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by wskinner 10y ago
Add to the list: AirDrop. Even with recent hardware on both sides, the success rate is so low that I pretty much never even try to use it anymore, preferring to use Dropbox when I own both devices.
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Is Yelp down?
1 points by wskinner 10y ago|3 comments
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by wskinner 10y ago
Only if those experts' individual inaccuracies are uncorrelated - which for public intellectuals, they will probably always be. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wisdom_of_Crowds#Failures_...
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by wskinner 10y ago
I wouldn't place too much stake in predictions made by experts. There is evidence that these may be far less accurate than we'd like to think, even for very near events. See http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7
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by wskinner 10y ago
Nope, it's way too large on my 15 inch mbp as well.
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by wskinner 10y ago
Not really a new idea. This effect is called preference falsification: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preference_falsification For those who don't want to follow the link: "individuals convey preferences that
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by wskinner 10y ago
When I worked there until mid 2015, I had a top-spec retina MBP mated to a pair of thunderbolt monitors. It was definitely possible to get a Mac Pro if you wanted one, but you needed to express some kind of need.
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by wskinner 10y ago
And what is the right number of Fortune 500 CEOs or women Senators?
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by wskinner 10y ago
Or perhaps Americans are OK with the pastries produced by lower-skilled workers. Maybe they can't taste a difference.
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by wskinner 10y ago
"This isn't ammunition for political agendas---improving equality should be a central objective function of any democratic political system." - proceeds to advocate a particular political agenda. While "government should
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by wskinner 10y ago
Perhaps it is USPS that should be exposed to competition [1]. If other carriers were permitted to ship to mailboxes, I have no doubt they would provide a better service. Note I am referring to the United States Postal Service (government ru
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by wskinner 10y ago
This happens to me seemingly every time I order from Amazon and USPS fulfills. Either that or the mailman gets lazy and marks it undeliverable even though they have keys to my building and the mailboxes are inside. I cannot wait for Amazon
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Don't Let Architecture Astronauts Scare You (2001)(joelonsoftware.com)
1 points by wskinner 10y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 10y ago
I use http://www.gandi.net/ . I chose it partially because like you, I didn't want to give money to godaddy.
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Joel Spolsky at Startup School 2012(youtube.com)
2 points by wskinner 10y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 10y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. This is a totally valid point. For the downvoters: malchow's claim is that in the US, rich people are more likely to be businessmen or people who have otherwise worked for their wealth, rathe
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by wskinner 10y ago
The first thing this reminds me of is http://tvtropes.org/ . The subject matter may be a little different, but the idea is the same: cataloging and indexing conceptual information that is relevant to humans.
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by wskinner 10y ago
"At Facebook, moving into management is not a promotion. It’s a lateral move, a parallel track. " This is nice in theory. But when your "peers" with Manager in their title have access to more information and more decisio
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by wskinner 10y ago
GitHub is focusing on the very bottom of the funnel. They are noticing the distribution of their employees doesn't match that of the larger population, then attempting to make it match. But what if the reason their company distribution
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High Efficiency Real Estate Investing with PeerStreet(mrmoneymustache.com)
4 points by wskinner 10y ago|0 comments
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Why is AirDrop so flaky?
1 points by wskinner 10y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 10y ago
Top of HN with 4 upvotes and no comments?
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Cloud Dataflow vs. Apache Spark(infoworld.com)
4 points by wskinner 10y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 10y ago
I guess you missed the ironic intent of my comment. To spell it out explicitly: Signal desktop still doesn't work if you have an iOS device.
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by wskinner 10y ago
But does it work on iOS?
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by wskinner 10y ago
I would describe being fired if you f * up again as being held liable. Liability doesn't have to be monetary.
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by wskinner 10y ago
That seems like it would raise a serious issue of moral hazard.
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by wskinner 11y ago
One point missed by this article (but mentioned by another commenter) is that it's not enough to just want more friends. It's not even enough to meet another person who also wants friends. What keeps friends together is perceived
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by wskinner 11y ago
What makes you think the American economy would continue growing at 7% forever? And why do you believe prices wouldn't rise to meet the new common standard of living afforded by this grant?
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I'm Over Tech People(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
19 points by wskinner 11y ago|8 comments

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