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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I really enjoyed Schultz's "Onward," which talks about his return as CEO in 2008 to turn around Starbucks, which was struggling mightily at the time. Yes, there was a time when Starbucks was not doing well.
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China Censoring Apple's News App FTFY
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Have you looked at JP's background or work in any way? He's a clinical psychologist + professor of psychology at a pretty reputable university (U of Toronto) with decades of experience, including an active clinical practice (until
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Oh I didn't know that! I'll have to try them out with my buddy's Pixel to see how the experience is.
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I bought my AirPods the month they came out, and they're still going strong - and are the only reason I haven't switched my iPhone to an Android. I hate to be "that person," but, man, they just work. Even though I use bl
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
That's a very specious argument: you make the mobile OS market so specific such that both Android and iOS have separate monopolies for very different reasons. In reality, antitrust law market definition would more likely resort to look
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I am very hard-pressed to believe iOS has a monopoly by most arguments. Market share argument: Android has 71% market share in the EU, as of February 2019 - compared to iOS's 21%. [1] Ease of customer switching argument: If Apple press
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
I am not an Apple fan-person by any means, but Steve Jobs had a Product philosophy that stuck with me many years after he described it: You can't start with a cool technology and build a product / user experience around it; you ha
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
Some devil's advocate: 1) They bought Android - they didn't build it in-house. 2) They bought Double Click - they didn't build it in-house 3) They bought YouTube- they didn't build it in-house 4) Third most popular cloud
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I was going to down-vote this, but then did some research into how much Alphabet and Microsoft spend on lobbying. In 2018: Google spent $21.7M, all in the "Internet" industry. Microsoft spent ~$9.5M, and only $70k of that in &quot
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Agreed - to pretend that other countries aren't devoting the top tech talent to advance their capabilities in a similar way is beyond naive. I _want_ to agree with this "ethical opposition" approach, but I know too much game
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I remember someone in a recent HN comment thread mentioning that, as an ex-Googler, Google today feels like Microsoft under Ballmer. So while I agree with you, it _also_ wouldn't surprise me if someone raised the concern, but that pers
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Devil's advocate question: do you (should you) have to agree to be video-taped before entering a store on security cameras? What if you had to do that for every single store? > In short: fuck you and your advertising. Nah, I don&#x2
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There are also many more additional services that someone in the Apple ecosystem has access to vs. when the 4S came out, which can account for a portion of that $27 marginal difference. Example (that I serendipitously learned about recently
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This. The marginal increase in salary that you might get moving to SF is almost guaranteed to be dwarfed by the net increase in cost of living from moving from virtually anywhere in the country to SF. Therefore net income actually goes down
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Are the latter points true? I mean, I personally do not like using Slack at work, but I have to admit it has a lot of really smooth UI and Product features that seem polished. I don't think I encounter bugs on a frequent basis at all,
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Lawsuit Claims Google Board Covered Up Sexual Misconduct(wired.com)
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~50% of their employees are TVCs? That sounds crazy high - anyone else have knowledge on wether or not that’s unusual for tech / the Valley specifically?
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> I don’t want those few and fleeting memories fractured and confused by other people’s interpretations. So you want to maintain dogmatic ideological views without subjecting yourself to an uncomfortable re-examining of how rose-tinted y
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Oh I'm not claiming they're out of line - they deserve that pay. My point was that it's not all these evil salesmen / drug capitalists driving high-costs in medicine. Sometimes better quality care just costs more.
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More like the doctor who has dropped six-figures + a crazy amount of years in education and certification to work very long hours seeing a lot of patients, many of whom think you're a quack and trust an online forum over anything you s
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>But in this near (and short lived) future, that other vehicle could do anything. It's not like we don't have this problem today: the other vehicle could be drunk driver, tired, on the phone, texting, fixing their GPS, tending
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I'm a bit confused, as the Bloomberg article _hints_ at this, but then quickly moves on: is this related to the US tariffs / "Trade War" situation?
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Well I mean what's wrong with the study itself? If you think DDG might have biased the structure or even falsified results, fine - make that claim. But otherwise this shouldn't really matter. Otherwise we're going to go down
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So I'm not a security expert, so I ask this in real earnest to learn: what is it that these companies keep doing wrong, and/or why aren't they adjusting to the climate that these types of attacks are increasing over time? Or
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>"Yet, a little more than a week later, Google CEO Sundar Pichai attempted to invoke an engineering defense by arguing that Google would not need to censor 'well over 99 percent' of queries." This is one of those egre
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That's a little reductionist - it's a paper in Apple's Machine Learning journal that has a lot of actual technical details, rather than an ad / marketing material.
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But this just leads back to my original point - the motives or authority of the speaker for an idea should have little weight into whether or not it's valid or sound. If there is bad information or a biased approach, that would be easy
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I came here to mention a similar comment. Ultimately, I think the success will be determined by the fact (hypothesis?) that if you de-center the author's authority from the argument about the validity of an argument or idea, you can in
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by s3r3nity 8y ago
In general I agree with you, but there are certain cases where bundling of goods and services can lead to anti-competitive scenarios due to the "price" savings of bundling. Especially if that lower price is paid for by market powe

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