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by wharvle 3y ago
Our experience: 1) Sales didn't know WTF they were doing. Incorrect info we had to waste time sorting out, confused when we asked them about a use case for which they had an entire-ass prominent landing page with a top level link on t
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What's a "recognized text"?
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I trust them more than Amazon. I don't trust them much, but... like, a lot more than Amazon. In our city there's a flea market in a bad part of town where the parking lot has a metal sliding gate and there's barbed wire on
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by wharvle 3y ago
Slide started when they acquired DoubleClick and the two cultures blurred together (or worse, at the higher levels of the company...) and they were beyond saving when they fully committed to ads-inline-with-search-results rather than just &
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by wharvle 3y ago
With those preferences stated (I almost listed Lady Bird!) I'd toss on: - Nomadland — Lonely older woman clinging to the bottom rung of the economic ladder is pushed into van-living and finds community. Basically positive-but-bitters
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Ah. Yes, that's certainly true, both due to the nature of what ads are , and how that business model affects the relationship between creator and audience.
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> They should have allowed a non-us ship to transfer the oil and send it to Iran or whatever. After all it wasn't Iran's fault that the company that moved the oil around was not abiding by the laws of the country they were inco
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by wharvle 3y ago
I don't think micropayments can work, either. The vast majority of Internet content—and I mean stuff that does get seen, not obscure sites with a dozen visits a years—isn't even worth a penny to most (not all, but most) of the p
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by wharvle 3y ago
1. goes a bit deeper than that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact_of_Free_Association 2. Trying to get around the sanctions and then entering a place the US could nab it, yeah. 3. What should they have done with
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Nb their navy already barely existed, however. [EDIT] I just mean that the magnitude of this event was a lot smaller than one might imagine from a context-free "half".
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If they mean usernames and passwords for third party mail servers , then it is notable, since a traditional email client doesn't do that. They only send the credentials to the server they're authenticating against, not also to th
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In FAANG and hot startups, maybe. In the rest of the industry, not many software workers make enough to realistically retire by 50, anyway. Not without living like monks their entire lives. (recall: you need a lot more money to retire at
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I think there's actually some deep insight here into why we tend not to like too much AI in our art. Consider: TimeCube. Created by a human? It's nonsense, but... it's fascinating. Engaging. Memorable. Thought-provoking (in a
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1) No truly-free search can do a good job on the modern Internet. It's too hard. "Free" search must be ad-supported to have any hope of achieving good-enough utility. 2) ... But that's because the incentives of ads (an
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(Not the poster you’re asking) What sort of thing are you into? What are some movies you really like? Would help to tune any suggestions. [edit] Meanwhile, some shots in the dark: - The Green Knight — Based on the story by the Pearl Poet an
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Oh, I know. Matter of time before I drop that one. They've inexplicably decided to destroy their own streaming service, on purpose.
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I have really broad interests in film—it blows my mind when people complain that not enough good or original films come out in a given year, I can't even make it through half the probably-good ones each year, I don't know what the
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by wharvle 3y ago
What's wild is that it's not like they're matching industry norms. Most of the other big streaming platforms are far less chaotic and confusing. Even the shitty new "Max" interface is better than Netflix. It's
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HTML has an element to provide definitions of terms without having to link out, but almost nobody uses it.
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> Maybe graph databases are what some folks are looking for. Beware. These sometimes sell themselves as great for everything ("Look, if you squint, all your data's a graph! Clearly RDBMS is the wrong fit, use our graph database
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by wharvle 3y ago
What're suicide and OD rates like for non-famous trust fund kids? How often does a Rockefeller error none of us have ever heard of OD? (Maybe it's very high, I don't know) Safety, improved-probability-of-continued-comfort, op
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by wharvle 3y ago
Banning dragnet spying and/or making retaining data about people very risky, has some chance of killing algorithm-feed social media (by drying up ad dollars) and would be a good thing to do anyway. Making companies liable not for con
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To some extent, those sorts of motifs are a dramatization and personification of death itself . A very real threat that's usually rather immaterial and conceptual, cast as something you can see and touch. And that can chase you down a
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It's been that way basically since indirect fire took over as the big killer, IIRC around WWI, maybe somewhat earlier. Odds of seeing the thing or person that makes you a casualty plummeted some time around then. Less a series of deadl
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You also often have to fight for the right thing, then any problems that do happen are your fault . When the dumbshit over engineered "cloud architecture" that was pushed on you (managers don't get promoted or switch com
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Any notable plateau is assuredly way over $75k. Not being anywhere near as stressed, and spending at-most 5% as much time thinking and worrying about money as I did when we were struggling, sure frees up a lot of energy and time to pursue h
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A bigger source of effective (at driving division and getting Your Side riled up) slant isn't when the same story is covered differently, but when an outlet or set of related outlets cover a "story" that evaporates entirely i
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You'd need journalism to dig out the parts & trends that matter given historical and current context anyway. "Murders up 10% in [city]"—is that statistical noise? Was there a policy change that may be connected? Does it
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It's been observed that the homeless work harder just to get through an average day in more-or-less one piece than almost anyone with a job does (and hell, quite a few homeless do have jobs, in addition to the rest of what they deal
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by wharvle 3y ago
> most people don’t get significantly happier after 75k or so a year I call hard bullshit. Without even considering luxury spending, just not having to think about money very often is incredibly nice, and $75k is nowhere near any kin

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