rhizome

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961.
by rhizome 7y ago
Touch screens for all purposes? Probably good to distinguish if some things, even at your company, should not be dynamic (are they dynamic?). Some life-critical thing that is vulnerable to an uncovered sneeze?
962.
by rhizome 7y ago
On the other hand, three weeks ago I bought a car polisher for a good price from a nice guy a few cities over.
963.
by rhizome 7y ago
I think the idea is to run it with a handful of people and no VC .
964.
by rhizome 7y ago
Just based on your off the cuff description I'd be seriously thinking about jumping ship. At least update your resume so you don't have to when the day finally comes (either by your initiative or theirs).
965.
by rhizome 7y ago
Oh, but they just had to get enterprisey and create "Meetup Pro," so they needed a bunch of bizdev and client services people.
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by rhizome 7y ago
Amazon isn't going to put much effort into automating reminders for you to keep your bill low.
967.
by rhizome 7y ago
Let's not be naive, the VCs are in SV so the assholes flock there. 150 years ago they were named "carpetbaggers."
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by rhizome 7y ago
> Except the horrible "trap" is not something many people care much about. What makes you so sure?
969.
by rhizome 7y ago
So this is a requirement that all webapps phone home, moreover that they have a home to phone?
970.
by rhizome 7y ago
Right? All of the starting from scratch I've done! All of the projects I've put off because style is one of the first things I've have to decide on (e.g. blogs).
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by rhizome 7y ago
As we learned from the gospel of "Sneakers," you're thinking of the FBI. The NSA is not chartered for domestic surveillance. :P https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneakers_(1992_film)
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by rhizome 7y ago
With its paparazzi industry, California probably has one of the more restrictive Peeping Tom Laws, and that law requires the peeper to be looking into a door or a window while on private property . I infer from a little extra googling that
973.
by rhizome 7y ago
Hasn't Google Now (and now Assistant) always required a button/icon press before the mic turned on? And they only understand "OK Google" until after you say "OK Google?"
974.
by rhizome 7y ago
Why drop into a thread in order to change the subject? Do your own research.
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by rhizome 7y ago
> Palestinians are physically suffering most from this - but whether they acknowledge it or not, it's destroying the Israelis involved The difference of course is that one is being attacked by others, and the other is doing it to t
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by rhizome 7y ago
On eBay, purchase and shipping is in the context of the seller, their name is prominent, etc. with a little eBay branding around the edges. Amazon's checkout process is 99.99% in the Amazon context, only showing a "sold by" o
977.
by rhizome 7y ago
I imagine most sites would be fine with email notifications. In-browser notifications just motivate them to come up with more reasons to notify you. Dumb reasons.
978.
by rhizome 7y ago
I think they use DASH or HLS, which would generally mean they have everything pre-encoded.
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by rhizome 7y ago
> We can metabolize a deeper-than-average scientific discussion and help convert that into reliable and responsible social discourse. I appreciate the sentiment, but no: HN people and related writing is invariably bad. I realize this wi
980.
by rhizome 7y ago
In Firefox's reader mode, click the "Aa" icon in the left-sidebar and you'll see -><- and <--> icons for changing the line length. Click <--> a couple times.
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by rhizome 7y ago
Which is essentially the Microsoft Windows hier.
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by rhizome 7y ago
and which preserves the functional separations between the hier elements and doesn't require changing any backup procedures.
983.
by rhizome 7y ago
This is the pendulum swinging back to the "5 colos scattered around the globe" architecture.
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by rhizome 7y ago
The "$1" in a $1 test has very little to do with manufacturing costs, too.
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by rhizome 7y ago
People on parole have very little in the way of 4th Amendment rights, to cite one distinction.
986.
by rhizome 7y ago
It's not about a specifically bounded result, it's about being either a flatter curve or a taller one. The more people act in the interest of flattening the curve is the benefit.
987.
by rhizome 7y ago
> This is pretty common everywhere across the developed world How much does a trip to the ER in an ambulance cost the patient in those countries?
988.
by rhizome 7y ago
Yes, it should be $10-15k, enough to get over the projected 150 day infection cycle.
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by rhizome 7y ago
A test for $1 can be a test for free.
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by rhizome 7y ago
Capitalism is the system, which can and does have moral constraints, the set of which defines and distinguishes one implementation of capitalism from another. However, capital itself is amoral and has no such limitations.

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