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by kixiQu 5y ago
You are "disheartened" by not having it explicitly stated that there are no twins named "Cody" and "Jody" working for Facebook Labs saying things like "So basically imagine one day being able to buy Kick
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I grew up in a "manufactured home" and have been shocked by the ambient draftiness in every site-built house I've inhabited since. Similarly rated materials end up with nowhere near as tightly sealed an end result. Now I&#x27
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by kixiQu 5y ago
If you sit someone who doesn't know How Links Work in front of some text with an inline hyperlink in it, then try to get them to copy it over to another place, you end up wanting to get to this default pretty quickly. "Right click
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Citation?
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I'm >90% sure that was a joke. In the same way that kickscondor.com was not actually seized by the FBI for Kicks Condor being stolen IP from a National Treasure sequel.
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"except to nerds" was conversationally phrased shorthand for "except to people with rarefied technical skills".
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The effective ICs that are that high level get involved in the whole doc process earlier than The Final Review anyway; people are collaborative about those before The Official Meeting, and asking to take a pass at the doc before The Review
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Fun story, though: Up until internship money allowed me to replace it (with another chromebook!) for my senior year, the chromebook I was using would crash if I had more than ~5 tabs open. Good times!
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I got through my BS in CS without more than crouton. It was good that it forced me to * be judicious and focussed with my lab time when I needed to use an IDE for Java or such, and * get real comfortable with SSHing to the school's ser
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by kixiQu 5y ago
When talking about the concept of monopoly, it's quite relevant which part is under discussion. For example, a lot of video content I consume is from Instagram or TikTok. This stuff is real and it counts. Creators there often have litt
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by kixiQu 5y ago
To all: please consider reading the Gemini faq [1] before chiming in with impressions of the project. You definitely don't have to agree with the rationales, but the discussion is impoverished without understanding their angle on those
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I remember hearing lynne rossetto kasper interviewing the host of america's test kitchen one time, and him just being extremely aggressive about the idea that he was here to come and Objectively Improve on the way your grandmother used
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Is that E2E, though? I'm not Kafka-knowledgeable, but that sounds like it's encrypted as it gets to your servers and encrypted as it rests on them -- not encrypted all the way between people sending messages.
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by kixiQu 5y ago
That's not video hosting that's monopolyish, then, that's English-speaking-audience video discovery , which is a quite different proposition.
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perhaps one argument against this is that a clear, well scoped, and evidence-supported narrative document like this seems to not have been read by a healthy third of the commenters. I'm not being glib: the painfully low information den
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Well, my country is the US, and I am speaking from experience. I'm definitely not saying it's a good thing. It's just important to acknowledge that "the college experience" of elites and the elite-adjacent doesn&#x2
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This is really tricky because of course if I point to my non technical friends and family who use my Matrix instance, it's possible to say well that's just because they want to talk to the technical people on there, except that&#x
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This piece to me seems to suffer from not having a clear audience. A non-technical audience isn't adequately invited to care about the topic, and a technical audience isn't offered evidence for many of the broad assertions made.
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I dunno, that just means it's a pain for the user , not for Twitter
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I mean, there's a real investment in prep that most people seem to agree is necessary, so it's expensive to test.
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To be clear, I don't think it's the case that christine.website has any advertising whatsoever (or even meaningful JS?) but I think your diagnosis is correct more broadly.
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Fun anecdata from my own life: I grew up under varying amounts of poverty and now I make Big TechCo money. As I have gotten a lot better about shedding a certain kind of survival-hoarding-mindset "I don't need to keep <this ha
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Because it's the kind of thing high-salary workers do often without even considering it stealing. The headphones are used. If someone has a bougie enough job, they probably expect not to be assigned used headphones, and they don't
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by kixiQu 5y ago
Why do you think it's negative? It isn't a piece diagnosing the roots of inequality, and it doesn't pretend to be. It isn't a piece about "how I got here", and it shouldn't have to be. It's a piece ab
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Not all of us went to schools that have "much wealthier people" attending, of course.
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I think you have to detach to get value out of it -- not "what's the reason this person is like this" but "what are three different mechanisms by which a person might become like this". A bit like how a history stud
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by kixiQu 5y ago
I really liked this piece and I'm quite curious how genre fiction's overall subsidy of traditional publishing houses factors into this. The answers to all these questions are very different for e.g. genre romance authors than for
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The value propositions creators bring to their markets are changing drastically. An artist whose content I follow across YouTube and Instagram is a vlogger and does a ton of design work outside of the scope of her more traditional "her
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"Fine jewelry" and "fashion jewelry" are the category names, typically.
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Same

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