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by mattzito 3y ago
I was just pointing out that the idea that one could go for “hours” without seeing a car is essentially impossible in Manhattan, even during Covid.
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by mattzito 3y ago
With all respect, “didn’t see a car for hours on a typically busy midtown avenue”, even during peak covid, is bananas if for no other reason than the ambulances were going almost constantly (ymmv based on where you live). But I distinctly r
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by mattzito 3y ago
“Misrepresenting reality” is an interesting phrase, considering the nature of what we are discussing - artificially generated imagery. It’s really hard to get these things right: if you don’t attempt to influence the model at all, the natur
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by mattzito 3y ago
Rent control ends when the apartment is vacated, so there’s nothing relevant for a broker with that.
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by mattzito 3y ago
I conceptually agree with some of the grievances discussed here, but I also object to the framing. It’s easy to point out 2x more college professors have been fired in recent years compared to the second red scare - but they neglect to poin
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by mattzito 3y ago
My guess is that it’s a customer support system that has a mode where non-support agents like account managers can in emergencies access a companies carta account. Imagine a scenario where a founder is freaking out because it seems like th
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by mattzito 3y ago
For years that was how delivery operated in NYC, and in fact, in NYC there was Seamless.com which was an aggregator, but deliveries were handled by the restaurant. That model was vastly preferable, as delivery people were familiar with the
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by mattzito 3y ago
Not exactly, but almost. Five years in and around midtown east, then 7 years in astoria, now 13 years in midtown east. Not the same apartment, obviously, but same enough that I pass by the same places that I was passing by back in 1998. I
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by mattzito 3y ago
Eh, I've lived here since 98, the biggest thing I've seen is the rise in shoplifting, that's definitely a dynamic that's different than it was in previous years, and that is no doubt driven by the ability to sell these g
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by mattzito 3y ago
It seems pretty reasonable to say, “if you want to send a push notification from an app, you should be the controller of the app”. The alternative would be that anyone could send notifications to an app, which seems destined for abuse. The
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by mattzito 3y ago
It’s a dramatic story - a high-flying ceo of one of the hottest tech companies is suddenly fired without explanation or warning. Everyone assumes it’s some sort of dodgy personal behavior, so information leaks that it wasn’t that, it was s
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by mattzito 3y ago
The information? Yes, they are highly focused on the tech industry and very diligent. They make most (all?) of their revenue on subscriptions, so that limits their incentives to make clickbait content.
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by mattzito 3y ago
In the same way "software engineer" can encompass a broad spectrum of actual job functions, "product manager" can be a highly catch-all term that varies by product, seniority, company, and even personality. In some compa
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by mattzito 3y ago
GCP is profitable and growing 27% YoY. It made more money than YouTube ads did in Q2 2023. In what world would it make sense to shut down GCP at this point? I think the "google shuts things down" trope is justified and something
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by mattzito 3y ago
Self-replying because I did think of something that is an annoyance, which is the lack of iMessage/Messages support on the chromebook. We have iphones, so we can still communicate with each other, but I get my messages on my mac lapto
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by mattzito 3y ago
I got my wife a chromebook a few years ago to replace her mbp that died unexpectedly right when she needed a laptop. I figured she would use it for a while and then we would get her a new Mac and hand-down the chromebook to one of the kids
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by mattzito 3y ago
Well, 5 miles down the road makes it not a food desert, so there we go. I suspect this is targeted more at urban areas - in NYC there are a ton of neighborhoods where the local grocery store options are limited to bodegas, most of which car
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by mattzito 3y ago
Since the franchisees are themselves independent businesses, wouldn’t this constitute collusion and price fixing? Something similar was raised around discussions about Uber drivers jointly negotiating rates with Uber.
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by mattzito 3y ago
Font/typeface licensing and IP is a nightmare. Typefaces cannot be copyrighted, but fonts can. As a practical matter, this means that representations of typefaces in rendered documents can be redistributed freely - but the font file
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by mattzito 3y ago
I'm not from the UK, so I don't have a deep understanding of the dynamics of politics there, but it seems like avoiding all situations where even the suggestion of impropriety is impractical for just about everybody who might be i
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by mattzito 3y ago
This feels like a nothingburger: - Infosys already had a $100m/year contract with BP - the new contract is 1.5b over 10 years, so a significant increase, but as part of the contract infosys becomes the primary IT partner for BP, theref
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by mattzito 3y ago
The article seems to hit that straight on: "The consequences of Measure 110’s shortcomings have fallen most heavily on Oregon’s drug users. In the two years after the law took effect, the number of annual overdoses in the state rose by
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by mattzito 3y ago
This seems to be the opposite of asylums - put people in temporary care, give them treatment beyond just sedation and anti-psychotics, help get them stabilized, put together a care plan, and then send them home or to the next stage of treat
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by mattzito 3y ago
Both - there is a labs team, and then it gets used as an umbrella term.
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by mattzito 3y ago
For whatever its worth, I worked near docs during that time, and that support note elides a lot of the launches that happened. The big focus during that time was on Office compatibility, and so there were a lot of investment in things that
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by mattzito 3y ago
So I was able to find an aggregate of the study results: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8294388/ out of an n of >3000 patients getting medication, 34 ended up having some form of pancreatitis
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by mattzito 3y ago
So - there is a solution for this already that is widely adopted and perfect for this use case: https://www.godaddy.com/engineering/2019/04/25/domain-connec... Domain connect allows providers to request
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by mattzito 4y ago
Android has it: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/26/google-play-launches-its-o...
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by mattzito 4y ago
Most VCs don’t keep a substantive amount of their dry powder on hand, just a percentage. When they need money they make a capital call to their LPs. (At least, that’s as I understand it from the VCs that I know it)
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by mattzito 4y ago
This your definition of on-topic? > I'm just recalling how many times women in my life said that to me in response to me daring to bring up any male-centered concerns. Things like Me Too witch hunts of men later proven to be innocen

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