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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s not like you can just switch insurance companies in the US. Most people have healthcare coverage through their employer.
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by pavlov 2y ago
What company would sign a lifetime exclusivity contract? Four years is an eternity in the mobile phone business.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Is that how it works when military personnel is called to assist in disaster rescue? “Seems kind of dangerous. I’m a professional, I won’t go there, let’s wait for amateur volunteers to show up.”
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by pavlov 2y ago
Apple in 2006 wasn’t a computer company, they were the iPod company. It was huge as a consumer product. And that was the only thing that could convince a carrier to take a bet with Apple: they wanted exclusivity on the “next iPod”.
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by pavlov 2y ago
I had the N770, the N800 and also the N900. It’s very telling that someone at Nokia thought it’s basically like the iPhone. In fact the N800 was a thick plastic chunk with no cellular, a resistive touchscreen, and a stylus-driven GTK+ user
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by pavlov 2y ago
This archive is all about the R&D prototypes. Unfortunately the website makes it impossible to find anything.
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by pavlov 2y ago
This is probably the one you mean, the oval-shaped "3G concept" touchscreen device from 1999-2000: https://nokiadesignarchive.aalto.fi/index.html?node=C0001 You can hover over the "related entries" links
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by pavlov 2y ago
What a mess. The graph nodes slowly crawl around, as if to ensure that when you click you won't hit the thing you meant. Feels like something built in Flash during Nokia's heady days. (Unintentional irony? Nokia was known as a com
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by pavlov 2y ago
It’s not always easy to keep up with the Republicans’ evolving positions. For the past century, they told everyone that it was none of the government’s business what people choose to eat. Now it suddenly is. It does have a whiff of trying t
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by pavlov 2y ago
Like I said, it's not a serious proposal, just a thought experiment. Indeed America now has "innovators capable of making humanity multi-planetary" (whom some would call egoistic oligarchs) + mostly shit government (and polit
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by pavlov 2y ago
Imagine if Americans had a national fund like that. USA has 60x the population of Norway. So the American equivalent would be rich enough to own… 90% of all listed companies in the world! That’s just a provocative thought experiment. But it
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by pavlov 2y ago
Product companies tend to have more product managers and less project managers (they’re usually called something else, like simply software engineering managers or tech leads who have take on the project management duties). Traditional ente
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by pavlov 2y ago
Did pg really think through the timing of this essay? Whether his intention or not, releasing this right now feels like it's part of a concerted effort by the SV ultra-rich to convince their fans that Trump Is Good Actually.
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by pavlov 2y ago
Would this essay be on the HN frontpage if it was written by anyone else?
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by pavlov 2y ago
You’re completely discounting networks, yet most of what people achieve comes through them. Nobel physics prize winners in the 20th century were very often Jewish. And that’s neither evidence of bias for them in the award process, nor evide
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by pavlov 2y ago
Was your previous hiring process actually getting you “the best”? In that case you’re much better at hiring than any corporation I’ve ever seen. I was at Facebook for several years, and the hiring process was 90% noise where everyone preten
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by pavlov 2y ago
Exactly! Getting the prize had nothing to do with them being Jewish, or that such bias was in the process. They were simply excellent researchers in the right place at the right time. And similarly we have no evidence that lesbian firefight
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by pavlov 2y ago
Do you really think being a successful leader in a fire department is about muscle mass and genetics? Or that IQ tests predict physics Nobels? My lord…
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by pavlov 2y ago
We’re talking about corporations, not political parties. If this enforcement to hire unqualified people is happening, surely there’s lots of evidence? Internal emails and messages regularly get released as part of lawsuits. There must be lo
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by pavlov 2y ago
And by this same logic, the Nobel Committee for Physics has an obvious historical bias towards Jews, right? What else could explain 37 Jewish physics Nobel winners in the 20th century? People can simply be good at something. Maybe lesbian f
741.
by pavlov 2y ago
Enforced how exactly? You’re contradicting yourself. You say it’s “vibes and fuzzy warm words”, but those can’t be enforced.
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by pavlov 2y ago
The thing about DEI is that people seem to think it’s about giving unjust benefits to some specific groups they don’t like, and ignore the fact that it also benefits groups they do like. I don’t think right-wingers have a problem with being
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by pavlov 2y ago
That’s standard authoritarian gaslighting. “Why did you do this thing?” “Sir, you told us to.” “Don’t argue with me. You’re fired”
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by pavlov 2y ago
English spelling could be significantly improved by adding a few optional accents. They could be purely additive: the ASCII spellings would remain valid for those who prefer to use them. Native English speakers don’t seem to quite grasp how
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by pavlov 2y ago
The poet Guillaume Apollinaire was also arrested on suspicion of this theft. He wrote a poem about the experience of being jailed: https://allpoetry.com/poem/14329550---La-Sant--by-Guillaume-... I think “La Santé” was
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by pavlov 2y ago
So many people in these comments are arguing some form of: “Let’s first figure out if the homelessness is actually the person’s own fault. If we can really be confident that they’re repentant and sober, then we should perhaps consider helpi
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by pavlov 2y ago
> “People act as if voicing these observations out loud automatically places you in the ‘incel’ category.” Quite the strawman. Does anybody claim that? Women would certainly agree that social circles everywhere tend to be genderized. A
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by pavlov 2y ago
What is the question you’re asking here? I’m Finnish and I have a close family member with a severe mental illness, so I should be reasonably well positioned to answer your question. But it doesn’t make any sense to me. How does any of this
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by pavlov 2y ago
The new Meta rules have a carve-out that allows allegations of mental illness and abnormality based on gender and sexual orientation, but no other reason. You’re seemingly making the argument that this is good because those allegations are
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by pavlov 2y ago
I’m still shaken by this, two days later. It’s not a mistake or some kind of ambiguous rule that could be misread. Following is the direct quote from Meta’s new guidelines. You can’t insult people based on: Mental characteristics, includin

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