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by wasdfff 8y ago
You mean like newsletters? No need to reinvent the wheel.
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by wasdfff 8y ago
For glorified opml export?
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by wasdfff 8y ago
Follow feeds that post from a variety of sources. I follow a HN rss, a couple multireddit RSS feeds, and even newsletters from nyt and la times will include stories from a variety of places. “Discover” hardly ever means, “check out what’s i
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by wasdfff 8y ago
Oh they’d happily increase their price by 10 cents and then continue as normal.
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by wasdfff 8y ago
That’s still extremely rare. Personal laptops are always up to personal preferences, but most organizations run on windows. At my employer, a university enrolling 50,000, everything is windows. If you wanted to request a new computer throug
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by wasdfff 8y ago
And the solution is hampered by the privacy of given companies. I work in biology, and networking opportunities happen multiple times a year in different international conferences. You present your work and look at everyone else’s in your f
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by wasdfff 8y ago
It’s almost as if there are multiple users on this very website.
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by wasdfff 8y ago
If you aren’t looking at a home as an investment opportunity, there’s no reason to look at a home. Why would you shackle yourself to something that you can’t easily get out of, takes time and money to maintain, can go away in an instant, an
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by wasdfff 8y ago
Are you allowed to require a TOEFL score? I work in academia and find it’s pretty indicative of good English comprehension, and universally done by international students.
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by wasdfff 8y ago
This type of thing is not cheap or easy for most companies. Who is expanding into these small ponds? Amazon, one of the largest tech companies on earth, and with a years long theatrical processs. Talent going to these communities was alread
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by wasdfff 8y ago
How do these researchers justify such a lack of empathy in their product? If I worked for a company that makes a product that does objective harm to society, like Facebook or a missile, I would feel like I wasted years of my life as I would
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by wasdfff 8y ago
What’s wrong with having a cable at your desk? Just plug it in when you get home and eject when you leave.
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by wasdfff 8y ago
Major recalls have been far more catastrophic for automakers. No one dies because their screen has defective pixels.
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by wasdfff 8y ago
Everything is bugged in some way. If an exploit is found it would be kept secret, and the only way it would be fixed is if a white hat randomly finds it again.
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by wasdfff 8y ago
The IRS could file your taxes for you automatically tomorrow if they weren’t legally restricted from doing so. You can thank intuits lobbying.
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by wasdfff 8y ago
Voting needs to be easier but also secure. A smartphone app isn’t secure. I don’t think it can ever be secure; exploiting that app to manipulate the US election would be the prize and singular goal of governments and corporations around the
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by wasdfff 8y ago
The worry isn’t how you voted; in the US your party affiliation is already public. It’s ensuring the vote count is correct.
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by wasdfff 8y ago
Every piece of software can be exploited given enough effort and time. Things are only secure until they are broken. In the year of spectre and meltdown exploits, you balk at the idea that electronics are insecure?
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by wasdfff 8y ago
Pen and paper is hardly done in the US except provisionally. All my votes were cast on a touchscreen with a printed paper recipes that I could look at and confirm of my choice. The paper ballot is kept by the board of elections. Whose to st
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by wasdfff 8y ago
People working minimum wage jobs will still be working Election Day unless it’s very strictly enforced. Plenty of places are open on federal holidays; McDonald’s does not close on christmas.
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by wasdfff 8y ago
At my job, Columbus Day is officially observed on December 24.
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by wasdfff 8y ago
Past kings would have banned just possessing any inflammatory information. If Wikipedia was around 800 years ago and you, a serf, were caught using it, the king of England would have cut your head off in the city center, and the public woul
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by wasdfff 8y ago
A pension might have been swell if you planned on working at pan am for half a century. I can take my IRA anywhere. The worker is unshackled from the pension purse their employer dangled over their head to keep them complicit and loyal to t
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by wasdfff 8y ago
I agree with your last point. Anecdotally, as a kid I hated having a full schedule of mandatory activities, constant regiment, always getting ready. My friends who were the most stressed and unhappy were the ones with the most extracurricul
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by wasdfff 8y ago
Before kids were staying up late playing video games, they were staying up late with a comic book. I think there’s a fallacy in this notion that technology has changed how much time is spent by a child being productive or not. The medium mi