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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Got it, you're just completely detached from reality and don't actually understand anything people are saying to you on the thread. Take care
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
You're having a conversation with a person you're imagining. Nobody is disagreeing that systems built around transit/biking/etc are better than car-oriented ones. They're saying that an individual in the latter syst
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It's not a traditional genre as much as a characterization, but it definitely has hallmarks that you can identify without reference to its popularity. From Wikipedia: > Identifying factors usually include repeated choruses and hooks
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
A run-rate of $30B/yr is "not a lot of money"?
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I'm always a little confused by this claim. Focusing on revenue-generating products and not the user products they use to sell them: Google Search was their first success, then AdSense (third-party display ads), then YouTube. The latt
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Yea, it really is a no-brainer for a modest QoL improvement, unless you have objections to the privacy implications. I'm really just losing tolerance for this tendency to only express dumb, low-dimensional opinions that are so heavily
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Setting a time, setting alarms, playing music, turning lights on and off, controlling media, (eg Netflix), checking the weather, etc. I'm just focusing on the universal use cases, and excluding varying degrees of niche usesnlike intera
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> The argument being made is that this is either insignificant or OK This is my point. Nobody is saying it's "okay". Facts are _upstream_ of the normative claims people use them to support, and don't always lead to co
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Or, the point is addressed to adults, who are interested in understanding history per se, and assessing the veracity of specific claims (like, "Haiti's underdevelopment is attributable to these reparation demands"). It's
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It's not even poverty as much as material scarcity. That may seem like a distinction without a difference in the capitalist Western context, but the distinction becomes clear in different systems. My mother grew up fairly wealthy in a
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
It seems like bigtech gets you both of these, right? More bureaucratic and stable than startups, less abusive than startups, more stability and salary than either startups or "Minnesota DOT"-type places.
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Is this surprising? Polities care about things happening in their backyard, and societies' goals tend to be much more pragmatic than what it says on the tin. The Palestinian situation is happening in their backyard, with people whose h
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> It can be a hurdle for people who aren't already familiar with the machines and their arcane rules. Right, like I mentioned, it was a very weird first time experience. But my question was addressed to the parent commenter, who is
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> Personally, I now save myself a lot of time by not trying to explain to people why they are wrong. This is 100% it. Most people don't have the cognitive capacity to understand anything that differs meaningfully from the status quo
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
I think you might just have a shitty grocery store... 50% is an absurd failure rate. I think the failure rate I've seen is closer to 1%, and I'm a pretty heavy self checkout user across pharmacies and grocery stores, in both sf an
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
Do you really find that to be a hurdle? The first time I used one, the scale warning surprised me. But it's trivial to avoid, and now self checkout feels super efficient to me
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> They never did catch up on table stakes, In what sense? The table stakes of boring functionality seem to me to be much better implemented in messenger than whatsapp. Everything from a more intuitive UI to a web option is better done in
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
What hand-wringing? I even went out of my way to exclude the removal of agency implied by the term casting couch.
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The idea is absolutely not the same. She didn't want her Instagram back because she's addicted to insta as a user. She wanted it back because her social media presence is part of the business she runs. The analogue here is the cas
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
It's as much of a "game-changer" (or not) as bit.ly: a crucial workaround of artificial limitations on closed platforms.
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Honest question: have you ever been inside of a car?
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
This technique is pretty trivial, and thus very generalizable. When I was at Google as a new grad, I used to put comments with the wrong number of slashes for my internal todos, which would cause the regular linter to pick it up before revi
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> One caveat. I don’t have to deal with anything you have to deal with, so I can’t make an apples to apples comparison. Sure of course, I'm quite clear on what was going on in my case, but I was wondering how broad the dynamic might
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
> So, if I show up at work and open Hacker News or Tweetdeck, there's a not-so-insignificant chance that I'll find myself distracted one way or another for the rest of the day. However, if I stick to a set schedule, there'
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
This is what bedevils me about Twitter. I'm rigorous about pruning my Following list to keep it intellectually honest, so my main feed is pretty great. I end up reading replies to thought-provoking or provocative tweets because there&#
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
When interest rates are low, there's a lot more money sloshing around in search of better return, instead of just comfortably getting a high, low-risk return. When more money sloshes around, higher-risk investments like VCs get more mo
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by wutbrodo 4y ago
The top two organic results for that precise query are pretty informative articles from Wirecutter and Good Housekeeping. Unless I'm misunderstanding and you are expecting something better than this: https://www.goodhousekee
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> It's the private sector completing these jobs, not government employees. They're government projects. The details of how they staff them are part of "why is the gov't so incompetent" question. Comparable-scale
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There's a serious government competence problem in the US (just look at our infra costs), but our unserious political culture can't get past "more gov't vs less gov't" to actually start to understand and tackle
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It's already the case in the US that the quality of a private school education is substantially higher than even rich-neighborhood public schools.

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