superuser2

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by superuser2 10y ago
>1) My friend has one Having your product out in the world with a brand name on it is a form of advertising, and it works really well because people don't recognize it as such. Some people do recognize it, which is why they&#x27
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by superuser2 10y ago
Sure it does. Advertising is the flow of information about what products and services are available, how much they cost, and where to purchase them. Some are crass, some are subtle, some are sprayed, some are targeted, and the very best (pe
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by superuser2 10y ago
How will people know where or how to buy what they want without advertising?
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by superuser2 10y ago
If you believe the human experience before modern technology and economics was good enough, why aren't you living it? What in the world are you doing on a computer? Yes, many people lived and died in an era when there was no time for e
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by superuser2 10y ago
> people won't stop wanting things that make their life better, and in general will continue to buy such things. This is nonsensical. You can only buy something if you know that it exists for sale and where. The process by which you
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by superuser2 10y ago
Most of us are employed producing goods and services for which people are not born with an innate desire. Approximately the only people who can bash advertising without hypocrisy are subsistence farmers. The rest of us are paid to satisfy a
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by superuser2 10y ago
Original content by Netflix and Amazon is produced by the same companies, people, and tools as the rest of Hollywood's output, just for a different distribution system.
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by superuser2 10y ago
Forget exhaust, this is the real air quality problem.
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by superuser2 10y ago
We have this, it's called SMTP and IMAP. If you feel (as I do) that they haven't sufficiently adapted to the current era, why do you think any other open protocol would be able to change more easily?
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by superuser2 10y ago
The prevailing winds in the regulatory climate do not seem to point towards a skyscraper construction boom anytime soon. Over in technology, we're rapidly marching towards cheap household-scale solar panels and batteries, commodity aut
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by superuser2 10y ago
How would you compare it to code review at a medium to large tech company? At work there's certainly a lot of back and forth but it never feels hostile, and I usually learn something.
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by superuser2 10y ago
This started well before "social media" was a thing. Newspapers weren't done in by Twitter, but by their own online editions, and by Google unseating them as the best place to advertise.
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by superuser2 10y ago
All it takes is a coup of a nuclear-armed nation, and the barrier to entry on that project keeps dropping as states with a recent history of fanatic-deposes-weaker-fanatic coups join the club.
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by superuser2 10y ago
The scary part is that a DAO could actually do this.
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by superuser2 10y ago
And people wonder why developers flock from "real" businesses to Silicon Valley.
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by superuser2 10y ago
>If we figure out how to increase supply to keep up with what looks like unquenchable and long-term demand The answer, as it always has been, is sprawl. We can't sprawl with cars anymore: land is too valuable to park on. So we'
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by superuser2 10y ago
Where are you seeing these? Basic 2-bedroom condos in the general vicinity of an East Bay BART stop seem to run $700-900k; SF proper with any hope of a short walk or bike ride to downtown, $1.3 - $2 million. There are $500k houses, but they
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by superuser2 10y ago
I agree, but I think most critics of Apple would claim that only specs are real, and what we're talking about here is an illusion created by branding.
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by superuser2 10y ago
Looks far nicer, and drastically less eye strain looking at text all day.
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by superuser2 10y ago
They're "overpriced" because you can buy more GHz, cores, GB ram, and GB storage for drastically less money. What you can't find is screen resolution, quality of the keyboard, trackpad, and hinge, battery life, and gener
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by superuser2 10y ago
Every minute of prerequisite to get someone new to the project to the point of "I edit code and see its influence on the program's behavior" is toxic waste. Minutes spent getting or recovering a working desktop shell are radi
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by superuser2 10y ago
Running? I wear loose-fitting athletic shorts; a phone swinging around in my pocket is really annoying. I'd have to get an armband.
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by superuser2 10y ago
The futuristic supermarket I imagined as a kid was a warehouse-scale vending machine. Robotic carts roll down the aisles on tracks, and the shelves push the requested items out onto them. You show up after that's done and collect your
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by superuser2 10y ago
Then those (like rent, as I mentioned) are the much more compelling arguments. If I'm unable to work for months, I'll have to draw down my emergency fund (probably move somewhere cheap to slow the burn rate). If in Europe I don&#x
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by superuser2 10y ago
Healthcare is absolutely taken care of for American six-figure tech workers. My premium is $2.50/mo and all my care is free or for a nominal fee, like $20. US healthcare is systemically broken, but not for people who command high wag
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by superuser2 10y ago
>and the carriage drivers could become chauffeurs And the people in Detroit could move somewhere with productive economic activity. Why are they different from carriage drivers? FWIW I used to be a protectionist. I became disillusioned w
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by superuser2 10y ago
[Spoilers for Arrival, Contact, and Interstellar] Forget aliens for a moment. Contact is a retelling of one of the oldest stories on record: the plight of the faithful. (Wo)man encounters awe-inspring supernatural force, tells the world but
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by superuser2 10y ago
[Warning: Spoiler] The most direct criticism I have is that it's a slightly modified Contact with Interstellar's visual style and time-travel plot twist.
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by superuser2 10y ago
As I understand it, you propose a right to "conservation of prosperity": if something is prosperous now, we should use force to ensure that it remains so in perpetuity, and are morally responsible for the harm that comes from not
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by superuser2 10y ago
If you think foreign competition was a major factor, the responsible parties are the executives and engineers of the Detroit automakers, for being worse at their jobs than their Japanese and German counterparts.

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