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by zeruch 5y ago
Parent firm Comcast sets the bar for abject trash customer care; given NBC was never well managed for at least the last 15-20 years, its surviving on a back catalog of content, and periodic strangle holds on stuff like the Olympics, which i
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by zeruch 5y ago
...to be fair, even Zombocom has more actual focus.
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by zeruch 5y ago
"It’s extremely tempting, especially to technical people, to believe that some piece of technology will create net freedom and equality." I think this certainly used to be the case; when geeks ran the valley roost so to speak, th
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by zeruch 5y ago
"The report would be a lot more useful if there were some context for this data. How many items do comparable places like Wal Mart warehouses destroy each week? What's the reason for these items being marked for destruction? What
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by zeruch 5y ago
It's quite cool to see this still in active development. I did a segment on it for a long gone show on then Tech TV called "The Screen Savers" back in the very early 2000s, and I thought it was pretty slick back then...to se
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by zeruch 5y ago
Holy crap...I'm pretty sure that the Marcus Bannon mentioned is someone I went to high school with. What an utterly bizarre, and shrinking universe.
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by zeruch 5y ago
Yes, but how you interpret "employee friendly" matters. Case in point, California is an "at will" employer, which depending on how you want to leverage it, can be seen as employee friendly or employer friendly.
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by zeruch 5y ago
I don think that is what it purports to do, or likely will end up doing. It might result in people seeing how much common aspects a story has, and that helps to divorce the factual aspects from the editorialization. Maybe. It might result
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by zeruch 5y ago
I care less about the tax rate, then how effective its applications are.
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by zeruch 5y ago
Marin is a truly strange land. I go up there a lot (I live in the South Bay) mostly to go hiking and maybe pick up some oysters in bulk for shucking at home, and the locals do seem to have a peculiar mix of traits that seems both genial and
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by zeruch 5y ago
It used to be half of the Bay Area, but because of the growth in and around Sac, and because its a college town with a pretty well regarded college and mellow attitude (think Berkeley if it was not trying so hard to be so extra; like the sh
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by zeruch 5y ago
Having worked at one point for several years in the "antipiracy industry, it's basically a burlap sac full of rabid ferrets. Te client base is mostly crazed studio execs who want to DDoS the internet, and the DMCA farms that serv
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by zeruch 5y ago
"but while I was living in SF I saw drugs sold on the street, needles left on the ground in public parks, people stealing registration stickers off license plates, smashed car windows, people blocking sidewalks and harassing pedestrian
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by zeruch 5y ago
Sacto is underrated (although I think I'd rather be in sleepier Davis and just train up) and downtown SJ has been overly maligned, often without any direct experience (or any real attempt to look). I live in the latter now, literally i
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by zeruch 5y ago
"but the amount of nature you can be in within 30 minutes of driving from anywhere in the Sacramento region is drastically more than 30 minutes from anywhere in the bay area." Not true at all. The sad truth is there are more hiki
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by zeruch 5y ago
"Based on anecdotes I feel like this doesn't tell the full story" Not even remotely. Within a compact area, the three major poles (SF, Oakland/Berkeley nd San Jose) have different histories, and narrative threads that le
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by zeruch 6y ago
Pessoa has been a lingering influence on my own work (which is visual as opposed to the written word) since I was a teenager. Growing up in America to Portuguese immigrants meant I always had a curiosity about it, and Pessoa always stuck a
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by zeruch 6y ago
Desperate conditions breed desperate responses.
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by zeruch 6y ago
Caldera was a decent distro in its day. It had some potential (it was funded initially by Ray Noorda's Canopy VC which gave it a little leg up), but its fall off/acquisition by SCO was fast, hard and ugly.
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by zeruch 6y ago
You can't trust it when it isn't either. Firms are not obligated to be "trusted" (although the argument to do so as beneficial for business is an easy one to make), and one should expect dirty pool at any juncture wher
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by zeruch 6y ago
I have been a fine artist and illustrator for years, either doing commissioned work, or licensing existing work from my catalog, which at this point is fairly large. Commissioned work is infrequent, because I don't market it much and
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by zeruch 6y ago
It was a direct statement he made to a colleague when we both were at VA Research and he berated her for some item related to how we were hosting the FSF at the time. That's where I first saw that he is gracious when it suits him and i
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by zeruch 6y ago
"I would recommend looking into the less pleasant facts about others you consider philosophically brilliant, especially those further removed from us in time" I do. How the hell do you think I figured it out for RMS? That same cri
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by zeruch 6y ago
It's not just neurodivergence, but its that he recognizes where he jabs people and pretty much admits he doesn't care. I once had this conversation about with with ESR and I remember him saying "RMS doesn't care about t
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by zeruch 6y ago
Apologize for what? What in his statement should be apologize for? It's an op-ed that the author himself qualifies with a fairly clear sense of wat exists "on the ground" and his opinion about it, both positive and negative.
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by zeruch 6y ago
" I wouldn't exactly call that fraud in the "startup world", but rather fraud in the investment world, as the goal is to bilk investors." A noteworthy (and mostly overlooked) distinction.
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by zeruch 6y ago
I live in the very liberal Bay Area, and I have indeed said that repeatedly, and rarely do I get pushback. The biggest question is "do those parents have to be a hetero couple?" to which I reply "nope, but unless the single
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by zeruch 6y ago
I mean neither...that the 'refresh' part should matter (if it's suddenly something with a high cost and high frequency, I would be suspicious. If it actually resembles other vaccine regimes, then obviously less so). But do I
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by zeruch 6y ago
This feels like a pharma-grab, and it should be investigated.
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by zeruch 6y ago
You might want to start with something "comfortable" , which may not be a digital tool. If you learn well kinesthetically, pencil and paper might be a great start that then becomes easier to translate into a raster or vector based

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