Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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6 years, 1 month ago

operators were underpaid in India

Half the complaint calls that came in were from customers with units so broken the vendors were at a loss, but the other half were from customers just wondering about proper usage, and so alternate tollfree numbers were set up and operators were underpaid in India, every Indian who had never been a…

—p.243 Book of Numbers by Joshua Cohen
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a home entertainment system of mixed brands

Now initially the way the unimote business went was custom, bespoke, and so never very profitable. High end always begins high pricetag, given the R&D and STailing, the specs tailoring altering by device, with features always being taken in and out, given the manufacturing costs, and the vendor per…

—p.242 by Joshua Cohen
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6 years, 1 month ago

all dedicated to improving the couch experience

Ironic that this gadget, so simple to imagine, turned out to be so difficult to develop. It takes a whole lot of labor to keep the customer lazy, but the price of this was higher. Adjusting for inflation it was a height between the costs of launching satellites into orbit and laying the transatlant…

—p.240 by Joshua Cohen
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we had to be one of that handful

[...] The narrative plot of online is that as like the number of sites that made the web increased, the number of hosts or domains that made the net did not, and it was just at this point in time that their stasis or even decrease was being felt, with capitalism and so democracy too in thrall to ju…

—p.231 by Joshua Cohen
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as like a vast unrecorded emptiness

from the Palo Alto sessions: It was as like a dream. Or hallucination. As like when the comp digirecorder shuts off when its condenser mic does not detect our speaking voice for 1, 2, 3, 4 seconds and so the recording will become nothing but an artificially compressed memory omitting the time in wh…

—p.225 by Joshua Cohen