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by xster 9y ago
> Disclosure: My brother works at Google. His brother is the cofounder of Firebase? He must have some pretty interesting dinner conversations.
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by xster 9y ago
The cynic in me feels like it's an engineered phenomenon to promote effective political apathy in the population while Balkanizing the exhausted general public with elite-approved wedge issues to make them feel like they're engagi
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by xster 9y ago
I agree the recommendations is too moody, but it has nothing to do with any redesigns per se. The same backends feed recommendations independent of what the web page or mobile clients looks like.
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by xster 9y ago
Paper anyone?
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by xster 9y ago
+100000. "Overrun" sounds too deliberate. It's just the result of a population biasing as you say.
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by xster 9y ago
I think it's just an outcome of of the comparatively good state of the scientific community today which in turn doesn't necessitate contrarianism or radicalism. Galileo would probably think that r/science is among the worst o
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by xster 9y ago
Not just the rewrite but I worry very much about their entire current philosophical approach to transparent content vs view curations. The selective content filtering with r/popular vs r/all, the ever heavier embedding of native a
578.
by xster 9y ago
I'm exaggerating a bit but basically: - Primary source of the article says "It’s not genetic engineering or adding new genes" - Vice's marketing department: "Gina is engineering babies!!!@$@#%1111"
579.
by xster 9y ago
Where did these over 50 people live in Mission Bay? From surrounding neighbourhoods I assume?
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by xster 9y ago
Ya emphasis on that. California is one of the lowest footprint places you can live. Everyone we squeeze out is potentially another person blasting AC at 11 cents a kWh in Arizona.
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by xster 9y ago
Also do run in release mode for best performance. The default debug mode rather optimizes for developer convenience and hot reload cycles etc. https://github.com/flutter/flutter/wiki/Flutter%27s-modes
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by xster 9y ago
I don't remember when's the last time I saw a non hit piece article from corporate journalists. The audience demands blood.
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by xster 9y ago
Also very different approach. Flutter renders all graphics much closer to the metal instead of binding to platform's UI APIs so you're effectively shipping the UI toolkit that will be the same on jelly bean and iOS 10 (or differen
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by xster 9y ago
Am I crazy or does it look like you're not sitting in a open-plan office/farm? And you have your own lounge chair by the window?
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by xster 9y ago
Sensible option for someone in the west. Wouldn't make sense at all for the ecosystem of digital needs one would want to fulfill in China. Also, you're thinking of 'pirating' as equating going to the pirate bay, digging
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by xster 10y ago
If only we can get an equivalent tax increase on a progressive capital gain tax system, it might even be a good thing.
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by xster 10y ago
It's pretty hard to put money in and out without chinese banks though.
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by xster 10y ago
The fact that this came from CFR/Hillary's State Department's Jigsaw is very troubling.
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by xster 10y ago
Never mind, it's here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.joshbegley... Wonder why no one talks about it
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by xster 10y ago
Also strange why in none of his articles does he describe why he doesn't have an Android app 1 as an exploratory thought exercise and 2 to more clearly compare and contrast the 2 ecosystems.
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by xster 10y ago
React native is an 'open standard' :p
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by xster 10y ago
Though I don't think the legislature even uses IM let alone understand it and understand it technically.
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by xster 10y ago
I'm not saying we shouldn't resist these types of arbitrary unofficial screening processes whenever we encounter them but if I weren't such a confrontational type of person for these things, I would just listen to my lawyers
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by xster 10y ago
What does HBO know about journalism?
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by xster 10y ago
One concrete thing I think can be done right now is to make a Chrome extension that audits the current website on the number of dark patterns and visibly surfaces a score for the website so people can flee from them like the plague/web
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by xster 11y ago
I think 'reasonable' has many nuances. One can definitely sympathize. Although a truly selfish person who isn't shortsighted could be better served by making sure that other members of society on whom he depends on can live i
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by xster 12y ago
I think the fact that you started off with the assumption that the PM is competent illustrates the inherent entitlement problem with a lot of PMs in the software industry. Yes, PMs are highly important roles when done right. Companies who i
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by xster 12y ago
I think we all agree that this support is very heartwarming and meaningful but also makes one think who's donating to all the drone strike victims for whom not only freedom of expression but freedom is existence is continually threaten
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by xster 12y ago
It's a rather diminutive term for the newly rich. The tone is almost like dirt barons.
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by xster 12y ago
I'm also not sure whether the flooding of subsidized US agricultural products will benefit the poorest in Cuba. Take Haiti for instance that went from self sufficiency to a net importer of rice when local producers can't compete w

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