saudioger

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by saudioger 8y ago
I mean... how does history not already tell you this? Nearly every person we remember as a historical figure was able to "sell" something to get there. The typical exception to this is the person who did something interesting, but
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by saudioger 8y ago
you're asking this question in a thread about Mark Cuban... yes, 100% salespeople
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by saudioger 8y ago
what other famous national landmarks avoided getting a building permit for 135 years?
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by saudioger 8y ago
that's like "discovering" the eiffel tower, it's not like you're stumbling into an unexplored land
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by saudioger 8y ago
fetal position
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by saudioger 8y ago
More important. The only innovative thing I can come up with to avoid having to fix my leaky toilet is shitting in the yard.
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by saudioger 8y ago
Wish this wasn't software bound to hardware
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by saudioger 8y ago
Ehhh, I imagine the seed/filament weight ratio is much closer than the human/filament weight ratio... if you blow this up to human size/weight proportions the filaments would likely need to be gigantic.
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by saudioger 8y ago
Check it out, it does an OK job at filtering out adult content... but it's 99% garbage.
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by saudioger 8y ago
I hear that, my daughter can't even read but can play some really complex games with almost no direct intervention. Kids are incredible learning machines. The restrictions on the iPad are rather mature at this point. I've blocked
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by saudioger 8y ago
There's a crisis of opinion like this in every generation. It happened with radio too. I personally feel like the best approach is moderation for everything, but hey, people who don't watch media probably have more interesting hob
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by saudioger 8y ago
That's my experience, and why I pulled the plug on it. Unless you're on top of your kid the entire time, it's incredibly difficult to keep an eye on that. YouTube is designed to just shove as much content in front of your fac
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by saudioger 8y ago
I strongly recommend that you don't let your kids watch YouTube. There's some really low-quality garbage out there and there's just too much to properly curate. After some exploring on my own I absolutely do not trust YouTube
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by saudioger 8y ago
I think the intention with mentioning a car is the fact that the US is so commute-heavy that the majority of our fast food is intended for car consumption.
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by saudioger 8y ago
I can't cite this case specifically, but normally it would be incredibly difficult to impersonate a government official as a source. In my experience verifying a source means weeding out that possibility before publishing... e.g, cross
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by saudioger 8y ago
the standards for graduation vary wildly so isn't really comparable
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by saudioger 8y ago
There are places in the US where you can still rent DVDs for a dollar a day. Streaming _rental_ prices feel too high.
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by saudioger 8y ago
There are a lot of startups that are in worse shape than that and hope to be profitable someday.
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by saudioger 8y ago
Right, with noise cancelling headphones on I can talk on a plane at a normal volume and hear everything better generally. If I just wanted to block out noise entirely, ear plugs/muffs would do a better job.
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by saudioger 8y ago
Let's assume it's true: Does Apple have a choice other than cover-up? Let's say this was the first they're hearing about it, and it turns out to be true. Can they publicly state the truth, point the finger at China in th
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by saudioger 8y ago
Considering that large scale internet companies like Amazon and Apple buy enormous amounts of hardware, it's not an insane strategy. If you compromise 1 of every 1,000 pieces of hardware (or even one of every 10,000) odds are you'
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by saudioger 8y ago
Well my point is that it could be corporate embarrassment AND willful fraud to cover up the corporate embarrassment. They have a huge incentive to lie, because even if they were truthful from the beginning and this did happen... it would be
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by saudioger 8y ago
They're already on the hook for an enormous liability if it's true, so lying about it isn't really the worst option if there's even a small chance it avoids the issue. After seeing what VW did with emissions, I wouldn&#x
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by saudioger 8y ago
Uhh, Apple and Amazon are providing very few hard facts... and have a HUGE amount to lose if the story is true. I wouldn't take anything as certainty at this point, not even close.
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by saudioger 8y ago
My understanding is that while the sources were left anonymous, they were definitely confirmed as intelligence agents by Bloomberg... so if they were duped, it's a pretty serious (propaganda-level?) duping.
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by saudioger 8y ago
I know multiple people who've even started turning down invites to visit the US (for conferences) because of the current administration... I think part of is fear of what _could_ happen under Trump even more so than what's happene
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by saudioger 8y ago
Individuals only care about efficiency if it impacts price. There are numerous examples of people paying more for things in the long term because they're less expensive immediately. Entire industries are built on this. Again, humans ar
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by saudioger 8y ago
Individuals don't care about efficiency, they care about price. This is partially why the government had to step in to create labor laws. Unless they're directly impacted by it right now, the average consumer does not care. The Am
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by saudioger 8y ago
Interesting that most of these places involve freezing your tits off for half the year. Are warmer places typically less-intellectual?
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by saudioger 8y ago
I mean opaque when it comes to 'this is a successful third-party product we sell, let's hijack the business' rather than the clarity of what a store brand is in general. Stores do distance themselves a bit further though — Wa

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