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by mwfunk 10y ago
"Notorious" or "beloved"? What you're complaining about here is literally a huge part of why they're successful, and the reason so many people like their products. There are people who value "tech done fir
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The fact that you think the "Pro" in "MacBook Pro" is an acronym might be undermining your argument a little...
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Since hardly anyone has firsthand knowledge of what happened, everyone is extrapolating (it's all anyone can do really). You are extrapolating that this is a case where individuality is getting crushed by The System and this guy's
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If you remember, the US intelligence community was hardly convinced that WMDs existed in Iraq. This was one of the most contentious things about the lead-up to the war. Many high-ranking officials lost their jobs because their organizations
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Speaking for myself, I really want self-driving cars to happen in my lifetime but I've become incredibly wary of the credulous attitudes seen in media hype, among the general population, and within the tech community amongst people who
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Childish is an ironic way to describe it. :) It is a term that only small children use, but almost all American children at least know what it means even if they don't say it all the time. I just realized that it's strange that th
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by mwfunk 10y ago
From their "Translator's FAQ" (which I think is meant for volunteers to help with localization): "How should I tell to pronounce DoudouLinux? In French and Chinese it is pronounced “doodoolinux”. However as the word “doo
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Again, how?
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Perhaps. If you think of irrational or uninformed fears as memes (in the classic sense, not the "pictures with captions" sense) that propagate through a society, the Internet provides mechanisms for those memes to spread much more
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I suspect that it's the opposite of what you might hope it would be. I suspect that the fear of corruption of government officials is almost entirely based on accusations of corruption from their political opponents, and that those sam
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Blame the stock market. Once a company has a solid product line in one area that doesn't suck, every publicly traded company is under tremendous pressure to move into new markets rather than iterating on previous successes, often to th
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by mwfunk 10y ago
For a big conference, one that attendees spend lots and lots of money to travel to and attend, the pressure on the organizers is to make sure that all the presentations (and presenters) are at some baseline level of quality so that attendee
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by mwfunk 10y ago
What about "earnest, blunt, non-sugar-coated feedback" that is useless, uninformed, and counterproductive to researchers? I was under the impression that that was the concern here. Just because someone says something non-sugar-coa
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by mwfunk 10y ago
It's because there is no consensus on any of those things, particularly political beliefs surrounding free software. The people who are saying free software is about scratching itches are generally not the same people who equate contri
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Either that, or you are the one with bias, and the news outlets you go to and/or the people you associate with feed into that bias. You can see just as much bias in the opposite direction on any number of news sites. They're all b
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Based on this article at least, this doesn't sound like a big deal? It sounds like the service helped police discover when and where protests were happening. If bad cops used that information to illegally interfere with those protests
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They were a startup when the company began but are now an established company. They didn't transition from startup to normal company by taking VC funds and optimizing for growth, rather they went the route that most businesses take. Th
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For antitrust purposes, market share.
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Not getting a vaccine hurts everyone, not just other people who also don't get the vaccine. If you had researched this enough to make an informed decision about whether or not to get vaccinated, this would've been a day one discov
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I guess I would call those SV people inventors and/or entrepreneurs? Or visionaries (in the business school sense or the literary sense, not in the mystical sense)? There are multiple definitions of the word "prophet" and you
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Exactly. If you're not a monopoly (or otherwise massively dominant in the market you compete in), antitrust law doesn't apply to you. Antitrust law is specifically to guard against the situation where one player in a market is so
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by mwfunk 10y ago
I was impressed with the price given the specs and the design. I'm not aware of anything equivalent that's much cheaper than this.
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It's from Compulab- fanless PCs are what they do. I can't imagine that anyone would want to do computationally intensive tasks on one of these, or use it as their primary desktop computer, but if someone's looking for a fanle
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Standard Internet tech blog comments really. On a higher plane than Engadget/Gizmodo/Verge comments, but still dominated by enraged teens who really really want to prove to everyone that the phone their parents bought for them is
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by mwfunk 10y ago
Is this any different from the '80s and '90s? I'm no fan of beige-everything in houses but it sure doesn't seem like a phenomenon of the 2000s to me (which the article claims it is). US apartments and homes have defaulte
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I would guess the answer is "no", not that it matters. If you don't think the story belongs here then just downvote it. Stories are considered "interesting" or "uninteresting" based on how people vote on i
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I guess I always figured those things were strongly related (in the causation sense, not just the correlation sense).
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Everyone I know who lives in SF and works in SV (and I've known a lot of them) lives in SF because they want to, not because it was the best choice economically. They want to live in SF because of the culture or the nightlife, and are
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I think the fundamental misunderstanding expressed in this article is this: San Francisco isn't the tech capital of the world, San Francisco is an hour up 101 from the tech capital of the world. It has a tremendous startup scene becaus
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"My warmest wishes to you Joyce. I can’t follow your banner any more than you can follow mine. But the world is wide and there is room for both of us to be wrong." An admirable sentiment. I don't think the human mind (includi

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