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whateverman23

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    Comment #38689790

    This is the opposite of stifling innovation. It's literally not innovative, which is a big point of the ruling. The company produces and sells watches with the technology. It's not…

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    Comment #38574946

    Okay, but that's not the framing of the argument I'm responding to in this thread. The title of the article and the people I'm responding to are framing the percentage growth as th…

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    Comment #38572410

    S&P 500 YTD is at 20% Vanguard growth fund (VIGAX) 42% AMZN 71% APPL 56% MSFT 55% GOOG 52% TSLA 124% Anyone with an aggressive but not insane portfolio could be at 47% growth in 20…

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    Comment #38521570

    You can't fully remove the "gag-worthy" label unless they use the word "layoff". Calling it "rightsizing" or "headcount reduction" is gag-worthy. A great gag-worthy line: "Please k…

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    Comment #38121553

    > in order to get the discussion centered more on the idea itself and competing views on the extent to which folk's have found some usecase or success with it? So you only want "co…

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    Comment #38121027

    > there's really nothing all that malevolent or irresponsible about the suggestion You are underestimating the impact of sleep deprivation, and the ability for a person to recogniz…

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    Comment #38120762

    > Why don't you try it and see? I feel great after a few beers, but keeping that state is a very bad idea. "try it and see" is not a great idea when it comes to your brain.

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    Comment #38105015

    > Well, if there's not a cost difference, why do they keep trying to double my pricing when the base tier goes up? Because you keep paying for it. It's not like you're going to not…

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    Comment #38104829

    Would it actually be that much less costly to give you 20-25 vs 75, though? My uninformed assumption was that it was largely artificial once you get to a low enough speed.

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    Comment #37781358

    > But who bears the cost of this betterment? We all do, of course. > I certainly don't want to be responsible for paying a cost for someone else's bad choice Then, in some cases, y…

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    Comment #37772052

    People often confuse society as a whole with individual choices. An individual can independently choose to brush, floss, engage in less risky behaviors, have a good diet, maintain …

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    Comment #37356281

    > Why should an ISP know more about a child’s Internet activity than the parents? They shouldn't. Fight the ISPs. > For what it’s worth my personal philosophy would be trust, but v…

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    Comment #37356028

    Please focus on the core message of my post rather than three words. If you're so concerned with Internet pornography that you want to lock down your child's digital life and know …

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    Comment #37355526

    See my other comment below for a more detailed answer but: no, my claim is not that I needed porn to become the engineer I am today. But the level of restrictions proposed by the t…

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    Comment #37355483

    I'm a millennial, for context. So much to unpack here. These restrictions just don't make sense to me. I was a pretty reserved child, so I can't imagine getting over all the hurdle…

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    Comment #37355296

    You can't become a highly paid engineer today with just books and punch cards. I don't know why any of that is relevant. So porn is part of the issue? Really?

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    Comment #37355179

    Unless we're talking about very very young children, I have an extremely hard time with this. I had none of that as a child, and I assume neither did most adults here. Because I ha…

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    Comment #37354462

    > Perhaps, but the posted does not say that... It doesn't say the government is profiting either. You just made that up.

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    Comment #37267020

    > There’s only no harm in more data if you handle false positives perfectly. Surely, this is never the case, so there’s always some harm in more data. That's not the correct way to…

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    Comment #37228585

    The reason is pretty simple. As companies get larger, the culture dies. Those who joined big-tech early-ish in their career likely see the state of the company at the time as way b…

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    Comment #37165326

    > well, unless you have a engineering degree, you're not actually an engineer That's not a requirement in the US.

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    Comment #37137333

    ctrl+f "ads" ctrl+f "monetization" ctrl+f "moderation" ctrl+f "existing infrastructure" ctrl+f "personalization" etc etc Yeah about what I expect from a "we rebuilt twitter for che…

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    Comment #37069180

    We're not talking about impact. We're talking about the claim that "c suite often work a lot more". That claim is hard to substantiate.