dmschulman

The article then the comments generally, I want the context before I get to the conversation.

There are other instances when I get the gist from the headline and don't care about the story, but want to read what others have to say (for example, the current front page story about New Zealand banning foreigners from buying new houses in the country. Headline says it all but there must be something interesting to talk about if a story like that garners 444 comments)

Agreed, pith is the whole brand of Twitter. I can make an exception for a tweet storm containing a handful of messages, but 60 is a dead horse thrice beaten.

That being said, where else would this kind of content have worked where the everyreader wouldn't have given up after the third or fourth paragraph of dense medieval historic record?

That dynamic changes completely though once you get the the whole, you know, dating part. If people are merely using OKCupid as some kind of catalog to window shop with I can see your point, but the big pool shrinks dramatically once you start to interact and either receive interest or not.

I get a message that they're down for maintenance. Odd time to be down for that kind of thing.

A guided therapy session with a licensed practitioner which involves the patient taking a small dose of MDMA

Would love to understand some of the underlying design and social factors that go into making these types of concourses a success. We have a similar abet much smaller underground mall in Philadelphia running through3 major transit stops in the downtown area, connecting multiple buildings and plazas, yet the area remains disheveled and relatively unused and even sometimes dangerous.

they should have voted.

How does any other delivery company willing to ferry such a product impact the patient differently?

Actually there's a lot of Google's own data to backup this claim: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/08/technology/google-salarie...

there are entire web communities dedicated to this question. look at carryology.com, edc.com, thewirecutter.com, /r/onebag.

some good brands i like are: timbuk2, mission workshop, topo, chrome, minaal, and tom bihn.

if i had to recommend one bag to start with it would be the tom bihn synapse

Going to the local record store

believe his actions, not his words

The myth is that those dates on the side of most drugs are expiraration dates.

Would any solution be tangible for the type of user who is attracted to Favebook? That is, would there be any solution which a non-technical user would flock to? Would it meet their needs and abilities in a meaningful way?

You call yourself a "rationalist", but even a rationalist would know that spray-on pheromones are junk science at best.

Wow, the author invokes the free market in the article then whines that firms seeking to charge their clients exorbitant fees are losing customers to Vanguard.

Maybe this article is a round-about argument FOR investment firms to take the moral high ground. The author can't even make a cogent argument against the idea, using circular logic to justify the opposite, leading to nonsense.

i wouldn't take everything he says so literally. i'm sure he was aware of what a tesla is. so what if he wasn't intimately familiar with who elon musk was? he was the star of 'yogi bear 3-d' after all

One is not explicitly barred from buying a product with too much fat or sugar due to their age however. Cigarettes and alcohol sure, those have proven societal and health implications, but the analogy falls short on the basis of the buyer not being restricted from purchasing that which contains the nutritional info

I guess we've hit rock bottom for market research

Also from the Backchannel article:

"Several former Rothenberg Ventures and River Studios employees now say they didn’t understand why River Studios was green-lit. One former employee noted that River Studios also competed for clients and market share with at least two of Rothenberg Ventures’ portfolio companies that were already in VR film production, Triggar and vantage.tv. (Triggar didn’t respond to requests for comment, and vantage.tv’s CEO Juan Santillan wrote in an email, “I don’t agree with many of the things that were going on at RV…” but added, “RV[’s] extended team has been great to us.”)"

Interesting timing, I had just finished reading this Backchannel article regarding Rothenberg Ventures from September: https://backchannel.com/mike-rothenbergs-vc-firm-was-young-s...

Just an excerpt, an example of what I'd imagine some of the unwise personal projects regard:

"Most troublesome are questions about how Rothenberg managed investors’ money. Specifically, in 2015 he founded a virtual reality production company called River Studios to create virtual reality videos for the likes of Coldplay and Björk, funding it with $5 million from Rothenberg Ventures. Many investors say they did not know — nor was it disclosed in annual reports — that he was founding and funding his own business with their dollars, despite the fact that the investment was roughly 50 times the size of the seed investments the firm normally makes."

Only as misleading as people parroting that "ISPs can now sell your personal browsing history" after the passage of SJ Res. 34

I personally think this a fantastic and appropriate way to demonstrate the privacy issue to legislators, within the bounds of what is actually possible with the information that's out there

This whole debacle is an incredible opportunity for any small ISP upstart. It's a shame that it's so difficult to build an ISP in the current market due to federal and state regulations that the big telecoms lobbied for.

If people had alternatives which touted privacy, security, speed, price, and had the right network backbone there would be a deluge of customers migrating away from Comcast, AT&T, Verizon, etc.

i always thought 'the murder mystery' was a cool velvet underground song, especially the way they utilize the left channel and right channel to tell different parts of the story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DHvBSqfnVs

If this law was really about fighting state-sponsored terrorism why aren't saudi arabia, uae, and egypt, all countries who have carried out terrorist attacks on the united states, on the travel ban list?

Wouldn't this be a request that needs to be fielded with the airlines managing the flights? Also I'd imagine there is a barrier regarding privacy laws here, I don't think flight manifests are public information

Very cool! I like how you also provide resource to get one's candidacy started

but it's well done marketing, it's not in your face advertising the product, the title/article were not clickbaity, it's only until you read the footnote that you'll see it's part of tim's book. i think this is an excellent example of how guest blog marketing should be done.

I've been looking into this setup as well, having dual booted all my machines previously. Though rebooting takes only a few seconds it feels like more work than it actually is, complicate that with having to enter encryption passwords, reopen all your software and load up files, etc, I think keeping everything under one OS and running a VM and then being able to boot into that VM natively when necessary seems like the best modern solution for my needs

You're being intellectually disingenuous to believe that #killallmen is a legitimate threat of violence towards men. Find me some examples of violent feminists lynching and murdering men on the basis of feminist dogma.

Meanwhile, those with racist, bigoted, homophobic, and anti-semitic viewpoints continue to commit actual hate crimes, murders, campaigns of intimidation, and worse.

So yeah, you're making a typical strawman argument to deflect legitimate criticism and turn the conversation away from the topic at hand. Not worth engaging you further on this point, but if you want to discuss the topic at hand, I'm all ears.