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541.
by mseebach 9y ago
> I suspect [...] they don't want additional cabling. You probably suspect correctly. Not having additional cabling is a pretty big selling point of wireless technology.
542.
by mseebach 9y ago
Because it matters that we're discussing an ad that's carefully designed to appeal to us, and elicit exactly the response it's getting here?
543.
by mseebach 9y ago
> Palihapitiya currently runs his own VC firm, Social Capital, which focuses on funding companies in sectors like healthcare and education. Oh, it's good that he at least doesn't have a direct, personal financial interest in
544.
by mseebach 9y ago
> if people were held accountable indefinitely for the externalities caused by the work they conduct Yes, it would change peoples priorities: If this was the case (and the definition of "externalities" was broad enough to encom
545.
by mseebach 9y ago
They could, but they don't. Until they do, or imply in any way that they might, let's stick to the facts and leave wild, flailing speculation to reddit. Regardless of what an ISP might do, HTTPS everywhere is excellent advice.
546.
by mseebach 9y ago
According to to their stated motivation, they're not actually interested in the source code: they want to know how your software makes decisions, presumably important ones on behalf of their business. The people who articulate such a r
547.
by mseebach 9y ago
It's a difficult balance to get right. A $2k server as the GP describes costs less than a week of a fully loaded engineer. If those $2k buys you another X time (for any X >> week) of the application working, then it's not at
548.
by mseebach 9y ago
The value is that when you don't spend your life being angry at Mondays or the weather or the fortunes of your favourite sportsteam (never main all the things people are casually angry at their bosses for, but doesn't actually war
549.
by mseebach 9y ago
It works, but no, it won't turn night into day. It's about making sure you take a moment to appreciate the good things you experience. It's about making an effort to not assume malice when there's a plausible positive or
550.
by mseebach 9y ago
Of course. But the whole point is that we shouldn't treat a teachers' union as an authority on whether it does (or can) exist. And no, it's by no means an established fact that it can't.
551.
by mseebach 9y ago
It isn't about "hating" unions, or otherwise, but about recognizing the simple fact that unions aren't magical unicorns, they are interest organisations and the teachers' unions represent the interests of the teache
552.
by mseebach 9y ago
They may be right, but they have a very strong prior interest in this matter (that there can exist no objective measure of a teachers competence), so not the best arbiter of objective insights here.
553.
by mseebach 9y ago
There's no obviously correct geographical unit for zoning. Placing a major industrial plant is county-level (or even above), a mall probably affects people in about a 2-3 mile radius, an 6 story apartment building maybe a few hundred y
554.
by mseebach 9y ago
I think the takeaway from "social stuff = energy loss" is that you need to carefully ration the time you spend on it and recharge for it. Doing "social stuff" might not be a requirement for success (for certain values of
555.
by mseebach 9y ago
GP probably used "correct" incorrectly. From my experience interviewing, they probably meant "works for any non-trivial input at all ". Perhaps we need new vocabulary, it seems there exists people who can effectively
556.
by mseebach 9y ago
That's where this becomes a problem specifically for rentals. This is a car I'm unfamiliar with, my "enough" is a lot higher. My suitcase is in that trunk, I'd like to physically confirm that it's actually lock
557.
by mseebach 9y ago
It came to this after Silicon Valley was thrown into a moral panic over the tools they had built wasn't just for Tunis and Cairo, for Obama and Ron Paul, but also for Brexit and Trump. Moral panics are never productive, but this won&#x
558.
by mseebach 9y ago
That's basically a textbook, and lectures are supposed to augment the book, not replace it. From personal experience, and anecdotal supporting evidence, lectures are the hardest when you haven't actually prepared for them (at the
559.
by mseebach 9y ago
> France doesn't "protect" Champagne Oh, but they do. This goes a lot beyond simple geographical "truth in advertising", and is indeed a lot more similar to a trademark. As you mention, it's not enough for a
560.
by mseebach 9y ago
Oh, please don't let my fragile sensibilities get in the way of your entirely off-topic disquisition. I just wondered if I had missed some nuance.
561.
by mseebach 9y ago
What does the Condé Nast CMS have to do with Chromecast (or other bits of Chrome branding strategy)?
562.
by mseebach 9y ago
It shares a fraction of one property with IE6. It's nothing like IE6 in all other respects. A quick refresher for those that perhaps was not around in those heady days: to build even moderately advanced (dynamic) web pages that were cr
563.
by mseebach 9y ago
Stagnation is a good thing -- when it happens because all the hard problems in a domain has been solved.
564.
by mseebach 9y ago
What's good enough is always going to be an individual decision, but it's better to be able to reference a concrete expectation of jail time.
565.
by mseebach 9y ago
If you're buying a better product for a price you're considering fair, you're not meaningfully "buying local" - the product you prefer just happens to be locally produced (and possibly can only be locally produc
566.
by mseebach 9y ago
For the purposes of this discussion, tax is a cost like any other, and subject to the same considerations: Where and on what is that money then spent? If it's spent on a Halliburton-produced armoured vehicle for the local police depart
567.
by mseebach 9y ago
It's not about that. It's about choosing not to use an existing, appropriate solution because it is not being developed and run locally. There can be valid regulatory or security reasons to choose that, I'm only considering
568.
by mseebach 9y ago
You need to see a layer deeper than that. The opportunity cost of the tens of thousands of highly qualifies engineers required to build and run dozens of national/regional Facebooks rather than doing something else is absolutely huge
569.
by mseebach 9y ago
It only intuitively makes sense -- there are quite a few assumptions. The local product is typically more expensive because it's production is less efficient (if it wasn't, it would just compete with the non-local product at regul
570.
by mseebach 9y ago
> the variance here ins't to do with the fibre. Which is basically what the article is about.

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