metaphorm

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by metaphorm 9y ago
its more than just that though. it's a legit safety issue. the switches are old and have been breaking down at spectacular rates. if a switch breaks when trains on the line are too close too each other there is a much higher chance for
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by metaphorm 9y ago
having interviewed at Blue Apron, I can confirm that they very much view themselves as a tech company even though they are not really in the tech business space. The level of Google envy I saw at what is essentially an e-commerce grocery st
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I think it means that podcast advertising is an effective means of raising product awareness but the product itself needs to have value and staying power or else it won't result in a sustainable business model.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
the UX changes weren't the real problem, though they exacerbated the real problem. the real problem was a dramatic change in the content promotion algorithm that de facto transformed the front page of the site (which was much less cuzt
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by metaphorm 9y ago
when pumped out of the ground and put into the holding tank of a giant ocean-going ship it sure is. but I was referring to hereditary mineral rights, which is really more about political power and the (very expensive) maintenance of an oppr
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by metaphorm 9y ago
asset liquidity matters though, right? amazon or msft stock are highly liquid. stolen renaissance paintings, giant palaces in the middle of a desert wasteland, and hereditary claims to mineral rights are not very liquid assets.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I respectfully disagree that you can tell whether or not a person is "capable of stretching himself" or not based on length of stay at a job. There is an overwhelming amount of outside factors that can dominate those decisions muc
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by metaphorm 9y ago
The plan was always to be Keurig while telling people they were Apple. It didn't work.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
NFC has an effective range of about 20cm, bluetooth (and wifi) up to about 50m. these have completely different use cases, and if you're limiting yourself to 20cm range for a semi-permanent fixture (like speakers) you might as well run
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I'd love to see an analysis that finds a good way to try and discover inappropriate prescriptions. Doctors deserve some benefit-of-the-doubt for this stuff because these are legal medications that treat common symptoms. What is the mos
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by metaphorm 9y ago
are you single? people with families don't typically have enough time to do what you're doing.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I don't want to get into a back and forth with you on this topic so I will politely decline your request. I just wanted to say that it seems to me like you are speaking about broad generalizations and that is not the same thing as spea
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by metaphorm 9y ago
in a criminal trial the most common form would be an alibi, which is proof that the accused was somewhere else and not in the place the crime occurred at the time the crime occurred.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
do you honestly believe that there aren't difficult and often unrealistic social pressures put on men?
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by metaphorm 9y ago
The Susan Fowler article greatly accelerated this process and drew a huge amount of (deserved) media attention. However, Uber has a long history of bad behavior in many different ways. The internal culture being rotten was known-about-but-n
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by metaphorm 9y ago
> seems for the most part overly satisfied with trivia questions and whiteboard problems. I agree and it is puzzling to me as well. My own CompSci degree as ABET accredited and I did two years worth of internships before working full ti
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by metaphorm 9y ago
on the other hand doctors are credentialed and software developers aren't. you don't get invited to interview for a position as a doctor unless you have your medical school degree, and all of the associated training that goes with
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I interpret Musk's interest in this kind of thing as a form of ideological futurism rather than a pragmatic goal. I think he presents the idea of something very far out and very ambitious as a way to try and inspire people to think big
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by metaphorm 9y ago
*Morlocks [0] 0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morlock
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by metaphorm 9y ago
would add to that, perhaps, "and for foreigners". Tobacco sales in developing countries are huge. China alone keeps them in so much profit that almost don't care what happens in America.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
"tough on crime" is an election campaign strategy more than anything else.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
incredibly common theme in many pre-Christian myth systems. the good/evil dualism in Christianity is the real aberration, despite its prominence. one of the more credible hypotheses I've encountered about this phenomenon is that e
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by metaphorm 9y ago
ah, don't sweat it dude. you're not a huge failure. you've already done much more than most people have attempted at your age and the real truth is that most companies go out of business. as long as you treated people fairly
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by metaphorm 9y ago
yes, you can. a psychedelic trip will be different every time but you can very definitely control your mindset and physical setting to make sure your experience is safe and you are free to explore whatever experience comes to you on your ow
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I'm partial to Chomsky's analysis of the news media as an institution of propaganda. this video is a good summary of his position https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYlyb1Bx9Ic
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by metaphorm 9y ago
was 4chan ever "liberal" in the sense that the term is used in American politics? that doesn't vibe with my impression of the community there. It's always had a lot of libertarian undercurrents but was really just disaff
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by metaphorm 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tvp97SMZc6M that's the Hicks' bit. similar in tone and content.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFCMhSzeGuA this is the bit, I think.
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by metaphorm 9y ago
I've had people get into hair spitting arguments with me over whether or not the clearly manipulative and distorted news reporting style in mainstream publications (NYTimes is a good example) ought to count as fake news. Personally I d
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by metaphorm 9y ago
> And if any CEO should be burned at a stake, shouldn't it be that guy that refused to sell Yahoo for 47 billion to Microsoft? That was Jerry Yang, a co-founder of Yahoo. And yes, he was "burned at the stake". He was fired

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