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by lph 7y ago
Agreed! If Apple caves in to Chinese pressure on this, what else will they do? Does Xi Jinping's brutal authoritarian regime now effectively make decisions for Apple abroad, since they can always threaten to cut Apple out of the lucrat
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by lph 7y ago
I've never heard "microkitchen". Where I work, it's just a kitchen. A pretty big kitchen, actually, so prepending "micro" would feel strange. Are Google's microkitchens small?
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by lph 7y ago
It's unfortunate that this post links a bad CNBC summary, rather than the actual Amazon press release. There's a lot more to Amazon's announcement than just buying electric trucks: https://press.aboutamazon.com&#x2
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by lph 7y ago
Did Huawei not see what happened with the Amazon Fire Phone or Windows Phone? If you launch a phone with an anemic ecosystem, it will fail.
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by lph 7y ago
> ...getting exactly what the market could afford. "afford" is an odd word choice. As if to suggest that employers simply don't have any money by which they could have increased worker salaries. In this same period, averag
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by lph 7y ago
Part of the study claimed that in a month of diving exercises you can replicate this clarity of vision underwater in European (and presumably any) children. That should be easy to reproduce. The part about a speculated adaptation to better
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by lph 7y ago
Memories of a talk in grad school where we had a guest from Google (also an alum of the school) presenting. He had been with Google from early days and had a hand in their biggest products, including Gmail. It was a very good talk, and I d
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by lph 7y ago
> "...best course for everyone involved is to work soberly and in good faith..." Well, AG Barr is probably sober. I'll give him that.
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by lph 7y ago
This is the new "I installed Linux on my (calculator|washing machine|furby)", isn't it.
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by lph 7y ago
This area of Mississippi has been flooded for five months: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/aug/03/yazoo-backwa...
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by lph 7y ago
Their intended customers are probably tacticool bros who want to spiff up their LEO LARPing.
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by lph 7y ago
Beijing, Xi'an, Chengdu, and a handful of villages nearby them. Also some roadside farmer stalls in between. I'm sure the quality and variety vary, but the sample I saw was impressive.
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by lph 7y ago
One thing that's not mentioned is that the freshness and variety of produce available in China is fantastic. There's much less refrigeration and transportation, so there's a good chance the produce you buy at the local street
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by lph 7y ago
You don't see visible homelessness nearly as much as in US big cities. Chinese friends I've discussed this with attribute it to familial piety acting as a much stronger safety net; people will make big sacrifices to save their rel
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by lph 7y ago
So what are you doing about it? (I was once talking to a friend over beers, ranting about some politics I was unhappy about. And he asked me: So what are you doing about it? Of course, I wasn't doing anything besides complaining, and t
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by lph 7y ago
It's not just you. Gmail has become so slow to load for me that I wonder if they've deliberately sabotaged it on Firefox. Amazing how it's 2019 and web apps somehow seem to be less usable than they were ten years ago. I miss
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by lph 7y ago
We've been hearing this "both sides are equally bad" argument from Republican apologists for years, but by now there's a mountain of evidence that it's simply not true. Republican efforts to gut and silence science
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by lph 7y ago
Not one word in that press release about privacy safeguards. The benefits are real, but without safeguards it will be abused: police officers and, in this case, also power utility workers likely have full, unaudited access to this data. Tha
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by lph 7y ago
If Peter Thiel is so concerned about scientific progress, maybe he shouldn't spend so much time and money supporting a regime that's openly hostile to science. Just a thought.
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by lph 7y ago
Strongly disagree. Effective technical leadership is a rarer skill than pure technical chops, especially as one becomes more senior in an organization. And it’s much more than “PowerPoint skills”——it’s driving consensus and making good deci
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by lph 7y ago
Serious question: How can you possibly trust pirated software in 2019? How do you know it’s not riddled with rootkits and backdoors?
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by lph 7y ago
Your comment inspired me to install the iphone app. My kids (2 and 4) are going to looooove this. Thanks!
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by lph 7y ago
These private equity scams seem to revolve around borrowing money, transferring the debt to a separate legal entity that then declares bankruptcy, and pocketing the money. If that’s true, then it would seem that creditors (and AL taxpayers
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by lph 8y ago
Wow! Yesterday we learned about what happens when dead alligators are dropped to the sea floor of the abyssal plane (a giant isopod smorgasbord), and today we learn about cheese exposed to hip hop. The 2019 IgNobel competition is really he
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by lph 8y ago
They’re very publicly pivoting to /claiming/ to take privacy seriously. I don’t know why anyone would believe them, given their track record, continued willful ignorance about the actual definition of privacy, and vested interest
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by lph 8y ago
Platforms can censor content however they like. Amazon isn’t a government entity and has no responsibility to provide a platform for free speech. Why would they?
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by lph 8y ago
So, to recap, bribing individuals is bad, but bribing the school is fine. Got it.
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by lph 8y ago
I used to work in the aerospace industry. The engineers had spreadsheets that consisted of three visual elements: Cells for the input and output filenames, and a "Run" button. It had once been company policy that engineers didn&#
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by lph 8y ago
Because property values have skyrocketed in big cities. Of course, that's no guarantee that they'll continue to rise, but, this history looms large in media and culture. Everybody knows somebody who became rich this way: "My
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by lph 8y ago
There are a few more factors that are unique to China's situation: - New construction condos are a better investment proposition than in the West because (1) there's no property tax, and (2) other types of investments are less rel

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