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by sosborn 6y ago
The thing about music is that "more complex chords, more harmonies, more timbral variety, etc..." doesn't say anything about whether or not the music is better. It's a silly pursuit anyway given that music is a subjectiv
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> Why didn't Steve Jobs go with web distribution of first class web apps That was exactly his intent when he announced the iPhone, and he got absolutely obliterated by the internet for it.
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Getting hired to guard a pool is a completely different experience than getting hired for a beach.
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by sosborn 6y ago
The real problem is that small companies assume that Google must know what’s it’s doing and that even though google is trying to solve different problems, the only right thing to do is try to copy them.
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Do you believe that measurement is actually accurate?
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by sosborn 6y ago
> they are, in fact, said government Great! where do we sign up to vote on legislation?
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by sosborn 6y ago
Honest question: what do we really risk in the grand scheme of things? Extinction? Would that negatively affect anything other than our egos? (For the record, I’m all for colonizing other locations)
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by sosborn 6y ago
Well, realistically, it isn’t about preventing crime, it’s about catching criminals. (I’m not a fan of all this)
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by sosborn 6y ago
I’m not justifying anything. I’m simply pointing out the absurd false equivalence.
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One act of injustice, or centuries of injustice?
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by sosborn 6y ago
Would you be willing to make that decision knowing full well that it could reduce revenue that is 100% traceable to that decision? I mean, obviously there are ways to make this politically acceptable in your organization, but you better be
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by sosborn 6y ago
I enjoy movies that make me uncomfortable because of the self-reflection they tend to induce. Those films don't make me want to treat people poorly, they make me want to be kinder.
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Part of it is that I think people generally understand that Apple doesn't go into a supplier contract negotiation and say, "Ok, how many slaves do we get in this deal?" While they ultimately bear responsibility for their supp
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by sosborn 6y ago
It feels different to us in Hawaiʻi, mainly due to increased rainfall.
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When CoreData first released, forums were full of people using it incorrectly, then complaining that it was buggy. It's good to see nothing has changed.
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Well, that and the fact that although Google doesn't sell data to third parties, it has certainly monetized that data and built their business off of it.
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It can't even really be measured economically beyond how much it costs to run the ad. They will see the result of the ad, but FB will never know how it would turn out if they didn't run it.
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View -> Show Status Bar
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This cuts both way though. You can see it in this thread and any other thread with Apple in the title - people bashing the product without ever even trying it out. They do so without an ounce of thought. It's religious conviction and o
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Numbers being objectively worse doesn't mean that the experience as a whole is objectively worse. If that was true no one would buy vinyl and the iPod never would have succeeded. Sound is like food. People like different flavors and th
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> Coming in guns drawn is not that uncommon in that scenario. It really should be uncommon though.
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There is also a big difference in saying "Vote for X" vs. "You are allowed to vote."
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Google's production cost is uploading bandwidth and storage. If you look at a single popular video it's easy to think, "Oh, that's nothing." But consider the massive amount of video uploaded that only gets 1 - 10 vi
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Broadcast television?
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It is indefensible that alcohol is available, or it is indefensible that marijuana possession leads to prison?
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> most professionals would want to use docker, virtual machines, or enough video/data to want more than 16GB ram. Again, what definition of "pro" are you using, and how is that relevant to professionals with other occupat
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What inherent trait of "processing" makes a food unhealthy?
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by sosborn 6y ago
It’s very telling you assume that I think all republicans are rascist.
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Similarly, it was 8 years of "Kenyan man bad" by the right.
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I've always found that people have a hard time accepting that with marketing, data really only tells you what happened. It doesn't tell WHY something happened. I also find (as you allude to) that as much as people want to be &#x27

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