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by nend 6y ago
>Ninja edit: this is in contrast to things that aren't a problem yet. E.g., in the article, the author discusses not having password reset functionality. That is not yet a problem in the absence of users. It's not a nice proble
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by nend 6y ago
>Happens in US too, of course. It’s always the shady places that are cash only and everyone else is digital. The US is a big place. Maybe where you are it's like that, but that's not at all accurate where I am. It's either
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by nend 6y ago
I feel like that depends on the UBI amount. Unless you're currently living well below your means, it's likely you couldn't support your current life style on just a UBI. I'm an advocate for a UBI, and I'd use it to
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by nend 6y ago
Cook said this defensively in regards to a question during the anti trust hearings. The context makes it even worse, because his additional examples were the play station and Xbox platforms, which obviously aren't mobile app competitor
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by nend 6y ago
It takes way more than a series for it to even out, it's why they play 162 games. Even then it's not enough. A completely average team could win anywhere from 68-92 games, the difference between a bottom dweller and a division win
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by nend 6y ago
>Your statement is basically akin to someone saying that it’s fine for people to get robbed if they went out with their wallet; or worse.. killed. Uhh no? The analogy would be that there's some benefit that comes from someone's
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by nend 6y ago
Alternate title: The fractured state of web UI design explained using a simple counter. I say that only slightly in jest, as it is a neat way to show all (or most) of your options. Although it doesn't have my at-the-moment favorite way
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by nend 6y ago
Not just health care, most people don't want to leave a steady paycheck for the possibility of no paycheck.
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by nend 6y ago
I don't like take homes for two reasons: 1) It's less time spent talking with potential coworkers. Which for me, coworkers (and how we work together/get along) determine about 90% of how satisfied I am with my job (assuming p
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by nend 6y ago
There's almost no search engine competition, so whether it's easy to switch is irrelevant because for the average user, there's no option to switch to. Echo/Siri/Google assistant actually make it harder for people t
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by nend 6y ago
>Do you think newsreaders are as evil as Google? I use NetNewsWire on my tablet and very few of the feeds I subscribe to show any ads and I rarely click through to the source. I haven't used an RSS reader in a while, so I may be wro
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by nend 6y ago
>The results page always has links if I care to dig deeper but 99% of the time I'd rather get the answer and move on. So, by your own numbers, websites that create the content have just lost 99% of your page views to Google. >Wha
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by nend 6y ago
You make it sound like the US government is one homogenous voice with one opinion. A republican senator introduced one bill that affects HTTPS, while a completely separate non-legislative government group is advocating for using HTTPS on th
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by nend 6y ago
Is there any evidence this is real? The image specifies /r/reddit.com, which was discontinued about a decade ago. Obviously this practice is/would be awful. But it's really surprising and the image seems a little fishy.
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by nend 6y ago
As the article points out, the problem isn't specifically that this harms Wikipedia, it's that this practice harms pretty much every for profit business that Google does this to. Pretty much every company in an established space t
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by nend 6y ago
He left a lot of inventions in the design phase, but the truth is da Vinci shipped more than most of us ever will. Some of his inventions couldn't be built during his time either, so it wasn't simply that he always lost interest.
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by nend 6y ago
Like most general statements about the US, this is only true in parts of it. Plenty of cities in the US, especially the older east coast one's, do not have apartment buildings with parking lots.