Maarten @thinkling

Mostly not here, see @[email protected] or 🦋 Seattle, WA Joined June 2008

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Maarten @thinkling

2 years ago

..when I contact you to save your driver the useless trip, don’t try to charge me for your operational chaos. This is a terrible customer experience and really souring me on UPS.

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Oh nice, @UPS wants to charge me $10 to change a delivery date back to what it was before they updated it unilaterally. Hey UPS, people have to plan and make arrangements to be home for signature-required delivery. Don’t move the day up with 12 hours notice. And.. 1/2

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2 years ago

@derailleurkate essay iz where? don't see it on derailleur or escape. thx!

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2 years ago

@sprague FYI warnings can be turned off in Profile > Alerts > Primary. The one that's hard to disable is for a sensor that's expiring/expired. Very annoying when you have your phone set to silent and it start blaring its alarm. (I understand, medical device, but still, I want control.)

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Maarten @thinkling

3 years ago

@JamesFallows $35 on Amazon, actual Timex. B000B55AEA

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3 years ago

@JDelage That's at 110K so not room temp replication.

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3 years ago

@ramez Dave Roberts just spent an episode of his Volts podcast on this; the guest emphasized how little we know about the atmosphere/stratosphere and that the #1 need is more funding for basic research.

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3 years ago

@danielmingram FYI, You can protect yourself with a $5 USB adapter that blocks the data lines and only passes through charging power. I have the PortaPow one.

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3 years ago

@JamesFallows My naive guess is that he is good at managing engineering problems (cars, rockets) but that he’s terrible at understanding people and customers not-like-him. Designing a cool car is one thing, designing a social platform is a totally different animal.

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3 years ago

@jsilvela Been there!

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3 years ago

@florian_krammer @rgbsoda When you posted the Cafe Vitta picture I wasn’t sure because there’s one of those in NYC but this is really sounding like you’re in Seattle. Welcome!

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Maarten @thinkling

4 years ago

@DufferRobert @Hyundai I’d love to see car reviews worry more about efficiency and less about the arms race in 0-60 times

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4 years ago

@benmaritz @RPDONOHUE Aslan Hop Water is worth trying. It has less body (so more like beer flavored sparkling water) but the flavor it does have is excellent (assuming you like IPAs). I found it at Total Wine. Other than that I find the Grüvi NAs the best, but they're $$$.

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4 years ago

@leedrutman @RickPildes They do, but to be fair they also sometimes spend months forming governing coalitions.

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4 years ago

@AlexThomp My red flag is people saying “someone *just* needs” to do something. The use of “just” usually means “I’m ignoring the complexities in reality that invalidate my opinion”.

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Maarten @thinkling

4 years ago

@drvolts It's an awesome fantasy but I don't see it happen. Can't get it built without stopping in Tacoma and Olympia. That leaves only 100mi to Vanc where you can go fast. So you're saving an hour over a regular express train.. or over a bus. Not enough to spend the $$$$.

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4 years ago

@JDelage And: x.com/jamessurowieck…

James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki

4 years ago

What Yoel Roth wrote in 2021 is just a wordier way of saying what Elon Musk said in 2022: "Twitter policy is freedom of speech, not freedom of reach. Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted. You won't find the tweet unless you specifically seek it out."

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Maarten @thinkling

4 years ago

@JDelage Mostly previously disclosed by Twitter

Will Oremus @WillOremus

4 years ago

Twitter first announced—yes, announced! publicly! they even held briefings for me and other reporters on it!—the set of moderation practices that critics would later dub “shadowbanning” in May 2018. I called it “Twitter purgatory.” slate.com/technology/201…