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by schnable 4y ago
But what are the pings?
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by schnable 4y ago
It's not always so formal or sinister. I've seen consultants build relationships with younger managers and "rising stars" by buying them lunch and drinks, and even doing some free work that makes them look good. Then the
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by schnable 4y ago
Harvard produces a big chunk of the elite that run other American and global institutions, and less prestigious universities often follow their lead. The culture there and the students that absorb it has disproportionate impact on the world
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by schnable 4y ago
The Dreamcast had much better graphics and controller than the PS2. I was very disappointed PS2 was so much more popular - all the games would have been better on Dreamcast!
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by schnable 4y ago
The overall gist of what Elon is doing -- reduce complexity, reduce headcount, rethink conventional wisdom, and challenge regulators -- isnt necessarily bad, and maybe necessarily since he paid so much for this "asset." The chaoti
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by schnable 4y ago
This hasnt been my experience with Apple Music. I have added a lot of music that isn't in their catalog and I can play it on all my devices. Would like to understand what the difference is here. I'm in the US.
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by schnable 4y ago
What is meant by "the time the Microsoft Windows/Intel x86 juggernaut was stumbling with their mass market Windows 3.11 replacement"? The way I remember this time is x86/Windows PCs exploding in popularity and Mac declin
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by schnable 4y ago
I think the purely remote workers were already axed.
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by schnable 4y ago
Does raising attention accomplish anything other than raising attention?
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by schnable 4y ago
Had to read far down in the article to figure out what the author meant by "nerfed."
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by schnable 4y ago
Wow that isnt clear at all in the way the callout is phrased.
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by schnable 4y ago
People like to collect antiquities.
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by schnable 4y ago
> It's also worrying that some Americans complain about "big [US] government" to justify the very limited size and power of the FTC to regulate US big tech, while somehow overlooking the threat from the big Chinese governm
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by schnable 4y ago
I don't think it's accurate to imply that at the time of strictest FCC rules only a small minority of Americans thought the standards were appropriate.
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by schnable 4y ago
All they need to do is filter out content with genre=kids from recs. They could create a separate kids recommendation item if people actually want that.
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by schnable 4y ago
The easiest thing for them to do is simply exclude Kids music from their recs. Kids music doesn't benefit much from it anyway. Apple Music does this as do most video services.
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by schnable 4y ago
Philly has paper trail now, but only for the past couple years.
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by schnable 4y ago
I enjoyed the procedural towns and quests but I really hated the procedurally generated dungeons.
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by schnable 4y ago
Israel for all its faults vis-a-vis the Palestinians is not committing ethnic cleansing or anything close to it. People who claim genocide by the Israelis are either anti-semetic or basing their opinions on anti-semitic disinformation.
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by schnable 4y ago
I thought the parent was criticizing Twitter's active monthly user definition, which only includes people who have tweeted in the past 90 days. The article used this definition of active use as well.
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by schnable 4y ago
The cookie popup really kills me when trying to do a quick site preview on my iPhone and all I see is the popup.
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by schnable 4y ago
And what is the possible enforcement mechanism?
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by schnable 4y ago
But their definition makes things look worse for them. The high number of lurkers would make the percentage of fake accounts smaller.
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by schnable 5y ago
You will probably like the game Cities in Motion.
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by schnable 5y ago
The bigger problem occurs when the high perceived status/low wage folks decide they deserve a lot more than they have and foment revolution. Academics and those steeped in academia are more likely to lead this, but then the journalists
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by schnable 5y ago
What policies did Biden change around distribution?
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by schnable 5y ago
What do the prefixes before the names mean?
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by schnable 5y ago
The better question I think is, how many unknown comedians are afraid to say what they think because their career wouldn't hold up the way Dave Chapelle's did?
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by schnable 5y ago
I wasn't proposing making it a standard for qualification. More like changing job requirements to be attainable to a broader swath of workers and recruiting in areas that we wouldn't normally, like inner city high school grads.
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by schnable 5y ago
I am supportive of visas for highly skilled workers and immigration in general. However I see many H1-Bs being hired that are frankly overqualified for the work they are end up doing (especially stuff like exploratory QA or entry level oper

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