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by rexreed 5y ago
Keep in mind I was quoting the whole review, that last bit about hawaiian-shirt is not my comment, it's in the review for anyone who might be offended.
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by rexreed 5y ago
Another top review says (after giving it 1 star): > Meandering, confused, and overall a waste of time, 'Subprime Attention Crisis' kicks up a big fuss but never lands the knockout blow it thinks it does. Comparisons with the 20
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by rexreed 5y ago
From the first review I see on the Amazon page (I'm not linking, so I don't to pass traffic but it's very easy to find via search). Top review on the page that I see is 2 stars: > I don't buy it Reviewed in the United
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by rexreed 5y ago
G employee: how does that work for Google Docs? You can only backup export versions of docs, and you lose most of the collaboration capability.
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by rexreed 5y ago
According to the article, that expectation is not meeting reality.
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by rexreed 5y ago
I have more concerns about Google Docs than Google Drive. While files can be moved around and used pretty much the same offline as online, the same cannot be said about the use of Google Docs for collaborative document editing. If you'
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by rexreed 5y ago
In this case, public markets. Public companies are flush with cash and finding few places to park it to gain a positive return. Acquisitions, stock buy-backs, and similar are ways to juice overall return. Intuit gains a recurring revenue st
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by rexreed 5y ago
What's newsworthy about this? In Maryland, both Howard County and Montgomery County have had this tax / fee in place for a while. The bag tax / fee is in counties, municipalities, and districts (including DC) across the natio
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by rexreed 5y ago
There are other ways of structuring bonus and non-salary compensation besides "equity" which honestly can get employees just as stuffed in an acquisition as firms without any equity. The silicon valley model is not the only way t
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by rexreed 5y ago
Sure, the article does that, but not Spring themselves. Spring responds to the product creator that it's not their fault, it's Affinity's fault for trademark enforcement. But the reality is that it's not Affinity's
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by rexreed 5y ago
This makes it seem that Affinity is the prosecuting party, but it's actually just Spring being overly zealous. In fact, Spring are doing more enforcement than the supposed trademark-owning entity itself. I can see protecting a readily-
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by rexreed 5y ago
Then is there much of a cost-advantage to self-hosting or is it more about control?
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by rexreed 5y ago
How do you make sure you have maximum deliverability, don't end up spam flagged, and end up in the main inbox and not promotions / spam filtered?
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by rexreed 5y ago
I love the camping experience and the freedom of being on the road with all its flexibility. However, the sense I get is that some of the reasons for much of the camping-in-your-van, sleeping in a car, tiny home interest is because of the i
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by rexreed 5y ago
This is the problem with these twitter-thread microblog posts. There's never enough space to really explain or discuss something. It seems to me that Twitter microblogging a complex, multipart idea is a quick way of getting half-baked
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by rexreed 5y ago
Just trying it out now, but why is it not good for products?
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by rexreed 5y ago
These are all the very same reasons why MBAs and B-school grads work for the "Big 4" Consultancies (Deloitte, EY, KPMG, Accenture). They work there a few years for "Resume fodder", all the while being ground down with 80
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by rexreed 5y ago
As a side note, this is more evidence that we're about to see the pendulum swing back towards decentralized IT systems. Social media, megatech companies, censorship, and privacy issues are taking some of the shine off highly centralize
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by rexreed 5y ago
Isn't this the "kids watch too much TV" of the Z generation? I mean, I know that gaming in large quantities to the exclusion of social interaction and education is harmful, but that's what was also said about TV and the
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by rexreed 5y ago
Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
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by rexreed 5y ago
Hold up. While I don't doubt the general conclusions of the article and most of the top comments here, the data they are using to back up their conclusions come from Social Blade which is notoriously inaccurate. Using Twitter followers
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by rexreed 5y ago
Yes but the creditors / investors would gain control of that asset. Is this the best way to spend $1.5M as a startup?
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by rexreed 5y ago
Why is it so important to get an expensive domain? Does the three-letter .com really add that much value? Especially when it's not a B2C product / offering and specific to a focused audience? I'd think a three-letter .com wou
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by rexreed 5y ago
CSV will never go away. But surely we can build better systems to handle all the complexities and variability in CSV? If we can handle image recognition with all its complexities, we can handle the more constrained variety in CSVs. There ar
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by rexreed 5y ago
Thanks! That looks like the one. How do these patents make it through the "novel, unique, and non-obvious" evaluation process by examiners?
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by rexreed 5y ago
When I click on the link above it says that the current patent status is "Abandoned"?
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by rexreed 5y ago
How was the sun in your eyes during the midnight drive back east to west in NJ? Even during the summer solstice, sunset is around 9pm in NJ. I get your point though, driving bleary eyed is not only soul sucking, but very dangerous for yours
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by rexreed 5y ago
Ok,let's stop and think. The article is saying that the rate of deforestation stopped increasing in the 1980s, and since then we've made gains on reforestation as well as stopping the increase in deforestation rate. What exactly w
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by rexreed 5y ago
You might be surprised by the actual facts on this matter: https://news.mongabay.com/2018/09/whats-causing-deforestatio... And in particular: "The study found that clearing forests for oil palm plantations li
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by rexreed 5y ago
Nutella is the least of your issues. "Palm oil is the most consumed vegetable oil on the planet." "The food industry is responsible for 72% world wide usage of palm oil. Cosmetics and cleaning products are responsible for a f

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