used by google's file reader is Roboto and that typeface has only been around since 2014, so my expression of 0 using Roboto is copyrighted 2014. I do not know how any of you _hackers_ stole my original work,
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by josho 5y ago
I think they made sense in a world filled with paper magazines. You could quickly pickup a magazine flip through pages and see if anything caught your eye, if so then you buy the magazine. On the internet it only makes sense if people scrol
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by josho 5y ago
Yes, but unless that error is used frequently for other situations then it now becomes an obvious signal to spammers that their message has been flagged as spam.
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by josho 5y ago
It's taken us something like 30 years to start seeing wide IPv6 adoption. Even then most a running dual stacks to still support IPv4. How long do you think it would take to have a secure email protocol running by most users? It could p
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by josho 5y ago
The problem is by the time the message is deemed to be spam it's too late to reject the mail. Ie. The first step verifies the from/to addresses, then the message body is sent. So, if the message body is clearly spam and you reject
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by josho 5y ago
I think Sonos proves my point. My understanding is that their growth has stalled out. So, that's why they are shifting to patent licensing. And maybe to your point that's fair assuming their patents are truly innovative inventions
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by josho 5y ago
That’s all an invention really is. At least according to the patent office. Here’s another example. Wouldn’t it be neat if the tree control in your file browser could have an icon that represents more than 1 file. That idea may or may not h
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by josho 5y ago
Young companies typically aren’t aggressive on their patents because they are seeking growth. When their growth stalls out that’s when a shift to monetizing their patents occur. I’m starting to understand the capitalism is cancer arguments.
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by josho 5y ago
Controlling volume to a set of speakers via a remote is something we’ve been doing in the analog world for decades. So a general patent on volume control across speakers should be invalidated. It only becomes novel due to the details of the
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by josho 5y ago
I think 2 things are stopping apple from entering that market in earnest. 1. Privacy is a differentiator for Apple’s business. Google et al can’t compete and win on privacy. Apple can use this to win at recruiting and win at selling their e
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by josho 5y ago
Apple has good reasons to allow this. Inside a corporate network for example you may not want DNS queries going to Apple’s servers. So Apple has made it very easy for a network admin to disable private relay. All an admin needs to do is blo
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by josho 5y ago
Apple is also capturing DNS queries, so they minimally have that as a data point. Regardless, the more general concern that parent seems to make is what is to stop Apple in the future from monetizing this data? I think the only thing protec
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by josho 5y ago
The problem with nuclear is the long lead time to having a plant up. With delays you can expect a nuclear plant to be online in 15 years. According to Wikipedia The US has also shutdown a couple nuclear plants because they were cost ineffec
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by josho 5y ago
This exposes the weaknesses in our current system. From the article "Theranos provided data". Science is about reproducibility. Evidently the FDA isn't responsible for reproducing the science from companies and instead takes

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