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by mrgordon 6y ago
Yeah I’m not sure why people don’t get that walking past the climbing gym, a hundred varied restaurants, and a wide assortment of local shops on the way home is different than driving 20 minutes to go eat or go to the gym. My complaint abou
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Thanks for sharing the other side of the story. Manhattan will thrive as the pandemic subsides and the skeptics will be proven wrong just as when they bad mouthed NY through the ‘80s
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Yeah I keep checking rents and they really haven’t come down much. Maybe 10% at most from a very high peak. I wish people would stop getting me excited by claiming there are some huge deals to be had.
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by mrgordon 6y ago
By their own account, “We also reiterated our desire that MIT identify the individual(s) responsible” They pushed for aggressive chasing down of an individual for stealing some articles that were largely publicly funded as I recall. This es
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Correct but not the Media Lab specifically and that’s a big difference
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People do a lot of creative experiments around that building so it’s not surprising you would want to ask before disassembling someone’s thesis project. To call the place “dysfunctional” because some brilliant grad students constantly try n
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Yes and the Media Lab in particular was an amazing place (can’t speak for the current state) even if it gets a lot of shit for the bad decisions by a few administrators. Definitely met some of the coolest and most inventive people I have me
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Melodrama much? It’s still one of the most creative and amazing places to meet hackers (or become one) in the world
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by mrgordon 6y ago
He’s a cool guy and you’re likely right
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by mrgordon 6y ago
You realize the author of the linked article resigned over Epstein and frequently fought to improve things? Why try to link him to some trash that he vehemently opposed? And Swartz’s death was caused by JSTOR not the Media Lab FYI
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Same thought haha
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Google hasn’t bricked your phone (yet) and they bricked mine so you expect me to be excited? You said any old Android phone could run the newest stuff but it’s a lie. I can still use my original iPhone other than it being slow but I literal
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Google bricked my Android phone many years ago by deactivating the auth server used for logging into the phone with your Google account. The phone didn’t support Cyanogen so I literally just had to stop using it purely due to Google decidin
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by mrgordon 6y ago
When all the new buildings at MIT are named after Shell and Koch, you know they've infiltrated everything.
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Well put
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Well you can't have it both ways. 1. We want you to sell us the drug at cost with no profit margin 2. We want you to be responsible for unlimited liability for whatever the drug might eventually do Oh, and by the way, we want you to ru
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by mrgordon 6y ago
I mostly agree with you but we definitely reduced reliance on AWS specific functionality after starting to offer on-premise software installations. Most of them don’t gain you THAT much and then the software really isn’t very portable.
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by mrgordon 6y ago
It’s exempted from insurance but yeah they should have some reserves
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this piece
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by mrgordon 6y ago
We merged with a Microsoft shop and they cut out most of the non-Microsoft services but Slack was so strongly preferred we still pay for licenses and users can use Teams or Slack (there is an app that syncs the two)
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Didn’t say you were. Said it’s how you come across. It’s sadly true that it’s become a meme especially amongst many white males to hate every attempt to identify or prevent discrimination. The standard playbook is to say it’s an invasion of
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by mrgordon 6y ago
No one would complain if it was opt-in because only 0.1% of people would even notice it was happening and sign up. It’s not a straw man because one can’t study racial discrimination at scale by having a few random users opt-in to sharing th
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Yep you have every right, you just come across as an entitled white dude who doesn’t give a fuck about the problems in this country. You’re still arguing it should be opt-in which misses the obvious point that something like this could neve
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Deleting or opting out is fine if that’s what you really want to do. But making a big public announcement that you deleted your account because they started an optional study to try to stop discrimination is pretty awful. You’re basically s
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by mrgordon 6y ago
Did you really delete your account because they want to measure whether people are being discriminated against (with an opt out available)? That seems pretty awful given all the racism that people are fighting hard to stop. As far as the pa
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by mrgordon 6y ago
You’re saying they can’t send emails or save files because they are behind on updates? I’ve never once encountered these issues and they frankly sound like problems that people have when they aren’t used to using computers. I don’t use Adob
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by mrgordon 6y ago
I'd love to hear about the long list of issues that require updating on Mac. I have many old Macs and I've never seen an issue that require updating other than new software (especially from the App Store) requiring a newer OS or t
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by mrgordon 7y ago
In my comment I specifically cited dividends in addition to buybacks as I agree they both represent money that was returned to shareholders and could have been saved. I don’t agree with your claim that the companies are incentivized to be i
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by mrgordon 7y ago
Yes, likely. In 2015 and 2016 alone they paid $8.346 billion in buybacks and they seem to pay roughly a $0.40 dividend every year. Either way it would have allowed them to borrow less money at much better terms. Instead they are totally ins
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by mrgordon 7y ago
The airlines also invested poorly this time around though. They spent all their money on dividends and buybacks instead of saving for a downtown. American Airlines, which was the worst balance sheet, famously declared they were doing so wel

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