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by zethraeus 7y ago
> I'm sure Elastic never saw that one coming That's ridiculous. Of course they were keenly aware that they could be competed with with the free software they put out. They just hoped that no significant competitor would risk up
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by zethraeus 8y ago
> Life is short, why spend it mad that other people like things you don't, and why spend it upset that there are people spending time on products that you don't want or think are important? Without a strong intention of calling
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by zethraeus 8y ago
they're describing building a path based on historical data. that's not UI. It is pretty cool.
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by zethraeus 8y ago
This is a hilariously petulant article.
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by zethraeus 8y ago
Assuming Apple doesn't explicitly ban analytics collection (and how would that play with fancy mdm solutions?), it sure sounds like it should!
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by zethraeus 8y ago
They're not employees but 1099 workers sure sound like they're part of your 'Enterprise'. They could even be 'in house'. Lots of 1099s actually work in the same building as employees. What makes you think they
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by zethraeus 8y ago
Can anyone here speak to AirBnb's continued growth. Rumors say it's plateaued and even public articles suggest the same https://skift.com/2018/11/14/airbnbs-growth-is-slowing-amid-...
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by zethraeus 8y ago
it's out of print and amazon merchant bots are being merchant bots. https://www.empiresofeve.com/ I've listened to the podcast and own the book from their kickstarter. They're both really well done.
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by zethraeus 8y ago
I don’t vape and don’t really know common vaping patterns. I will point out, though, that cigarettes aren’t really subdivisble, and humans are remis to waste. W/r/t definition, the second linked pdf makes reference to measured com
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by zethraeus 8y ago
> It may turn out that e-cigarettes are, on the balance, safer than cigarettes, however it's way too early to make that claim with any level of certainty Public Health England, which informs NHS policy estimates vaping is 95% less b
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by zethraeus 8y ago
He thinks it's useful as a marketing strategy for his own work.
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by zethraeus 8y ago
It's wonderful to see that humanity has so many different definitions of 'sane'. Heterogeneity is beautiful; it makes browsing the internet like walking through a tropical jungle.
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by zethraeus 8y ago
... how in the world is that scarier than anorexia?
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by zethraeus 8y ago
I don't think that's quite fair. For example, I've never seen being against factory farming as a conservative platform. https://quillette.com/2018/11/07/a-world-without-animal-farm...
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by zethraeus 8y ago
> I would feel pretty ripped off if I made a big, delicious cake, and as a reward I get one tiny slice while I had to watch everyone else eat the rest. Maybe not if making cakes is just a small hobby for me, but definitely so if it'
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by zethraeus 8y ago
> So Spotify must compensate for the los[s]. why?
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by zethraeus 8y ago
adam@zethrae.us i'd love to try this
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by zethraeus 8y ago
Realistically, profit seeking corporations would hire them. Insufficiently profit seeking corporations will be out-competed by ones that aren't. They're also not becoming social pariahs outside of, perhaps, the vocal liberal segme
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by zethraeus 8y ago
This is a reasonable point to make as a consequentialist with 20/20 hindsight. But it's fair to value the act of getting freedom from oppressive regimes as a good in itself independent of the power vacuum it creates. And it's
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by zethraeus 8y ago
Not remotely funny.
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by zethraeus 8y ago
I wonder how he'd have fared if he'd drawn anything other than gold courses.
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by zethraeus 8y ago
> (it's hard to see how paying people to host your stuff on their own machines can ever be cost-competitive with paying AWS to do it). The counterargument would be: there are cheaper ways to mine bitcoin than on aws infra. If you c
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by zethraeus 8y ago
Because they write a lot of code. Because they experiment between a lot of experiences. Because there's a lot of legacy code. Because it's not an important constraint to them.
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by zethraeus 8y ago
Yes. Perhaps consider reading comments in the light of, rather than in order to snarkily make, the obvious points.
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by zethraeus 8y ago
Price discrimination is harder to scale than ad targeting.
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by zethraeus 8y ago
Does anyone have a sense of what maintenance for a system like this would look like relative to maintenance for a dam? It seems expensive as hell.
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by zethraeus 8y ago
and yet they continue to happen. does that give you pause as to the effectiveness of enforcement?
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by zethraeus 8y ago
FWIW I was just in london and saw a bunch of people riding their own Mi scooters in the street. (That's the same scooter Bird uses.)
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by zethraeus 8y ago
> How they deliberately hire the weak, the afraid, the vulnerable. [citation needed]
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by zethraeus 8y ago
N.B. Patents are a lagging indicator of what a company is doing. They're made public more than a year after submission.

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