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There's a difference between now and the 90s/00s. And its worse now. At least Microsoft's overarching goal was just to get developers to use their platform, by making their platform as useful as possible (even if many of the
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Someone who knows more and is more involved with all of this stuff should consider creating a site that documents all of these times Chrome has either actively broken standards (versus just "not being up to date", which every brow
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Oh, trust me; those orchards are a cash cow. There's practically no amount of fruit you could have taken which would have caused them material damage. Most of them don't even make most of their money from the fruit; they'll u
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Yeah, this sounds like an article written by someone who lives in a big city and has never been to rural America. This isn't even uncommon; its pretty darn standard. Another common, similar thing you see all over (climatically appropri
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Just looking at the quote of "$58/mo for a vCPU", they're clearly taking the median cost of a vCPU across all instance types, which includes hyper-expensive instances with value-adds like GPUs or tons of memory. The real
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I can't see how you'd think those are absolute truths when they're all prefixed with the word "Maybe".
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> Banks are more regulatory and defend my turf play than a technology play. There's layers and layers of clutter. Why do you think this is? Do you think its just because "hur hur they're evil"? I'm not saying the
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"Killing" is a pretty funny word to use. Everything is easy when you're small. Look at Simple in the US; they have an awesome iOS app, a few interesting features, they gained customers, became more popular, and... feature dev
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Every new financal technology tries to kill the existing middlemen, then replace them with new middlemen who promise to be better. Turns out, these new middlemen (1) never fully comprehend how complex modern finance is, which raises costs,
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Removing them from MacOS was the right decision for MacOS, but only because Apple never maintained it. If Microsoft can provide a good distribution channel and maintain it, this is a fantastic move. And the Windows Store is a fine distribut
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It had some deeper financial analytics capabilities that you'd traditionally only get with a service like Mint or a more modern bank like Simple, such as flow analysis (seeing comparisons between amount-in/amount-out and extrapola
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Yeah I'd hardly assert that Chase's is the best mobile banking app, not by a long shot, but its Good. Its got above average feature parity with the website, generally stays up to date with the latest features available on the plat
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Finn looked really cool, but the biggest problem is that it didn't integrate with existing Chase accounts; it was a totally separate financial account. I wasn't about to create another checking account, but a more modern app for a
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I think the bigger concern is that, as far as we know, the Pro Display literally does not come with a stand. You can't even VESA mount it without the $200 addon. It'd be one thing if the $1000 stand was an upgrade from a basic sta
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Given that putting 'try' before the variable definitions would probably interfere with the 'var' keyword, it makes a bit more sense to me that it should be put after the assignment operator (something like var try v1 = T
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Its so concerning that you simplify ridiculously complex issues down to a soundbyte like "islamic radicals were getting radicalized", like the videos are some kind of hypnosis spiral that turns a promising young middle eastern boy
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To be fair, there's some accurate insight in Bill's response that shouldn't lead anyone to just conclude that he was totally wrong. Terry correctly predicted fake news, but Bill also correctly predicted our response to it, wh
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This is a pretty scary thought. We have one shot. If we waste it our species won't escape the planet for another million years, if ever. If we manage it, the stars are our's. If that isn't another low probability Great Filter
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This is tangentially related: I've had a pet theory for a while (which may not be original, idk) that a possible explanation for the Fermi Paradox Great Filter is literally the existence of huge amounts of Fossil Fuels. It took million
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That's all fine, but at the same time these conclusions seriously sound like an excuse that leads to cherry-picked metrics optimization. In other words: "we consider low latency across browsers we support an SLO, and to maximize
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There are a couple minor things. For example: inside of a Doc, in Chrome you can right click -> edit menu -> copy/paste, but in Firefox it tells you that you must use CMD+C/CMD+V. Non-Chrome browsers also used to be unable t
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That's almost definitely the case. But there is such a thing as maliciously unintentional, and this seriously keeps happening with every browser that isn't Chrome. For example; Google is a technically advanced company, so they mus
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No one said it was a bad thing for consumers. It’s a bad thing for Netflix.
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The most interesting part is that it hasn't affected the US (yet). The US is probably the leader among developed nations in bad environmentalism, blue screens, bad sleep, opioid addiction, etc... so unless there's a reporting issu
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> Any species that develops a civilization capable of space travel must necessarily have evolved a strong cooperative spirit, and so is more unlikely to exercise homicide as a first resort. It's more accurate to say that HUMANITY wo
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Its an interesting theory. IMO: the difficulty of destroying a civilization is probably harder than communicating with them, and the advantages of keeping one around probably outweigh the advantages of killing them if you're already mo
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Yes, of course, that's why I said "$400 on the high end". On the low end, the X1X/PS4 are $200. That's still expensive for some people, I'm not trying to be insensitive. Microsoft did announce that "Xbox s
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I'm not certain about this. Of course gamers want everything for free, but gamers are generally smarter and more conservative than the average population (see the whole Epic Games Store debacle right now). Consoles are exceedingly chea
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AMD was also measurably slower to begin with, in terms of per-core performance. Not just by some small number; depending on the benchmark the difference can hit as high as 40% on the latest architectures. What they lack in single-core perf
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Yeah; I think the whole "coding tests" thing is very much a Silicon Valley thing (which has of course been adopted by some non-SV companies, but its not the norm). I feel bad for HN readers who live there and that's all they

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