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871.
by roughly 2y ago
A budget is also time, resources, and latitude. Steve Jobs’ “Figure it out” was “I’ve given you a task, now go do what’s necessary to get it done”. This is what the post you’re responding to is referencing: the client is asking for somethin
872.
by roughly 2y ago
Oh man, wait till you hear what humans do to each other.
873.
by roughly 2y ago
The older I get - and the older Facebook gets - the less I want these.
874.
by roughly 2y ago
In the army, they were BCGs - Birth Control Glasses.
875.
by roughly 2y ago
Because the Biden administration has effective antitrust regulation as a policy goal and has staffed the FTC with competent people empowered to pursue that.
876.
by roughly 2y ago
> What are we supposed to take away from a high the high profit? If you’re the sort to buy into conventional economic theory, that VISA faces no effective competition.
877.
by roughly 2y ago
So, taking the spirit of the question - authors with unique perspectives - if you haven’t read anything by Ursula Le Guin, you really owe it to yourself to do so. For work that explicitly draws on other cultural backgrounds, Black Leopard R
878.
by roughly 2y ago
Nnedi’s whole catalogue is great.
879.
by roughly 2y ago
Putting aside all the business model stuff, man, Apple makes some seriously pretty hardware. The packing, the cables and connectors, the wrapped motherboard - the whole thing is gorgeous.
880.
by roughly 2y ago
Graeber's entire body of work is fantastic - there's a "mythology of progress" that's endemic to modern western culture, in which the current moment and way we live are the inevitable outcomes and apotheosis of huma
881.
by roughly 2y ago
This particular piece of work is damn near 400 years old. When one is tasked with participating in preserving such an item so the next twenty generations can also enjoy it, it pays to take notes on what you’ve done with your small part of t
882.
by roughly 2y ago
This is true for a great many things
883.
by roughly 2y ago
It’s also late stage capitalism. https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap/ Since the late 70s, policy changes and the modern management movement have caused worker pay to drop in real terms. Cut forward another decade
884.
by roughly 2y ago
> negative press from Forbes for the next few years Who the fuck reads Forbes anymore? You seen the garbage they're shilling on their website these days?
885.
by roughly 2y ago
Bit of a microcosm of the entire business world nowadays. Forbes made something - a magazine that produced enough good content to gain a reputation. In the new school of business, that's an asset, and assets are things we turn into cas
886.
by roughly 2y ago
As they say, the perfect time to plant a tree was 20 years ago.
887.
by roughly 2y ago
Because you are a producer, and not just a consumer.
888.
by roughly 2y ago
The gig work companies spent $200M pushing Prop 22, if you were curious how profitable that business model has been and how much money isn’t making its way to the people who aren’t their employees. https://ballotpedia.org/C
889.
by roughly 2y ago
Yeah, I think the primary difference is the geometry - the SUVs and trucks present an almost flat surface and cause much more head and neck trauma - and in the visibility and controllability of the vehicle.
890.
by roughly 2y ago
> Key Ideas: Heavier vehicles are safer for their occupants but more dangerous for others: The weight of a vehicle is a critical factor in car crashes, with heavier vehicles causing more fatalities in other cars, pedestrians, and cyclist
891.
by roughly 2y ago
As folks elsewhere have noted, CAFE standards make "light" trucks substantially more profitable than other cars, and so yes, car makers have pushed them aggressively, including with strong marketing campaigns for the last 20 years
892.
by roughly 2y ago
I don’t know about IEEE in particular, but - > 2. People don’t actually care about this anyway Is substantially different from “this doesn’t generate value”, “the people who do not care would were they to engage with it” (ie: the justifi
893.
by roughly 2y ago
I always chuckle at this study - "Ah shit, they've got the masks on again."
894.
by roughly 2y ago
From the thread: > We’re now directing users to move away from Chrome …to where, exactly?
895.
by roughly 2y ago
> Why would anyone take the job then, if it didn’t provide those things? Because renting a room is cheaper than renting an apartment, because ramen for 2 meals a day will cause medical problems that show up later than hunger, because so
896.
by roughly 2y ago
You’d be shocked how shitty the development practices inside a bigco can be. Working at a FAANG-level company is profoundly disillusioning.
897.
by roughly 2y ago
Many people are telling me the second one is weird. They come up to me and say, “Sir, that thing they’re doing, the things they’re saying, are the weirdest things we’ve ever heard!” And I agree with them. And let me tell you, we’re going to
898.
by roughly 2y ago
Yup. There's no market pressure of note on Boeing, otherwise they'd be even the slightest bit concerned that their planes are falling out of the sky. They exist to turn government contracts into stock buybacks.
899.
by roughly 2y ago
Nothing I'm aware of with Chase's leadership, but they're the largest bank in the US by far by AUM, and that's because they've been the partner of choice for the FDIC & regulators looking to rescue distressed ba
900.
by roughly 2y ago
Yeah, I'm mostly referring to Chase's relationship with the Fed, FDIC, and regulators - they're clearly the bank of choice for rescuing distressed banks, and they're the largest bank in the country by a pretty substantia

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