ryanyde

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by ryanyde 3y ago
This guy gets its!!
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by ryanyde 4y ago
Software has to run on the Quest, which costs $300 delivered.
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by ryanyde 4y ago
The experience is much better as you've mentioned; the question in the article is whether a company needs to exist around making the experience better. Now that the ideal experience is available, the question is whether people are wi
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by ryanyde 5y ago
Unfortunately Sam wholly misses the point of college: it's a social club / network. The issue is "for-profit" colleges and the common misconception that college is about skills / education, when it's really (ag
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by ryanyde 5y ago
The piece just seems to fully encapsulate Silicon Valley Hubris. It's amazing that he thinks he's settled a debate on 'quality' or 'taste' with a logical argument, and that people consider this an 'objecti
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by ryanyde 6y ago
Journalists have never operated an ecommerce company. In the same year, they'll publish a story about how requiring manufacturing information enables them to steal secrets from sellers. You can't have it both ways.
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We're all just Hamsters: our role in the modern economy(thefutureiswork.substack.com)
3 points by ryanyde 6y ago|0 comments
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New Yorker tricks you into thinking you've exercised CCPA rights with Dark UX(thefutureiswork.substack.com)
2 points by ryanyde 7y ago|0 comments
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by ryanyde 7y ago
I went to a taqueria today. It was open. No one there was working from home. The guys cooking work there 5 days a week. WFH is such a small percentage of the economy. We went to see our pediatrician yesterday - the full-time staff was there
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by ryanyde 7y ago
2 thoughts: * Only ~200 people out of 1000 completed the survey. Many of these people were found by the researchers, so there's likely bias (given the nature of the report) * Basic income's benefits will eventually go away in a so
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by ryanyde 7y ago
The original article (posted below) hits the nail on the head: regardless of 'inflation' or 'quality increases', a single breadwinner (assumed male in this case) can't support basic parts of the 'American Dream
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by ryanyde 7y ago
Agree with @bradlys' comment: This just suggests more highly paid people are being allowed to work remote, vs. remote jobs being paid more. Given the expansion of high paying roles across geographies, this could be driven almost entire
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by ryanyde 7y ago
They totally missed the mark on this one: "What’s meant to distinguish Infinite Jest (the book) from various artefacts that precede it is the conflation of entertainment with drug addiction, and this notion is, I think, fundamentally f
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by ryanyde 9y ago
It's certainly possible. I PM at Gigster and have seen some BE Engineers switch to being PM's on the network--some successfully and some unsuccessfully. Joining our network and seeing how it's done on a project by project bas
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How should a society function? How machine learning quantifies ethical problems(edge.org)
2 points by ryanyde 10y ago|0 comments
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by ryanyde 12y ago
Nicely done! $1K on revenue for that? Are you driving traffic toward that? I do photography and feel like stock images could be a nice way of getting traffic, but don't know how to optimize AdSense.