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by ponker 6y ago
My dad just bought one so he could get out while social distancing.
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by ponker 6y ago
Yeah, it's brick-and-mortal terminology.
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by ponker 6y ago
There should be a word for self-important pedantry that is somewhere between "groundless" and "wrong." Quarterly results include much more than earnings and the term is widespread.
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by ponker 6y ago
The members of Congress weren't trying to get answers from Facebook, they were trying to go viral on Facebook.
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by ponker 6y ago
Notably, YouTube is absent from "Everyone else"
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by ponker 6y ago
Yeah, something must be amiss to get a $1 billion SaaS valuation at $710m revenue. This is not the whole story.
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by ponker 6y ago
What changed with Cat6?
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by ponker 6y ago
Why teach kids how to do anything? Why teach them math, swimming, writing, eating healthy, etc? You can find people who didn’t learn any of this stuff until they were 27 and “turned out fine.”
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by ponker 6y ago
Code is everywhere in our world. It governs our behaviors, our desires, our politics. Everyone needs to learn to code for the same reason that everyone needs to learn to cook — code is such a major component of your life that you’d be well
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by ponker 6y ago
The toy doesn’t provide the learning — it provides the motivation.
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by ponker 6y ago
Fired as in not paid for the two weeks? That’s very unusual but being shown the door when you give notice and having your desk effects delivered to you is not at all uncommon.
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by ponker 6y ago
As a rich person I am happy to pay for UBI as it lowers the likelihood that I will be the victim of a possibly violent crime by someone with not enough to lose. The one modification I’d make is that a violent felony conviction docks 5 years
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by ponker 6y ago
Option 1 simply won't work for customers. If a customer is buying something from the Amazon.com website they should expect to be able to get answers about it from Amazon. If a customer was defrauded or didn't get their product etc
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by ponker 6y ago
It's like asking to prove that you haven't been hacked. You can't. The questioner should have been asking about access control, how many people allowed to access, rules about accessing, auditing, how audits are screened for v
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by ponker 6y ago
This was always an inevitability. China could ostensibly take territory from any of its neighbors except Russia. The idea that a small island would be able to stay independent was temporary.
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by ponker 6y ago
No, this is the kind of thing that CEOs take for themselves and cancel meetings that teams have spent 3 months preparing for. Of course he will have asked each team to deliver him draft language but I'm sure the final language is his.
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by ponker 6y ago
If you just read massive amounts of books to your kids starting at 6 months you don't have to worry about any of this. My kids were reading chapter books at age 4 because I read them 20+ board books a day when they were babies, and I d
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by ponker 6y ago
Overmatched in intellect but not in raw power. Bezos has managed to piss off Democrats and Trumpists so any anti-Amazon legislation is viable.
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by ponker 6y ago
Companies are necessarily managed for the quarter and countries should be managed for the century.
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by ponker 6y ago
“I would switch sites easily if there was a compelling alternative, but I haven't heard of one.” That’s because it’s difficult to unseat an incumbent in a market where there are strong network effects, which is also the same reason tha
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by ponker 6y ago
I can't think of two more dissimilar stories than Remington and Intel. This is like saying "The Color Purple" feels very similar to "The Da Vinci Code."
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by ponker 6y ago
You can change almost anything about your personality.
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by ponker 6y ago
I prefer loud cars. I’ve often been surprised by bad drivers driving Teslas while the bad drivers in ICE cars I hear approaching.
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by ponker 6y ago
This virus has taught me that I absolutely loathe WFH. I don’t even like people or talking to them but I like having them around and I’ll drive an hour each way to make that happen.
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by ponker 6y ago
Don’t think this is available on Windows 10 Home.
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by ponker 6y ago
Does n64 have a frame buffer?
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by ponker 6y ago
Sure, but you’re seeing the effect of earning a bad reputation, which is that all of your actions are interpreted uncharitably.
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by ponker 6y ago
I don’t think the sentence is awkward at all.
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by ponker 6y ago
They didn’t want the PR risk of owning the app
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by ponker 6y ago
I didn’t get close to 1000 responses, maybe a few hundred, and it wasn’t just the feedback that was useful, those few hundred people I regularly conversed with were the real champions and evangelists for the business.

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