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by shredprez 8y ago
On still another hand, essentially placing a $1,000,000,000 barrier to entry on product innovation can incentivize stagnation as well.
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by shredprez 8y ago
Quite a feat! I think her success as a marketer shouldn't be overlooked: many of the app store reviews focus mainly on her unique backstory (plenty of them posted before this article was even published). Very nicely done.
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by shredprez 8y ago
The irony of responding with a link to an eyewear shop's website!
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by shredprez 8y ago
Doesn’t that still track? Having children makes it harder to get/stay rich, not having children makes it easier.
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by shredprez 9y ago
If I had to come up with a reason (with no industry knowledge), I'd posit the following: If MoviePass captures the ticket-buying market in a big way and becomes the gatekeeper for consumer movie-going money, they could feasibly develop
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by shredprez 9y ago
Any chance we can get a quick post mortem?
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by shredprez 10y ago
Chiming in as a TWC user on the West Coast: Github out, Etsy out, Paypal out, Twitter out, Soundcloud out, Crunchbase out, Heroku out, Spotify intermittent, Netflix only loads a white page with plaintext "who's watching" list
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by shredprez 10y ago
If, as I sometimes hear floated around the web, we're approaching a future where massive sections of the population aren't necessary/useful for productive economic endeavors, these pacifying tools may well be a good thing. Or
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by shredprez 11y ago
Amen. It's smart from a culture management perspective though. Creepy (intimidating?), possibly unethical at times, but effective... Cult structure as a filter for all but the ultra-loyal sure seems wrong from the outside, but internal
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by shredprez 11y ago
Priming seems likely. Most experience reports I've read describe the "entities" as ineffable, so I have to think the language used by McKenna is more a cultural staple/fallback than a consistent hallucination unique to D
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Tech Loops(xkcd.com)
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by shredprez 11y ago
As they say, this is rape culture. There will always be adults who conflate teenage enthusiasm and legal consent. And let's be frank: in a society that says minors can't consent, the people who flout these laws are not typically
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by shredprez 11y ago
Could be a bunch of things, but there's one that almost everyone deprives themselves of, to one degree or another: sleep. Poor sleep is a major offender when it comes to spotty cognition, whether it's learning, planning, or workin
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by shredprez 11y ago
Lately "Cultural-Marxist" has become shorthand for anyone holding beliefs even slightly adjacent to "the rich/powerful are evil and they're corrupting the pure and poor/powerless" or "there are two ki
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by shredprez 11y ago
A case well made. I've been pro-life and pro-choice at various times, though my position now incorporates pieces of both. While my beliefs here are largely just that: beliefs, I have nonetheless given them a great deal of thought and n
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by shredprez 11y ago
Everyone is non-technical when they start. I've noticed a lot of layfolks have this notion that there's some innate intellectual difference between people who work with technology and people who don't. There isn't. At
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by shredprez 11y ago
Other (undocumented) values this method returns: "perhaps" - There is, of course, a chance the codec is supported. Or not. "why bother" - Everyone will die anyway, browser support is meaningless in the grand scheme of th
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by shredprez 11y ago
Morning person by choice, though I quickly default to night owl if I let myself. I get a decent boost of clarity and creativity late at night, but the tradeoff is feeling like garbage with a long ramp-up period whenever I have to wake up th
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by shredprez 11y ago
Was just about to comment. Ever since I read the article, it's the first thing I notice (whether or not that's fair).
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by shredprez 11y ago
> Are there really not enough stories of opressed women that you have to find Ellen Pao, a CEO (which already almost nobody can relate to) in the middle of extremely controversial fraudulent lawsuits, that is accused of being out of touc
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by shredprez 11y ago
> It shouldn't be necessary, but there's a generation of people so incredibly entitled and so incredibly insane that they actually need a primer on reality. We best get used to it, the baby boomers will be with us for a while.
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by shredprez 11y ago
At some point it does start to feel like the focus on tools is disproportionate. Have we begun shuffling around the gadgets in our toolbox to distract ourselves from the difficult problems we need to solve? Sometimes I think so. Have we dev
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by shredprez 11y ago
Presumably they add a degree of quality control, something government is notoriously ill-equipped to provide. That said, allowing any individual with a car to license themselves and go out in the world to earn their fortune seems even more
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by shredprez 11y ago
Amen! Though I am partial to idiomatic.js' whitespace suggestions: https://github.com/rwaldron/idiomatic.js#spacing Much easier to skim/parse quickly, at least for me.
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by shredprez 11y ago
Assuming I'm not misunderstanding your question, it appears to cover that right above the snippet: "Why? This ensures that you can't reassign your references (mutation), which can lead to bugs and difficult to comprehend code
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by shredprez 11y ago
>all of the problems you just described can be solved by simply firing a bad employee or not hiring bad ones in the first place. Hardly. If hiring and firing could effectively eliminate poor employees, there wouldn't be so many. As
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by shredprez 11y ago
Simple enough: clearing the lazy, the unmotivated, and the unaccountable from our labor market would make it easier to get work done (less drain from employees who don't contribute); make work more pleasant (surrounded by motivated col
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by shredprez 11y ago
>Once they have every single person who breathes on the dole, this will give them unbelievable leverage against the people. That may not be a bad thing if we're talking about people who contribute nil to society. >If the governme
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by shredprez 11y ago
I read it as a shoutout to this persistent music/art movement that mashes visual and auditory references to "retro culture" from the 70s and 80s with modern production techniques. It's been around for close to a decade n
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by shredprez 11y ago
Ah, but the willing aren't able and the able aren't willing. In any case, I'd avoid companies that recklessly fleece applicants just because they can. Once you've proven your worth professionally, begging for scraps is p

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