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by rescripting 6y ago
I'm curious why this matters? Is dropbox's current failings its inability to scale?
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by rescripting 6y ago
I believe the "1 in 100 odds of dying in a car crash" is during your lifetime, not per annum. If you look at the likelihood of death from an auto accident in a given year its more like 1 in 8,300. [1] Because COVID will (hopefully
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by rescripting 6y ago
Similar situation at my company. 401k match was removed (I doubt it ever comes back) and merit increases were cancelled. Thankfully bonuses are still happening but I think that's because they were approved by the board before the new y
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by rescripting 6y ago
Some companies (not sure about Apple) offer patent incentives to employees. Our CTO once bragged about having 150 patents. An engineer in my org decided to show him up and had 150 filed within 2 years. I think the incentives probably double
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by rescripting 6y ago
Like economies of scale, but backwards? This makes no sense to me. Amazon was built to extract value from volume.
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by rescripting 6y ago
Or DNS66 to do it for mostly everywhere in Android. The only reason that's possible is because of open web standards though so the point still stands.
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by rescripting 7y ago
Serious question: what tools do they have left to try and shore things up? They've reduced interest rates to 0. They've injected 1.5T of liquidity. Mitt Romney today just announced they're giving $1000 of helicopter money to
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by rescripting 7y ago
Because their reputation is what suffers. Customers think the restaurant is partnered with DoorDash or whoever because why wouldn't they. All the restaurant's IP (menu, photos, logos) was stolen from their website and used without
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by rescripting 7y ago
How does encrypting your video help if the device that contains the video is stolen? The thief wont be able to view themselves committing the crime?
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by rescripting 7y ago
This isn't about immigration. It's bad because this program was designed to inject investment in to economically depressed areas with high unemployment, not downtown Manhattan. This also means the investments are not as "risk
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by rescripting 8y ago
Sounds like government regulations? Thats typically been the way we've managed these kinds of threats/bad actors, but technology is changing so fast and policy makers are hamstrung by bureaucracy, incompetence, apathy or all three
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by rescripting 8y ago
I've seen the head of a business unit in my large organization not so subtly hint to a Director that Problem X is something that we need to solve in the next 18-24 months, but we don't have the budget properly allocated to do it o
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by rescripting 8y ago
"all levels of asbestos exposure studied to date have demonstrated asbestos-related disease ... there is no level of [asbestos] exposure below which clinical effects do not occur" https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/doc
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by rescripting 8y ago
You need to also take in to account average income when looking at COL, which is significantly higher in SF than in TO. If you're spending 2x the price in SF, but making 3x then you come out way ahead.
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by rescripting 8y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted; it's not exactly the best time to be an immigrant in America. Maybe if you're not a visible minority and never leave the valley you could stick your thumbs in your ears and just cash the c
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by rescripting 8y ago
Something like Pumped Storage Hydroelectricity? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit... There are several of these facilities in the US, although no new ones have been built in quite some time.
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by rescripting 8y ago
I hand you a gun and say "you can point this gun at anyone, pull the trigger, and it wont harm them." You point the gun at a crowd, pull the trigger, it goes off and kills someone. Who do you blame? No one is saying guns, or cars,
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by rescripting 9y ago
I wouldn't say one encourages chaos over another. The background is a simple pattern that emerges early on while the social dynamics of the "place" are being discovered by the participants. It's literally the simplest co
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by rescripting 9y ago
My car unlocked on the street with the keys in the ignition is still my car. It's grand theft auto if you get in it and drive off.
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by rescripting 9y ago
This may be straining the metaphor a bit, but I think you underestimate how much individuals want a magic sex pill.
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by rescripting 9y ago
Does that matter? If you're looking to develop a drug to treat hypertension but end up with Viagra by accident instead, do you throw it away because that wasn't the original goal?
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by rescripting 9y ago
If you're the CTO of a new startup, don't pick a technology to build your startup in without building something with that technology first. Build something small. Learn React. When you're comfortable, and your small app grows
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by rescripting 9y ago
Exactly. Tax loopholes are like exploits. If they were all enumerated somewhere nicely then we could just patch them up. If you're planning on using exploits, you keep try and them secret. Once they are common knowledge they get patche
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by rescripting 10y ago
I have a confession to make. I cheat at my job. I cheat all day, every day. I have this little book next to my desk I use to write down ideas and notes, and then I refer back to it later. Sometimes my boss is standing right there! I get suc
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by rescripting 10y ago
Thats a highly individualistic point of view. One where as long as you're willing to put in the effort and be flexible you'll be able to thrive. I see it a lot on HN because most of us work in growing fields with many opportunitie
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by rescripting 10y ago
I was being a bit facetious with the grocery bagging example. My core point is "Who is building and planning for this new social utopia once 5, 50, 95% of jobs are automated away?"
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by rescripting 10y ago
I'm a bit worried that most of us here on HN are feverishly working on ways to automate away jobs, and there is quite a strong economic incentive for us to do so, but there is hardly any effort and no incentive for policy makers to cat
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by rescripting 10y ago
Because in a competitive marketplace the company that doesn't do that has an edge over one that does. I don't think it's Silicon Valley that lacks empathy, I think it's the system that rewards profits and growth over any
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by rescripting 10y ago
What seems powerful about this idea is its more like a common physical space you gather in with your friends than a phone or video conference. You show up "in the house" (treehouse, cafeteria, club, call it whatever) and some of y
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by rescripting 10y ago
Because you'd get overwhelmed if you saved every little moment of your day? Sometimes those moments are worth sharing with people because it brings you closer or continues a conversation. However, like with a conversation you don'

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