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by sjwright 6y ago
No, decisions are things that occur prior to action. It was not the employee’s place to freelance their guesses about what Jobs might approve of. Just because the employee got lucky and gambled successfully with Jobs’ reaction, doesn’t make
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For people looking for an “in” into classical music I tend to recommend Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9.
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Sure, but that was Jobs’ call to make, not the employee’s.
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Correct for credit card transactions but not for gift card credit which A LOT of people use. Far more than you’d assume. Apple doesn’t get all $50 when you buy an Apple gift card. I’d be surprised if they even got net $40 per $50 card. The
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Apple doesn’t force you to own an iPhone.
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That is a myth, they aren’t separate things. It’s just semantics which are being manipulated for political purposes. Trump, for example, is voting in the election under Florida’s “vote by mail” option because that’s what it’s called there.
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If underfunding the post office could combat fraud, that argument would make sense. In reality, a dysfunctional post office will have little effect on highly motivated fraudsters and will disenfranchise the millions of people for whom vote-
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In a world where OS/2 failed, Be wouldn’t have a chance. The biggest irony to Microsoft’s anti-competitive OEM practices is that they were unnecessary. The network effects of software compatibility proved sufficient to maintain their d
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It’s telling how Google has so many chat services and so many discontinued services that we can’t hope to keep track of them all.
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Nowhere. I have to make it myself or wait for my mum to produce a new batch. She has so much interest that she makes 20–30 jars at a time.
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Aussie here. Home made seville orange marmalade is the good stuff. Everything else is just gross orange sugar goop. If I wanted to spread flavoured sucrose onto my bread, there are much more appealing options like blackberry. (And don'
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It's probably a web 3.0/IoT way of saying an ESP8266 with a couple of sensors and a relay. From there you could do some slightly smart stuff like observe the rate of warming towards ambient when idle (i.e. determine the volume of
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Corporate strategists blaming software engineers for the consequences of corporate strategy is a fairly brazen kind of blame-shifting. A system of ethics within the health system are necessary for customers to retain trust in the health ind
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All mature cultures have a noisy minority population of xenophobes. Japan isn't special in that regard and I never said it was.
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"It relies on junk science to justify bigotry." Go on then, cite a paragraph directly from Damore's memo that "relies on junk science." I'm waiting. I dare say I'll be waiting a while. Hopefully it inspire
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In 1991, the two Apples signed an agreement dividing up use of the trademark. In short, this 1991 agreement allowed Apple Computer to do pretty much everything other than sell physical copies of music. While Apple Corps sued in 2003, the Ju
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> I can see how the memo could be read entirely differently Sure, but you can't hold the original author responsible for how it is being rewritten and reinterpreted in other people's minds. It's not a reasonable expectatio
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Pretty much every major culture has racism in its past. Pretty much every culture still has some percentage of racist people.
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I don't agree that laws influence culture.
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> I felt like the story of the memo overtook the memo itself And that story was mostly fictional. The memo itself bares little resemblance to most of the reporting about it.
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It's racist to assume that someone is an immigrant because of their appearance. It's not racist to say that you think rates of immigration are too high. You can oppose immigration but have nothing but delight for the diversity o
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Pretty much exactly that. I doubt many people here actually bothered to read it for themselves.
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The memo wasn't bigoted or creepy, it didn't even say anything particularly remarkable, though I do agree it failed to pay sufficient deference to the cultural moment. But the assertion that it was hateful or bigoted went unchalle
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If you think the Dutch West Indies Corporation ever had even a patch on the cultural influence that Facebook has though the behaviour of it’s algorithm, you’re being utterly delusional.
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Thanks for the reply. As I replied elsewhere, the combination of earbuds and wireless charging was a perfect solution for my wife. Personally I don’t know anyone who routinely charges their phone anytime other than when in bed. And personal
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It’s hilarious how many people have downvoted my comment without actually replying. I can’t imagine how anything I said could be construed as controversial or disagreeable, as opposed to representing a perspective.
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I understand the earbud+charging dilemma; my wife had the exact same bedtime use case issue. I bought her an Anker PowerPort Wireless 5 stand which holds the phone vertically. Its non-rapid charging speed is not an issue when the phone is c
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If what you want is wired earbuds that connect directly to a jack on the phone, nothing has changed. Such earbuds still ship with iPhones today. If you want to use wired headphones, the $9 adapter works well. Wireless headphones are also wi
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Note that in performance per dollar, the dollars include cost of the parts, fractional cost of rack space, watts consumed directly and watts consumed indirectly for cooling. There’s also the fixed engineering costs for the life cycle of n
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Though to be fair, on desktop at least, I don't think the site breaks modern web conventions in any egregious way which compromise UX. In most critical respects it works like any other website: it scrolls normally, it has headings and

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