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by Chevalier 12y ago
Of course there's a place for suburbs, and I'm not opposed to the idea of less dense housing. Such housing can exist in the context of walkable neighborhoods with public transit, though. I think there's quite a bit of merit t
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by Chevalier 12y ago
...dude. No, you don't have to be a drunk going 100mph before you kill someone with your car. That you "don't drink very much" doesn't mean that your "car is incredibly safe and will almost certainly never kill
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by Chevalier 12y ago
I'm using SV as shorthand for the tech industry generally -- and Redmond is very much to Seattle what Silicon Valley is to San Francisco. Car-dependent suburbia that threatens the health, safety, and quality-of-life of everyone forced
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Cars are very UNSAFE, for the record. [1] Self-driving cars will be better... but autonomous cars are SUCH an intellectually lazy progression from the status quo that I hope they won't happen. Rather than autonomous cars, we should be
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Not that it's any more or less tragic, but I've always been astonished that Silicon Valley is so car-dependent. We've concentrated the most brilliant minds in the world in this small area... and then force everyone to pilot t
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Fellow JD here. I have to disagree with you re: viability. Not only does most of our work lend itself well to automation (discovery, researching precedent, and predicting case outcomes), but this particular startup is aimed squarely at the
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Not a techie, but as I understand it, group Hangouts aren't compatible with XMPP. Pidgin works solely for one-on-one chats. I actually like Hangouts in theory (GVoice/Skype/GChat in one!), but it's a bloated monster of a
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Absolutely baffling. I currently use G+ as a newsfeed for publications with a G+ presence (which is most of them), but it's been a long time coming and still lacks for significant user interaction with stories. There's no reason w
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by Chevalier 12y ago
I wish Horowitz the best... but it looks like Google is starting to break up G+ into separate photos/streams (newsfeeds)/Hangouts sections, and I really hope they avoid that. I'm downvoted every time I say so, but combining p
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Nope. My apologies on behalf of our profession. This is probably just a shakedown -- it'll be cheaper to settle than it will be to defend against this lawsuit, so the game is to find a mistake that could plausibly fall afoul of the ADA
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Just to correct you, Braid didn't succeed because it was a "pure puzzle game." Braid has an absolutely incredible story and milieu -- stunning art and music with a sad, beautiful ambiance. It helped that the puzzles are great
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Sigh. Does Apple offer auto-awesome like G+ (and soon, OneDrive)? Do they highlight the best photos or stitch burst shots together into a GIF? Do they email you memories like Everpix used to? Critically for me, do they offer deduplication?
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by Chevalier 12y ago
I agree completely. A binary yes/no would be a lot more useful in gauging customer satisfaction with drivers. When 5 stars is "yes" and 1-4 stars are "no," Uber forsakes the gradient system that, as far as I can tel
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by Chevalier 12y ago
I'm not Sullivan's biggest fan, but... if Sullivan can't make it as a blogger, who can? Sullivan has a wealthy, educated audience that should be catnip to advertisers -- particularly with his particularly distinct influence a
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Google HAS done this. I'm one of Google+'s very few fanatics, and searches for local businesses and so on turn up recommendations from friends. G+ is everything this guy dreams of. And it's already very well-executed. All tha
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by Chevalier 12y ago
As someone who's lived in New York a long time... this argument is ridiculous. New York IS cheap. If Williamsburg is too expensive, go another subway stop out to Bushwick. If that's too expensive, go another subway stop out. Take
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by Chevalier 12y ago
I'm sorry to hear it. I've seen you guys posting on HN over the past year or two, particularly on topics like Everpix. While I mourn the loss of Everpix and Trovebox, I'm baffled as to the market's failure to replace the
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Ah, I think it's a UI problem. Open up your friend's name. In the bottom left corner is a little green chat icon, which signifies that you're sending a Hangouts message. Tap that and you should see the option to send a text t
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by Chevalier 12y ago
As a long-time Google Voice user, I've been pretty happy with Hangouts integration. Texts, VoIP, cross-platform use... could still use invisibility and a (much) better set of "stickers," but I'm otherwise pretty happy wi
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Trello - ESSENTIAL kanban system for project management and daily organization. I'm an absolute fanatic for Trello. OneNote - The greatest program ever made. OneNote isn't useful for short-term to-dos, but I couldn't live wit
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Korea, of all places, is possibly the most crystal-clear example of the success of American intervention. The unparalleled success of South Korea is a direct contrast to the horror of North Korea. Perhaps I shouldn't say unparalleled -
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by Chevalier 12y ago
MacArthur is possibly one of the finest generals in American history. But while he's widely beloved across Asia for his work in Japan and especially the Philippines, his American legacy is tarnished after Truman publicly disgraced him
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by Chevalier 12y ago
I'm just tired of the Western view of North Korea as a joke. Yes, the Kims are ludicrous. They're also monsters, some of the worst in human history, who have crushed one of the world's most beautiful and functional cultures u
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Stereotypes of French waiters aside, service is just fine in Europe. (Speaking as a former resident with very fond memories.) Tipping is just a way for American employers to rip off their most vulnerable workers. Tipping is a truly toxic pr
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Yup, exactly. As someone with loved ones in Cambridge who use Uber constantly, and is therefore extremely distressed by rapists prowling their neighborhoods... thank god for Uber. I'm a tall, professional male with a law degree who&#x2
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by Chevalier 12y ago
Agreed on all counts. At least build the tip into the cost, like the ride-sharing services do. I'd vastly prefer doing away with tips altogether and just paying a living wage, but the least these services can do is to spare me extra wo
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by Chevalier 12y ago
"These luxuries are not new. I took advantage of them long before Uber became a verb, before the world saw the first iPhone in 2007, even before the first submarine fibre-optic cable landed on our shores in 1997. In my hometown of Mumb
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by Chevalier 12y ago
If your human pharmacist forgets a drug interaction, who's responsible? It's a pretty pedestrian question that doesn't become impossible to solve once you introduce machines. I would assume the company that manufactures the m
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by Chevalier 12y ago
That doesn't sound right to me. Humans are better than machines at the memorization and computation of a database that lists every drug in existence and the consequences of all possible combinations thereof? Pharmacists may be able to
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by Chevalier 12y ago
When your position could have been automated thirty years ago by vending machines... yeah, pharmacists are in trouble. Some chains are moving to a call-in model, where your medicine is provided through cheap labor (and eventually machines)

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