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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
The point of Deere defending their market would be to make it as expensive as possible for outsiders to take. There's no way they would let a billion-dollar revenue stream go for a few million. Just look at how much money was spent in
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
What happens when the automaker updates the software in your car to charge you a monthly fee in order to use those same computerized components? This is already happening, most recently with Toyota putting its remote start feature behind a
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> Or do you have some alternative in mind to incentivize the development of better breeds and variants other than patenting? What makes you think the breeds they're developing are "better"? Monsanto famously developed &quo
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You'd need enough backing to fend off a company that earned almost $40B in revenue in 2020 from an attempt to capture one of its fastest-growing revenue streams. Good luck finding a serious investor that would be willing to try it.
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Name one bank that's run by a poor person.
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To clarify, I wasn't trying to say that individuals who bank with Coutts don't care about technology. The point I'm trying to make is that this is a clear example of an institution that has the means to afford a mobile app an
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
This is one of the most exclusive banks in the world, counting the British Royal Family among their notable clients, and they can't even be bothered to keep their mobile app up to date. Pretty much sums up what rich people think about
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
ADHD has a very well-established connection to substance abuse and addiction so a link to gambling makes sense as well. ADHD can be difficult to diagnose but the substance abuse connection is frequently discussed in the community as it rela
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> But the desire for fame it induces in people, especially young ones, is not one of them. For me, it's not the desire for fame that's concerning, it's how everyone is equipped to become an influencer and the lengths peopl
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Agreed, just because a particular job function isn't someone's responsibility doesn't mean that they can't learn from those who do. A junior developer isn't going to be making architecture decisions at most organiza
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We can't pretend like all media companies care about promoting balanced, thoughtful and inclusive commentary. That's just not reality. There's a ton of money to be made pushing agendas and peddling hate. And then you run into
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A murderer who only murders one person instead of many is still a murderer. Given the recent reporting that Apple is aiming to build its own ad network[0] really puts it's privacy-first branding in perspective. This gave them plausible
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
This project isn't even close to being functional and yet it already has 750+ stars on Github. I guess that's one way to test the market for a project idea.
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Why not go to the person whose job you're trying to supplant and show them your POC? Approach from the angle of "this can free you up to do other things" and not "I'm trying to figure out how to replace people"
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
I've asked to peruse source code in interviews and some companies have complied. Never hurts to ask. I usually just throw out the idea to let my interviewer share their screen and navigate the codebase while I ask questions. This way,
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
The problem is that when the cost of living goes up, it tends to force out poorer residents that have been there for many years. Encouraging people to just live somewhere else because they can no longer afford the home they've owned fo
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Having lived in a zoning-free US city (Houston), I can't say that I'm a fan of "build wherever you want". It leads to large disorganized, unwalkable and inaccessible areas that just don't make sense from an infrastr
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> There is absolutely zero chance of, say, EA and Activision collaborating on a spec to share assets across brands. Zero, no matter how much you could spin it to executives. We're seeing the startup mentality being applied to genera
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
It's also not that hard to implement attribute filtering with REST endpoints. People make a big deal about being able to control the shape of your API responses with GraphQL, but this completely achievable with standard REST APIs as we
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
FWIW, academic research has questioned the 5% number for years. USC and IU put out a report 5 years ago that believed the upper bound for fake accounts was 15%[0]. This isn't a new allegation. 0: https://www.cnbc.com/20
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Well, every corporation wants to be treated as a person when it's beneficial to them, but I'm sure there are many corporations that aren't comfortable with the idea of AI authoring patents.
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> The Federal Trade Commission today took action against online home buying firm Opendoor Labs Inc., for cheating potential home sellers by tricking them into thinking that they could make more money selling their home to Opendoor than o
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
> Vote in folks that plan to solve underlying problems, not vague "i'm gonna crack down on crime!" band-aids. That's what the vast majority of people who run for local office try to do, the problem is that the issues
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
The problem in many cases is that it's hard to prove who actually owns the blocks. Who do you fine when you don't know who put them there? They're so cheap to setup that they can easily be replaced if they're removed.
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> Recipes are surprisingly deceptive. They seem like instructions you can follow, but a more apt analogy is that the recipe is an iceberg and beginner cooks are steaming along on the Titanic. Devil's advocate (and very serious home
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
So, the previous point still stands. These algorithms purposefully amplify content that increases engagement, which often happens to be toxic. Ergo, these algorithms often purposefully amplify toxic content.
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> One of the reasons they do so badly is that American third parties have almost nothing to do with respect to local governance. This just isn't true, third parties like Democratic Socialists of America (Bernie Sanders' party)
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It will be interesting to see how this goes. This is the first serious attempt to build a 3rd party in the social media age that I can think of, which will go a long way towards driving engagement and retention that didn't exist in the
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by thr0wawayf00 4y ago
I think the internet is moving in this general direction more broadly because those huge companies you mentioned have an outsized influence in determining the future of the web.
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> the theoretical "you can be fired whenever for no reason" is rarely abused to that extent. I used to think this way until it happened to me. The CEO didn't care that she was losing a senior technical resource because it

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