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by kemiller 9y ago
This was the line in the 80s about japan. Didn’t actually work out like that. Edit: typo
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by kemiller 9y ago
The only outlet I trust is the Economist, even though I don’t always 100% agree with their editorial stance, for the simple reason that when they report on things I know about they DO get it right, but simplified in a reasonable way. I thi
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by kemiller 9y ago
Should we deny treatment to, say, skydivers or skateboarders? Race drivers?
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It appears to avoid putting actuators in sensitive areas.
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Would you rather have rent control, or just lower rents overall? For the sake of argument. Because that's the thesis: rent control is partially responsible for the out of control rents.
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by kemiller 9y ago
Yes, this, exactly. And I suspect that this is partially behind its persistence in the face of evidence it doesn't work.
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You could argue that the Supreme Court has the ability to strike laws down but not create them, though in a very limited way.
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by kemiller 9y ago
There was a floating house for a floodplain on the Thames river featured on Grand Designs: https://www.dezeen.com/2016/01/20/baca-architects-bouyant-am...
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by kemiller 9y ago
I guess what I mean is that the presence of smartphones still stands out for me, and the absence looks normal.
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by kemiller 9y ago
Is it a sign of age that it doesn’t look that dated to me?
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My understanding is that he personally learned a ton about rocket science and actively contributed to the design, as well as providing business context, which is itself no mean feat.
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I'm assuming you mean user-replaceable, since as others have pointed out, it is replaceable by a technician. And the answer is: it would compromise too many other areas of functionality. User-replaceable batteries would mean both int
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Video Conferences Don't Have to Suck(shift.infinite.red)
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I can personally testify that the issues were not fake. It was awful. Maybe it was 1:1000 I don’t know but it totally happened.
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That is true. But that way lies totalitarianism.
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Solutions which require universal virtue are usually doomed.
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Yeah, this. I would totally pay for a high-nitrate, classical-only streaming service that would let you do as you describe, and also things like shuffle by groups, and foreign-language-aware voice search. All the available services are ne
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by kemiller 9y ago
The French were primary architects of the EU. It's a bit rich to complain now that Ireland and Apple are taking advantage of its rules.
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Top gear was originally a music program? That’s unexpected.
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Because energy is routinely priced by the watt-hour.
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by kemiller 9y ago
Depends what you mean by dead-end. If you want to remain a pure individual contributor, there will be an asymptotic decline in your wage increases because, to be honest, there are diminishing returns when it comes to coding. You may be am
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by kemiller 9y ago
If those TCO numbers pan out they won’t have much choice. They’ll be undercut by the competition.
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by kemiller 9y ago
I think it’s anticipating the exact opposite response. Seems like that’s a reasonable defensiveness given our history with attitudes on drugs.
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by kemiller 9y ago
Even if he is, the AMT is a pretty spectacularly unfair tax that hits a lot of people it wasn’t meant to.
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by kemiller 9y ago
I can only speak as a manager who a) has a tech background, and b) deliberately founded a remote-only company, but it's really not that bad. With a good video provider (we use zoom) we barely even notice any friction. If you commit and
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by kemiller 9y ago
I got mine back fairly quickly, for what it's worth.
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by kemiller 9y ago
Well, let's say, everyone should have equal access to the decision makers. So, all of senior management, but in practice that tends to mean everyone.
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by kemiller 9y ago
Remote work works best when everyone does it in the organization. Most of these kinds of complaints come from the fact that a mixed org will tend to treat remote workers as second class citizens, even with the best intentions.
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by kemiller 9y ago
Right, so the youtubers were just sort of teaser reviews. I do think it's disdainful, and slightly obnoxious/elitist, but I don't read it as personal bitterness.
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by kemiller 9y ago
I don't get the impression that he was denied a review unit, just that his embargo clears later. The Youtubers don't seem even to have been given a unit at all — just access to them in Apple facilities.

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