tommymachine

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by tommymachine 10y ago
The analogy you present, Public office : no experience as a public official :: doctor :: no experience as a doctor I don't find it very accurate. It might be more accurate to say public executive : corporate executive :: public doctor
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by tommymachine 10y ago
From a political perspective, attacking the Wall St label is an effective "enemy of my enemy is my friend" strategy for gaining democratic power with the lower classes -- the people who comprise a democratic majority. Nevermind th
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by tommymachine 10y ago
The previous Wells CEO gave a talk at stanford GSB in 2009 in which he explained the company's core strategy in consumer financial services: distributing decentralized products and services through cross-selling. [1] Since cross-sellin
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by tommymachine 10y ago
Chip performance is the bottleneck everything on a phone has to run through. It can give a proprietary boost to a brand if they put out better performing chipsets. Is it the only thing in a phone that matters? God no! But a better chipset a
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by tommymachine 10y ago
The fastest smartphone CPU was last year's chip from Apple. The old Apple chip just got beaten by the new Apple chip which is 40% faster than second place--which is still the old Apple chip. Even if the camera stuff wasn't better
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by tommymachine 10y ago
I disagree with the premise where time spent finding an email is wasted time. Personal control over the privacy of one's email is exactly what makes email valuable. This is true for both sender and receiver because: Larger inbox load m
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by tommymachine 10y ago
I actually just quit a factory job to start software dev. The conditions and pay were terrible at my factory gig so I started learning to code in my spare time. Probably few people on this forum would be connected with people who recently h
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by tommymachine 10y ago
Mercedes is working on this in the Bay Area. Here is their video demoing a few possible answers to this very issue https://youtu.be/IWB4xj7EILg?t=68