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by mattrp 7y ago
Second this. Article sounds like hooey.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Such a cool story - I can’t imagine working with such constraints. Today if you need to add 20tb of storage, you add it. A few clicks, maybe a cup of coffee and you’re done.
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by mattrp 7y ago
1968 in North Carolina. I think it was a 360 but I can’t recall exactly. I remember as a kid visiting the office and the computer was housed in a fairly large room where several people worked - mostly women. In fact my mom would joke tha
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by mattrp 7y ago
I don’t think that was true everywhere — otherwise we wouldn’t have ended up with the latest modem and pc every few years so dad could support his code in the middle of the night.
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by mattrp 7y ago
My dad was recruited out of college to write code. Upon showing up for work, he was told they’d ordered the computer but it wouldn’t arrive for another six months. In the meantime, They’d arranged time on another computer (one of only two
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by mattrp 7y ago
I don’t think I said anything about physical proximity.
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by mattrp 7y ago
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/china-new-silk-road-e...
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by mattrp 7y ago
This has been long coming. At least 15 years ago I was at a global Cisco conference and I met the regional manager for emea and Northern Africa. His biggest hurdle was getting companies in his region to buy from a US vendor. In contrast,
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by mattrp 7y ago
>> If this continues I'll give it 10-20 years before there's a major decoupling even between the US and Europe. Read Robert Kaplan’s book on this topic of decoupling (Marco polos world). In many ways it’s already happening.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Well I just stayed in a hotel in Vegas and the air conditioner didn’t work. It was 2 am when I arrived due to late plane. The last thing I wanted to do was wait around for a repair guy or pack it all up and change rooms. At least with th
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by mattrp 7y ago
I don’t think I endorsed Airbnb as much as just tried to relate my experiences. In both cases I was traveling alone or sans kids and didn’t give either situation much thought. That said we’ve had many delightful experiences and have come
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by mattrp 7y ago
You use common sense - I have been a host of properties and I would say Airbnb does not go to any lengths to encourage you to misrepresent. In fact they do the opposite - with your listing you are building a contract so they encourage you
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by mattrp 7y ago
I would second this experience. We travel with our five kids and its sometimes impossible to find a hotel that can accommodate us. That said, I did experience a switcheroo in Chicago similar to the article. However that’s where the sim
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by mattrp 7y ago
>> It did seem somewhat reductionist to say the "elites" are banning free speech to control the narrative. Here’s a hypothetical to illustrate how this makes sense in my view: the incumbent is always going to control the li
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by mattrp 7y ago
I’m not saying that the current system is fair. What I am saying is that the minute you make a student athlete a professional then it’s a logical outcome that the value of their entire scholarship is taxable - did you consider that in your
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by mattrp 7y ago
No that’s not my argument at all. I’m saying the policy doesn’t help most student athletes - only those whose programs already benefit from large budgets. And really only the stars... you think Nike is going to pay some back bencher at a
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by mattrp 7y ago
Well as I stated, I agree that an outright ban on outside work isn’t fair. So I do agree with you that it’s a little ridiculous the way the system is currently set up. Also, I think the ncaa rulemaking concerns use of the athlete’s likenes
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by mattrp 7y ago
My dad was the same - he literally wrote software for a computer that hadn’t been built yet. That’s just such a foreign concept to me. But in his last years he was barely able to use a web browser despite the fact he spent nearly his enti
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by mattrp 7y ago
Thank you for not down voting me — but I’d love you just the same if you did. I find it difficult to rebut the argument you present with the following exception: in the US we have several hundred years of rigorous iteration in our legal s
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by mattrp 7y ago
Well this sort of underscores the problem with this approach — who exactly is an elite? What exactly is political? We can’t even agree yet we think Twitter is going to be better at it than us? If it were up to me, I would design the plat
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by mattrp 7y ago
Heh... I find it funny that this issue underscores just how difficult it is for humans to uniformly decide on ground truth... but oh sure, let’s turn everything over to AI... that’ll be awesome! (Sorry for the non sequitor)
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by mattrp 7y ago
If I could give all the upvotes I ever had, I would assign them to this post right here. It truly saddens me that this one comment represents the exception to this entire thread rather than the majority. Doesn’t it occur to anyone that Tw
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by mattrp 7y ago
So let’s create a policy that benefits maybe the top 200-300 athletes out of the tens of thousands competing at the collegiate level? Yeah that makes sense. They on scholarship are already getting what — $300k to a million in scholarship
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by mattrp 7y ago
And now we know the real reason for the quantum supremacy paper that wasn’t...
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by mattrp 7y ago
I’m surprised google can buy anything at this point and not foul up on anti trust... but I guess if there’s a non business they could buy this would be it. But one has to wonder how this played out because there rationale is about as terri
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by mattrp 7y ago
I started a company in 2008 where all the founders were remote. We didn’t force location on anyone but gradually we settled on three offices where gatherings took place and people who were local would check in. Eventually the company deve
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by mattrp 7y ago
That’s the distinction - we didn’t put her account under the family plan. I must truly be an edge case then!
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by mattrp 7y ago
Is she on the same iCloud login or her own?
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by mattrp 7y ago
exactly. Thank you sir! It’s a rough night out here in hacker land.
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by mattrp 7y ago
Upgrading to ios 13 and realizing they broke find my iPhone. It used to be I would log in to find my wife’s phone the half dozen times a day she’s forget where she put it. Now... I have to go to iCloud.com in a browser... another irony- h

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