jackfrodo

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by jackfrodo 3y ago
All power to that engineer. From an HR standpoint, Google might be right, in the same way that VW would have been right to fire an employee who disrupted meetings when they built cars for the Nazi regime.
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by jackfrodo 3y ago
Good for him. The reality of the genocide is getting harder and harder to keep out of our ostensibly "politics-free" tech bubble.
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by jackfrodo 3y ago
Trees themselves are useful because they support biodiversity such as small mammals, insects, all the useful things along a forest floor. can't do that with asphalt.
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by jackfrodo 3y ago
Removing parking lots will increase public support for all of the other things you mentioned. It's easier to start with tearing out parking lots and if necessary, cap parking prices, in addition to the other decades long projects
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by jackfrodo 5y ago
Good point. I would imagine/hope there's some kind of compressed air device that would inflate upon impact with water.
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
What a joke. May as well add "Only if the traders promise not to do it again" to the headline. > Starting tomorrow, we plan to allow limited buys of these securities,” Robinhood, a popular trading app, said. “We’ll continue to
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
Right right, I mean the face-value marketing "major principle", the one I was foolish enough to trust for a while.
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
Sure with broad strokes, it generally sucks when a tech company makes unilateral decisions for its customers, whether that's restricting which stocks you can buy or whether you can put unauthorized apps on your iPhone. But I find it pa
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
What a betrayal of their customers. Really going mask-off with what it means for a startup to "democratize" an industry: allowing the little guy to chip in, but never actually compete with the big boys.
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
I'm quite excited about this. I think it will lead to a reduction in "brain drain" here in the American South. Always bummed me out that the top college graduates tend to end up moving away to CA or NYC. Now they can still ha
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
I'm pleasantly surprised that California's firearm law is so strong, that issuing a few concealed carry permits would be even on the radar of the executive team. Contrast that to the stress I felt knowing a Best Buy coworker (seve
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
Oh that's pretty sweet!
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
I wish I knew which life milestones were important and which ones I don't have to worry about. Or at least a more structured guide to life from someone I admire or trust. I'm a single 25 year old software dev, and am doing fine in
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
What is it about the M1 MacBook that would allow this functionality that a regular bluetooth-enabled computer couldn't?
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
Ha, the other day I was looking into how to report the page, and decided it wasn't worth the effort and probably would never be seen by a human. The power of HN!
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
Exactly. And going by vaccine timelines, we're still at the very beginning, so I don't blame people for being hesitant to get injected with it.
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
I know you're being facetious but unironically yes.
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
Uhh, points at 2020 The CDC advising people to not buy masks in February because "they don't work" comes to mind. The US Gov in general completely letting businesses and individuals plunge into bankruptcy. I think a lot of
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
Check out the third image. Clearly calls them Airpod Pro.
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
The tolerance of counterfeits is really such a bummer. And it's not just Wish. Amazon has their fair share of counterfeits as well. These "Airpods"[0] are cheap knockoffs, but the images say that they're Airpod Pros. Thi
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
There's a contradiction in your second sentence, I'm not sure what your meaning is. >women have always been in the majority, along the lines of 8-10 men for every two women.
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
"Fashionable"? Being so dismissive of the push for racial equality is deeply arrogant and small minded.
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
I don't think that works in practice. If you donate money with the goal of advancing some agenda, and it's officially anonymous, you'll find a way of letting the right people know it was you.
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
Ha, that's actually no longer the case. Stores like Best Buy do track foot traffic and it's accounted for in KPIs. My manager would have us enter and leave around the security sensors so we wouldn't inflate that number.
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
Those people followed you around because it led to higher sales overall. Or at least that's the idea. Pushy salesmen tend to move more product than laid back cashiers, even if the former tends to be more annoying. I worked at a Best Bu
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
There's a great parable relating to this: The Other Side of the Hedge[0] by E. M. Forster. It's not too long, and I can confidently say it's worth your while if this article struck a chord with you. [0] http://www.
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by jackfrodo 6y ago
This was an incredibly positive and deeply important read. This is something that I've dealt with all my life, but of course have felt more acutely these past few months. Thank you for writing this; I won't soon forget it.
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by jackfrodo 7y ago
I agree. The cup-of-coffee keeps wikipedia running strategy feels kinda scummy, but hey, it's probably how they got so far in the black in the first place. No incentive for them to stop the campaign.
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by jackfrodo 7y ago
I'd imagine that there's some kind of grudge against Sanders in the media class, similar to the obsession with Russia. The MSM was entirely confident in Clinton's win, and were reeling for answers after she lost. He was Cli
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by jackfrodo 7y ago
Christmas 2013 I received both a raspberry kit and a toy Star Trek phaser, so I managed to make a Morse Code transcribing toy phaser. Can't seem to find the video but it was a fun way to spend a lazy holiday afternoon.

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