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by sgustard 7y ago
My mom wakes up on Facebook and goes to sleep on Facebook. She's spending hours a day there and it dominates her entire worldview of current events and politics. That level of engagement blows away Google/Twitter/Amazon&#x2F
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by sgustard 7y ago
At least you're paid well to contribute to the destruction of privacy, fair elections and human rights.
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by sgustard 7y ago
To me, the main advantage is that (at my local store) they implement a "wait for the next available machine" protocol rather than "pick a cashier to queue up behind."
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by sgustard 7y ago
I walked in a few months to ask about a phone glitch. The rep was happily asking me detailed questions and for a moment I thought they were going to actually help me. Only then did I realize he was just making an appointment for me weeks in
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by sgustard 7y ago
Thank you for sharing that image. Now the UX question is: would that small bit of yellow text in a cockpit with hundreds of visible UI elements make any difference?
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by sgustard 7y ago
I look forward to the day when there are enough EV models that it's not assumed all EVs are interchangeable. You wouldn't see an article suggesting that BMW 330i sales are cannibalizing Honda Civics.
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by sgustard 7y ago
Is it time to add Microsoft to FAANG?
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by sgustard 7y ago
Stanford has explicitly said they do not accept donations in return for admission, for what that's worth. Source: https://news.stanford.edu/2019/03/14/admission-case-info/ "A donation does not
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by sgustard 7y ago
Given that the old keyboard worked fine, and the only reason we have a new one is to shave a few millimeters, then yes I believe the designers are most directly responsible. Plus ID would tell you their role is much more than "aestheti
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by sgustard 7y ago
I'd imagine drug dogs sniffing you while you walk down a public street to be unconstitutional. At airports, concert venues, and so on, it seems like you've already consented to being searched.
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by sgustard 7y ago
VCs love to tout how they reject 99.9% of their pitches. What's the competitive advantage for them to fund an investment with minimal technical review? Wouldn't avoiding the next Theranos be worth it?
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by sgustard 8y ago
Why would the employer still choose to hire you after you refuse to sign? Everyone else signed with no complaint. Clearly you plan to learn our secrets then hand them to our competitors.
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by sgustard 8y ago
I get it, you've been at some bad startups and choose to generalize that experience. I can assure you I've worked in some large successful companies with building after building full of the dumbest people you've ever met.
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by sgustard 8y ago
OK, so imagine someone paints these robotcar-fooling dots on the road, and a caravan of a hundred robot cars is cruising down the street. All 100 of them veer into oncoming traffic. That will destroy your safety statistics quite handily.
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by sgustard 8y ago
They put themselves in that "no-win situation" by pre-announcing the product. If they were profiting by selling products based on future compatability with airpower, that could be fraud.
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by sgustard 8y ago
Interesting the replies to this went in the well-trod direction of "why does the US require everyone to drive a car?" and not the equally indignant "why does the US force students to go into debt?"
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by sgustard 8y ago
>I do not have the ability, power, or vote to alter the course of Chinese politics. Nor do Chinese citizens.
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by sgustard 8y ago
I have to agree. If you're saying "the software is working to spec, but the specs are bad," then you're still describing a software problem.
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by sgustard 8y ago
TLDR (quoting the article which I think buries the lede): "Obviously, there is no way to develop on an iPad Pro."
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by sgustard 8y ago
Half of the bribery scandal was cheating on SATs, so the more you emphasize test scores the more you elicit that kind of behavior. The College Board and its executives make millions selling test prep materials and running a monopoly over US
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by sgustard 8y ago
Also, a bribe goes into one person's pocket. Buying a basketball team and hiring a coach in order to win is legal. Paying one player to lose a game is not legal.
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by sgustard 8y ago
"One of the last top-tier venture firms to resist coming to San Francisco" ... can anyone confirm it's true that most others already have an SF office?
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by sgustard 8y ago
This is how every industry progresses as software replaces hardware. I don't think it's fair to blame Tesla for it. A modern car is much less accessible to the home tinkerer than a car from the 80s, because it's a chip contro
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by sgustard 8y ago
It's a "surprise" only to the extent that Facebook's leaders have been hauled before Congress and promised under oath they value privacy. Or something like that. The insidious thing here is: to the layperson, Facebook ha
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by sgustard 8y ago
What's the basis for "the average freelancer finds $12,931 of business deductions"? That sounds mighty generous; I'd like to hear how that breaks down. Do people really spend thousands on flights and hotels and then for
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by sgustard 8y ago
What's your average distance driven per year? In the US it's 13,476 miles (21k km).
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by sgustard 8y ago
https://instant.page/blacklist
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by sgustard 8y ago
They are apparently great kidnapping targets, though, after reading this article.
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by sgustard 8y ago
Why isn't the British term spelled "graught"?
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by sgustard 8y ago
> Obviously the tech crowd has known for a long time Who else but the "tech crowd" implements SMS 2FA on these websites? What does it say about our industry if we're pushing solutions we know to be flawed?

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