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721.
by ponker 6y ago
OK, someone missed out on her fundamental human right to be shown a handbag. Not pleasant, but not a real worry.
722.
by ponker 6y ago
Do you remember ring BACK tones? In some countries you could choose what your ring sounded like on someone else's phone. So I could force your phone to play the latest Britney Spears track or whatever. Complete violation of personal sp
723.
by ponker 6y ago
Hum, interesting, but that's why I said that open source needs to pay more attention to branding, not to Ovid.
724.
by ponker 6y ago
You have a good point -- I've never heard of other languages, so that's why it sounded like sarcoma or carcinoma or lymphoma or melanoma or those kinds of words to me.
725.
by ponker 6y ago
I don't know about French but "oma" is the medical suffix for swelling/growth, whether benign or malignant. E.g. sarcoma/carcinoma/lymphoma/melanoma/hematoma.
726.
by ponker 6y ago
Just because a person is gay doesn’t mean that they care about gay rights, especially if they are a billionaire, because nobody really impinges on a billionaire’s rights. As an analogy, say some anti-Semitism was spreading on Twitter and th
727.
by ponker 6y ago
sounds like a type of cancer. open source needs to pay more attention to branding.
728.
by ponker 6y ago
yep... waiting until 2010 to get vaccinated against measles definitely says “high IQ”
729.
by ponker 6y ago
As much as I hate seeing douchebag criminals get rich, I do like that they establish a financial Cost of poor security.
730.
by ponker 6y ago
It wasn’t just patent infringement — they stole corporate documents and assets from Peloton Levandowski-style. There are other companies doing exercise streaming like Mirror which haven’t had to shut down so I don’t think this is some kind
731.
by ponker 6y ago
Just taking a hard pass on all pharmaceuticals developed in the last 20 years is not a highly optimized strategy.
732.
by ponker 6y ago
Depends on the relative risks. I can imagine an 80 year old in a US nursing home jumping on the barely tested vaccine while a 23-year-old New Zealander waits for more information.
733.
by ponker 6y ago
I thought this was going to be about some dumbfuck VC but OK, for Knuth this silly headline is acceptable.
734.
by ponker 6y ago
Also of all the big tech companies Microsoft is probably the worst at psychological warfare to hack into people’s brains and change their behaviors. As annoying as Microsoft Office is, it’s not trying to manipulate your political beliefs or
735.
by ponker 6y ago
But the pay for each of those is orders of magnitude apart.
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by ponker 6y ago
If you fast forward the progress 30 years you can imagine the near-perfect simulation of any experience which just has wild implications for society. If everyone's house can feel like Versailles and their food taste like lobster and th
737.
by ponker 6y ago
21 billion is 3 per person per year for everyone in the world, including rural goat herders etc. who don’t consume very many. I don’t doubt the number but it’s still wild.
738.
by ponker 6y ago
But if we are doing nonsense comparisons let’s use the number of ARM clock cycles for devices you own.
739.
by ponker 6y ago
There was a thing called Birdly at the SF exploratorium that was just insanely great. It was a metal frame that you strapped into with a fan in front of you and VR goggles. As you flew though the city by moving your arms, the frame tilted s
740.
by ponker 6y ago
You're not taking into account any of the strategic value to Microsoft. Like how they can integrate LI Sales Navigator into Dynamics to compete with Salesforce, etc.
741.
by ponker 6y ago
You do know that LinkedIn is doing somewhere near $10 billion of revenue a year, right?
742.
by ponker 6y ago
More easily avoided by just ordering on Amazon to begin with, after trying it out at Best Buy if I feel like it.
743.
by ponker 6y ago
What does the 17yo have to do with it? Would it be different for an 18yo?
744.
by ponker 6y ago
Spotify is distributing 70% but $10/month is too little revenue for infinite music.
745.
by ponker 6y ago
So then... how does more tax revenue help with the healthcare and public transportation you're talking about?
746.
by ponker 6y ago
Very clever to limit the tax to people making over $1 million — at that level, your pay is based more on who you know than what you know, making it harder for them to “vote with their feet” and leave California.
747.
by ponker 6y ago
Adjusted for inflation the state budget has ~tripled in the last 20 years. How much healthcare and decent public transportation has it gotten us?
748.
by ponker 6y ago
Part of it is definitely that, and it's worked. I finally did install the Reddit app on my phone which makes me much more valuable to advertisers. It's user-hostile, but there's a business method to the madness.
749.
by ponker 6y ago
I walk into Best Buy thinking I can get a price match on a digital camera because they advertise price matching. They say sorry, "this is the Best Buy exclusive version of that very popular camera, we can't price match it. You see
750.
by ponker 6y ago
1) It's not that common, it's not like rolling a 6, but it is very alarming when it happens to you. I've had it happen once and never again bought anything food or baby-related from Amazon. 2) Some of the fakes are very good,

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