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by ruswick 13y ago
I can understand why Instacart may be of value in suburban or rural areas where people likely don't have trivial access to grocery stores, but it seems entirely superfluous for city-dwellers. Grocery stores are fairly abundant in citie
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by ruswick 13y ago
Convert it to USD and buy shit?
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by ruswick 13y ago
> Think of this pitch as being less like a normal retail product and more like a self-organized kickstarter campaign. You are not paying for the device, you are paying for their living expenses and prototyping costs while they spend the
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by ruswick 13y ago
It seems as though this model will merely deter possible buyers. Why would I pay a premium now when I can wait a few days, let others incur the initial, inflated cost, and then purchase my thing at a substantially lower cost? This phenomeno
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All of Your Metadata that Might be Exposed(guardian.co.uk)
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by ruswick 13y ago
I agree that there are myriad functional issues with iOS. The actual look and feel is not one, though, which is more upsetting considering that their iOS team could be spending time fixing more pressing problems in OS functionality.
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by ruswick 13y ago
Although he wasn't aware of the exact details or extent of the changes, rumors of a total overhaul have been circulating for months. He probably anticipated having to input hundreds if not thousands of hours of development time to prep
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by ruswick 13y ago
I agree with you. The iOS aesthetic, though imperfect, was stable and quite nice. In my opinion, Apple should have merely eliminated some of the more egregious skeuomorphisms and brought their apps more in line with the semi-flat look that
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by ruswick 13y ago
The argument would be reasonable if Apple hadn't exacted hundreds of millions of dolars from competitors for "copying" superficial and trivially obvious UI elements from iOS. No one is arguing that this sort of copying is wro
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by ruswick 13y ago
> I know it's Beta, but it honestly looks and feels like Android with a bit of lag here and there. This sort of lag has been a common artifact throughout the iPhone's history. Crashing apps, lag, and outright unresponsiveness
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by ruswick 13y ago
I don't think it's a stretch to assert that the intelligence apparatus generally seeks to combat America's enemies and protect her populace. It's doubtful that this type of surveillance was conceived assome sort of syste
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Everything you need to know about the NSA’s phone records scandal(washingtonpost.com)
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by ruswick 13y ago
Also, most of the cohort of SF residents fit into the most important category, "people with more money that they know what to do with."
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by ruswick 13y ago
Indeed. People often succumb to irrationality when dealing with their pets, and are certainly inclined towards purchasing superfluous things for them. This is an excellent market from which these guys can probably extract a lot of profit.
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by ruswick 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslows_hierarchy_of_needs The human condition also necessitates expression, realization, aspiration, etc. In many cases, sitting on a couch will bring the most instantaneous pleasure, but it is ultimately emp
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by ruswick 13y ago
The fact remains that 37S persists as a company. Inasmuch as that is true, they are entirely capable of offering this product in perpetuity to those who bought it, as they've done with other products produced by them. If people pay for inde
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by ruswick 13y ago
As someone stated above, their ToS sugests that they intend to subsidize service though ads.
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by ruswick 13y ago
No. Both the College Board and ACT profit substantially by selling information about prospective students to schools. However, I'm of the belief that most schools send rather indiscriminately, as I've gotten mail from schools that are in ma
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by ruswick 13y ago
Indeed, this is why adding another level of complexity to an already byzantine system is pernicious. Why would I want to exert effort declaring what mail I do and don't want to receive through Outbox, then wait a substantial amount of time
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by ruswick 13y ago
It's intolerably slow, underfunded, and generally ineffective. There are days durring which we receive no mail, or receive it at 9:00 PM. It will take four days to send a piece of mail across town. The actual post offices are woefully under
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by ruswick 13y ago
This idea faces two major problems. The first is that the premise is trivial at best and detrimental at worst. Let's evaluate my current mail situation. Considering that I'm a junior in high school, I receive a substantial amount of college
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by ruswick 13y ago
Space and money don't allow for a desk or a monitor, and the overwhelming majority of my work doesn't necessitate coming into an office, so I do most everything from coffee shops and/or from my couch. In the case of the former, my setup is
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by ruswick 13y ago
This is incoherent. You are comparing a deficit in literal ability to complete the courses (through some sort of disorder) with an inability to find the time to complete them. Just because someone is "autistic" does not mean that you necess
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by ruswick 13y ago
I currently use an entry-level 2012 MacBook Pro, which is abysmal. My ideal setup would be a Chromebook Pixel for home and a fully-maxed retina MBP with a 512gb drive.
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by ruswick 13y ago
Come to think of it, that's probably less than one week of groceries from Whole Foods.
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by ruswick 13y ago
This assumes that app developers are the superior demographic to give reviews. I don't think that this is the case, as app developers are far from representative, and won't necessarily reflect the sentiments of the market. I agree that revi
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by ruswick 13y ago
> "I'm terrified of doing anything that would make me look like a jerk in front of my family and friends." That just doesn't seem true. He consistently goes out of his way to engage in trivial arguments with people, especially on Twitt
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by ruswick 13y ago
Admittedly, it might not coincide with the ostensible subject matter of HN (other than it being tangentially related to statistical analysis and the technology sector), but evidently, a nontrivial number of people see value in reading it. T
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by ruswick 13y ago
> The company receives about 500 applicants per job opening. This succinctly demonstrates everything that is wrong with the entry-level labor market, especially in fields dominated by overabundant cohorts like political science and eng
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by ruswick 13y ago
I'll do it for 25 cents.

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