sirkneeland

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by sirkneeland 7y ago
As the former PM of a competing dating app, I agree.
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
Is it comically cheap if you don't consider inflation? Because while air travel has undoubtedly gotten less comfortable, in most (if not all?) cases it's also gotten cheaper. With every passing decade air travel because accessible
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
Could be a bubble. I'm imminently planning to leave the city for the suburbs (34, newly married)
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
also, feedback is more granular by several orders of magnitude. In a political democracy we roll up every single issue (including mutually contradictory ones) into a bundle of policies, multiply that by an uncertainty factor of the personal
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
Wouldn't that drastically increase the sun exposure on the internal elements and artifacts in the church? Sun damage is noticeable in just a few years, let alone on a time scale of centuries...
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
Wait, how does FB have my sent emails? I'd think sent emails were one of the few things they don't have access to
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
Indeed. The more interesting question would be how many Googlers internally talk of people leaving Google as though they've left a religion vs those who meet it with a ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
buys 8110 immediately
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
But this doesn't include the Nokia ones, does it?
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
Ironically enough, the name “Shanghai” (上海) literally means above ("Shang" 上）the sea ("Hai" 海).
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
although really from the perspective of battling NIMBYs, the benefit (first-order, anyway) of Shanghai is not that one man can say no, it's that only one man has to say "yes"
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
I'd go so far as to argue you need to find what comes next after the hand-held smartphone. It could be a smaller, more intimately worn device (think smart glasses, or a smarter watch, or even something implanted), with more processing
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by sirkneeland 7y ago
My favorite song on the Pet Shop Boys' 2006 album Fundamental ("Integral") was a protest against Blair's Identity Cards Act "if you've done nothing wrong, you've got nothing to fear / if you've s
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by sirkneeland 8y ago
peloton (comes from french word for platoon, so, close enough)
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by sirkneeland 9y ago
I think you're mistaken here. I know countless conservatives on Twitter, and they're real human beings.
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by sirkneeland 9y ago
As someone who is literally that background (from a moderate Republican family in the suburbs of Philadelphia) I can say the Democrats definitely picked up my vote... Actually no, it's more accurate to say the Republicans lost it. (I d
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by sirkneeland 9y ago
It seemed pretty acrimonious and left scars that haven't healed to this day. I mean, I grant that in the grand scheme of things (and certainly in comparison to how Spain bungled this), you are correct, the UK handled it as well as poss
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by sirkneeland 9y ago
But don't Japanese companies replicate this setup even when they set up factories the USA?
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by sirkneeland 9y ago
I think you're thinking of Keurig's K-cups (a different and of course wholly incompatible means of coffee capsule thingy)
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by sirkneeland 9y ago
The British had wanted to continue their period of rule in Hong Kong as the expiration date neared. It was a subject of negotiation between China and the UK in the 1980s. They wanted British rule or even some kind of joint administration. E
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by sirkneeland 9y ago
Not "railing against" to be fair to your original point but this study (FiveThirtyEight thinks it's sound) says millennials value democracy far less than their predecessors. As a % of people who think it is "essential&qu
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by sirkneeland 9y ago
wouldn't they be popping corks at Labour HQ? I mean, this isn't really "strong and stable"...
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by sirkneeland 10y ago
> Nokia tried the "photography first" smartphonecamera - it didn't fly I worked at Nokia at the time. The Lumia 1020 didn't fly because it failed to ship with an OS that was considered "good enough" (and yes
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by sirkneeland 10y ago
well, in terms of anecdotal evidence, I live and work abroad and tools like Facebook and WhatsApp make it possible to communicate with my friends and family back home at a cost of next to nothing. A decade ago, international phone calls and
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by sirkneeland 10y ago
Their stock price in the last few months would disagree with that assertion. I say this as an unfortunate shareholder.
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by sirkneeland 10y ago
It was driven by Ballmer's ego more than a rational plan. They imagined they could speed time to market for devices by eliminating frictions inherent in being 2 companies working on 1 product (and as an employee I can say there were in
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by sirkneeland 10y ago
Nokia brand, Nokia design. And an outlet for whatever cool tech Foxconn has stumbled upon in Shenzhen? In an era when smartphones are increasingly commoditized, it could work well enough to carve out a sustainable business.
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by sirkneeland 10y ago
Carrier sales reps didn't like selling Windows Phones, and you can't blame them. From their perspective, they want to sell you a phone in the shortest amount of time that has the lowest probability of return. Windows Phones had a
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by sirkneeland 10y ago
3 possibilities (and probably many more): 1) go all-in with their own Symbian/Qt/MeeGo strategy 2) go all-in with Google Android 3) go all-in with a Nokia fork of Google Android (a nonstarter today, but back in 2011, with Nokia&#x
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by sirkneeland 10y ago
This is not incorrect.

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