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Hey! My son used your site! So, thanks for that. This was a couple of years ago that a music teacher recommended it to him to help boost his progress. I think you continue to sell because your prices are very good for what you are offering,
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This take is so deliriously apathetic that I am starting to wonder if HN is being infected with bot accounts.
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Physical discomforts of writing a novel on a smartphone aside, I am trying to wrap my head around trying to do the same with a device that needs T9 as input. I type slow on a touchscreen as it is, frequently losing my train of thought befor
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Feeling that anxiety here, too. There's some okay text editors for Android, Hacker's Keyboard (which I still use) and of course Termux. The tools are all there, but when I tried to write simple little scripts on mobile, it was all
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A lot of scorn for this latest offering from Pi, but I think perspective is important here. No, most of us here do not have a use for the Pi 500 or it's display, but in part so the world where a lightweight low-consumption device can o
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I think some people wanted collapse, myself included. I was just entering my 20's around that time, thus learning about things like credit scores and predatory lending. Ending up thinking "boy, it sure would be great if that awful
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Wait til you hear about maple syrup... That aside, yeah, this is a real problem with honey (and maple syrup) in the US. Food manufacturers will go to insane lengths to get around any laws that protect product purity and honest labeling beca
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I'm with ya, yeah, it's almost there. Hmm. I'm not versed enough in cognitive psychology to even guess at what word parts we might throw together to make a new term.
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Indeed, the market gives permission to the offense. The funny part is we should have all learned our lesson from the cable television days. Perhaps it's been long enough that everyone forgot, or maybe most of the market is just too you
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Dunning-Kruger Effect might be a good term to use.
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I've worked at companies on both ends of this spectrum, so I can speak to this with some authority. Company A(CA) had tons of open channels between sales, engineering and machining. Sakes reps had to spend time with the service dept ev
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This is a pretty ignorant attempt at a spicy take. Before you can even have this conversation, you need to define what "work" is and take into account the stressors of that work, the abilities of the workers, etc. This mentality o
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Wisdom, right here. My position has one foot in the engineering department and one on the factory floor. The engineers think the factory workers are all troglodytes that just have to push buttons, and the factory workers think the engineers
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Color aside they also ignore a number of solutions for font resizing that follow the users accessibility settings. I can think of at least three easy ways to do this with html/css alone, and yet hear we are; a site that is unreadable t
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I agree with your sentiment, but I also feel like this is hyperbolic. I spend a lot of time on trails and in parks in the US. Perhaps it is different elsewhere, but we typically do not see much trash in those areas, in most cases the trash
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Medium likes to sell data.
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In retrospect, I realize the food industry probably took a page out of the cigarette industry's playbook. Or was it the other way around?
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Living in the US, my takeaway is this: Food manufacturers do not care if we stay healthy, but they're also not interested in harming us on purpose. Their goal is to maximize profit, which usually means cheapest ingredients with addicti
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I suppose that is probably true, but I hate to generalize...then again, I am guilty of generalizing and being pedantic, myself. We do kind of exist in a strange space where the meaning and intention of words matter for the sake of clarity
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Oh Ef, might be time to check the prescription on my glasses again. I misread "piracy" as "privacy" in the headline. Apologies to Ars (but not Lars). Still, are we able to have an honest conversation about one without cl
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I feel like someone in the Ars newsroom mixed up their headlines. I thought I was about to read an article about protecting user privacy. What I read instead is an article about to billion-dollar giants having a pissing contest over the oh-
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I think the gist is "recall" is the same saying "safety issue that needs to be fixed in the software or hardware" since we don't have a word for software issues, which carry a bit more weight on a fly-by-wire vehicl
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Putting the "hacker" back in Hacker News, I guess
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I still disagree. Simplicity and convenience is what people not only want, but demand. And this extends beyond weight loss solutions to our modern world of ever-converging technologies creating ever-complex systems under the guise of effici
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We were surprised, too. Their personality changed to be a lot more aggressive and they started compulsively lying, then stealing things from stores, and some strange draw toward self-harm and getting "corrective" surgeries. Previo
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Diet and exercise. It always comes back to that, yet people avoid it like the plague. The modern weight loss program you described is pushed because that's what people want; an extremely low-effort methodology that yields extremely hig
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The short answer is greed, plain and simple. Higher Education has not been an institution for the people in the US for a long, long time. It may never have been, actually. It's a business, same as our Healthcare industry and businesse
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I'm with you and the previous commenter. People who feel "tricked" we're only fooled by their own blindness. Sorry, but then trying to garner sympathy for that is like being asked to feel bad for the stripper that takes
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Not a requirement, no, but certainly a selling point when shopping for a new job. Personally, I am not a fan of the whole PTO system we have here, mostly because it is used against us. We are expected to be at work unless we request PTO, an
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I am not sure if you are making a joke, sorry. If so, well done. Otherwise, if I did not do a good job of explaining, I can elaborate further on any points that are not fully understood. This is something my wife and I have been considering

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