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by basseq 7y ago
This would be more interesting with descriptions of WHY it's bad, and a little bit of moderation. As of this comment, there are 9 entries, and more than half have to do with similar link/button behavior (#8, #5, #4, #2, #1... an
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by basseq 7y ago
Naïve question: why does Zuckerberg keep doing these? They never go well, and bluntly, there's really no chance they would. A lot of it is political grandstanding. "Have you learned that you should not lie?" That's a &
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by basseq 7y ago
I love the level of detail in this analysis. Just typographic nerdiness at its finest. And I have never watched NGE or have particular interest in anime. I found the mechanical compression the most interesting part of this. I suspect it s
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by basseq 7y ago
Yes, Nest offers MFA. You should enable it now: https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/9295081?hl=en
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by basseq 7y ago
> The thing is ... very few companies do actually use all the complex configuration of said purchased software. That's the point, though. Enterprise software is a superset (E) of all features that a large group of very diverse cus
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by basseq 7y ago
It's an interesting topic, particularly as it relates to employers being women/family-friendly. How do you feel about parental leave, for instance? Of course, this is a benefit that's within your control: just get a partner&#
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by basseq 7y ago
This is really important. Pulled from the underlying study[1], employers cover 82%/70% (individual/family) of the cost of healthcare. Those numbers are down just slightly from 86%/73% in 2019. Or, put another way, employers h
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Elon Musk says 'pedo guy' tweet did not suggest cave diver was a pedophile(reuters.com)
13 points by basseq 7y ago|8 comments
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by basseq 7y ago
Roulette you just play the statistics: not really an edge. You run the Martingale system (double your bet after every loss), and my quick monte carlo simulation says I'd turn $1 into $2,250 after 5,000 iterations. But I'd need a b
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by basseq 7y ago
But I could also sock £5m into VBIAX, with 7% annualized returns, and clear an extra £50k. At that point, other than "I like day-trading", why would you want to do that?
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by basseq 7y ago
Clickbait title. The reason is because fewer people are getting married in the first place. The author posits that it's a "bad thing" because: * ... the decline of well-paying jobs for those without college degrees makes it h
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by basseq 7y ago
Levandowski is on the extreme end of the spectrum, but there's still going to be chilling effect. Lightly paraphrasing Matt Levine in Money Stuff [1] (which I plug any chance I get), "Google is a big rich company with lots of law
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by basseq 7y ago
Counter-anecdote: I interviewed with Palatir 6.5 years ago (also didn't get the job) and was absolutely made aware that a core part of their business was in law enforcement at both the Federal and State level.
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by basseq 7y ago
That's my point: of course they do (well, used to). A key demographic is 18–35. Ads portraying "happy, playful 20-something models" seems legit for that demographic, including using social media as a channel, where that demog
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by basseq 7y ago
I see a couple different aspects here: 1. Targeting Kids. I don't see the targeting. Marketing a product as "cool"[1] is a valid tactic for the, say, 18–35 age demographic, too. Is there a way to market to 18-year-olds whi
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by basseq 7y ago
Counter-anecdote: I interned (many years ago) at Altria / Phillip Morris and found everyone I worked with to be very aware and conscious of the impact of their products. There was always a sense of finding that line between creating a
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by basseq 7y ago
From today's Money Stuff by Matt Levine[1]: > So when an association of big public-company CEOs gets together and declares that corporations should serve the community, take care of the environment, and be responsible to employee
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by basseq 7y ago
On its face, this seems a little like sour grapes from FedEx. "You're going to leave us, so we're going to leave you first." While Amazon is _absolutely_ becoming a last-mile competitor—I see their blue vans all over the
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by basseq 7y ago
I've heard a lot of similar stories, and I wonder two things: 1. Is some of that volume bad addresses or poor wayfinding? Something about how the delivery person ended up at the wrong location and didn't know where to go, versus b
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by basseq 7y ago
That's a good point, and a valid one, but not the central thesis of THIS article . (ProPublica has previously written articles on that.[1]) [1] "But, as ProPublica has been reporting, Intuit has steered eligible customers away fr
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by basseq 7y ago
Oh, 100%. Those are some of the "dark patterns" I reference. It is a little shady, and it is a bait-and-switch. I'm not defending that at all .
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by basseq 7y ago
I'm quoting the article: > “They were always supposed to be customer focused, customer first,” one former staffer said. But the income levels of the groups that were being driven to paid products “was never really considered.” Whe
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by basseq 7y ago
On a meta level, this is a little biased and click-baity: the Trump references, the "abuses of power" mission statement, the emphasis on "the Disabled, the Unemployed and Students". In short, Intuit moved from previously
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by basseq 7y ago
Sorry, to clarify, I’m surprised my per-store calculation isn’t higher for WF/TJ. As you point out, the food aisles at CVS are minimal versus an entire store.
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by basseq 7y ago
This is a matter of scale. The more interesting metric would be a per-store figure, where TJ and WF outsell CVS by a factor of 5–7x.[1] I'm surprised that it's not higher. > The eyebrow-raising figure probably comes down to an
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by basseq 7y ago
Confirmed both the Hey Siri and Power+Volume tricks do work on an iPhone 8-Plus running iOS 12.2. Wonder if it doesn’t work on older phones, but surprised it’s not tied to iOS version.
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by basseq 7y ago
Good clarification, thanks. I can't find any immediate results on the Police shortcut no longer working—almost every reference is from Q3 2018.
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by basseq 7y ago
> holding power + volume up for a few seconds disables biometrics silently I didn't know about this great shortcut until today. Note that it isn't particularly "silent", as it displays an "Emergency SOS" s
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by basseq 7y ago
Headline on CNBC is less sensational, and includes "theft" in quotes. The attribution "Sears" is also interesting, and equates to (I think) "Sears’ unsecured creditors". The claim that "Lampert was the cau
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by basseq 7y ago
Or, for sensitive context, "hey, is this alert about to pop up on a projector in front of 50 people?"

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