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waboremo
4y ago
Part of the distinction between why this process has been made harder is primarily due to finances. If you do not get a scholarship, you are expected to have a job. Not a good job either specifically crafted for 18 year olds so they can get
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4y ago
It's also important to note that social media doesn't operate in isolation. We can blame social media all we want, but when we keep preferring candidates in the hiring process who have presentable social media, it's just ampl
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4y ago
Those design decisions were never made in a vacuum. They relied on telemetry (or, less scarily, user testing, user feedback, user research, etc) to figure out what works best. As a reminder, our intuition doesn't come from nowhere, rat
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4y ago
That's how expectations work. When you have been training people to expect realism and the truth through chatbots (Siri, Google Assistant, even the various bots on commerce/service sites), that is what they will also expect from C
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4y ago
If your CEO is a lemming, they are not capable of leading a company. They should be fired. If you want to see a real leader, look at Tim Cook. He made decisions based specifically on where the company is, where it's going, and already
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4y ago
That combined with Amazon's aggressive category filtering is annoying. Search a generic term like rings, it forces you into the clothing category without the ability to switch. You have to then slap on more keywords in hopes it navigat
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4y ago
Don't think they were talking about google returning reddit results for generic searches, which doesn't happen that much and certainly isn't a highlight feature like it is for Bing and DuckDuckGo. When it comes to generic sea
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4y ago
A non-tech one that was consistently pushed for a very long time and made a huge re-debut on tiktok (when it was popularized in the US) was dropshipping. Just like you said, some people definitely got richer; Shopify, Amazon, and Alibaba to
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4y ago
The compartmentalized problem is serious, it's not easy and therefore personas should be sparingly used. You have to increase the points of trust to create any sort of sustainable persona handling system. These points themselves becomi
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4y ago
Nonchalantly redefining lying just because everyone is vaguely aware the lie exists is silly. You do realize you can just adjust your original absolutist position on lying = indicator of future trustworthiness by just recognizing the nuance
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4y ago
Think you would have to request the filings in California. You can view the list of warnings without a request of which you can find the numerous Google listings on Jan 20[1], but details I don't believe are published publicly. Follow
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4y ago
It's frustrating how easily Microsoft is annoying users purely because they have to have every single pixel monetized on Windows. So much user frustration comes down to this. A potentially useful widget feature if it was open to Window
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4y ago
Late reply but ADHD and Borderline get mixed up a lot, especially in women. For a very long time the only people who would get the ADHD labels were extremely hyperactive boys. More recently people after seeking specialists (not just general
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For me this was Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria, linked to ADHD but of course that itself has a lot of overlap with the anxiety/depression realm. It's a pretty messed up condition to deal with, especially because even the mere per
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4y ago
Services like Gumroad can have zero discoverability because other services have decent discoverability. So somewhere, discoverability is a crucial service and it's probably best to have control over that rather than assuming a third pa
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4y ago
Eating more in the long run doesn't seem like a better long term investment, especially when eating more for a lot of people results in making less optimal food choices and in turn bad habits. These bad habits can become exponentially
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4y ago
Guess this is a good reason for repairers/resellers or buyers to ensure activation status on any Apple device they get their hands on. Easy for repairers/resellers to ensure since they tend to be directly in contact with the compa
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4y ago
The button is at the bottom of the screen to the right. Visit an example page [1], and it should be there at the very bottom right corner. It is set to only appear on wide screens (1600px+), where the "wasted space" can actually b
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4y ago
There isn't wasted space. The left supports the table of contents, which can get quite long and layered. Plus it also supports the expanding top menu button. The right side can be expanded on by clicking the square button at the bottom
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I don't entirely think it's just 3rd party software, I think Apple's decision to bundle major app and OS updates together gives people the illusion that every major release is causing problems. If they were to separate their
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4y ago
It's problematic for a company to have EOL plans not because people will assume they will go out of business, but because they might not be able to actually adhere to those EOL plans resulting in a much larger mess than what would have
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4y ago
Two things: They were never locked the same way your PS4 wasn't you could connect it wired and use it just fine as a regular controller. The second thing is that the stadia controllers used wifi as their source of connection over bluet
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4y ago
Acting young does not exclude thinking about death. Being able to focus on other things most of the time also doesn't exclude thinking about death. I find it difficult to believe your family members do not think about death, even if yo
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Spotify was in that phase since it's creation. Contrast paying amounts between Apple Music and Spotify to see that in numbers. Game Pass has the huge advantage of being about games, it can retain a much lower game library number (~100
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Why did you select those countries specifically?
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Or it being monetized in weird ways. Mobile apps (especially on iOS) are bizarre. Who is paying these $19/mo fees for a barebones yoga app? Apparently someone out there since every single app on iOS is pushing an extremely high subscri
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From what I've heard from starbucks employees who were there during the wireless charger tests: theft, device incompatibility, and people didn't know how it worked creating increased stress on baristas. Once there is a universal s
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4y ago
I like the definitions referenced in this[1] article when it comes to log, diary, and journaling. In that way, I wouldn't publish my journals to my blog. [1]: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/academic-devel
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Being referenced by someone you look up to is more valuable than a view. But is it really different, when we consider that one view is the reason why that person is referencing your content in the first place? This is why I have a hard time
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I consider journaling and blogging two distinct and separate mediums. In case you use them interchangeably, what do you write about?
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