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by kbos87 8y ago
They don’t need to say it. The way the headline reads and the story is architected is designed to hook readers by implying the worst.
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by kbos87 8y ago
I have a problem with the way NYT is reporting on this whole thing. The most egregious sounding parts of this (eg giving Spotify and Netflix the ability to read your messages) sounds like it was entirely tangential to what those agreements
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by kbos87 8y ago
My bank just launched an “online only” division which gives me savings at 2.65%, the option to attach checking, and no fees to speak of. The rate is a little lower but still pretty solid. The only caveat is I can’t access that account throu
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by kbos87 8y ago
I just moved to Asana because I’m joining a team that needs to manage tasks together. There are a lot of things that just seem nonsensical to me. Very little information exists at the project level - there’s no way to tag, sort, or filter t
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by kbos87 8y ago
Whenever I feel like my life is too driven by work and guilt driven by capitalism here in the US, a glance eastward is a great level setter.
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by kbos87 8y ago
Nobody is implying that you should feel guilty, it was just an observation.
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by kbos87 8y ago
Source please? I’ve never heard this.
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by kbos87 8y ago
Trip Advisor used to be an awesome resource with deep knowledge about things to do and attractions in almost every city. Over the past couple of years they made a hard pivot into driving bookings and its now a lot harder to find all of the
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by kbos87 8y ago
Even in rural areas, getting in a car usually means the end of where a dog can track someone.
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by kbos87 8y ago
This is the dozenth post of its type. The truth is that there isn’t some secret sauce when it comes to marketing and conversion. What makes an effective landing page is pretty well documented at this point.
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by kbos87 8y ago
I recently watched a family member go through this. A few things that were sobering to see: - Three weeks in she was buried in paperwork. One chemo treatment would turn into 4-5 invoices from different subcontractors at a single hospital, s
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by kbos87 8y ago
I’m sick of seeing the lazy argument that moves like this are in the best interests of consumers. Yeah, the prices may be a little lower and the buying experience a little easier right now. But those are tiny short term benefits relative to
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by kbos87 8y ago
Across lie detectors, forensic testing, and every similar discipline there should be frequent blind auditing by a neutral third party, and the results should be made available to the public.
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by kbos87 8y ago
The fact that they added a setting means nothing. Settings in Chrome seem to randomly (but maybe not randomly?) get rolled back from time to time. Are you going to check the setting every day?
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by kbos87 8y ago
I feel like there is a subtle pattern of attitudes and behavior that I pick up on from Atlassian. It’s almost as though they don’t get that they need to keep working to innovate and please their customers to stay relevant. Look at what happ
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by kbos87 8y ago
Wealthy narcissistic attention seekers should be subject to the law just like the rest of us.
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by kbos87 8y ago
“Apple believes privacy is a fundamental human right, which is why iOS has always been designed with built-in encryption, on-device intelligence, and other tools that let you share what you want on your terms.” It isn’t often that you see a
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by kbos87 8y ago
I get similar symptoms under two very specific circumstances - when sitting in a car being driven by someone else in the morning I easily end up horribly nauseous, and when lying in bed at night with a pillow that doesn’t elevate my head en
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by kbos87 8y ago
I don’t know about the rest of the nation but the natural gas infrastructure in Massachusetts is comically terrible. It isn’t unusual to be walking down the street in Boston (note: a separate utility than tonight’s incident) and to walk int
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by kbos87 8y ago
I am absolutely outraged about the way the current system treats and traps the poor. But we need to be clear that this isn’t a fix; it’s a further obfuscation of the problem. I have little doubt that said algorithms will continue to wrong t
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by kbos87 8y ago
So we are moving toward a world where one person gets out, while the other has to languish in prison for months or years awaiting trial because an algorithm said so. And the accused aren’t allowed to know what’s happening behind the scenes
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by kbos87 8y ago
Sorry, but America is a society that enshrines and holds intelligence so, so high. If you are "smart", you are afforded all sorts of privileges that everyone else misses out on. The intelligent don't need a sob story or a def
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by kbos87 8y ago
I have a relative sick with cancer right now and I’m seeing this first hand. Hearing stories like this you hope it’s a one off, but it’s absolutely the norm of how insurance companies operate. My aunt is still employed, fully insured, and e
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by kbos87 8y ago
My 8th grade science curriculum included a pretty detailed few weeks spent on wastewater that covered everything from septic systems to public sewers; we even took a field trip out to a massive processing plant and saw how it all works firs
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by kbos87 8y ago
The last item in this list is really disappointing and gives the rest of the article a lot less credibility, which is too bad. Most of these are good examples of things that users should be outraged about - they are deliberate decisions mad
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by kbos87 8y ago
I just assume every piece of software I touch is collecting egregious amounts of data, whether chrome forces them to disclose it or not.
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by kbos87 8y ago
“The Great Suspender” is a chrome extension that solves this very gracefully. I came across it, showed a couple coworkers, and it spread like wildfire inside my workplace, where everyone I work with spends their day split across dozens of c
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by kbos87 8y ago
Coming home from work yesterday I observed what is supposedly an identically designed boat on the Charles River in Boston. On flat water, the bow is maybe 2 feet from the water. I know nothing about maritime design but as a recreational boa
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by kbos87 8y ago
I worked at a pool as a lifeguard instructor throughout high school and college. The aquatics director used to try to explain this to people who would blame her for misbalanced chemicals when there was a strong chlorine smell. It would alwa
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by kbos87 8y ago
Amazon is enemy #1 of small business. It blows my mind that people don’t see this and are so quick to don a badge of how many items they order per week.

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