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by ridaj 6y ago
> The right answer to that shortage would be to increase supply — for instance, by cutting red tape in zoning and construction Hmm but didn't they indeed provide incentives for increasing supply, by exempting new construction from r
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by ridaj 6y ago
I wouldn't romanticize Orkut. It wasn't that great and I think Facebook would've steamrolled it all the same, much as it did numerous other regional social networks around the world.
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by ridaj 6y ago
The "what have you got to lose" approach doesn't have a great track record either... Even wartime medics take time to disinfect their tools
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by ridaj 6y ago
Pet peeve: people should stop saying "even better" in their announcements as if simply saying "better" implied that your previous version was crappy. Be more lucid in your self assessments, more humble in your comms and
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by ridaj 6y ago
Gee this makes me glad that I'm passionate about software rather than anime. I can totally imagine companies pitting workers against each other in our field too. I mean they do to some extent but people can make a reasonable living.
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by ridaj 6y ago
> I can't think of anything I've personally done on or off the internet which would make them good friend suggestions. Being born a male a few decades ago
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by ridaj 6y ago
Yes. Apple has its own problems though. The only reason it can do this is that it has a generally authoritarian behavior wrt app access (see Fortnite), as with closed standards for accessory connection, etc. This is a company that uses plat
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by ridaj 6y ago
We might soon learn what users prefer, a break from Facebook or a break from their iPhone... If I were Facebook, this wouldn't be a fight I'd pick.
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by ridaj 6y ago
Nah they had pseudonyms but they came out as real people for sure. They didn't create characters for themselves as they would have if they'd intended for others to take over the role
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by ridaj 6y ago
I'd suggest making it very clear in your docs whose data you're managing, and (assuming it's all the customer's and you don't lay claims to it) how would portability work. I wouldn't want to use this without a
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by ridaj 6y ago
Assuming that there are some actions that it is morally just to punish, if not the individual's ability to exert free will to avoid them, then what (in your mind) sets apart those actions from those that it is not morally just to pun
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by ridaj 6y ago
Hate the game, don't hate the player
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by ridaj 6y ago
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you" — Neil DeGrasse Tyson IMO the most embarrassing problem in physics is people pushing non-falsifiable, unscientific theories (multiverse). The fact that some futzing consta
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by ridaj 6y ago
Arguably, Google already had a strong and successful platform in mobile gaming (Google Play Games). It's even present on TV these days, with game controllers too (Google TV Chromecast takes bluetooth game controllers with which one can
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by ridaj 6y ago
Don't worry, patents are hardly ever indicative of a company's actual priorities.
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Economies of scale and specialization. Same reason not everyone is fabbing their own chips, running their own power plant, digging for their own oil and growing their own fruit. Aside from people living in complete isolation from the rest o
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by ridaj 6y ago
> With their heads in cloud nine, hedge funds tried to kill GameStop ($GME). They tried to squeeze it so much that it would suffocate and die. They didn't care about the people who will be out of jobs, unable to pay their bills, or
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by ridaj 6y ago
They're more or less standardized. There's different networks and plug systems but there's some federation of maps and you can pay with credit card at most. Compared with Tesla, in the US there's just way less chargers o
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by ridaj 6y ago
As soon as there are enough electric vehicle ownership among employees, they can't reliably charge at work. I already can't, the chargers are always taken.
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by ridaj 6y ago
> There are no hidden costs, no middlemen, no rebates only available to insurance companies. Everybody gets the same low price for every drug we make. While this sounds good in practice, will it work in reality? I remember a pharma sales
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by ridaj 6y ago
Better fix: switch to an EV!
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Obviously... What else do the conspirationists think it mean?
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by ridaj 6y ago
?? I didn't say I would knowingly display them, that would be rude. I'm saying it can happen, for example when someone is passing by and you're showing something to them on your screen, or yes if one is forgetful about noti
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by ridaj 6y ago
These kinds of things are personal preference. Top reasons I do want people to say hello to me first over IM: * Other people looking at my screen. Common when working out designs, in person or remote * I'm presenting my screen public
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by ridaj 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendation This one's pretty good: https://youtu.be/VCUIlV-AKY4
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by ridaj 6y ago
They've talked about it in some cases. See https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/30/16222850/youtube-google-b...
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by ridaj 6y ago
Optical beam link technology is old tech. It's also badly affected by weather and pollution (rain, clouds, fog) which is why people who do point-to-point communications for a living tend to prefer microwave.
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Loons are cute toys that got 100x the deserved media attention vs their actual impact. Actual remote internet connectivity is mostly being addressed through the grungy, mind-numbingly routine job of increasing the coverage of terrestrial ne
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Yeah but satellites get actual shit done reliably and for decades.
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So just now I did a small experiment. I used Google to try to figure out his last name. It was pretty hard, took me a good ten minutes, but not so hard once I went to image search. On the other hand, once I had his last name, I typed it int

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