BlackCherry

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by BlackCherry 2y ago
The latest stats I can get are from 2009, but it looks like Microsoft had over 95% of the OS market share in 2009. This was a bad take. It also demonstrates how disconnected from the average person he was if he almost only saw OSX, when the
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by BlackCherry 3y ago
This article codifies general power structures within organizations: who trumps who when making software decisions in an org and sells that status quo as some sort of useful rule of thumb, when it in fact has no utility at all.
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by BlackCherry 3y ago
You can have a high IQ while having wrong axioms or bad facts. Those humans who recalled incorrectly could have a 130 IQ, proving my point above and making your ad hominem reddit speak luddite insult fall flat.
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by BlackCherry 4y ago
NYC apartment’s lack of square footage is going to make it super inconvenient to store the containers as you await the next delivery and container pickup.
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by BlackCherry 5y ago
But the cows eat the grass a lot faster than it would be rotting right? So wouldn't the speed of the methane entering the atmosphere be faster?
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
Nope, I’m reading the actual article and using the author’s definition of innovation: creating technology that makes our lives better as human beings. Not a small group of people making something that makes them a ton of money regardless of
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
It’s fascinating that you are at the very same time not understanding what he is saying, absolutely illustrating exactly what he is saying.
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
You’re confusing being good at business/marketing with being innovative.
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
I think on average you're right. As the project grows, these generators lose some of their initial value and speed. If I were to use something like this, it'd be for rapid development initially for prototyping purposes. Then I&#x2
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
Stop thinking about work as something you do from 9-5. Start planning your day around a more organic schedule. I work in 1-2 hours spats throughout the day, interspersed with working out, cooking, reading, watching youtube, etc. You need to
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
Just to add some context to the people who put this presentation together back in 2019-09-11: https://www.nscai.gov/about/commissioners Eric Schmidt, Chairman Schmidt Futures Robert O. Work, Vice Chairman TeamWork Safr
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NSCAI Eric Schmidt says Mass Surveillance killer tool/opportunity pg 88-99 [PDF] (2019)(epic.org)
40 points by BlackCherry 6y ago|12 comments
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
In fact, people can't accurately identity peoples faces, there have been many convictions of people based on people recognizing faces in a line up, and their recall of said persons face being completely wrong. So by your own logic alon
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
Public shaming didn't work, literally at all. The article was released literally today, and the program was ended before anyone knew about it other than reporters. And this won't deter other corporations from employing this techno
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
This is incoherent. He speaks on cultural/political/economic issues that he has very little actual interest or knowledge on and comes to very obtuse and banal conclusions. The IDW's schtick is to make your "common sense&
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
Yeah this is excellent. I wish he would produce more of this content, rather than his diet-right "mAh FrEeSpeCh" normie political commentary. I've actually heard he was an excellent evo-bio professor by former students. What
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
Agreed. That’s why I put “promoted approaching” rather than “approached”. But you’re 100% correct.
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
You are accurately identifying that he uses his identity to hide his class in order to increase his profits. This is what modern corporate diversity initiatives are in a nutshell.
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
It’s born out of a system that seeks to protect the owners of capital by scapegoating the workers and making it the workers problem, rather than the problem of the people with the political power and money to make meaningful change.
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
“it’s just a mindset”, takes all responsibility off of the ruling class and places it all on the backs individual. While I’m all for taking responsibility for oneself in a rigged system, I’m not going to pretend the system isn’t rigged and
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
I was just about to post this: Communist bandit (Chinese: 共匪; pinyin: gòngfěi) is an anti-communist insult directed to the Chinese Communist Party. The term originated from the Nationalist Government in 1927. This is direct censorship on be
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
While it's true that lackey is condescending, it's also accurate. We have euphemized "lackey" with less condescending terms like "gopher" or even phrases like "you'll do what it takes". He clearl
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
To clarify "professional immaturity" does not mean personally immature/childish. It means he comes across as extremely green, new to the professional world, etc.
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
This blog post over complicates and mythologizes an extremely simple process. That is to not be embarrassed or ashamed to ask people you want something from what you can do to get it. Additionally, this is survivorship bias. His emails soun
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by BlackCherry 6y ago
It’s not the “corporations” as this abstract entity that are focusing on shareholder value as a top priority. It’s the C Suite members, and it’s the board members... it’s a small group of people at the top who are trying to enrich themselve
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by BlackCherry 7y ago
I find this trope of Kings/Emperors being "poorer" than most people today, to be an extremely annoying trope. This trope is purely a rhetorical device used to justify inequalities, because "look you have a cell phone and
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by BlackCherry 7y ago
Comparing a physical space to a digital one is absurd. Regulation will be used suppress speech and to further serve their paying customers: advertisers, politicians, special interest groups, corporations. These platforms are already on thei
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by BlackCherry 7y ago
My mother’s credit worthiness was terrible and I was denied on most loans and the ones she did qualify for were capped and not enough to pay for each semester. I always had to go to my finaid department and beg for the gaps to be filled thr
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by BlackCherry 7y ago
In order to be able to write, you need to have something you actually want to say on something you are actually interested in. Writing, is about expressing ideas, so you need some sort of idea, and then you need strong convictions and op