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961.
by toyg 3y ago
> One can safely assume Salesforce has very well made internal Tableau visualizations of Salesperson performance. I can't decide whether this statement is ironic or not. Salesforce is just another big company, with committees and
962.
by toyg 3y ago
> they won most of the cultural battles. That's because the upper echelons correctly understood that culture is largely window-dressing, as long as the fundamental economic ballasts remain the same. They will let us dye our hair b
963.
by toyg 3y ago
What it is today , codified in the aesthetic and cultural mores that the mainstream labelled punk in the '70s. 60 years ago, it was something very different.
964.
by toyg 3y ago
C&H is basically the '90s in a nutshell. Coincidentally, Watterson himself was very punk: he started drawing for his own sake, got famous, refused to accept the capitalist growth imperative, and dropped out. He never sported a moha
965.
by toyg 3y ago
American evangelist preachers are notorious tax-evaders. Just sayin'.
966.
by toyg 3y ago
Most of them are lazy scions of well-off families, who will eventually take the studs off once the trust fund cuts them out. Culturally they are largely dead, reproducing models (like the communes you mention) popularized more than half a c
967.
by toyg 3y ago
The disconnect between your post and parent is due to time-lapse. In the very early 70s (arguably the peak of punk as a creative force in the UK), yes, there was little or no broadcasting tech - punk disseminated slowly through live gigs an
968.
by toyg 3y ago
Parent didn't say "mobile was invented", said "the mobile boom" - which indeed didn't really happen until (a few years) after the iPhone arrived. The amount of money flowing into mobile software is now an order
969.
by toyg 3y ago
Nothing that refined. Execs do mergers simply because stock price go brrrrr , which is what their bonuses are about. When the projected gains will fail to materialize and the acquisition mismanagement will be laid bare, they'll be som
970.
by toyg 3y ago
That's the story pretty much all over Europe: Italy, France, Britain... They all have problems with seasonal floods that are very recent. It's not that they were dry countries before, and overall annual rainfall is often lower tha
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by toyg 3y ago
That post reproduced the entire AP piece. Surely that's illegal...?
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by toyg 3y ago
Yes, destroy that infidel idolatry! Burn down the buddhas! Death to false prophets!!1!1! /s Or, you know, find new ways to use these things. Brutalist architecture is absolutely fantastic for street-art, for example, or to shoot sci-
973.
by toyg 3y ago
You're being cynical. We used to have ambitions and utopias, as societies; we used to think the future can be whatever we want it to be, that work would be done by machines, that we would live free in our flying cars, that nobody would
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by toyg 3y ago
On one side, yes, great. On the other side: more notifications while driving? No, thanks - bad for safety, likely to be very annoying, and extremely likely to be coopted by adsense ("did you know? Just 1 mile ahead you'll find the
975.
by toyg 3y ago
If you could just go home for the day, thad would be grrrreat.
976.
by toyg 3y ago
Gog was born as a bargain-bin store for products that required zero investment and were already widely pirated, it was only upsides as far as publishers were concerned. I know it's different now, but I doubt their no-drm policy is as i
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by toyg 3y ago
The art of pollsters is to produce results reflecting the hopes of whoever commissioned them, but with just enough even-handedness to look not-obviously-prepackaged.
978.
by toyg 3y ago
You misspelled appealing to game developers and publishers . Most companies will not invest on a platform that makes it too easy to rip them off.
979.
by toyg 3y ago
How long is the generation going to take ? It's been spinning for some time here (Firefox)...
980.
by toyg 3y ago
That sort of cry reminds me of the '80s "Dungeons and Dragons turn children satanists!!!"...
981.
by toyg 3y ago
It's 2024, books must also come as digital-only. I agree that the obsolescence rate has skyrocketed, as a side-effect of always-online development.
982.
by toyg 3y ago
Spotify is actually trying very hard to expand in different markets - audiobooks and podcasts were big moves. Unfortunately, these markets really don't play well with their core proposition. I honestly don't understand why certain
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by toyg 3y ago
It's shit, but musicians really critical of "the system" have always had trouble with mainstream channels; nobody likes to work with someone who bites the hand that feeds them. Hence the whole punk thing - self-production, in
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by toyg 3y ago
> If so I think you greatly overestimate the cost. I suspect you underestimate it. Raw engine cost is one thing; what businesses downstream will actually pay, is another. Look at AWS: a lot of businesses don't even touch it direct
985.
by toyg 3y ago
Connecting to an unknown machine and asking what they have, is like knocking on a stranger's door and asking what they're selling. Them mentioning something nefarious and you leaving in response, is very obviously not a crime.
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by toyg 3y ago
Beyond the snark, this is basically it. It's the same reason the Roman Empire, despite all its technological prowess, never tried hard to automate relatively low-hanging-fruit tasks: because slaves were cheap, plentiful, and more flexi
987.
by toyg 3y ago
The same line was said by Soviets during the Cold War, or Americans during the Iraq Invasion... In reality, in any relationship both sides must share some of the guilt for the failure in getting along.
988.
by toyg 3y ago
It's almost like reality is complicated and ideological simplification is the root of most evils - who knew!
989.
by toyg 3y ago
But not travelling at all is equally righteous? Sounds like a cop-out to me... Then again I'm not a theologian, and growing up in Italy taught me not to expect any actual consistency from any multi-millennial institution.
990.
by toyg 3y ago
Wut? China is not Japan, they were never in splendid isolation - they were taken advantage of in periods of weakness, like any other country out there was taken advantage of by someone (including China) at some point.

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