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by telchior 4y ago
Excellent commentary on all the other reasons Uber succeeded. One other comment I'd have is that taxi services are spectacular in some places. Get a black cab in London or Tokyo and you're overwhelmingly likely to experience a bet
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by telchior 4y ago
Most of our lived-in systems have very little in the way of guardrails or oversight. We maintain our safety and happiness through a social contract, not absolute enforceability of law. The "exploits" you're describing were po
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by telchior 5y ago
There are many reasons outside of work performance to fire people. For example: someone who lies on their resume, then does a generally good job. That's generally a fireable offense in isolation from performance (though hopefully not a
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by telchior 5y ago
If you saw an update and then were immediately exposed to the new behavior, maybe so. But for someone who used it for maybe a couple years, stopped and then came back years later, it's extremely difficult to realize that a quiet featur
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by telchior 5y ago
Trying to give it the article a more positive reading: at least for myself, I can imagine several opinions I could express in the United States which would count as "heresy". I'd imagine that if those opinions were said out l
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by telchior 5y ago
I used Swype on release, then not for years, until picking it up again recently, when I found that I still loved the input method but made tons of errors. The lack of accuracy had me thinking I'd just gotten old and lost fine motor con
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by telchior 5y ago
Because it's not obvious until visiting the Heaps page and clicking through to About: Heaps is built on Haxe. So you're complimenting it, right? (Your comment reads like a non-sequitur criticism if one doesn't know what Heaps
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by telchior 5y ago
A paper was posted here a few days ago about how to use individual tasks on crowdsourcing marketplaces to put together articles on complex topics: https://joe.cat/images/papers/knowledge-accelorator.pdf I can imag
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by telchior 5y ago
He wasn't when he ran; he is now; neither fact matters at all for the point, which is that the message of the art (the songs being used in campaign events) was being misused / destroyed, by direct testimony of the artists. Same as
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by telchior 5y ago
You're right on in your first sentence. Aesthetics trump message when art reaches wide popularity. ... I swear that I used the word "trump" above unintentionally, but my example for this is Trump rallies using music from band
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by telchior 5y ago
Foreigners in fairly racially homogenous places can get into acting / modeling / promotional gigs pretty easily. A German friend of mine was randomly approached in Manila. She ended up playing a decently sized role in a local movi
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by telchior 5y ago
Or, that the cause is known but there are several potential mechanisms behind it. Usually those mechanisms are not well understood and may in turn be triggered by something that may not have been explained by science yet -- an infection, ge
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by telchior 5y ago
I'm criticizing the parent's comment that it's not ethical to treat people with "unscientific" treatments. This is in the context of an article criticizing phenylephrine, which differs from really, deeply unscientif
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by telchior 5y ago
And the ethical alternative is, for chronic conditions, someone who suffers for their entire life and is not allowed to do anything about it? Look at every wastebasket diagnosis (yes, that's a real term) out there. There is no "et
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by telchior 5y ago
Serious question that I don't know the answer to: when and where, in the US, has rent control not been accompanied by constrained supply? I'm not using your phrasing, "artificially constrained supply", because it seems l
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by telchior 5y ago
I don't think you should be downvoted, it's a consideration that should probably always be somewhere in the back of people's minds when they go to some emerging market, considering history. Maybe in the same way that Germany
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by telchior 5y ago
Reading the help docs, I couldn't quite visualize what this "Leap" button was. There's no image (that I saw) of the Canon Cat keyboard on this site. Turns out the Leap keys are situated directly under the spacebar: http
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by telchior 5y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I haven't followed the NFT hype much but the one game startup founder I know who talks about it had ideas for permanent ownership in some kind of ... hand-waves metaverse. Personally I view games as art
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by telchior 5y ago
As someone who has worked in F2P games: you're quite wrong that cosmetics are "easy to monetize". Good god, it's HARD. Because the only way it works, at a scale that can support a studio, is if people really, really love
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by telchior 5y ago
Fair criticism, but one that is only relevant in the first place because of freemium. Prior to that business model, there was no such thing as a company continuing to provide regular, ongoing support to a 7 year old game of the non-subscrip
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by telchior 5y ago
No. What really happens is that the hospital does a check on whether the uninsured person has any assets. If yes >> garnish the assets. This can include your business, your house, whatever you have. If no >> ok they're poor
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by telchior 5y ago
Not a completely unreasonable headline, considering that an uninsured person would get a bill for something probably closer to $69k than $2.5k. I've gotten one of those bills before, and IMO the insanity of it cannot be pointed out eno
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by telchior 5y ago
It's just a correlation, no? Probably grip strength is just a decent indicator for overall health. Whereas the implication of the article is that sitting around squeezing grip strength trainers will somehow reduce your chance of disabi
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by telchior 5y ago
Beyond names, foreign addresses are often a major pain to use with US-centric websites. With an overseas address on a US credit card, I've often been unable to use it online (sometimes the fields also allow me to enter the necessary in
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by telchior 5y ago
I'd be very interested to see a review of this article by someone who's familiar with the history and pace of Bell Labs' innovations. The central idea sounds plausible to me: that Bell was extremely innovative because it was
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by telchior 5y ago
Not worth the read; no data or proof involved. Just the vague assertion that, since deaths from falling (like octogenarians have, not the fun rock climbing kind) are increasing, you should have a strong grip to catch yourself.
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by telchior 5y ago
Was mildly interested enough to read it, so I'll tl;dr for anyone else thinking of clicking: This guy complains that he was cancelled (popular word these days) by Forbes for his fact-finding work on Fauci's compensation and invest
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by telchior 5y ago
As long as companies can measure a return on ad spend (ROAS) of >1, their ads are delivering value and they'll keep spending. The book you're naming seems to be saying that they can't actually measure ROAS. But that just s
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by telchior 5y ago
Excel is exactly what people should think of when "low code" comes up. All these other tools like Retool, Accern, UIpath, Webflow etc etc are immature and haven't fully proven their use cases, so of course they're easy f
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by telchior 5y ago
Not sure if you were asking seriously, but: personally, yes.

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