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by shard 5y ago
Different cultures uses different displays to convey status. In cultures which do not place similar importance on a diamond ring, they may place equal importance on other displays, such as a large wedding banquet or purchase of a residence.
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by shard 5y ago
As I understand it, sending one of those planes out costs tens of thousands of dollars each flight (any military personnel or military buffs that can corroborate or correct that number?). That might be insignificant from a military budget p
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by shard 5y ago
I don't think what you are stating is the definition for planned obsolescence. For example, even though there is a used car market, the fact that someone upgrades their car due to fashion means it's planned obsolescence. In fact,
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by shard 5y ago
I don't think the posts specified the ethnicities of the people who made the lists. Are you sure it is intra-group and not inter-group?
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by shard 5y ago
> the average customer does not refill their cartridges Yes, and this is why this rudimentary hardware DRM is sufficient for the current market. If the marketplace changes and the hack becomes easily attainable and widely used, SW DRM ma
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by shard 5y ago
I think noucermane is correct. Your point that there wasn't any software DRM does not mean that they did not intend it as DRM. I expect that they did a cost benefit analysis of additional electronics for SW DRM vs revenue lost due to h
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by shard 5y ago
Has anyone tried an EMP generator like the Lockpicking Lawyer did for the fingerprint lock?
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by shard 5y ago
Really? DHH mentioned the vast majority of names were Nordic or English. Isn't that racist against the Nordic and English people?
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by shard 5y ago
If Twitter is Wrath, then IG is Pride and Envy, and TikTok is Sloth and Gluttony.
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by shard 5y ago
I'm going a little bit on a tangent here, and this may not apply so much to recent Apple phones, but Apple phones had planned obsolescence in terms of the design of their physical appearance such that you can tell almost instantly whic
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by shard 5y ago
I know some skinny-jeans-wearing gun-toting women, as well as gun-toting guys who not only watch soccer but play it as well.
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by shard 5y ago
Unfortunately once you move past the lower working level software/engineering jobs, either vertically to team lead positions or horizontally to product management or marketing or sales, whiteboard interviews are not that helpful, as so
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by shard 5y ago
If you are referring to storming of the US Capitol a few months ago, I don't think that was by guys with skinny jeans who watch the world cup.
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by shard 5y ago
> guys with skinny jeans who watch the world cup That description makes me think of Carnik Con, which is what I imagine if gun loving hipsters made a comedy show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwI9_Q07zxk
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by shard 5y ago
A lot of the ability for senior leadership to get things done is due to the network they've built inside the company, and their understanding of the power dynamics within that company. This is less and less true the lower you go in the
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by shard 5y ago
If you are expelled from a school, the school is currently unable to rescind access to previous education they've provided you, although the analogy starts to fall apart since education and digital media are not directly comparable.
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by shard 5y ago
This is a very good point. I did not find anything objectionable about that experiment when I first read about it. And if the companies experimented upon had complained like the kernel maintainers did, I would have dismissed it as them cove
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by shard 5y ago
I don't think it's that weak of an assumption. First, considering all the people with foreign names in relevant groups (multinational corporations, or in this case, a researcher/ student at a university), I would say the chan
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by shard 5y ago
That depends on the type of threat being protected against. If the threat is a mass exfiltration of passwords, this method will probably work fine since nobody will bother trying to figure out that one weird trick to get this one person&#x2
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by shard 5y ago
Yes, real estate is a very regional thing, and places not affected by the S&L crisis and the dot.com crash would have different economics, for example in other countries. The place I had in my mind when replying to your comment was Sout
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by shard 5y ago
I think one point is that there are only so many stores one mall can support, depending on the local population size. If land is expensive, then building on top of the mall to further utilize the land can become economical. As to whether of
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by shard 5y ago
I think it's just tradition and what people are used to, since buildings with both are actually considered more desirable in Korea, and are often more luxurious apartments than normal.
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by shard 5y ago
In Korea, there is a special term for buildings like that, translating to basically "residential and commercial complex". Most cases are apartment high-rises with the first few floors dedicated to businesses, which can include res
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by shard 5y ago
No-ad-spend companies are hard to come up with, some possibilities are everyday necessities with very few competitors like salt (but I think they advertise a little), or utility monopolies (I don't think my local water company or garba
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by shard 6y ago
Isn't it just muscle memory? Like how it is difficult to switch back and forth between a Qwerty keyboard and a Dvorak keyboard, except with the addition of balance thrown in.
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by shard 6y ago
> While we're at it, can we stop replacing physical knobs and buttons by dumb touch sensitive buttons ? I feel like a cave man when I have to repeatedly press "+" on my induction hob and hear the stupid beep it makes x tim
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by shard 6y ago
The dedicated space is the problem. Where can you go that is quiet, and that if you snore, you don't bother those around you? I used to skip out to my car for a nap in order to fulfill those two requirements.
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by shard 6y ago
Depends on the locale. As I understand it, in Korean law, both assets and debts are transferred to next of kin when one dies. Relatives of debtors have to go through a legal procedure to make sure that they don't become next-in-line fo
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by shard 6y ago
Even without a monarchy, society can self-organize into self-perpetuating classes. See "Class: A Guide Through the American Status System" by Paul Fussell.
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by shard 6y ago
The absolute best thing about WFH: naps whenever I need it. No more slogging through the post-lunch mid-afternoon slump. I take a 15 minute nap and am good to go for the rest of the afternoon. Also, early meetings at 6~7AM scheduled to work

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