okcando

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by okcando 7y ago
Yes, I think even when people choose to stop working, they often still fall into the trappings of joblessness and stress about the uncertainty of what they're going to do when it's time to go back to work. And so they don't e
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by okcando 7y ago
I expect most people's experiences when they're unemployed are colored by being... unemployed. You're not retired or on vacation, you're jobless. You're not supposed to be having a good time following your passions,
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by okcando 7y ago
Artificially restricting supply seems to be the function of zoning laws and similar. If laws governing a property preclude the building of and usage as, say, high-density housing, then the supply of high-density has been restricted by regul
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by okcando 7y ago
Last I heard, Google also tends to keep data to themselves. The difference in business model is that Google internally uses user data to effectively place and sell advertising, not that advertisers have direct access to that data. Apple isn
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by okcando 7y ago
I think they're kinds of platitudes. They offer an answer in unequivocating packaging but if you look at them too closely, you'll probably see that they are vacuous.
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by okcando 7y ago
It's been my experience that anything that can be conceived of does or will actually happen but I'd be surprised if this were a common occurrence. On the other hand, we are talking about desperate people frequently traveling under
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by okcando 7y ago
Not even clear he's talking about vandalized glass. Sounds like maybe he's referring to those squishy resistive-touch displays found in ATMs and POS terminals and other kiosk-type applications, and early consumer devices. Did thos
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by okcando 7y ago
Interesting. I have precisely zero intuition for the scale of five atoms!
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by okcando 7y ago
If you're using Android, you can look into YouTube Vanced, which blocks ads, provides a dark mode, and enables some other features that are normally exclusive to Premium, like background play.
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by okcando 7y ago
I heard on I think Malcolm Gladwell's podcast (and he's hardly infallible and this is second hand so grains of salt and all that) that women tend to harass other women more often when they are underrepresented or subordinated in t
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by okcando 8y ago
I didn't think Windows Phone was ugly at all but that's unimportant; I feel pretty confident that aesthetics didn't contribute much to the platform's failure. It did alright in Europe but overall, the Windows Phone campa
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by okcando 8y ago
Were people not going to use wireless headphones had Apple not given us AirPods? They all have batteries limiting their lifespans and are generally not easily repaired.
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by okcando 8y ago
This amounts to saying that you don't need a debugger if you don't make mistakes. If your mental model of how the code that you're interfacing with works is wrong, then it won't help you. Your data validation will error
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by okcando 8y ago
Way to spoil the conversation with a false dichotomy. I'd guess that even if we accept that good servers make good tips and favor tipping and that bad servers make bad tips and don't favor tipping, most people who have an opinion