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by qq66 10y ago
The potentially extreme consequences of voicing one's opinions today (with every utterance permanent and Earth-visible) is also what creates the extreme nastiness seen in anonymous speech forums like Reddit or voting booths. If people
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Cashiers aren't salespeople. Salespeople are people who convince you to buy something. Higher-end stores have them, grocery stores do not.
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I'm about to start working on that.
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That would have caused endless conflict-of-interest headaches.
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The insurance industry doesn't necessarily want that world of no accidents. No accidents means nothing to insure.
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I did... how would you measure the effectiveness of the strobe in humans?
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by qq66 10y ago
Well, as far as I can tell, the result only demonstrated a reduction of amyloid plaque in the visual cortex, so an experiment on humans wouldn't really work (you have to kill the subjects and inspect their brains for the current experi
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by qq66 10y ago
Yes, but speaking as someone who has used Google's great advertising tools as well as mailed a money order to a niche forum owner to run an ad, the advertisers will put up with anything if you can deliver converting users.
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by qq66 10y ago
I think you should pay more per unit for a pool or massive outdoor fountain than for drinking and showering. And the water company does, too -- many water companies charge very little for the first X gallons (for basic needs) and then charg
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by qq66 10y ago
I've had good experiences with hard-to-find items on eBay by following two simple rules: 1) I will only buy an expensive item from a seller with thousands of reviews and a 99.8% rating or higher, and 2) I will only sell an expensive it
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by qq66 10y ago
Earrings need to either fail structurally or tear through your earlobe to be lost. Apple AirPods don't need to do either, they can just fall out.
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The government is the highest-status and highest-paying employer in Singapore. The education systems are extremely strong, they send students all over the world for higher education, and those students usually return to Singapore to work fo
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by qq66 10y ago
The strawberry is perhaps the best evidence that the physical layout of sugars matters tremendously. A fresh strawberry tastes incredibly sweet. But blend up a pound of those strawberries and it tastes wretched without added sugar. Since th
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by qq66 10y ago
If the maximum penalty is losing one's job, the incentives are aligned towards maximum risk as losses are capped at zero. If prison is off the table, the fines need to be large enough so that the perpetrator loses all of his assets, sa
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by qq66 10y ago
That's different because it's an end-user action, not an internal action. I always know that the person who is saying that they're a Navy SEAL may not be or that it might be Morgan Freeman's or President Obama's PR
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It's hard to buy an iPhone on Walmart wages.
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This isn't the "wrong candidate" who has "wrong" policy views like Ted Cruz or Pat Buchanan. This is a candidate who doesn't really have the basic self-control to stop Tweeting when he knows it's hurting h
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by qq66 10y ago
Snapchat is not going to do this. Facebook's business model is built around ads disguised as content, whereas Snapchat makes the ads clear and separate from the content. Snapchat is more like TV -- if you want to promote your brand, bu
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by qq66 10y ago
It's an obvious misattribution. John Cleese is much funnier than this.
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Would it go against democracy for a billionaire to install bollards around his Bentley, merely drawing attention to a parking spot that the city has embraced on paper?
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At least in SF, there is a public hearing for any new permanent stop sign.
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The problem is that humans do primarily (not solely) use vision to drive, but they have mental models about the other driver. I remember once I was at a red light and when it turned green, I looked at the oncoming driver (far away) and thou
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Most retailers don't have any different of an "idea" than "pay us money for stuff." They're differentiated on brand, positioning, marketing, customer service, etc. LL Bean's "idea" is the same as
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Most of those laws are very useful and are there for a clear reason. Fingers crossed that Donald Trump and Paul Ryan are more thoughtful about which regulations to throw out.
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by qq66 10y ago
A lot of podcast consumption is while driving, where operating the phone is dangerous and illegal. I would especially like an option to skip advertising when I'm listening to two episodes from the same podcast and the closing ads from
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by qq66 10y ago
Opening the bread to inspect the contents: illegal search. Holding it with one hand: illegal seizure. Reviews based on the above: subject to the exclusionary rule. All mentions of the contents must be stricken from the record.
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by qq66 10y ago
Doesn't help that MacBooks are so slippery. It's the single reason that I bought a Dell instead. Too easy to drop or slide off my lap, and it's not really feasible to put it in a rubber case like I do with my phone.
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What I'd actually prefer to do is actually pay someone to do real work for the company, like an actually useful task, but there are lot of complications with that. There are costs to "hiring" someone even for a small task (Ta
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You'd never fake thousands of emails. You'd fake one email and insert it into a set of thousands of real emails.
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You don't "just have strong foundations in CS," you also have strong foundations in interviewing, whether you consciously developed those skills or not. The problem is that those interviewing skills aren't really relevan

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