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by nihonde 10y ago
This week's "number one" song by Rhianna has "moved" 54,000 copies, and those numbers are almost certainly as inflated as possible. From Forbes: "Anti rules the Billboard 200 with just 54,000 equivalent units m
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by nihonde 10y ago
Which came first: the Top 10 hit, or the media blitz to convince you that it's what everyone else is listening to?
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by nihonde 10y ago
The reason those commutes are awful is not because Manhattan is unaffordable. The areas around New York City are among the least functional urban zones I've ever encountered. Total, utter, abject mismanagement of resources——and I say t
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by nihonde 10y ago
Yes, things are changing already. Thai average wages are about $400/month, and China are about $300/month. My anecdote is a few years old, and the Baht has fallen vs. the Yuan since then.
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by nihonde 10y ago
No one, because in this dystopian vision of zero returns for innovation, the copycats win until they have nothing left to copy, at which point, we're still using something like an Mi5 (which is visibly an iPhone clone) in 10 years. And
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by nihonde 10y ago
Understood. Dependency management for iOS is generally pretty terrible, in my experience. I suppose Apple will step in soon, and I hope they do a nice job of it. Anyway, I continue to use (and enjoy using) Firebase for iOS and web.
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by nihonde 10y ago
This is good news for me. File storage and push messaging are particularly nice. As a user of the Firebase iOS SDK, I was wondering why the SDK was getting so stale. The Quickstart guide used deprecated Swift, didn't offer Carthage sup
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by nihonde 10y ago
Shouting "I have a massive conflict of interest" at the top of my lungs does not negate the fact that I should not be trusted.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Two approaches to stave off the inevitable come to mind: 1. Do whatever it takes to be "behind the curtain" and one of the people who is in a position to do the exploiting, rather than being exploited. (It's up to you what yo
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by nihonde 10y ago
I don't use Spotify. I'll take your word for it, though. I grew up with radio, and I used to like to listen to the college stations where there was no format and the selections came from the personal taste of another person. On A
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by nihonde 10y ago
I keep bumping into this problem: a company that has a large media library (video, music, books) offers a client that lacks the basic search, filtering, and sorting functions that any half-decent programmer would consider Step One of a clie
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by nihonde 10y ago
In that case, the answer is "yes" and the definition of "industry-standard virus scanning software" becomes flexible enough to include a firewall?
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by nihonde 10y ago
Right, and that requirement loses all of its nuance when it lands on someone's checklist as "anti-virus software on PCs and servers". When my company gets asked why we answer "no" to that question, my canned respons
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by nihonde 10y ago
As a lawyer who deals with contracts, one of my major pet peeves is the stupid warranty that requires a party to use "industry-standard virus detection software". I'm fairly certain that none of the lawyers who insist on that
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by nihonde 10y ago
By the way, I'm aware that Japanese media is tightly coupled to the ruling party. You'll be hard pressed to find anywhere that isn't these days. What I'm trying to get at is the focus on small stuff for lack of awful big
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by nihonde 10y ago
"People want to read about how to fix broken systems." I hope that's true, but I suspect that people prefer to read about how broken things are, and point fingers at the perceived culprits. Fixing things leads eventually to &
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by nihonde 10y ago
The whole practice of antitrust/competition law is basically about defining markets to serve whatever goal your client wants. If you're an underdog or regulator looking to bust a trust or cartel, you argue that the market in quest
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by nihonde 10y ago
One thing I have learned in this life: the more you cater to the lowest common denominator in society, the more everyone plays by their rules. I understand the "Buzzfeed" concept of using populist, knuckle-dragging content to sell
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by nihonde 10y ago
Maybe...just maybe...ads aren't a good business model for journalism any more.
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by nihonde 10y ago
Why I'm Gonna Try to Fix Your Issue Soon.
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by nihonde 10y ago
"Monks" are not one, monolithic community, so it's hard to argue one way or another whether they contribute anything meaningful back to a community. Here in Japan, many Buddhist orders are downright wealthy (from donations),
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by nihonde 10y ago
Interesting. "bully RB advmod" I assume this is wrong, and probably triggered by the "ly" ending? Also, odd that it dropped the second clause and didn't see any trouble with the parsed results lacking a single verb
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by nihonde 10y ago
In bringing up the monks, I was trying (maybe unsuccessfully) to challenge the idea that "poverty" is, ipso facto, a miserable, unhappy existence. De Botton makes the point that soldiers often endure conditions that are far worse
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by nihonde 10y ago
How does it handle the "translation" from that wiki page? Bison from Buffalo, which bison from Buffalo bully, themselves bully bison from Buffalo.
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by nihonde 10y ago
This reminds me of Big Brother, or (perhaps more appropriate) The Wizard of Oz. It is always more than a little creepy to encounter a digital simulacrum that is actually a group effort.
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by nihonde 10y ago
I like Alain de Botton's take: money and status are essentially a proxies for love, in that people feel worthwhile if others "pay" attention/respect/cash to them. (Heavily paraphrased) Now consider that Buddhist mon
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by nihonde 10y ago
It's not revenge. It's accountability, and there can never be enough of it. If business leaders aren't held to account for their actions, then they are incentivized to misbehave and deceive others, which has a negative impact
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by nihonde 10y ago
No, I was referring to Marissa Mayer's imminent successor. ;)
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by nihonde 10y ago
It's actually worse than that. She'll probably be appointed CEO of Yahoo! or run for elected office on the basis of her business acumen. (Looking at Carly Fiorina.) It's depressing how much wealth and notoriety alone are vali
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by nihonde 10y ago
Yes, I freely admit that I'm making a lot of assumptions. My personal experience tells me that I'm on the right track, too. YMMV.

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