stupidbird

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by stupidbird 8y ago
There has to be more to this story that we don't know. Bloomberg has a lot to lose by publishing such a harsh claim that's not extremely fact-checked. Reliable newspapers generally don't throw around anonymous government sour
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I'd rather break things than linger around in some obscured purgatory where a straightforward task is spread out across a dozen subtasks that ultimately end up being rewritten anyway because something changed during the month it took t
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Sounds like there's more overhead than work there.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
He had some priorities that are atypical in CEOs which made him better at making the kind of top-down decisions a lot of companies delegate to committees. It's not particularly rare to have a decent sense of design, but it's rare
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by stupidbird 8y ago
labor laws, wages, safety, regulation, cost of living
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I am angry about this every fucking goddamned day.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
How are they still getting this wrong. One app for consumers with video and messaging. Make it good, marry it, and shoot the others into the sun.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I'm sure if you stick a fob up your ass it'll dampen the signal a bit too. Or you know, maybe put a button on the fob.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
No doubt whatsoever. A lot of those "Facebook is listening to my conversation" claims come from the fact that they'll associate people based on network locations, IPs, etc. For example: You're at your friends house with
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Do you switch IPs, browsers, computers, etc every time you close the tab too? If not, Google tracks you.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I read that the researchers knew this was already known, but wanted to publish this because they considered their results to be quite pure of any other factors
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by stupidbird 8y ago
What would you call someone who compelled strangers to buy low-quality things they don't need? What would you call someone who tricked children into getting addicted to mobile games? What would you call someone who knowingly buys produ
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by stupidbird 8y ago
We're not discussing taxonomy, so this is completely irrelevant.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Fun story: I pushed back on the implementation of an A/B testing platform and instead said we should focus on improving performance and my Marketing VP literally walked out of the meeting in anger. Infrastructure work is never sexy, bu
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I think it's the same issue as the prison population being so enormous. When someone does crime/drugs the country collectively just thinks that these people did it to themselves. I've heard people casually refer to criminals&
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Sounds like you're considering reading a task to be completed and not journey to enjoy? There's nothing wrong with that of course, just different modes. It's kind of akin to the difference between reading fiction and non-fict
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by stupidbird 8y ago
What's your email address?
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Spoiler alert: talking about your work is a big part of meritocracy.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
TripAdvisor's design team basically just comes up with new dark patterns all day long. A former student of mine worked there and quit after 3 months because their entire team was a bunch of unsalvageable assholes. They're still us
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by stupidbird 8y ago
only for attendees, doesn't seem to be any loopholes
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I'd consider switching if I could get that 75% discount.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Thanks for reading through the comments. I do agree that some sort of "not all these metrics may be applicable to your architecture, please consult an engineer" would go a long way. I left a toxic work environment at one point whe
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by stupidbird 8y ago
Nike has been getting heat for labor conditions overseas for like the past 30 years
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I can't wait for one of the executives in my company to run into this, understand nothing but the numbers, and then complain about our numbers not being higher despite the fact that half of these metrics aren't applicable to our w
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by stupidbird 8y ago
naivety is a convenient point of view when you're not the one being exploited, @adamc
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by stupidbird 8y ago
>In terms of worker's rights, I expect there would be more support for laws governing higher minimum conditions for workers of imported goods than there would be support for more expensive products that directly compete with cheaper
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by stupidbird 8y ago
In my experience it's also a realistic way to view the world.
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I think you're overly optimistic about how little people care about price. I'd argue that if you could halve the price by literally using slaves to manufacturer them, most people wouldn't care as long as those slaves were on
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by stupidbird 8y ago
I have not changed my original comment in over 12 hours. Their progress is not available for public use, period. Go ahead, try to use any technology developed by Tesla and see what happens. They're simply popularizing their own product
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by stupidbird 8y ago
It's a business that exploits workers. We've seen this time and time again with Tesla.

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