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by lloydde 8y ago
> Suburbs, much reviled here, are the answer to all of the density problems that people are complaining about. urban sprawl? What does that commute time look like, particularly for the poor?
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by lloydde 8y ago
Brought to mind “Over 400 Startups Are Trying to Become the Next Warby Parker. Inside the Wild Race to Overthrow Every Consumer Category” https://www.inc.com/magazine/201805/tom-foster/direct-consum... and th
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by lloydde 8y ago
Semi-related, I really enjoyed the discussion and resources shared about a month ago in the https://www.dungeonstome.com/ HN comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17704557
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by lloydde 8y ago
Thank you! Google Earth / Maps’ Argleton came to mind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argleton
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Slavery still exists in the USA today with mass incarceration. The 13th Amendment, as enacted, reads “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
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by lloydde 8y ago
“adversely addictive behaviours” has a legal definition?
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by lloydde 8y ago
The article [1] seems to provide data that disagrees, that the affected escalators have higher failure rates. What do you think is the motivation for these experts providing incorrect information? 1. https://www.sfchronicle.com&
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“When work crews pulled open a broken BART escalator at San Francisco's Civic Center Station last month, they found so much human excrement in its works they had to call a hazardous-materials team.“ (July, 2012) https://m.sf
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by lloydde 8y ago
“Computer Teacher With No Computers Chalks Up Clever Classroom Plan” is still blowing my mind months later. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/03/01/5895194... > For Hottish, who spen
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by lloydde 8y ago
> In total, more than 290,000 accounts followed at least one of these Pages, the earliest of which was created in March 2017. The latest was created in May 2018.
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https://angel.co had (peace-emoji).com for years.
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> In countries like India ... I thought India was pretty unique for its culture that values so highly engineering and as a result has the highest rates of engineering graduates. When you say other countries like India, which countries
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by lloydde 8y ago
Even some small companies (100+ employee) carefully track attribution of their top N% of non-VP employees and tie it into executive bonus.
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by lloydde 8y ago
> Turns out there aren’t a lot of email clients for Linux users that work with Exchange / Office 365 Has Linux on the desktop really fallen so far in the last years? When did the decay really set in? How does open source friendly Mi
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by lloydde 8y ago
Oh, wow, I thought it was excellent, dark humor. As well as the other advice to use an office app like Microsoft Word to get basic English spelling and grammar, consider first serving a smaller audience well in one of your team’s native lan
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by lloydde 8y ago
Even if you don’t discount, do you agree that his FB investment is different from his angel investments?
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by lloydde 8y ago
This is at least as great satire! Google rank not having spam — good one! My favorite though is your one two punch: > Why is the company setup in the USA? https://peertal.com/#/faq And > Peertal is developed by a
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by lloydde 8y ago
> He also invested early in FB, Snapchat, and Uber. Sources? I suspect origin will be himself. What does it mean to invest early in Facebook? FB completed its last traditional round in 2006. Personally, I’m a fan of GV, but it’s weird wh
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by lloydde 8y ago
Looks to requires signing CLA to participate, though email was the other option. Ex https://github.com/Microsoft/join-dev-design/pull/40
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I find a good site like every few years, but they always disappear. My guess is there is more (some) money in B2B.
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by lloydde 8y ago
arstechnica.com article "IBM sues Groupon over 1990s patents related to Prodigy" [1] from March, 2016 includes some more details and links to 4 patents: - US5796967 Method for presenting applications in an interactive service htt
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by lloydde 8y ago
I choked on my coffee when I read "Lord is a data scientist who works on developing AI for SAP—a data-processing company in Colorado." SAP as in the 90k employee German-based European multinational software corporation?!
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What Chrome also did far better than everyone else was a user local install, ie an install that didn’t require admin on the PC. Shadow IT installs was a huge advantage over Firefox in Chrome’s first years.
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Very cool! Your comment led me to be interested in finding out a little more about the history. I just enjoyed reading "WordStar of Rob Barnaby and Seymour Rubenstein" https://history-computer.com/ModernComputer&#x
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I think they forgot to tell the PC kids. I seem to recall years of Unix/Linux installs prompting (tempting) me not to use UTC. I also seem to remember dual booting and Windows and Linux doing a time tug of war with some OS preferring t
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by lloydde 8y ago
It’s poor, confused PR all the way down. The linked origin article is also glorious, http://www.doncio.navy.mil/CHIPS/ArticleDetails.aspx?ID=1021... with classics like “ubiquity of micro web services in the commercial
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Maybe that is it! This is propaganda to have the enemy work on DTDs and XML transformations.
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Why convolute the data format and software architecture? The 18 month to 24 hour is gross. That is a lot of words for little real information. I can’t figure out the target audience. My favorite line was “XML is a leading open standard for
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by lloydde 8y ago
Google Express currently has no membership fee. The minimums are different per store, around $25. What keeps Amazon my default is with almost every Express order I have some item cancelled by to store. (And the excessive taping and packagin
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Although seldom mentioned, I hope Joseph Campbell’s work is familiar to many members of this community, because of his influence on George Lucas, Star Wars, and most fantasy and speculative fiction.

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