notsapiensatall

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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
No matter how inexpensive an area is today, how long do you think that will last when it suddenly has more $200k temp workers than longtime residents? Those workers often have to pay out the nose just to eat ramen in plywood closets, the mo
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
That's fair, I guess sometimes people have different definitions of "100%".
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Some of the best engineers that I've ever worked with have been quiet types who don't particularly want "work mates". They work fine with people, can parse small talk and bring a positive attitude, etc. But they were out
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Recess helps. But most people would rather go home an hour sooner instead of spending an hour in the middle of the day at work futzing around.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Exactly. Why on earth would we want to replicate such a terrible system online? We should be reforming our current credit agency system, not empowering it with a new mandate of judging somebody's social or political creditworthiness.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
So what happens when your ID gets hacked and reused for fraudulent activity? Would you have to submit a dispute with the internet credit agencies? Maybe join a class action suit against the entity that leaked your ID so that they're fo
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
There's a pretty good movie which lampoons the modern office and explains why people "quiet quit". It's called Office Space, and it was released in 1999. >It's not just about me and my dream of doing nothing. It&
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
All well and good, until someone decides to lob a missile at a satellite and make a little Kessler syndrome, or launch missions with no reentry plans from a nation that hasn't signed your treaty. I don't think it's a bad idea
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
The effects punch below their weight in those games, though. I like to call it "Unity Syndrome", but it applies to any widely-adopted engine. Well-made video games focus on the experience of playing them. Visuals, audio, setting,
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Well, it prevents you from communicating with the sort of people who will blithely participate in these sorts of destructive systems. More seriously, it's like an act of civil disobedience. If everybody acted similarly, we would not ha
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Probably about where we are with pedestrian/cyclist safety. In NA, lack of safety regulations is resulting in massively increased ride and hood heights, which is going to kill a lot of people over the coming years.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Users keep using. Why would the companies change? If you object, don't click "I agree" to terms of service that you don't feel comfortable with. It's like a prisoner's dilemma. You can complain about how people
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Probably the average tenure of C/VP-level sponsors for such a project. By the time the gains would be realized, the muck-a-muck will have moved on to a different company. They tend to think in quarters, not years.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Seems like a gimmick. For some years, we've had cars with HUDs that project things like speed, blind spot warnings, traffic signs, and GPS directions onto the windshield. They're great - you can see how fast you're going with
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Maybe Apple hasn't proven it on iPhones, but these sorts of satellite SOS devices are pretty common. Modern ones can bluetooth to your phone to let you text over satellite. Sounds like a good marketing opportunity: film the ordeals of
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Moonshot programs are what create demand for the sort of R&D that Dupont did to bring kapton to market. Polyimides date back to 1902, but you couldn't buy anything like kapton tape before the space programs created a need for such
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Huh? Spinoff technologies from the space race are everywhere, to the point that they seem mundane 50-70 years after the fact. Polyimides like kapton are a good example.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Who said "and"? Nobody tell it about "not".
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
It's a website set up to manage camping and hiking reservations for national parks. It just didn't turn out very well. Difficult to navigate, bloated JavaScript interfaces, poor discoverability. It works, and worse websites exist.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Very cool! I remember about a decade ago, I wanted to analyze US Congressional votes to look for evidence of a possible third-party voting base in across-the-aisle votes. The votes were generally published as XML documents, which was sort o
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
My favorite suggestion for a nationwide privacy law is simple: Clarify that all EULAs are null and void unless they have been reviewed with counsel, signed, and notarized to ensure the user understands what they are agreeing to. If the comp
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
From that privacy policy: > Information we may collect automatically includes information about >· your device, including MAC address, IP address, log information, device model, hardware model, IMEI number, serial number, subscription
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Very cool, snapshotting has come a long way in recent years. I don't see anything about graphics in the article - could this approach also be used to clone a VM running a desktop window manager like Gnome or KDE? Or would that rely on
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Think like a marketer. How about, "Fast, quiet, and comfortable in the clouds"?
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Surprised to see something like this on Wikipedia. But okay, I've got one more. It's a bit niche: "watch the skies". Bethesda Softworks is most famous for video games like Skyrim and Fallout 4, which are known for their
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Maybe, but a lot of those birds belong to a small number of species that won the adaptation lottery, like pigeons. Pigeons are not the sharpest spoons in the drawer, but another name for them is "rock dove". They evolved to live a
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
Well for starters, you don't limit each family to a single child.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
MicroCenter is a good place to get 1TB USB drives, if you have one close to you. Fry's used to be good for that sort of thing on the West coast too, but they're long dead.
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
NYC Taxi medallions used to cost about $1M before ridesharing companies arrived. People would take out loans to afford them, or rent them from the real "franchise owner". Not everybody aspires to a unicorn exit. Predictable return
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by notsapiensatall 4y ago
I've been wondering the same things for the past decade. It seems like it's very hard to get your gene into the right place so that it will be expressed at the right time, with enough consistency to make a stable cell line. Also,

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