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by riversflow 5y ago
Same, when I hold a thumb key my right hand turns into the numpad and my left hand is on a set of arrow keys, where s, d, f correspond to <-, \/, ->, and a, q, caps, tab change to control, alt, control+shift, alt+shift, respecti
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by riversflow 5y ago
Where are you (or GP) from? Im also ‘92. I grew up in California, but in a rural part of the state. Nerdy interests absolutely had a stigma. My high school didn’t even have a CS class, no academic decathlon team, and certainly no robotics
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by riversflow 5y ago
>I’d posit that that’s also a consequence of our love affair with cars. I’ve always operated under the assumption that there is massive selection bias in the United States for people who like more personal space. Never considered it was
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by riversflow 5y ago
Whats wrong with Methadone?
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by riversflow 5y ago
Because they are freed from the liability of the business's actions by way of the state allowing liability limiting corporate entities to exist. When the business assumes liability from the owners, it also assumes tax responsibility. I
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by riversflow 5y ago
Huh, they might not think of it as hippy/overpriced and more like organic/better. Consider that on this board Dr. Bronner's get routine praise, despite its overtly religious appearances. Regardless, I'd challenge this as
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by riversflow 5y ago
Why? I see this sentiment echoed many times. Its confusing to me at least because it’s not like Whole Foods has direct competition for high end food stuffs in most markets I’ve seen. I know a handful of these types people and they are more
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by riversflow 6y ago
PDAs are frowned upon in the US? huh. This is news to me and I’m almost 30.
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by riversflow 6y ago
The warehouse/delivery worker abuse at amazon runs deep, and it goes far beyond employees peeing in bottles. Checkout the Frontline documentary, Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos [1] [1] https://www.pbs.org&#x2
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by riversflow 6y ago
How are they a “progressive workplace” from a factual perspective?
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by riversflow 6y ago
Isn’t bribery the norm throughout time and place though? —and the kind of law and order we enjoy in the West, the exception? It’s understandable that this makes people who aren’t used to it uncomfortable, so does going barefoot, or not usin
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by riversflow 6y ago
World peace will only go so far if a huge solar storm hits us and we are not adequately prepared.
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by riversflow 6y ago
I mean I’d agree with that rationale iff it was applied consistently. Unfortunately it isn’t. According to Snopes, the sheriff saying the serial-killer in Georgia “had a bad day” is true.[1] Maybe I’m missing something but it seems like the
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by riversflow 6y ago
> Having "analytics disabled" correlate with "using that specific feature" is always a major problem for data driven decisions, worse it's a well hidden and hard to estimate problem. You know, I’m generally a pri
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by riversflow 6y ago
That's only a result of the resources made available by the inhabitation of rural lands being under-valued on the market due to subsidies. Say goodbye to affordable food prices if we don't subsidize rural locales.
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by riversflow 6y ago
What is going on with this article? Usually I expect really well thought out pieces from Stratechery. Clubhouse definitely has marketing down I guess. But in the article there is literally not a single mention of Discord, why not? Discord h
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by riversflow 6y ago
>I guess I'm reluctant to eat acidic stuff out of plastic. It might help to realize that plastics are extremely resistant to acids. Hazardous Industrial acid products, far stronger than anything a consumer can purchase, are stored i
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by riversflow 6y ago
>instead clicking on any application will immediately display all possible charges that could be incurred when installing and using the application I mean the App Store already puts whether an app has in-app purchases literally right nex
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by riversflow 6y ago
Yellen could have recused herself. All of this is kind of moot in the face of that.
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by riversflow 6y ago
I don’t think it’s so much a materials challenge as a manufacturing one. Putting a multitouch digitizer uniformly over the surface of a sphere is AFAIK a unique challenge. I’m not sure how you could make the ball slightly squeezable yet har
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by riversflow 6y ago
Exactly. It seems that while Jobs was able to balance/direct Ive in a constructive way, Cook was not. So at least from the outside Ive started to have an outsized impact on the final product, to the detriment of the product’s final qua
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by riversflow 6y ago
> Hopefully the transition for Amazon is as (seemingly) seamless as the Steve Jobs/Tim Cook transition was for Apple. I like Apple, but there is quite a seam with the Jobs/Cook transition. That seam is the overly minimalistic i
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by riversflow 6y ago
>Talk to anyone who lost an eye. My mom has amblyopia and is old enough that it didn’t get treated. She can drive just fine, but she can’t grab the clothes line between her fingers. She has to sort of paw at it and catch it with her palm
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by riversflow 6y ago
This was me last night when I received this comment. I went to go try the free experience and was prompted to give them a CC. I closed and deleted the app in response. I really wanted to try the free experience, but it appeared they were go
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by riversflow 6y ago
> The audience for tactical precise shooters, MOBAs, RTSs, etc would deteriorate Maybe, but I tend to think that it wouldn’t diminish, and that this idea that very many will just “get over” latency is something VPs and PMs have convinced
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by riversflow 6y ago
I don’t think Stadia is truly an MVP. It’s a Google MVP, it doesn’t have to be truly viable, only viable to google middle management looking for a promotion. That’s what people are lamenting, you can’t role out a competitive gaming platfo
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by riversflow 6y ago
Such condescension in response to breaking a piece of glass you carry with you in your pocket all the time. It’s honestly offensive. Its funny how people whom share my active lifestyle often have a similar problem, and lament how fragile ph
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by riversflow 6y ago
I always use both. I live an active lifestyle.
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by riversflow 6y ago
I’ve broken far far more phones than I’ve had to replace because they became obsolete. If we came anywhere close to most phones lasting until they are outmoded we’d be doing good.
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by riversflow 6y ago
>The first and third should not be on equal footing with the second. What? >> 1) Making their things easy to repair. 2) Creating in house recycling programs. 3) Making equipment more durable and longer lasting I read as 1)Reuse 2)R

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