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by quesera 2y ago
The problem is that, by extension, the clause can be applied to literally anything, if the Court finds it useful to do so.
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by quesera 2y ago
> ByteDance is as disorganized as any other big tech company, and it would be approximately impossible I've worked for AT&T, and letmetellyou about disorganization and corporate ineffectiveness. And yet: https://e
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by quesera 2y ago
I think you're proving my point though. While it's true that people follow their affirming media (e.g. Tucker Carlson), they also accept a lot of what he says, without critical thought. The "facts" he presents are the ba
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by quesera 2y ago
Err yes, exactly. Or perhaps flaunting a disregard for. :)
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by quesera 2y ago
I've also seen this at a medium-sized (~100 store) regional grocery chain in the northeast US. Not sure who built it. Presumably not an in-house product.
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by quesera 2y ago
I'd guess that's a similar-customers profile. Most people don't buy hub nuts. Those that do, often also buy wash cycle timer assemblies. But yeah, I don't think an Amazon ad will be the driver for that kind of purchase.
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by quesera 2y ago
Probably $200K by the time you get to a prototype that you can demo in a test store and watch peoples' interactions for a couple days. But I'm pretty sure it would never have needed to get that far.
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by quesera 2y ago
Amazon shows you previously purchased products in case you're considering a return. They want you to buy your next choice from them too. It's nuts to imagine that Amazon hasn't done the math here. Pizza rolls, on the other ha
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by quesera 2y ago
This should never have been anything more than a $20K experiment. Arguably not even that.
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by quesera 2y ago
Apropos of nothing, but I appreciate the flaunting of branding best practices, and aerospace superstition, in the naming of Blue Origin (BO) and New Glenn (NG).
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by quesera 2y ago
By your stated logic, all laws and enforceable contracts are slavery. I'm sure you've heard this before, but that reduces "slavery" to "obligation" or "commitment", and dilutes atrocity to banal.
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by quesera 2y ago
Well-executed propaganda does not need to attempt direct change in thought. It sows ideas that are net-beneficial to the propagandist. Leans into the ones that get traction. Manipulates the conversation. Provides simplistic (but advantageou
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by quesera 2y ago
I don't miss the causality at all. I think you greatly overestimate people's willingness to critically examine ideas that are surfaced within their affinity group. Causality works both ways. People are drawn to their affirming med
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by quesera 2y ago
I have no idea how you can believe that media does not affect a person's beliefs. The evidence is all around you.
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by quesera 2y ago
How can this be surprising? If you identify, contemplate, and sometimes activate an attack vector against rivals, how could you possibly be dumb enough to leave yourself exposed to the same attack? Also, note that China has blocked this att
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by quesera 2y ago
Re: Apple's 164K employees. Keep in mind that approximately 50% work in the retail stores.
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by quesera 2y ago
> I don't know how I'd have managed without vim + vim-slime. This is interesting -- I've worked with people who swear by common lisp, emacs, and SLIME. I'm happiest with ruby and vim, but I have not tried vim-slime
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by quesera 2y ago
There's a disaster going on today, this very hour, and your suggestions are absurdly impractical. There's a time for "just spitballing here", or "divergent thought, no bad ideas". And you can probably find some
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by quesera 2y ago
FYI that quote originates neither from Red Hat, nor from Gandhi (the usual misattribution). Consensus attribution appears to be: Union leader Nicholas Klein in 1914: > And, my friends, in this story you have a history of this entire mov
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by quesera 2y ago
It's not a euphemism. It's an epithet. There's an interesting etymology of "retarded". Also "idiot", "imbecile", "moron", etc. These were clinical classifications, initially used in the
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by quesera 2y ago
Multiple notifications are a great feature. I use two: "10 minutes before" and "1 minute before". Because 10 minutes is just enough to wrap up something I'm in the middle of, and simultaneously, 10 minutes is well p
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by quesera 2y ago
On some level, all invention is a novel arrangement of existing components. All the way down to the physics, if you're willing. So, does anyone "invent" anything? But if we accept "patentable" as a proxy for "i
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by quesera 2y ago
Thanks for this. I've never used WordStar, and my knowledge of early word processing software is certainly incomplete, but this is the first time I've seen such a screenshot that predates 1984.
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by quesera 2y ago
Honestly, I do not see the different fonts in the image. I see the status line showing the Courier font name. If it is different from the body text, I cannot distinguish it. Obviously WordStar was limited by what DOS could render, so the va
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by quesera 2y ago
Yikes. You might be blessed with a brain for written communication. If I did not allow myself revision and improvement to my written text, everything I write would read like a spoken monologue, and be multiple times longer than necessary to
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by quesera 2y ago
I'd call those two "styles" of the same font family. The Macintosh system software shipped with about 12 distinctly-different fonts. Most of which also had italic, bold, outline, etc styles. These fonts could also be rendered
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by quesera 2y ago
Consumer printers were dot matrix at the time, and they were not adequately high density to print fonts. That's correct. But the AppleWriter printer was high DPI and could render fonts. And then of course the Apple LaserWriter came a
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by quesera 2y ago
This is the same argument that was used for decades to suggest that NSA was not hoovering up all voice communications though. It is technically possible. There is adequate motivation by capable parties to do so. Apple would be negligent if
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by quesera 2y ago
Apple has always done both -- invented and refined. Claiming that Apple does not invent is as gobsmackingly wrong as claiming that Apple invented everything.
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by quesera 2y ago
> textual WYSIWYG You said it. WordStar did not have fonts. MacWrite did. WYSIWYG without fonts is ... I don't know ... "textual WYSIWYG"? Whatever that is.

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