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by wand3r 9y ago
to be fair your opinion is less scientifically rigorous than the actual scientific papers he cited which was his formulation of data less than opinion. You can disagree with him & those papers but I do think a blanket dismissal of him a
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by wand3r 9y ago
Not an Oculus user but I couldn't imagine using their beta software if their actual QA'ed release upgrades have brick level bugs in them...
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> How can you raise that much money without shipping a product? Some businesses and technologies are extremely capital intensive and funding can/should/is provided on achieving benchmarks instead of a cohesive product. This is
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Zoos exist so regular people can see exotic animals. While it is probably terrible for the animals in general, people keep coming. A "real jungle safari" is something most people just can't afford.
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You can tell from your grammar you pronounce 'sql' in your head as S-Q-L and not sequel.
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by wand3r 9y ago
It is a $50B a year target for 12 years, so ya if he "pumped" up the stock by pretty much doubling the current market cap 2 full times over the next 4 years then he could "dump" it straight away. So the argument is that
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by wand3r 9y ago
This article demands that an entire industry conform to the author's own personal opinions on how society is and that educating people about this author's belief is the most important thing in the industry. The character's in
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R.I. bill would impose fee for accessing online porn(providencejournal.com)
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by wand3r 9y ago
> Art is a two way street. Besides, EVERYTHING you do has a responsibility, an echo. The parent is not disagreeing imo, just that an artist feels their art/message is their primary responsibility and a financiers primary responsibil
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I would argue that it isn't an investment. It is an indulgence.
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People need to stop casually invoking Hitler when making serious or semi-serious arguments or analogies. Like, I hate patent trolls and think in game payments are pretty terrible. However lets put those 2 concepts in the same neighborhood.
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> A fairly new pic of me. I don't look like a dumbass anymore!! hahhaha classic nostalgia.
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> Having skin in the game means reading the Code of Hammurabi. And, because I’ve got skin in the game, I didn’t trust other people’s translations. I took time out to learn the ancient Babylonian script myself. Turns out the translations
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by wand3r 9y ago
> In a statement, Google said that it would “vigorously defend this lawsuit,” adding that it has a “clear policy to hire candidates based on their merit, not their identity. At the same time, we unapologetically try to find a diverse poo
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Google really only suceeds in building extremely technical products that are much better functionally than competitors. This technology & functional advantage nets them the runway to get the UX people to fix the glaring interface issues
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My cyncical view is because this is the Atlantic. Less cynically the fact in the article "3-4x more boys have Autism than girls" could justify their contention that it is evenly distributed but girls are only diagnosed in cases wi
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by wand3r 9y ago
While that was a wildly off topic flamebait troll, if you boil down the facts of that post I agree. Of the emails I did read, there was some scandolous stuff. She did (or someone did) delete the emails. She also used a non-secure & unsu
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by wand3r 9y ago
My cynical view is that it is a voluntary "breakup" of their monopoly. Google & Waymo are under the same banner iirc. That means that essentially the only things that can make money/matter to alphabet are still business a
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What is a bookmarklet?
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by wand3r 9y ago
I didn't understand that either. Google voice doesnt seem neccessary. Other than that, it sounds like a good setup.
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> By one estimate, college students nationwide spent $701 each year on textbooks in 2008. By 2017 that cost dropped by more than $100. The reason for this is piracy. People save money pirating books and it also provides competition to w
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by wand3r 9y ago
This is terrible and totally shit. FB had opt in by default spam notifications when I provided my number and as I stopped using the service regularly spammed my number. I turned off notifications and then the password reset link didnt work
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by wand3r 9y ago
HomePod should have been an integrated AppleTV/Speaker/Siri. That would have made people actually buy it
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> So many people claim that Google "owns" the coalition. Why does it even matter if you can't find any issue in the standard they've come up with? The answer to this question is self evident. It matters that the peopl
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by wand3r 9y ago
2 paragraphs in and I've already hit 2 spelling mistakes. This isn't a HN comment; it is an article. If you miss this volume of easy mistakes and can't bother to proofread it is off putting. Edit: Is it possible they don&#x27
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Here is one of the clips from Joe Rogan it's ~14mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jF4qwo4Yg0 .
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Ipad - $220 Macbook Air - $900 iPhone 8 - $700 While anyone buying this will likely have all 3 of these (or similar) I can't imagine buying an untested beta version hardware device instead of the three above items. Those 3 devices wo
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While I agree that those companies and many others have become quite successful taking this tact, it was really only successful because of those businesses are nearly monopolies. Obviously this is similar to ISPs. Upwork competes with tons
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I believe that those 2 statements aren't mutually exclusive. To paraphrase Peterson it is important to participate in groups as we progress into society from a dependent child relying on our parents into the various groups we socialize
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I see Facebook as the new landline telephone. You basically have it but never really use it unless you need to talk to your grandmother or interact with spammers. For a few people, it's your only point of contact so you can't axe

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