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by kbos87 4y ago
I’ve seen it occasionally too, but it’s usually a violation of a merchants’ agreement with Visa/MC, who don’t want consumers to be discouraged to pay with their product.
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by kbos87 4y ago
There should be some culpability and at the very least reputational damage for whoever decided to install such a system in the first place. I’m guessing it was the architect. The decision to layer in a system like this was clearly done with
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by kbos87 4y ago
Personal take - the way that the issue currently facing California always seems to be referred to as a “prolonged drought” undermines the seriousness of the situation. A drought sounds unfortunate, but normal and temporary. Isn’t the realit
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by kbos87 4y ago
I've had autopilot try to execute a lane change at the same time a driver two lanes over was trying to do the same thing into the same spot. It was one of those unavoidable situations, but Autopilot corrected quickly back to its origin
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by kbos87 4y ago
The difference between the two things being mountains of evidence about the risk one, and little reputable evidence about the risk of the other.
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by kbos87 4y ago
Care to share the perspective you have on the subject? Speaking with such conviction about something that can have so much real impact on the lives of others, I’d really hope you have some direct and first hand experience.
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by kbos87 4y ago
You could probably make the same argument that the obsession with trans issues by people who have no first hand experience and are completely unaffected by them is also some form of social contagion.
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by kbos87 4y ago
DJI has made a shocking amount of progress at making its drones quieter over the past few years. What used to sound like a loud swarm of bees 20 feet overhead is now almost imperceptible.
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by kbos87 4y ago
I don't know if it's that simple. If you deliberately search for the shadowbanned content, you are going to find it. The action being taken is to not serve it in algorithmically driven feeds to users who aren't necessarily lo
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by kbos87 4y ago
Same. Years ago I found that thanks to the gymnastics Facebook had done in notification settings, I could no longer stop many of the notifications I didn’t care about - so I shut them all off, FB Messenger and all. Since then I open Faceboo
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by kbos87 4y ago
It sure took a long time and a lot of words to state the obvious. What I’d actually find interesting is an exploration of the conditions that led Facebook to its current state of notification hell, unable to see the obvious errors of its ow
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by kbos87 4y ago
Yup. Search on TikTok is astonishingly good, especially relative to the quality of results on YouTube (acknowledgement to the irony there.) TikTok has the ability to surface hyper-recent, relevant content that covers a variety of viewpoints
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by kbos87 4y ago
I think you are getting at something important here - at the absolute least, LastPass really owes its users a lot more detail on how this happened and what they are doing to prevent it from happening again in the future. Every other bit of
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by kbos87 4y ago
You are right that they technically don’t check tickets but every now and then the MBTA police show up at a station and actually ask for proof of fare validation. I’ve seen people who are shocked when they are being yelled at and handed a s
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by kbos87 4y ago
When I paid for FSD, the language on the website was something to the effect of “exit to exit highway driving.” It has very reliably done that for me for ~20k miles. I do agree that the name and the hyperbole from Musk are problematic, but
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by kbos87 4y ago
Agree with your point but if the alternative is a vendor that leaves me with no way to get my questions answered, I think most people would gladly step through a phone tree to talk to a human being.
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by kbos87 4y ago
This whole notion seems to be based on a bunch of seemingly logical conclusions, but it’s also a very narrow view of the reality. Let’s just think for a minute about a single potentially confounding factor - every company has competitors. T
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by kbos87 4y ago
To be clear I think intent matters more than anything else, and I’m not an advocate for “banning” terms or shunning people for unknowingly using a term like this - but the history and what it implies is questionable to the point where it’s
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by kbos87 4y ago
This isn’t used in medical circles anymore but I’m shocked that it’s still acceptable to label something or someone as “hysterical”, which I believe implies erratic behavior that ties back to having a uterus.
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by kbos87 4y ago
I am technically held to a non-compete by my employer, but it honestly never crosses my mind. If push came to shove and I wanted to move on to somewhere they had a problem with, I feel like odds are tiny that they'd do anything close t
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by kbos87 4y ago
Security guards basically are just there to call police. The police are the only organization that is going to directly engage and try to intervene.
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by kbos87 4y ago
This is probably controversial, but from the perspective of a user, I’ve rarely seen a mobile-first web app (putting really simple use cases aside) that comes anywhere close to offering the seamless experience of a native app. Web apps can
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by kbos87 4y ago
How is there not a single mention of the potential of criminal liability on his part?
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by kbos87 4y ago
You aren’t wrong, but the two situations aren’t equivalent. The stakes are high when we are talking about a foreign government that isn’t shy about its desire to undermine the United States and its willingness to use everything at its dispo
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by kbos87 4y ago
Scott Galloway’s take on this is concise and unfortunately I think it’s right. In short, TikTok is a powerful tool of surveillance and influence in the US, and because you can’t decouple the motives of TikTok from the motives of the CCP, it
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Not wrong, but it all depends on how you look at it. It’s also progress that got us life-saving vaccines and medications within a year of a deadly pandemic emerging.
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I live right around the corner from here and pass this place daily. There was a lot of concern when this place was built in the heart of a major city and I understand the concern (though I’m guessing the risk a place like this poses is real
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by kbos87 4y ago
The argument that the file format is slowly becoming less supported May have some weight, but the idea that gifs are falling out of favor seems narrow. An equally lengthy treatise could be written about how gifs literally can’t be killed. T
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by kbos87 4y ago
This. Twitter and Reddit in 2022 are every bit as unregulated as Tumblr was in 2007, and I don't see any talk of major challenges or changes desired on their parts.
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by kbos87 4y ago
Product led growth is absolutely a valuable practice but it almost always is tightly coupled with a sales team for anything B2B and/or considered purchase.

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