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by srndsnd 2y ago
And has sued Amazon for their use of anti-competitive pricing. This is just what Kahn's FTC does .
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by srndsnd 2y ago
To me, what's missing from that set of recommendations is some method to increase the liability of companies who mishandle user data. It is insane to me that I can be notified via physical mail of months old data breaches, some of whic
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by srndsnd 2y ago
The title of the paper is also a reference to the famous YA novel "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green.
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by srndsnd 2y ago
I am currently ~400 pages into the Power Broker. I was motivated to pick it up again by a "read along" with Roman Mars from the 99% Invisible podcast. He's spacing out the book over the course of a year and interviewing fello
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by srndsnd 2y ago
Thank you for your incredible book Cliff. I found a copy when I was in high school about ten years ago and it changed my trajectory. It got me into hacking and tinkering with computers and led me to a career I love today. I always make a po
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by srndsnd 2y ago
If you live in Manhattan south of 60th, your number one transit option should almost never be driving a car.
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by srndsnd 2y ago
If you are living in a place that forces you into car ownership as a means of transportation, then you are receiving a subsidy in the form of the infrastructure that enables car dependent city planning. You're also compelled to own a c
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by srndsnd 2y ago
Hugely agree on transit access to the airport, but it has gotten somewhat better. The GCT Madison connection has enabled another connection to Jamaica for the JFK AirTrain alongside LIRR and the E-train. And no longer do you need a separa
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by srndsnd 2y ago
Great, now expand it to all of Manhattan, instead of just 60th and below. And while they're at it, build the QueensLink so people actually take transit instead of just turning it into a park so that it can never be built. It boggles my
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by srndsnd 2y ago
If you're referring to the number of folks who work in the central business district of Manhattan but have no choice but to drive (given the enormous catchment area of MTA services), that number is vanishingly small, and congestion pri
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by srndsnd 2y ago
This also assumes that Amazon never gives up the ghost and finds ways to make sideloading books onto Kindle more difficult than it currently is. I've always been surprised that they haven't cracked down on it, given the relative e
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by srndsnd 3y ago
What makes you think replacements haven't filled the gap left by W.CD? The community is definitely not as fun or interesting, but it's definitely done the job for me.
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by srndsnd 3y ago
While what happened itself was less than ideal, I'd be curious if there are any more detailed explanations other than this account of what exactly happened, and how the issue was resolved. I'll certainly be on the lookout for more
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by srndsnd 3y ago
I do this on my Planck, and have aligned the numbers to have both a row of digits, and intersecting 789, have the layout of a conventional number pad on the rows below. I feel like I have more flexibility and control on a keyboard with fewe
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by srndsnd 3y ago
This was always inevitable. The demand for fully remote jobs will always be higher than for in-person. With more demand for those positions, the companies can afford to pay labor less. WFH was always going to come with a pay cut. I don&#x27
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by srndsnd 3y ago
>I don't see how reading good advice on doing deep work is at odds with spending time doing it. "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe," etc. If you read his book(s), and
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by srndsnd 3y ago
Cal Newport has become a particular kind of hustle culture charlatan, and it's been pretty fascinating to watch. I began reading his writing when was focusing on teaching study habits to college students when I myself was a college stu
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by srndsnd 3y ago
I think RTO would have been an easier pill to swallow for some if the US was less car dependent. I'd be the higher a proportion of the workforce in an MSA drives, the more they'll push back against RTO.
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by srndsnd 3y ago
I'm more surprised that reddit has maintained features like old.reddit.com and their API for this long. To me, this is textbook enshittification. Either die unprofitable or live long enough to see yourself rip features from TikTok.
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by srndsnd 4y ago
Some common issues I ran across that pushed me to Obsidian (for now) were mobile app support, package maintenance, and difficulty configuring and maintaining. Many people have no difficulty setting up and maintaining an app like beorg and o
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by srndsnd 4y ago
I dunno. As the country bifurcates more and more, I'm thinking long and hard about if I want to travel to certain states. I'd rather as little of my money as possible be spent there.
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by srndsnd 4y ago
I know plenty of people, myself included, with similar anecdotes. For me it was LSD. I've been sober for five years, starting the year I was finishing at university. At this point, I was taking prescription stimulants, smoking weed, an
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by srndsnd 4y ago
All these recommendation engine problems people aren't discussing here aren't bugs or problems, they're features. They're either pushing the content that makes people engage with the platform the longest, or that promote
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by srndsnd 4y ago
I am not a lawyer nor do I have a JD, but the argument I've heard from friends who have recently passed the bar amounts to the idea that the inordinate amounts of memorization required to pass the bar are a poor measure of someone&#x27
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by srndsnd 4y ago
While only semi-related, this reminds me a lot of iPodLinux, a project from around 2006/2007. I'm on the younger side, and this project was my first real introduction to the possibilities of computing. It let my grayscale iPod Cla
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by srndsnd 5y ago
As far as I can tell, for the same reason that all consulting firms exist: so key decision makers have a scapegoat. When someone needs to justify a decision or identify a strategy, they can pass the work off to a consulting firm. In doing s
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by srndsnd 5y ago
I'm confused as to why this headline has to be so close to clickbait. I'm not even one to stand up for people like Lambda, I think a lot of bootcamps are shady at best, and actively deceptive at worst (Trilogy). It is definitely i
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by srndsnd 5y ago
Dispersion. While remote work is more commonplace in tech, lots of firms are confronting a workforce that had a strong year fully remote, and will dig in their heels at the thought of needing to commute to an office.
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by srndsnd 5y ago
While I think this article does a great job of highlighting what the dangers of the consolidation of power inherent to the growth of index funds, I'm not certain it captures the whole picture behind why exactly they've become the
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by srndsnd 5y ago
I don't understand either. The lingering files left over after I deleted a .app would always require a third party tool to gather and clean, and even then, I wouldn't be sure, and would then find missing preferences files. I don&#

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