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by save_ferris 6y ago
The fear of "looking poor" is so real in the US, which makes it harder to see who's struggling. It also creates this cognitive dissonance I've noticed here on HN where an article gets posted with pictures of the extended
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Two problems with that. A) New consoles are pretty tightly supply-limited on release, so people won't buy the game until they know they can pick up the console. You've totally killed the preorder market. B) You risk losing even mo
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by save_ferris 6y ago
The adage "nobody gets fired for choosing IBM" rings true here. Management at companies that pay $10MM per year on O365 don't see Office as a risk, they see it as foundational to their work. For that amount, they're prob
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> I just hope Sony, Sennheiser, etc. don't follow Apple's lead. I don't see this happening because those brands undoubtedly have a much larger share of the high-end headphones market, whereas Apple seems to focus more on
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by save_ferris 6y ago
The CDC is referring explicitly to the COVID death rate in this case.
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Doesn't a business have the right to decide who they get to do business with? If a business sees a customer doing something they're not comfortable with, don't they have a right to refuse service?
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Not instead of, in addition to. This is no different than expecting employees of a daycare to report criminal activity involving children to the police, or expecting startup employees to report cases of fraud (like in the case of Theranos).
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> What exactly is there to keep salaries from a race to the bottom at this point? I see so many takes like this, but I'm not yet convinced that this is gonna doom salaries long term. I haven't noticed a difference in the recrui
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> What we need is another category of transitional employment, with both much lighter regulatory barriers to turnover as well as more relaxed cultural expectations about job security. In the olden days we'd call this an "appren
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by save_ferris 6y ago
How are they not VC in this context? They invested in startups with growth potential in exchange for equity. From investopedia[0]: > A venture capitalist (VC) is an investor who provides capital to firms that exhibit high growth potentia
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by save_ferris 6y ago
This seems like a really weak argument IMO. Isn't Rupert Murdoch a venture capitalist in this context? He cut a big check to a startup (Theranos) with high growth-potential in exchange for equity. How did Murdoch's investment in T
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> America is the world’s oldest [EDIT: large, old] extant democracy. Nothing about our history guarantees our future as a democracy, this is hot hand fallacy at its finest. If there's one thing that's consistent across human hi
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> The case started with an April 2016 Facebook post, in which a user shared an article featuring a photo of Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek, then-chair of Austria’s Green Party, along with commentary labeling her a “lousy traitor,” “corrupt oaf
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by save_ferris 6y ago
I'm not arguing that just tipping drivers solves the problem, I support doing away with these exploitative systems of labor manipulation entirely. I'm merely asking people who do choose to use these apps to tip in the meantime, be
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by save_ferris 6y ago
I'm not arguing that DoorDash creates no value, I'm arguing that it creates a ton of value for executives and shareholders while exploiting workers who are vastly underpaid using opaque payment and tipping mechanisms. Yeah, afflue
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by save_ferris 6y ago
It goes without saying, but if you're gonna use those apps, please please please tip your drivers. These apps make it so hard to discern how much they make, especially when "free money" for customers is involved. Personally,
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by save_ferris 6y ago
You could argue that all hyper growth “build it and they will come” types of companies do this bait and switch. It’s inherent to the startup culture that emphasizes capturing users above earning profit in the early stages of a company. Thin
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by save_ferris 6y ago
To be fair, large grocery store chains were beginning preparations as far back as December 2019, which gave them time to cut out less-essential SKUs and increase production for more essential products. Big businesses with contacts in China
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Personally, having worked for a few big companies in my career, I believe it's absolutely possible for a company to be too big. It might be an impious opinion, but there absolutely comes a time in a company's existence that intern
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by save_ferris 6y ago
If you're running an external display alongside your primary display, that could be causing a graphics memory issue. I had to tweak some display settings and it went away. Most system crash messages are pretty-well documented online.
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by save_ferris 6y ago
If this includes improving dependency and runtime version management, I'm pumped. It's been a couple of years since I've used python, but those two things seemed like such warts compared to the rest of the experience.
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by save_ferris 6y ago
I love the idea of an e-ink display as an art piece, but does a dedicated display for news headlines really operate in the spirit of calm technology, given the current political climate?
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Not if the design community fully embraces Figma and opts not to go back to sketch. I'm already seeing this transition at my company, and I have a hard time seeing management OKing a switch back to Sketch once they iron out their colla
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by save_ferris 6y ago
I'm glad that substances like cannabis are enjoying wider legal access, but you're right that they aren't always miracles. I was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, and in the months since I've completely stopped a
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Inheritance, not work, has become the main route to middle-class home ownership(theguardian.com)
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> Why would you buy an HP printer and try 3rd party ink, when you know the whole business model is subsidizing the printer and selling you expensive ink, and you also know that the whole printer cartrige space is full of DRM roadblock? T
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by save_ferris 6y ago
Maybe, but I could also see the shift towards automating war as a profit incentive for the military industrial complex. It’s very clear that the military has enjoyed decades of relatively lax financial oversight. IIRC, the military branches
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by save_ferris 6y ago
This might be a controversial take, but I grew up in a very rural community in the Midwest and military service was widely seen as a pathway to stability and to a degree, glory, for those that didn’t have the opportunity to pursue higher ed
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by save_ferris 6y ago
I'm not saying that state-run election systems can't be interfered with, there's just no way for a single actor to compromise all systems simultaneously from a single point, legislatively or otherwise. Of course those systems
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by save_ferris 6y ago
> I can't imagine any system where there aren't "safe" areas that politicians essentially ignore. Of course, when you're campaigning for the support of millions of people in a large country, some areas will be pr

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