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by numair 6y ago
Mail is vital to so much of the economy. This horror story is exactly why it’s a good thing for everyone if the country has a well-functioning postal service that serves as national infrastructure rather than a profit-generating enterprise.
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by numair 6y ago
This has been downvoted, but I guarantee that people involved with this process would have read Yanis’ work (he’s one of the most famous economic ministers of the early 21st century) and been familiar with the Diem movement. I wonder what D
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by numair 6y ago
Before everyone calls this insane and reactionary, please do remember that Facebook has teams of employees who actively court favor with local politicians and help them craft social media campaigns for election / re-election. There is
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by numair 6y ago
Your post is a literal summary of why the attitude and performance of software engineers in other countries is so utterly subpar. Having spent a lot of time in Australia, I found the work ethic and culture of the office-bound workers there
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by numair 6y ago
Wait, what? Did Apple announce that GM is released to public beta, or did they announce that they are actually pushing out iOS 14 to over 1B devices as of tomorrow? Because the two are very different. If it’s the former, I agree with the au
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by numair 6y ago
Well, this actually makes sense, because you can't use the app you download on the App Store on a Microsoft Surface. Maybe that's obvious to you and I, but the App Store is used by hundreds of millions of people of varying levels
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by numair 6y ago
Everyone who doesn’t understand why this makes a ton of sense for Oracle, and why they should fight to win the deal, has clearly never heard of Datalogix. (The fact that nobody discusses this point in the tech press shows just how terrible
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by numair 6y ago
If your business is currently generating revenue and profitable, your best bet is to move to a low-hassle, low-tax jurisdiction. The United States isn’t a particularly low-hassle, low-tax environment, and the rules of the game are increasin
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by numair 6y ago
You’re assuming there’s a difference. Look at what Microsoft suggested their users do when they gave up on Mixer...
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by numair 6y ago
You’re downvoted by the crowd, but you’re 100% correct. The world of solo capitalism is a wonderful place for a bad actor to hide and thrive without having to come to terms with what’s wrong. We have to come up with better systems for accou
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by numair 6y ago
Thought the OPM hack was common knowledge, guess not. I added a link!
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by numair 6y ago
Most of the anti-TikTok comments that have emerged recently are beyond hysterical. We are arguing about China using this app as a primary nexus of intelligence gathering, in a world where they already have the US government’s entire OPM dat
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by numair 6y ago
Yikes, where to begin... Quoting Chamath on the rationale for the Facebook Platform is like quoting the current management of Boeing on how to build a plane. If you want the real story on the dynamics behind the Platform, and why it worked
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by numair 6y ago
Using 2007/2008 studies to defend the 2010s behavior of an industry doesn’t really make sense. Imagine using a 2007 annual report to make a case, today, for why Apple will never be worth $1 trillion... I’m glad that you’ve at least put
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by numair 6y ago
That’s a pretty rich comment coming from the New York Times, controlled by different, equally troubling oligarchs, with both known and whispered-about baggage of its own. The fact of the matter is, all of these jobs where others pay you to
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by numair 7y ago
Denmark. Norway. Singapore. New Zealand. Taiwan. The fact of the matter is, there’s too many people in America invested in a cynical notion that we should expect the government to “fail,” which makes it easier to keep everything underfund
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by numair 7y ago
This is an almost offensive statement to anyone familiar with the life and philosophies of Jonas Salk, who came up with the polio vaccine. He actively worked to avoid enriching himself, and avoid becoming a billionaire industrialist, by ref
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by numair 7y ago
Okay, wait... > more than $800 million in funds towards producing medical supplies used to fight COVID-19, and in ad credits > produce 2 million to 3 million face masks, and will financially support efforts to boost the production cap
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by numair 7y ago
I am 100% in agreement with the author. It’s refreshing to see someone admit how much they don’t know — one of the most annoying things about our social media era, when combined with this current situation, is that everyone thinks they’re a
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by numair 7y ago
Hold on, what? These people, who get paid millions in management fees by schoolteachers and police officers’ retirement funds, among others, are BLOCKING people over a bit of light-hearted rubbing? I would LOVE to see the block list on this
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by numair 7y ago
The ACCC is one of the most important consumer rights bodies in the world. They do so, so much for their constituents — for example, Australians don’t need to buy AppleCare to ensure Apple has to replace faulty components, which has had a k
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by numair 7y ago
All of these articles and ways of thinking always miss the bigger, more fundamental shift in human society — we now know there is literally no place we can access in any meaningful amount of time where the “grass is greener” than the places
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by numair 7y ago
True story: I have two very close younger friends who are practically my little brothers. They come from an established family in Hollywood, and have a very famous actor-dad. The younger brother is about 20 now, and is friends with half of
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by numair 7y ago
This is the weirdest and most disturbing flex by the USG in a long time. For reference on where some of this money ended up: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/23/world/asia/afghanistan-mi... (Yes, I k
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by numair 7y ago
The author would have done well by refraining from using this as an opportunity to make a sales pitch for their startup, as it detracts from an otherwise important message. Let me see if I have this right: Slack had a major security breach
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by numair 7y ago
> One absolute doozy of a requirement kicks in if the app stores user data on a third-party server. Google will now require those apps to pass a third-party security audit, which the app developer must pay for. According to the company,
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by numair 7y ago
This may sound really simple and dumb, but I think you’re actually on to something. Americans read all of these stories about 1° warming and have NO idea what it means. In fact, since so much global policy-making involves American multinati
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by numair 7y ago
“Nerd” isn’t a gender-specific condition. Never has been, and never should be. [Disclaimer: I am not a fan of the ongoing campaign to attach a largely consumerist “nerd” culture to basic technical competence. The two have little to do with
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by numair 8y ago
In case people read this as some outsider with sour grapes, Caterina (the author) founded Flickr with her now-ex, Stewart, who is the founder of Slack. So whatever she’s exposed to when visiting Finland is the VIP tech star version of how w
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by numair 8y ago
> A significant portion of Spotify’s customers come through partnerships with mobile carriers. This generates no App Store contribution, but requires Spotify to pay a similar distribution fee to retailers and carriers. Everyone would ben

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