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by naravara 7mo ago
I don’t even know how much it helps people stay connected anymore since the shift to mobile. I was in an antique store recently and came upon a vintage “correspondence desk” which is basically a desk specialized for sorting and preparing ma
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by naravara 7mo ago
Any time I see a pitch for companies paying people in things that aren’t money I think of the Simpsons bit where Homer finds $20 under the couch and is disappointed that it’s not a peanut. There’s reasons why, because of what a company does
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by naravara 7mo ago
He also has no ambitions towards being a billionaire, he just wants to make enough money to sustain a mostly upper middle class lifestyle and keep his business going. I think a lot of online publications could be modestly sized businesses w
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by naravara 7mo ago
Or someone can invent an ad supported business model that isn’t abusive. A lot of print magazines, like Vogue or even Field & Stream, are like 60% or more full page ads. But if you’re reading something like New Bride magazine you’re pro
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by naravara 7mo ago
The internet equivalent of QVC would be TikTok I believe. The ads are thinly veiled, but it seems like after you go through a few chunks of content eventually it’s basically all ads disguised as content with bits of entertainment thrown in
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by naravara 7mo ago
I’ve seen some housing projects around my city that are actually quite nice. They didn’t end up being shabby because they were built poorly. They were shabby because they were reserved for the very poor and, consequently, became extreme con
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by naravara 7mo ago
Combat veterans as well since they get explicit preference in hiring.
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by naravara 7mo ago
Do you think “have a personal relationship with the farmer, slaughterhouse, and butcher” is a scalable solution? And if you happen to live near a cattle ranch and know your supply chain for beef, how are you going to establish a relationshi
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by naravara 7mo ago
The entire point of the Constitution was to concentrate more power in the Federal Government because the structure we had under the Articles of Confederation was an unworkable mess.
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by naravara 7mo ago
80% of the federal workforce is based outside of the DC/Maryland/Virginia area. The ones who are around the capital are the ones doing policy or back-office work that’d be the equivalent of a corporate HQ, and they have benefits f
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by naravara 7mo ago
For now the code assistance mostly works within your existing IDE and dev tools. So as long as there is rough parity across the different model vendors I think it should actually be pretty straightforward to swap between them. In fact the f
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by naravara 8mo ago
I think a good analogy will be the way word processors changed printing. Suddenly anyone with access to a computer had the ability to do professional level editing and layout. Most of them didn’t have the taste or skills to use the tools to
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by naravara 8mo ago
> BTW, I think a lot of people were/are greatly overestimating the value of coding to business success. I think I have a conversation at least weekly where I have to explain to someone that using an LLM to convert COBOL to Java (or
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by naravara 8mo ago
Considering he also runs a company that puts computer chips inside brains to augment them you’d think he ought to have a more sound understanding as to the limits of both.
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by naravara 8mo ago
I think the challenge is that the addictive formats will naturally outcompete the healthy ones because they’re, well, addicting. They exert a force pulling people into their orbit and starving anything designed for healthier (less frequent)
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by naravara 8mo ago
I take poorly directed targeting advertisements as a performance indicator for how well my data privacy efforts are working. When the ad targeting has you dead to rights is when you need to worry.
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by naravara 8mo ago
In my experience it’s mostly sexual adjacent content with just enough plausible deniability that you could say it’s a comedic sketch or something. They’re not funny, and the punchline is usually tits, but it has the cosmetic structure of a
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by naravara 8mo ago
That seemed more like experimenting with interesting industrial design approaches and materials though. It’s not as much like, a very distinct side-hustle to design stuff that’s completely different. They sort of do this with Beats as a par
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by naravara 8mo ago
In theory user behavior to serve you ads you want to see for stuff you might be interested in is a feature. The problem comes because the same technology to power that can also power the—much more lucrative—industry of serving ads that are
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by naravara 8mo ago
Old Apple had a productive tension between Jony Ive and Scott Forestall on which direction to go in with design, with Steve Jobs as a tie-breaker. After Jobs passed away Tim Cook failed to manage that tension productively and was put in a p
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by naravara 8mo ago
Apple News unironically would have been better if they had just made an RSS reader with a way to subscription gate feeds and a rule that you have to do provide the full text of the article. They could have just put their energy into just po
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by naravara 9mo ago
The acting as if there is a clearly demarcated distinction between the “public” and “private” sectors seems mostly like a 20th or 19th century atavism. The only substantive difference today seems to be that the former actor is more restrain
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by naravara 9mo ago
At a glance I don’t really see how this is meaningfully worse at differentiating. If you saw more than 2 apps on the screen at a time the blue background might serve to distinguish ads from organic results, but when it’s the only thing in y
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by naravara 9mo ago
Why would it be if nobody trains them on it?
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by naravara 9mo ago
> Unless this was in the early 2010s the email provider was probably using TLS It was the mid 2010s yes. And they’re not going to abduct and torture and American citizen out of the blue. The more “intensive” methods are higher cost, the
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by naravara 9mo ago
I hope Washington Post does a better job of training their reporters than my friend’s former employer did. They sent her off to a certain country with highly repressive speech laws and secret police to interview and survey various civil rig
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by naravara 9mo ago
One of my proudest moments as a father came when we were staying in a hotel and my 4-year old son remarks “Daddy, why does nothing sound as good as it does at home?” FINALLY! Someone appreciates what I do!
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by naravara 9mo ago
The AppleTV is best in class sure but by the standards of older, pre-internet technology the lag is noticeable. The UI itself is smooth, but any time it makes a network call (which it does for damn near everything) it can take some amount o
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by naravara 9mo ago
Workaholic office cultures tend to filter out adults with kids by default so it doesn’t need to be an explicit effort.
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by naravara 9mo ago
Just buy a second XBox what’s the problem? (This is sarcasm, just to be clear)

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