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by ponker 6y ago
I think they also fall into the "Seeing like a State" fallacy where they like to rank things that are measurable. So they look at things heavily like water consumption and cleaning ability, which are easy to measure, but not &quot
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by ponker 6y ago
Please don't go and do something crazy to pursue some kind of Forbes Magazine exit... "what if we did Artifact, but for the corporate training market." or VC bullshit. This is a genuinely important company to exist and you ca
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by ponker 6y ago
Why does a service need a "VC case?"
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by ponker 6y ago
3 years. Not much of a difference. But the old washer was always wet for a long time (even with the door left open) and the new one is always dry.
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by ponker 6y ago
I find Consumer Reports reviews to be very conservative. I bought their top rated washer in a rental apartment where the landlord told me to "buy whatever." It was a decent washer, but nothing too incredible, and got mildewy smell
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by ponker 6y ago
You do not need to make it end-user serviceable to make it environmentally friendly. You can make it serviceable with the tools and skills available at a mobile phone repair shop, which almost everyone has access to.
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by ponker 6y ago
The UK treasury is formally Her Majesty's Treasury, and the sovereign grant paid to her is actually a small portion of the money she puts in through the Crown Estate. So she is a net donor to the treasury, although she gets a major out
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by ponker 6y ago
"People are still amazed that at Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace there is a small time zone in the kitchens, where the clocks are always five minutes fast. This is so that the food arrives on time... it's a constant reminder
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by ponker 6y ago
Was sure that with this title it would be a mass layoff announcement.
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by ponker 6y ago
An app should request contacts data to do what contacts data is intended for ... place calls and messages to contacts. Anything else is an abuse of trust.
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by ponker 6y ago
Good. I didn't agree for NYU to have my Facebook data and for them to operate a plugin at scale which crawls my data (if anyone with permissions to see my profile installs this plugin) is a violation of my rights.
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by ponker 6y ago
I think Facebook makes a guess about whether you have a Facebook account or not (or, whether you are likely to log into it) and throws up the wall accordingly. If you'll just bail, they'll show it to you anyways. If they think the
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by ponker 6y ago
What are the diverse and interesting ideas that would not have occurred to you personally?
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by ponker 6y ago
And the concept of case law / precedent is an attempt to synthesize a point of view from multiple different judges. “Training data,” if you will.
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by ponker 6y ago
Per Citizens United, there's no such thing as an "illegal campaign contribution to the Democrats."
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by ponker 6y ago
Computer people probably see the nondeterministic behavior in words like “primarily” as evidence of a bug. To the law school graduates who write the laws, it’s a feature and not a bug that these decisions are made by a judge in a courtroom.
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by ponker 6y ago
LOL at the people threatening to quit Facebook. Quitting Facebook is like "going off the grid" -- sure, some people do it, but 99% of the people who threaten to will never even get close, and the people who actually do it don&#x27
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by ponker 6y ago
This is such an egregious violation of trust because end-users don't even choose to use Expensify. An exec makes that decision and everyone in the company has to use it, so when Expensify spams an end-user, it's like Expensify has
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by ponker 6y ago
The point is, the sensor size, lens variety, and ergonomics of a full size camera with the astonishingly good computational photography software of Apple or Google. You can’t do it with a standard camera because the software needs sensor da
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by ponker 6y ago
I’m sure Wilson has fired gobs of CEOs in his career. Probably happens to at least 1 of 10 VC funded startups.
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by ponker 6y ago
Capital One has always been a tech / big data powered company.
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by ponker 6y ago
Imagine if Apple or Google shipped a digital SLR with all of their software magic onboard (or executed on a paired phone).
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by ponker 6y ago
There are millions of alternative websites but behind those websites are a small number of infrastructure providers who can, and do, completely end a website's ability to operate. Just today, PayPal terminated the account of one of the
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by ponker 6y ago
But for this disease that's particularly bad because Covid has shown to be worst in 55+, obese, comorbidities, etc... which means that the trials on healthy groups are proving very little, since the virus itself is so much weaker on he
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by ponker 6y ago
What if McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy’s, Taco Bell, KFC, and Subway all decided to ban people whose name started with R? I’d be out of luck on any road trips and would have to look harder and pay more for a meal, and it would be grossly unf
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by ponker 6y ago
You’ll be happy you did. People talk about how laptops are “fast enough” which they are, but when you’re using them all day, things happening a tiny bit faster makes for a much more pleasant experience.
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by ponker 6y ago
They did a billion dollars of revenue last year, their management and hiring systems seem to be getting the job done.
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by ponker 6y ago
The law forces private property owners to pay taxes they don’t want to. The law forces restaurants to serve “coloreds” even if they don’t want to. Private property rights operate within limits circumscribed by the law. And a good law to gov
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by ponker 6y ago
And this is why free speech (beyond what the First Amendment guarantees) is important. We shouldn't be having Zuckerberg or Pichai's opinion on the relative moral differences between Leila Khaled and the CCP affect what speech we
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by ponker 6y ago
Imagine letting a corporation decide when you are allowed to perform literally the oldest ritual of life on Earth.

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