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by Afforess 12y ago
I disagree. The simple fact that a business benefits off another's hard work does not nessecary deprive the worker of their income. Economics is not zero-sum. Google News drives traffic to news sites that would otherwise be isolated to
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by Afforess 12y ago
LOL. Spanish news is irrelevant now. Google will just show Spanish users broader Euro news they can continue to serve freely. Spanish newspapers just accelerated their demise. You are so arrogant. "Google News needs to be stopped"
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by Afforess 12y ago
I can't tell whether I should agree with you, because I rationally have similar conclusions, or disagree because it's possible you are simply a planted post meant to derail discussion. Mission accomplished either way, I guess.
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by Afforess 12y ago
As a general rule I don't participate in HN arguments, which is why I didn't reply to GPH. There is nothing I could have really added to the discussion and it would have simply devolved into a shouting match over which economic pe
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by Afforess 12y ago
Called it, 2.5 months ago. Most of HN said I was wrong. If the 1.25B tax break causes a net gain in tax receipts due to the expansion of the economy, then the deal is a net positive for everyone, job-seekers, Nevada, and Tesla. No one lose
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by Afforess 12y ago
If Comcast charged the same rates as AWS, I probably wouldn't mind. But Comcast charges ~1000x more per GB. In addition, with AWS I can always switch to a cheaper provider. I can not switch to a cheaper cable company.
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by Afforess 12y ago
That is a hard question to answer, because my answer is biased (I live now, so I am biased to think now/recent-past is the best climate). But I do think the 19th/20th century was the most ideal climate possible for the human race.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Your hypothetical is a good one, and I would answer: yes we should still try to reverse it. Rising seas threaten coastal areas over all the globe. Changes in rainfall patterns will create new deserts (see the current California drought). A
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by Afforess 12y ago
It's unfortunate that consumers of the netflix API will have to resort to this sort of web-scraping solution. Web scraping is more complicated than using a provided API, and more computationally expensive for both the servers and clien
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by Afforess 12y ago
Web scraping is generally considered legal, if you are following a sites robots.txt. Otherwise, sites like archive.org would not be possible.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Please don't trot out that rubbish. Not wanting to run a relay is up there with things like not running an open Wifi access point, or not leaving your door unlocked. Willingly offering your personal internet address to complete strange
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by Afforess 12y ago
Normally these discussions get framed in terms of "rights" and how the FBI are violating them, but the average person doesn't care a lot about their abstract rights. It doesn't register. The real issue, and what bothers
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by Afforess 12y ago
I disagree about the Kindle Fire, it is still the go-to cheap tablet device for non-techies (which is most of the consumer market). The high end tablet market is dominated by Apple. Everything else is a rounding error.
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by Afforess 12y ago
I use a Lenevo W530 at work. It's great, it has a mobile i7 quad core processor, discrete graphics card with 2GB VRAM, 16GB DDR3, etc. It's a very powerful machine, and does not weigh much.
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by Afforess 12y ago
> 2. Should GMail really only be able to work offline in Chrome? Does anyone but me remember offline email clients (hello Thunderbird!)? You can take Gmail offline already.
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by Afforess 12y ago
I don't understand why anyone would get their forecasts from anywhere but the NOAA website. The US government provides free, (adfree) and detailed forecasts which are more accurate than 3rd party forecasts. Most 3rd party forecast site
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by Afforess 12y ago
I drink (diet) soda because I need caffeine in the mornings. I am not a morning person and never have been. Without caffeine, I will not be mentally alert before 11am. I hate the taste of coffee, so soda it is.
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by Afforess 12y ago
Not quite. The post describes the usage of a "BlockPos" vector that describes the x,y,z (and presumably rotation/yaw/pitch) for a world position. I think previously they were using primitive integers and floats, and have
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by Afforess 12y ago
Desperate to meet that EPS number for the 2015 roadmap, apparently.
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by Afforess 12y ago
This is unfortunate. Corporate taxation is double taxation in the first place, and silly. Corporate profits are already taxed (in the form of dividends/capital gains to shareholders, and income tax to employees), there is no reason to
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by Afforess 12y ago
I think Google is at a big disadvantage when it comes to shopping. Amazon already has a powerful ecosystem. You can become an Amazon seller. Amazon sells it's own brand of many items, which are all high-quality, low-price. Amazon has a
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by Afforess 12y ago
IBM did split already. Maybe you've heard of Lenovo?
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by Afforess 12y ago
It never ceases to amaze me. Every time I think the conspiracy theorists are the real lunatics, the government manages to one up them. First Snowden, now this. Truth is truly stranger than fiction.
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by Afforess 12y ago
> some sort of long-term health problems. The leading cause of cancer is life. Everything causes long-term health problems, eventually. People are too risk-averse, How can you enjoy anything if you are perpetually concerned about long-te
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by Afforess 12y ago
>>"there is much evidence that it is considerably healthier than a typical diet." >This is fraudulent horseshit and it's kind of surprising they got away with it. Considering that more people are overweight in the US
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by Afforess 12y ago
I disagree. This would simply skew the entire site towards content that nets high karma, and high karma users. I have seen no evidence that high karma users post content any better than a new user, and often times, they are worse - manipula
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by Afforess 12y ago
What a terrible article. Excerpt: They have created a system that is a free-for-all for criminals So we should give up all rights to privacy to help catch criminals? What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly
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by Afforess 12y ago
Even a harmless code exploit, when run on a computer system you do not have normal permission to use, is a felony in the USA.
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by Afforess 12y ago
I disagree. Anecdotally, any discussion of obesity I have seen on internet forums (typically reddit) places the blame entirely on the overweight people. This is not helped by the rather silly trend of the fat-is-beautiful group, which only
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by Afforess 12y ago
The big picture is that NASA has created competition in the commercial space market. If either of the parties fail to live up to their obligations, NASA has a backup. If both succeed, all the better for NASA. Competition is good.

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