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691.
by rdl 8y ago
The non-PC argument here is that diversity directly opposed to community, and I think there's some truth to it. If everyone in an area has lived there for their entire lives, it doesn't really matter if it's apartment buildi
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by rdl 8y ago
Maybe Amazon should let users opt in to “amazon labs” UX experiments around the core shopping experience. I’d love to be part of a trial which merged kindle store, physical books, a scanning service, a concierge “shop for hard to find book
693.
by rdl 8y ago
Singapore is the jurisdiction (not third world, obviously) which is famous for paying "market" salaries to leaders. From everything I've seen/read, they get value for money. Presidential salary is about USD 3.5mm/yr
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by rdl 8y ago
I'd like to keep the TouchID without touchbar, but what I really want is shortpassword+touchid (failing back to longpassword) everywhere they currently only support longpaswordpassword||touchid.
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by rdl 8y ago
Why not set up a small collective to do this for all of the members, rather than just yourself?
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by rdl 8y ago
Beijing Mode is probably what they really meant, but Bioweapon Defense Mode is less-bad.
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by rdl 8y ago
Deprecated. There's no longer an export/import button. This changed in 2016 or 2017.
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by rdl 8y ago
Everything about AWS is too confusing. Exporting data from dynamodb, if it's more than 100 records, requires a bunch of setting up data pipeline, etc. An equivalent dump given something like mongodb would be one command.
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by rdl 8y ago
DJI or other drone companies could be the solution to Venezuela’s problems. Almost happened a few months ago.
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by rdl 8y ago
Yeah, you could accomplish this for hq to satellite office over private circuits, MPLS, etc. That wouldn’t be enabled by default. If a carrier made a point of on-net connections being protected by default, it would probably be easier for mo
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by rdl 8y ago
Only really at colos. What scares me is businesses with key business partners, satellite offices, etc who just rely on the Internet working normally to communicate between them. If someone like L3 sold a premium network it would be worthwh
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by rdl 8y ago
Why isn’t there a “premium” commercial Internet, similar to DOD NIPRnet, for b2b stuff and for communications to vetted infrastructure? A random business on the Internet (eyeball, not servers) cares a lot more about routes to AWS and Google
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by rdl 8y ago
There is definitely commercial/political/etc. benefit to the US if it has businesspeople from multiple countries, but there's as much diversity of business relationships and value between, say, a Beijing entrepreneur and a Sh
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by rdl 8y ago
The obvious solution (making h1b non-transferable across employers again, without even the 30 day window) probably causes more harm than benefit here. I assume someone could abusively misuse h1b in the traditional Wipro/Infosys way any
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by rdl 8y ago
Which they did, described in article. As I was reading it I kept coming up with “why not X instead” and a paragraph or two later they recognized that point and addressed it to my satisfaction.
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by rdl 8y ago
If people think whales shouldn't be killed for moral/aesthetic/religious/whatever reasons, and can convince everyone else to agree (presumably at the level of nation states), that's fine even if they're not all
707.
by rdl 8y ago
Is the problem with whaling that whales are endangered, or that they're "too intelligent"? If the latter, is there a similar issue with hunting non-human primates?
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by rdl 8y ago
This is like the business version of Assassination Politics leading to all identifiable people being utterly milquetoast and all activity happening under crypto-secure nyms. Someone will win an Econ Nobel for this.
709.
by rdl 8y ago
The peak "redbull-stockpiling" was "so we'd have stuff for later" or "for the office/truck/etc." I've certainly consumed 1g/day of caffeine fairly often. The biggest problem is once y
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by rdl 8y ago
Red Bull cans fit in 37/40mm round ammo pouches/elastic loops, something I learned in Iraq (I never had a 40mm, but there are a lot of molle pouches for 40mm which were useful for other stuff). Also Amazon or reship-stuff-from-Ama
711.
by rdl 8y ago
If they didn't want you to order it by the pallet, it wouldn't have an NSN :) Ambien was also handed out for long-haul flights for a lot of people, which was pretty nice when crossing a bunch of time zones. I don't know at wh
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by rdl 8y ago
I knew the Iraq war was going downhill when in 2004/2005 the DFACs switched from "free unlimited Red Bull" (4-6 per meal, plus whatever you filled pockets with and drank in between) to Rip-Its and a limit of 2 for takeout.
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by rdl 8y ago
Nat Friedman running this is one of the reasons I don't worry much. Plus, Microsoft buying GitHub meant...Oracle, IBM, etc. couldn't buy it, which removes a lot of risk.
714.
by rdl 8y ago
It would be interesting if they bought Workhorse, the electric delivery drone and pickup and van company. Low market cap, lots of good projects out, and possibly complementary capabilities.
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by rdl 8y ago
Zeo sleep monitor, a low accuracy low precision low cost EEG-based sleep monitor, which worked a lot better for me than the movement-based systems. What I mainly cared about was tracking when I actually went to sleep.
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by rdl 8y ago
A series where people used technical surveillance using devices like these (IOTINT? IDK what the term of art is yet), OSINT from online things like FB, various forms of legal process (civil, LE, NS, and extralegal), etc. to go after "t
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by rdl 8y ago
It would be fine if keys were held locally or in a loyal-to-end-user way, and data stored dumbly in the cloud. This would break business models fundamentally and also require a lot of technical rearchitecting, though. (Ideally you'd
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by rdl 8y ago
PMs are often founders of acquired companies. You could easily have a CEO of a $50m acquisition come in and be a Dir-level PM or whatever and paid >$1mm/yr in total comp (due to how you handle earn-out, etc.)
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by rdl 8y ago
I find it impossible to pay any RIAA affiliated artist or label for music after the battles we had in the late 90s/early 00s. I pirate some music, but basically listen to audiobooks (which I happily pay for; I probably spend $1k/y
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by rdl 8y ago
Synchrony Bank is the shittiest banking vendor I have ever encountered; cancelled my Amazon Store Card because of how horrible they are. (also the Amazon Prime Chase card gives the same 5% benefit)

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