sonofaplum

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by sonofaplum 5mo ago
He was already the CEO of a billion dollar company and the article describes him traveling with security.
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by sonofaplum 2y ago
If your goal is to change the companies behavior, then protesting and getting fired and getting a WaPo story is more effective than resigning in protest.
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by sonofaplum 3y ago
well, this is literally a press release/announcement from the university, not a work of journalism, so relax.
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Self-driving Cruise vehicle blocked emergency access to mass shooting(tiktok.com)
3 points by sonofaplum 3y ago|1 comments
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by sonofaplum 3y ago
He's thinking that he needs to repair his advertising business because subscriptions have been an enormous, costly flop.
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by sonofaplum 3y ago
She quote tweeted a tweet from an account that was later probably set to private
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by sonofaplum 3y ago
VCs want to be perceived as steely eyed futurists, who are specially gifted at sifting through the mass of ideas bubbling up in tech and picking the winners. But it's actually quite difficult to pick winners, and as more and more inves
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Cops, firefighters bewildered as driverless cars behave badly(missionlocal.org)
29 points by sonofaplum 3y ago|12 comments
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The Inside Story Of How Disney’s Attempt to Buy BuzzFeed Fell Apart(vanityfair.com)
2 points by sonofaplum 3y ago|0 comments
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by sonofaplum 3y ago
It's all three, but did want to point out that your claim that > It's obvious to see how there could be non-Republican-friendly results of faculty being easier to fire for, say, a controversial twitter post. contains within it
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Uber, Lyft drivers at SFO doing lots of waiting, less driving(missionlocal.org)
24 points by sonofaplum 4y ago|16 comments
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by sonofaplum 4y ago
what are you talking about
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by sonofaplum 4y ago
it's due to the cost of housing, as evidenced by lower homelessness rates in places where housing is cheaper.
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
I think that as a trend, difficult personalities will have a harder time succeeding in any public role... Business, entertainment, politics, the arts. In the world of Twitter and Instagram, basically any disgruntled employee or collaborator
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
I worked at a summer camp in NE Alabama for two summers in high school and college. Weekend trips to Unclaimed Baggage were extremely popular excursion. Definitely worth a stop if you are in the neighborhood.
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
None of the other conservatives on the court agreed with the decision, so it's reasonable to be surprised. Alito is probably the current judge closest to Scalia and he dissented, so it's reasonable to be surprised. Why would you a
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
The nature of VC being what it is, it's extremely difficult to prove racism at the level of proof that most HN readers seem to need. 99.99% of all startup ideas are bad, 99.99% of all apps are terrible, so how can we know if she was re
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
I'm sorry, but this is absolutely not true. You don't do IA or the discussion any favors by being inaccurate. I live in San Francisco, whose library participates in a digital ebook lending program through Libby. They have a certai
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
Nothing is stopping the IA from buying books and giving them to people, or paying authors to write books and then giving them to people. What they are suing is to prevent IA from scanning books and giving those copies to an unlimited number
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
This is just a fantasy. We are now just pretending that IA did something other than what they actually did? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/books/internet-archive-em... > Public libraries get licen
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
The IA is good, but the decision they made is very bad and has put their entire operation at risk. Their leadership clearly both cares about archiving the web and also for advocating an expansionist view of content distribution (that in an
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
I won't criticize anybodies decision to keep shopping at amazon for this reason, it is very difficult to ethically consume in our current environment. However, for me, I realized that 1) I am fortunate enough that saving fractions of m
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
I agree with this. I would much prefer if there was a freeform query mode, where I could just type the queries without the buttons or hints.
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
I think this article is interesting, but I think it is mistaken on focusing on the mechanism (stock buybacks) vs the attitude, which is a general focus on value extraction rather than value creation. I think that in this era of American bus
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
The author gives more specifics in the footnotes, specifically footnote #4 https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-leaving-elm/#id14
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by sonofaplum 6y ago
If you've ever looked at user analytics you know this is absolutely not true
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by sonofaplum 7y ago
it kills a low percentage but it infects a high percentage. So total deaths + seriously ill MAY be equal to a more lethal disease that is less infectious.
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by sonofaplum 7y ago
very very carefully
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by sonofaplum 7y ago
The funny thing about this is one of their product idea is quantitative analysis for VCs... And then they say send us a pitch, we don't care about numbers at all!
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by sonofaplum 7y ago
MIT is not one person. The report details exactly who knew what, when. According to the report, the President of the institute (Reif) did not know until the reporting linking MIT with Epstein.

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