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by naravara 4y ago
Honestly instead of a cookie law I wish GDPR has imposed a rule that required all those stupid interstitial pop-ups to conform to a standard that could be easily blocked by the browser. I mean they are asking for emails, which is a massiv
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by naravara 4y ago
There was a brief golden period where those housewives selling cupcakes had their moments in the sun. But at this point they're mostly outcompeted by AliExpress tier knock-offs of anything innovative they do or other VC backed would-be
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by naravara 4y ago
> opening up entirely new markets. Before deciding if "opening up new markets" is necessarily good we'd need to ask what kinds of markets it opened up. Most of what I see are content farms flooding search engines with SEO
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It takes over a thousand hours of flight time to even qualify as an airline pilot. It's not a labor pool you can just expand and contract on a whim. It's a work force you have to strategically cultivate and maintain. When companie
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by naravara 4y ago
Getting a 404 error on your first Insidehighered link FYI. Fixed link, just had to remove the semicolon: https://www.insidehighered.com/admissions/article/2022/05/02...
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> irrelevant in the age of GPS navigation with live traffic (ie. google maps) The confused phone calls I get from delivery drivers just about every time I order begs to differ. And that's assuming they bother to call rather than jus
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by naravara 4y ago
The only successful version of this business I can imagine is, maybe, the ghost kitchen model that is basically App equivalent of a mall food court. So it's basically a handful of giant kitchens to serve an area that offers several sty
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by naravara 4y ago
The forces driving lower fertility are based on the balance of resources and jobs available per person now. If we have several generations of population decline that equation changes. There’s no telling how people make the calculation for t
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> Economists in general don't account for any externalities or 2nd order effects when it comes to free trade. Many do. They just don't get hired as lobbyists so their impact on the conversation is limited. The economics that ge
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> But, you can't grow forever. At some point you hit things like the maximum market size and there's no longer any way to invest your profits back into growth. Atlassian is probably a fair bit away from that. Amazon is much clo
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by naravara 4y ago
Yes. It really is the only way to keep up with blogs that update intermittently. Stuff like Twitter and Facebook leave you at the mercy of an algorithmic sort or just happenings to stumble upon it in a river of other content.
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by naravara 4y ago
I can't help but wonder if normalizing regular use of increasingly potent weed correlating with dramatic increases in anxiety disorders among young people are related. Yeah there's the general state of the world, economic precarit
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Also it seems like if the intent of the logos is to be easily looked up for reference, the real UX failure is in the washing machines rather than the tags. Why don't the machines just stamp a reference table by the control panel?
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Early adopters were actually quite welcoming. It's just that the usenet communities had informal social norms that took time to acclimate to. When newcomers come in large numbers all at once then they overwhelm the acclimatization proc
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by naravara 4y ago
One of the challenges is that Indian intellectual tradition didn't highly prioritize keeping track of or attributing authorship to ideas, so often they just kind of floated around or were put into the mouths of sages or deities. It&#x2
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by naravara 4y ago
Unfortunately I'm not sure people are even equipped to trust their own feelings anymore. Even in many spaces where people do have agency of how they're designed I've noticed a marked convergence in tastes and preferences over
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The owners of those local dealerships also tend to have a big hand in driving town politics as they’re often the richest people around.
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This wasn’t an employer, it was a volunteer effort by a Hindu group to organize legal representation for Syrian refugees caught up in Trump’s Muslim ban. There were a few people on the committee who were really intent on spending time doing
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by naravara 4y ago
> I've had was very different, and boiled down to "here is a list of behaviors; if you do any of them or anything like any of them your ass is fired." Yeah this is good in general but needs tempering through a bit of confl
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Why would you presume that?
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> Criticism in general should be embraced, as nothing is perfect and we can always improve. Honestly it depends on how that criticism is framed and who it's being directed towards. It reads differently if the criticism framed as &qu
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by naravara 4y ago
I didn't used to, but after seeing how noxious communities get when you normalize the kinds of reflexive confrontationalism and assumptions of bad faith you find online I changed my tune. I haven't seen a single place improve once
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> Why don't we need to be careful about "delegitimizing" the beliefs of people who think black people are inherently inferior or gay people are inherently immoral? This is imposing the cultural dynamics of American racial
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> Maybe, Google, instead of just giving up you should be asking why a speaker on Dalit rights and inclusion is causing "division and rancor" in your community? Or is that also a difficult conversation you'd rather not have
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Not just that, but I can imagine in an EV future having trailers that work as a reserve battery/range extender as well. There would need to be some major redesign to make them handle better than a cargo trailer, and probably redesign t
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by naravara 4y ago
I really wonder why cargo trailers aren’t more popular. You can put a tow hitch on a friggin Miata and still haul as much stuff out of Home Depot as you want.
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It’s not entirely organic though. “Light trucks” get a tax deduction for business owners and slip through a lot of regulatory cracks regarding fuel economy standards. From there, marketing actually has a bigger hand in shaping consumer dema
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A 3-ton truck, for the vast majority of its buyers, makes their lives harder and less pleasant but they do it anyway because of desires manufactured by marketing and vanity.
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> I want my parents to pass their problem down to me and my siblings. I think forcing parents to tidy up or downsize can be cruel. Why be selfish and needlessly make my parents sad? Lots of people downsize before retiring because they do
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Charity in the form of "the community is coming together to do something of common interest" sure. Charity in the form of "one rich guy writes a check because he felt like it" is too dependent on the capricious whims and

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