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by paggle 7y ago
I think the calculus for most people is: This job is paying me a lot and I don't want to leave it, and I do think that this company can be a net force for good in this world (easier to believe at Google than at Facebook). But I don&#x2
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by paggle 7y ago
The whole Maven / Damore stuff at Google shows the strengths and weaknesses of this “one persona” approach. People in Silicon Valley bring their entire selves to work, they protest their own company when they feel it is not having prop
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by paggle 7y ago
It has a warning. Something like “leave these keys here! It seems weird but don’t worry about it.”
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by paggle 7y ago
In the US the keys that are in the car are physically tied to the car with a string. You are expected to use the card to lock and unlock during your reservation
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by paggle 7y ago
No, it’s imprisonment.
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by paggle 7y ago
In the US, these absolutely don’t need due process to remove. You are only protected against deprivation of life, liberty, or property (without compensation) by the Fifth Amendment. Your right to enter the US or fly on a plane is not protec
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by paggle 7y ago
In the US, due process is only required for deprivation of life, liberty, or property.
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by paggle 7y ago
It's hard to translate to bits, but there is definitely different information densities between language. E.g. when you write a paragraph in Spanish, the total number of keystrokes you'll need is higher than writing the same thing
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by paggle 7y ago
I recognize that my situation is not normal. But I see people around with me with much more who are still hunting for more.
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by paggle 7y ago
Seriously. I used to be on a high flying career path and was pretty happy about it. Then I had kids and realized I never knew what happiness was. I have about $2m and will be going to stay at home dad soon. Now everything at work seems like
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by paggle 7y ago
Ah yes, the dingbat vs 8D chess debate.
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by paggle 7y ago
Mirrorless is only a weight advantage in the APS-C size. At full frame there is almost no advantage.
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by paggle 7y ago
That delay is much lower now than it was a few years ago. It’s now around 10-20ms for the best performing models.
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by paggle 7y ago
Well back in the shrink wrap days you didn’t get improvements without buying a new version. And today you’re renting your software, and for any rental product you do expect that if you continue to rent it, it will eventually be improved&#x2
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by paggle 7y ago
Making you feel bad is a proven effective advertising strategy, and a proven terrible world to exist. There needs to be a pollution tax for advertising the way there should be for carbon. If you deliberately pump a harmful product out into
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by paggle 7y ago
Even if it's your favorite, a straight keyboard with no curve / separation to it is not good for your health.
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by paggle 7y ago
It’s not about why you don’t want it. It’s about why someone else does. Some people get their dead pets stuffed and keep them in their house. Maybe someone might do the same digitally with their loved ones. Maybe a couple will add in thei
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by paggle 7y ago
Some pros: Bereavement. It won’t be for everyone, but perhaps some people who have lost loved ones might like to feel that they are still alive by bringing them into modern day videos. Fantasies. You hear about how some people like to live
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by paggle 7y ago
Well it’s quite in fashion these days to call any person you disagree with a “bot.” Even though my Twitter account is very old I’ve been accused of being a “Russian bot” nearly every time I post something that diverges from the political “S
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by paggle 7y ago
“Out of the thousands of scripts that are gender-specific to men, here we have one that we know is gender-specific to women,” says Silber Anyone have more detail about these thousands of gender specific male scripts? Never heard of this.
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by paggle 7y ago
Can't this just be banned? "It is illegal for any individual or corporation to offer a driving route that uses streets designated as "Local" when the travel distance using streets marked as "Express" is shorter
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by paggle 7y ago
Ultimately the dead cannot have a permanent resting place on this earth. There are 100 billion people who have died, if it takes 25 square feet to bury one, the space occupied by the dead will eclipse that occupied by the living. After 100
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by paggle 7y ago
Yes, cryptocurrency and other digital currencies like Amazon gift card codes are used in Venezuela sometimes to avoid the theft risk of paper dollars.
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by paggle 7y ago
I’d bet you half of them react with envy rather than disgust when hearing stories like this.
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by paggle 7y ago
Even a ordinary new car like a Toyota Corolla will be vastly safer than your 15 year old car, even if the old one is a luxury brand.
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by paggle 7y ago
99% of China’s territory has less air pollution than Mexico City .
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by paggle 7y ago
This should be an add-on to companies like Tinder. People will provide a lot of data in the interest of finding a romantic or sexual partner. Tinder could say “sorry about that bad date but here’s this guy you might like living with!”
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by paggle 7y ago
Sure, now average them with the other companies like Microsoft Google Facebook Apple etc
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by paggle 7y ago
This is true for “successful tech companies” but not for “mega successful tech companies” (e.g. Top 10 of all time, like Apple Google Microsoft Facebook Amazon Netflix etc.) There you will find the median age closer to 20 than 30.
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by paggle 7y ago
Maybe we can finally unite the Democratic focus on the “little guy” with the Republican desire to hurt the Democratic donor class with the random number generator of the President and get some actual legislation passed here.

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