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by scelerat 5y ago
The OP is making a general argument about "intuitiveness" of an interface when the difficulty arises because of strategic decision by both Apple and Google. Also, echoes of the '90s OS wars with some similar blind spots: - no
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by scelerat 5y ago
Hord Guitar Repair and Custom Shop is really good. https://www.facebook.com/hordguitars/
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by scelerat 5y ago
It was an immediate firing. Early Monday morning, a previously-unscheduled fifteen minute "all-hands" zoom meeting appeared on everyone's calendars for 10 AM. Jack started with an abbreviated version of the "Some Tough N
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by scelerat 5y ago
Entire teams were laid off, many excellent engineers who were making demonstrable impact to the core product performance. Other engineers were still in the midst of onboarding, having been hired only a few weeks before. "Why" is a
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by scelerat 5y ago
The best time to buy is ten years ago. The second best time to buy is now. (to paraphrase a proverb) You really can't predict. low interest rates are awesome.
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by scelerat 5y ago
Count me among people that bought a house in 2020 (late December) partially because of the "practically free" cost of borrowed money due to low interest rates.
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by scelerat 5y ago
I first learned this story because it was front-page news on Breitbart and quickly becoming a flashpoint for commentary and erm, "thoughtful analysis" Maybe it got flagged because of factor such as who was sharing it and how it wa
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by scelerat 5y ago
Owning isn't worse with rent and real estate increases are as dramatic as what has happened in the SF bay area over the last ten years. I was very lucky to buy towards the end of the dip in 2013 and my mortgage on a 2-bedroom 2-bath ho
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by scelerat 6y ago
Who is going to make this mythical computer which neither benefits any government nor lines the pocket of any corporation? At a cost that makes it accessible to the author? Real question. Maybe it's possible. Who's going make it.
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by scelerat 6y ago
One of the best concise guides I've encountered to the relationship between the various algebraic operations -- and how they circle back to one another -- is chapter 22 "Algebra" of volume I of the Feynman Lectures on Physics
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by scelerat 6y ago
There's a fellow roaming round the street / I think most of all I'd like to meet / I must consider him a clever lad / Making like a young Sir Galahad Everywhere I go I think he's been / He autographs the w
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by scelerat 6y ago
> Why do the stores in SF attract violent crime compared to, say, a store in another West Coast city? Vast wealth right next to abject poverty and hopelessness. Like a spark that, with sufficient potential, jumps a gap.
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by scelerat 6y ago
Trump’s freedom of speech has not been abridged. As President of the United States, he can hold a press conference with journalists and cameras present.
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"That is because the dominant strain of American liberalism is not economic socialism but political authoritarianism. " Oh that's rich. There are good reasons to be alarmed by the power these tech giants hold over people&#x27
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by scelerat 6y ago
Doesn't Steve Bannon already have an entire media network he helped build, Breitbart? He can post his podcast there.
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by scelerat 6y ago
I remember using Waze for the first time many years back and it saved me a couple minutes off a rush hour commute by routing me through a residential area and past an elementary school with a bunch of kids running around. Great, the map app
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by scelerat 6y ago
I remember. You had to plan in advance and communicate with others.
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by scelerat 6y ago
I'm naturally concerned about this because my brother in law has a regular, ongoing streaming music show/channel on Twitch with live and pre-recorded bands (most of them local to the SF bay area). He's putting a lot of effort
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by scelerat 6y ago
The SF-based company I work for has already announced wage adjustments for employees who relocate out of the region. They haven't happened yet, but the company has given everyone a "heads up; it's on the table."
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by scelerat 6y ago
Thanks
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by scelerat 6y ago
That web site looks sketchy
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by scelerat 6y ago
The last apartment I inhabited in San Francisco, an 1890s three-story/unit victorian, had such a device. It worked; we used it all the time.
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by scelerat 6y ago
Mail-in ballots have existed all of the 27 years since I've been voting; I wouldn't characterize it as "new"
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by scelerat 6y ago
Tom Cotton
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by scelerat 6y ago
I have you ever worked as a freelancer? I have and so do many many people I know. Go to a bar with all your freelancing friends and play this drinking game: take a drink every time your client has shafted you. You will be drunk very quickly
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by scelerat 6y ago
Maybe if public transit was better funded and managed, more people could get to their jobs without having to pay for a car or a rideshare, saving costs. And more people could have jobs working for the transit agency. And in aggregate you ha
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by scelerat 6y ago
Within the city, it's not like people who already own cars instead use rideshare apps; it's that for anyone in the city who might have used public transportation, a portion have opted for the rideshare apps. And that leads to the
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by scelerat 6y ago
Granted, but a surprising number of people (still, in 2020) envision a very static, print-like experience for all web pages. i.e. yes, they "want" a fixed layout but in many cases their reasoning is mis- or uninformed.
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by scelerat 6y ago
The only thing that makes sense to me is that these politicians believe they are living in the end times. Whether that's theological end times, environmental end times, or political end times is up for debate, but nothing they do seems
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by scelerat 6y ago
I don't see how you can you say too many people "signed up" for the system we have. 99% are simply born into it with little to no understanding or bargaining power whatsoever. To the extent that consumers do have a choice, th

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