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BartSaMon How to Be a C.E.O., From a Decade’s Worth of Them

Sounds like a work culture and "top" in your workplace might be not too healthy then.

CEO's should deliver results and help the company grow. If they have issues with him coming to work at 10 am, then the work culture should be adjusted imo for people to understand what it takes for him to deliver results.

BartSaMon If You Think Basic Income Is “Free Money” or Socialism, Think Again

Would be nice if you would mention what is your country.

BartSaMon Jeff Bezos Passes Bill Gates to Become the World’s Richest Person

So we have memes on HN now?

BartSaMon Useless design features in modern products

Too bad more and more car manufacturers moved into gizmo mode. I think I will never buy tablet-car that have no physical knobs for basics controls.

BartSaMon Every Google Cloud Platform product described in 4 words or less

Vultr offers $2,5 servers on few locations (I think NJ and 1-2 more). Those are amazing for testing and small work. They are comparable to their $5 servers from a year ago performance-wise. Great value.

BartSaMon Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

I would blame management/top more, than sales. Sales can work only with products they were given. AFAIK Twitter was pretty aggressively hiring 2-3 years ago sales reps across the globe and they were stealing top employees from FB and co.

I would assume that it is the lack of products/top commitment that causes poor sales.

BartSaMon Twitter says it could turn first-ever profit

Add one zero.

Remember that Twitter works in multiple countries and in different languages. Then there is a lot of face to face meetings required, so add offices and service staff as well.

1-1,5K would sound reasonable for global sales and customer services.

BartSaMon For as Much as We Know About the World, There Are Still Dark Spots on the Map

Using data from regular people as a PART of such a research would help tremendously in my opinion. People do not need to know why this data is gathered when answering it.

BartSaMon Google's latest iPhone rival off to a rocky start

There are European versions of Xiaomi working on all European frequencies now in Poland. You can grab a nice Xiaomi phone for $150 with a fingerprint sensor and 3/32 memory.

BartSaMon For as Much as We Know About the World, There Are Still Dark Spots on the Map

You can simply ask fisherman about what is going on with their catch. People tend to side with scientific data, that can be outdated or wrong, rather than asking simple man about their own experiences.

We need to learn to ask "regular people", to make big scientific projects like this to work.

BartSaMon What It Looks Like When the President Asks People to Snitch on Neighbors

This was posted as an opposite to what OP posted, to point out his sided point of view while fortifying his opinion with pretty much unrelated, emotional part of history.

I made sarcasm very obvious, especially with exactly saying it was that, in the second line.

Learn how to read in between lines.

Edited the post so no one else thinks it is the real reply.

BartSaMon What It Looks Like When the President Asks People to Snitch on Neighbors

BartSaM on Time to prepare for the worst in North Korea

Land border attracts tensions. It's also a psychological factor. Then it is much harder to launch an invasion from the sea, than from land.
Its same as saying that there is no difference if Cuba will be "east" aligned and have USSR army/nukes or Mexico - after all, it is easy enough to launch nukes from both places.
You think from a "nuke" perspective. There are much more perspectives, like controlling water borders, locking important Chinese ports etc.

BartSaM on Time to prepare for the worst in North Korea

I really think that the humanitarian problem is not a real problem for China. A country this size could easily swallow 10 million Koreans (let's be real, surely not more than half of population would flee), allow them to work and assimilate and not even notice it really. I think the issue is that China is afraid that united Korea will become a US ally and allow US forces to station there. Also it could expose China to the world as a weak player that could not handle Korea by itself.

BartSaM on A “right to repair” movement tools up

I am afraid this solution could kill second-hand market with "service providers" not happy to dispose of old products to keep the prices high.
Would iPhone allow the second-hand market for their phones? Not likely, thus keeping a huge part of the less fortunate population out of the possibility to get hands-on premium products.
Your model could be an addition to the current service model, not a replacement.

BartSaM on A “right to repair” movement tools up

Now, when Steam decides that you have violated their ToS in some way, they will close your account and lock you out of everything you bought. This happens, rarely, but happens.
Do you want to be dependant on an idea of a corporation that they will treat you fair?
Are you OK to give away your washing machine and oven just because you had troubles with finances and you missed one payment?

BartSaM on South Pacific landmass may have been closer to land level than once thought

What are the chances that this extends to Australia and is actually a part of Australia?

BartSaM on Saudi Arabia Agrees to Let Women Drive

>"most people are just parroting what they've been taught and don't give it much consideration"
Careful here. This can be said about the other side as well to parrot news stations, media outlets and propaganda. This is surely no way to address such a situation - it is one-sided and judgmental. You need to open-minded if you want to hold such a difficult conversation.

BartSaM on U.S. does not believe Cuba is behind sonic attacks on American diplomats

To screw relations between Cuba and US for example.

BartSaM on Extending per-second billing in Google Cloud

This is not bragging, it is an important piece of the information that informs you if someone commenting can be biased or self-promoting in a news, that their company is featured in.

BartSaM on What happens if you turn off the traffic lights?

This is interesting, in Europe traffic lights are always associated with traffic signs (at least in countries I drove) and one traffic lights are off for some reason, you should obey traffic signs. If the light is on, you ignore the signs.
This way in case of issues with traffic lights or when the city is jammed and they turn off the lights, everyone knows what to do.

BartSaM on DuckDuckGo vs Google

You actually make it sound bad. I would more likely to say they are precise and usually won't allow for inaccurate information to fly through the front page without pointing out the issues.

BartSaM on Twitter Suspends 300k Accounts Tied to Terrorism in 2017

Then ghosting would make much more sense, in my opinion, to keep the data just in case some information will get shared that could lead to catching terrorists/recruiters.

BartSaM on U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscopes aboard submarines

There is hardly a thing, like a wasted hardware in the military. For such a purchase you do not make a guess and buy. You make a guess, multiply it by 3 and then buy. Cost saved by going for customer grade electronics vs. specialized will easily justify this. You will still be saving lots of money.

BartSaM on Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle

Per month. Not everyone lives in 1st world country. Cubic meter is a lot for many people.

BartSaM on Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle

I always postulated that a cubic meter of water should be a constitutional right to every human for free. Every water company etc. should allow one cubic meter of water to every citizen for free. Everything above can be paid. This would give people in extreme conditions at least some way to ease their chances to survive. Why it sounds like a small amount, it would help less fortunate. People should not worry about basic income more than it should about the constitutional right to basic products first like water, education, food and the internet.

BartSaM on Apple Watch 3

I beg to differ. There are ways to improve battery life in Smartphones and increase their life from 1 day to up to 4 days (by removing all power draining apps and adjusting settings differently). I know this would be hard, but this is Apple. I would assume that if anyone, they should be able to deliver. This would be what I would call a real revolution. Give us a smartwatch that can be charged on weekends and is waterproof.

BartSaM on Apple Watch 3

I wish that the other 99.5% of people that do not own Apple Watch actually mean something to Apple then.
I wonder why so many Apple "defenders" are passive aggressive... Being a user is one thing, but being passive aggressive over a tech product have no explanation.

BartSaM on Apple Watch 3

Maybe because every worthy watch brand has hundreds of models of watches, instead of one?

BartSaM on Apple Watch 3

The one thing that everyone besides a quite limited group of people is asking for many years - battery - gives no change.
Give people 1-week battery life. Otherwise just stay a gizmo.