swampthinker

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by swampthinker 8y ago
I find 2nd generation immigrants in the US have cooking skills passed down from their parents, but most other students I wouldn't trust to boil water.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Only the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch can stop them!
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by swampthinker 8y ago
US college students are young adults, 4 months removed from Highschool in most cases. They're also for the most part unsupervised in their dorms. I can recount countless cooking horror stories of dormmates that nearly burned the kitche
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Fire hazards + only takes a few bad actors to ruin a kitchen. There also is there as much of a cooking culture in the US
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by swampthinker 8y ago
It's really sad how toxic Reddit brigading is
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by swampthinker 8y ago
This isn't the first time SpaceX has done a 10% layoff round [1]. It seems like they do this at key inflection points where they're relatively sure they can make the next tech leap, and need to retool their workforce. [1] https:&
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Do you guys have any plans for magnetic closure boxes by chance?
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by swampthinker 8y ago
That's exactly right. It's normally a purchased through a carrier's 2 year upgrade plan, and the expectation has been simplicity. Why are we suddenly expected to do more research on various models when part of the reason why
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by swampthinker 8y ago
There are now 4 phones consumers are supposed to be aware of. On top of the naming scheme being confusing, most people who asked me during the holidays think Xs is just a smaller version of the X. Frankly X was just a dumb name.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
So whats the difference between the XR, XS, X max (is that a thing? Feel like I've heard that). Which iPhone has a notch? Which one has a home button still? These are questions I've heard over the holidays from friends and family,
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Should be noted that this is about UK housing, but I assume the US is similar.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Perhaps they are related.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Is the frame rate still limited by the server-side tickrate?
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by swampthinker 8y ago
$460M valuation and taking on money from a family office. Not too shabby. I still think CIG bit off far more than they could chew, and comprised the final product as a result. But I do hope they succeed.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Wouldn't it be very effective to deploy this technology around the major plastic pollution sources instead?
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Because they have been systematically discriminated against at every stage, most female executives are less capable. They haven't been given the same opportunities and experience that their male counterparts have.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
I firmly believe that had Niantic been allowed to mimic the traditional Pokemon PvP, it would have been an even greater success. The core gameplay of the Nintendo games wasn't terribly complex, but had tons of replayability.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Hey Walter, did Sid Meier ever consult you while developing the Civilization series? I recognized a lot of similarities between Civ and Classic Empire when I went back and played the older games in the series.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
What's the vesting schedule of these shares?
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Max Howell's story really surprises me. You would figure that someone would've internally fast tracked a developer like him.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Facebook is turning an awful lot of Democrats into enemies. Very curious to see how Zuckerberg tries to maneuver Facebook through wartime. [1] [1] https://a16z.com/2011/04/14/peacetime-ceowartime-ceo-2/
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by swampthinker 8y ago
That heat map of Boston is amusing to look at. All of Brookline and the single family homes of West Cambridge are bright red.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
My favorite Silicon Valley anecdote: "During the review process once the footage [of Techcrunch Disrupt] was woven in, another editor criticized the crowd shots for not featuring any women and blamed Berg for the oversight. '...Th
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Wired has a fun series where a professional watches scenes from a genre about their industry, then reviews their accuracy. https://youtu.be/vGOL7ZvuGMc
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by swampthinker 8y ago
In retrospect, the N900 was such a visionary product. Maybe not as much as the Palm Pre, but close to it IMO.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
2 points there: - Almost all manufacturers have admitted to BSing the MPG tests, so the gains in practice probably aren't as good as we think. - Ideally, that ratio will shift over time to be more on EV and efficiency gains.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
He means Amazon lists Dropbox storage as a competitor to AWS storage services.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
On mobile so I'll having trouble finding a source, but studies have unfortunately found that countries with legalized prostitution generally have higher trafficking rates.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
Am I missing something? Does this mean $100M in donations since the beginning of Smile? That sounds astronomically low.
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by swampthinker 8y ago
The VC money that flowed into these drivers has essentially dried up as gig-economy startups push towards sustainability / profitability. As was predicted.

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