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by nr2x 5y ago
Sounds like a fun job!
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by nr2x 5y ago
I think a lot of comments here are seriously undervaluing the humanities and arts. These machines lead to the creation of some very popular music, allowed many more to find an outlet for personal expression and that's a huge success o
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by nr2x 5y ago
typos and automation are a hell of a drug.
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by nr2x 5y ago
a bonus equivalent to earned media exposure definitely should be considered.
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by nr2x 5y ago
you should file a personal data request if you live in CA or EU! """ If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information about our practices related to the disclosure of
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by nr2x 5y ago
Storing an essentially plain text copy of your entire phone on an Apple server is the default setting. You have to actively find the setting to enable the security feature (not having Apple give your data to any gov they want) by disabling
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by nr2x 5y ago
I assure you I haven’t, and neither has the FBI.
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by nr2x 5y ago
iClouds lack of encryption basically invalidates all other promises they make.
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by nr2x 5y ago
No skill can turn $7.25 into a living wage.
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by nr2x 5y ago
As somebody who bought groceries and diapers on a credit card to survive and now makes ridiculous money at FAANG, I can assure you poverty with a child is a million times worse. A life free of economic anxiety is itself a massive privilege
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by nr2x 5y ago
Agree with point about the torries, but UK remains a lucrative market on its own. They aren’t as powerful outside the block as within it, but no global company wants to leave the UK market.
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by nr2x 5y ago
Many people live paycheck to paycheck just to barely cover food and shelter for their children. I don’t think the problem is influencers, it’s actual, old fashioned, poverty.
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by nr2x 5y ago
“False consciousness is a term used by some to describe ways in which material, ideological, and institutional processes are said to mislead members of the proletariat and other class actors within capitalist societies, concealing the explo
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by nr2x 5y ago
A major goal of GDPR was to streamline enforcement and reduce compliance cost. Then people thought they could use Ireland to just avoid it, and instead they now have to worry about 27 DPAs, so it utterly backfired. Same dynamic in USA: they
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by nr2x 5y ago
We’re not talking about artisan cheese here, we’re talking network effects. “Small guys” can’t offer the same value without a user base.
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by nr2x 5y ago
Those are far from the only competitors.
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by nr2x 5y ago
There are a massive amount of mid—tier players, not to mention Oracle and Adobe who are also whales.
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by nr2x 5y ago
Really not a fan of virtual light personally, Accelerando on the other hand is a very fun ride.
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by nr2x 5y ago
The book rainbows end by Vernon vinge had some really intriguing ideas about AR. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End
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by nr2x 5y ago
It hurts Facebook, but it hurts their competitors more.
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by nr2x 5y ago
When my son started getting into fart jokes I told my wife he had a strictly classical approach to comedy and told her the oldest recorded joke was about farts.
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by nr2x 5y ago
Website looked like it had some cool stuff. Hard to find good streetwear.
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by nr2x 5y ago
Really one of my favorite examples of why public sector investment is a Good Thing.
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by nr2x 5y ago
My primary use case for IMDB is to figure out names of actors, for which I need to see the photos. There’s a lot to dislike about the modern web, but images are fairly useful.
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by nr2x 5y ago
This is classic sunken cost fallacy, the reason to stick with a platform shouldn't be it has the most bandaids covering deep, deep, problems and all the investment that has gone into bandaids can't be given up.
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by nr2x 5y ago
At that point why not just make something properly designed to start with? At the end of the day, regardless of other usability and adoption merits, it’s just a really poorly designed architecture.
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by nr2x 5y ago
From an engineering perspective it is absolute garbage. There is practically no separation between View and controller layers, which is a big part of the reason otherwise simple cosmetic plugins are security and stability vectors.
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by nr2x 5y ago
If you could find a CHI researcher to work with it would make an amazing case-study for a research paper, and that would give it some longitivtiy as well as be a good basis for a more compact blog post.
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by nr2x 5y ago
I'm not sure if that's actually fully settled, but the supreme court only recently rejected dismissal of a case on this (sending it back to lower courts), and DOJ has not specified if ADA applies to websites/etc. IANAL, but
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by nr2x 5y ago
here's my favorite: https://swoop.com

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