TomSawyer

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by TomSawyer 9y ago
Were you swimming with a band that uses a magnetic clasp?
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
That crossed my mind, but it'd mean they'd be willing to lock out large networks behind a NAT. I was wondering if there's something more sophisticated available.
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
A few weeks ago I was looking up public profiles on LinkedIn and I noticed what I interpreted to be some network-side fingerprinting of some kind. The first couple profiles came up, but from that point I was only served a sign up page. It d
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
This is the best answer to that, that I've seen: https://twitter.com/corbettmatt/status/891003236412469248
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
The point of anti-trust laws is not to punish success, but to police against an entity using their dominant position in one market to take over a different market.
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
The exploited are being tricked into believing that there's intangible value in spending their life's work on something that they believe in and are passionate about, right? It's only virtuous to do that if someone doesn&#x27
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
Yes, and being passionate about your work — such as wanting to work with new developments in your chosen field or changing jobs for an opportunity where you'll be better able to apply your talents to your field of interest — is just a
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
I'm reminded of the Netflix slide deck that was making the rounds, last year. Adjusting pay, yearly, based on the market value of the employee seems like an ideal solution to this problem. If you stay at a typical company for a year yo
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
Is this someone's slide deck as article? Beginning with what symbols aren't — not logos, not emoji, not cymbals, har har — seems more suited for a cheesy in-person ice breaker.
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
Since when does science require public belief to sustain itself?
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
Not if you were born recently.
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
Maybe artificially grouping trends by an arbitrary ten year period is what's weird?
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
I just noticed that Duolingo also released Hiragana and Katakana stacks via their spaced repetition flashcard app, TinyCards.
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
I liked this bundle: https://appsto.re/us/u8wS2.i
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
Nope -- American.
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
My experience using Apple Pay with a checking account's debit card at Whole Foods Market and Trader Joe's is that it only saves having to swipe/insert the physical card. I'm still required to enter the pin. Sometimes it
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
He's talking about having to enter the PIN for his debit card into the POS keypad.
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by TomSawyer 9y ago
I've witnessed this phenomenon multiple times. 1. Person buys or is gifted a Fitbit because it's inexpensive 2. Person retrains themselves to wear something on their wrist 3. Person is convinced that fitness tracking is beneficial
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by TomSawyer 10y ago
Would you mind going into some of the specifics of the diet and how you were impaired during your recovering?
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by TomSawyer 10y ago
It should fit in nicely with "hispanic" which runs the gamut from white to black.
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by TomSawyer 10y ago
Nah, Comcast screws up my billing regularly, too.
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by TomSawyer 10y ago
It sounds like you weren't sufficiently brown to get media attention? "Public school bureaucracy run by bureaucrats" doesn't have the right mass appeal.
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by TomSawyer 11y ago
This one? http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
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by TomSawyer 11y ago
Moonies is not the preferred nomenclature — Mooninites, please.
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by TomSawyer 11y ago
It's kind of a bummer that the new keyboard ($100) doesn't have a backlight while still keeping the eject button.
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by TomSawyer 11y ago
Care to map the phonics path from quay to "key"? "kway" seems like the most reasonable pronunciation unless the letters are just meant to be strokes in a pictogram.
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by TomSawyer 11y ago
It's no worse than the picture that comes up if you look up trypophobia.
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by TomSawyer 11y ago
Do you have any anecdotal success stories to share related to having read _Do_The_Work_?
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by TomSawyer 11y ago
"Continued innovation matters more than the current set of features." I think it's taken as a given that your app won't be sitting still for five years. The point of the longevity argument is that you won't have to
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by TomSawyer 11y ago
> the government (acting as a bank) would expect to make a loss on all loans issued, as the number of people who default would outweigh the amount of interest collected on the remaining loans As far as I know, you can't get out of p

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