DavidWanjiru

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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Is it legally enforceable for a company to dictate what you can or cannot do with a phone that you bought from them? Sure, the terms said whatever they said, but is it enforceable/constitutional? I mean, people sell their phones all th
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
It depends. If the people are dying because the cars we make have break pads that haven't been certified as safe, and the reason they aren't certified is my boss said to not do it coz certification raises our costs by $1000 per ca
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Stereotyping as opposed to it being a conclusion about a person's character based on things they say?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I believe you. I'm the only surviving member of what was our three member nuclear family (four if you count grandma, which I do). Even when someone is terminally ill and you KNOW they're dying, you still cling, without realizing,
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
"Everyone" probably thinks Teslas are the first electric cars, yet electric cars existed in the late 1800s.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Hmm, this app sounds like a browser to me.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
>It's just a restaurant. As opposed to being what, a nuclear reactor? I'm curious what type of institutions you consider important, and see if there are any parallels between those and a restaurant.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I guess it depends. In some cases, it's easily obvious how software matters, as was the case with Visicalc, but with something like cars or aeroplanes, it's mostly been about the hardware. With self-driving cars, the software is a
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I've never understood, is an Antarctica glacier (or polar ice caps) melting akin to adding ice cubes to a glass of water, or is it akin to ice cubes already in the glass melting? Ice caps on mountain tops melting are clearly akin to th
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
It seems to me the comparison being made between Ballmer and Cook is not in their characters, but in similarities between the directions their companies take under a comparable set of circumstances.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
It isn't strange, because what is being compared here is the utility of the website and the utility of the ERP. The amount of work (and, subjective though it is, the value of that work) done vis a vis the number of MBs each occupies.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Am I the only one who found it odd that the author had internet access, but there was no phone signal? Maybe it's because I'm Kenyan, where phone penetration is much higher than internet penetration, and where internet access over
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Would HN users have known asbestos was bad for us?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
My anecdote: I discovered Edmunds because of their review of first Tesla sedan. It was for me, a technically inclined but nevertheless technically naive reader, the best car review I've ever read.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I saw this headline and went "SHIT!" No, I'm not emotionally invested, in fact I only learnt about it a few hours ago here on HN. Good to hear they have signal.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Speaking of pedantic, what is the difference between "high resolution screens" and "high DPI screens"? Assuming, of course, that screen and display mean the same thing.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
What is the relationship between what is at stake here and the suitability of Trump as the person most suited to realizing whatever real and true issues that his supporters want realized? Does wanting those issues to be addressed mean wanti
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Is it correct to say that the majority of HN users are astrophysics "laypersons"? I'm guessing they are.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
>If facts could speak for themselves, you wouldn't need a journalist to put them into words. How would facts speak for themselves without being put into words by someone ?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
"I quit Apple precisely when the iPhone 1 was released..." Just so I understand, since the iPhone was the first phone Apple made, are you saying you stopped using their PCs (and music players?) because they'd made a phone? If
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I'm not sure how restrictions on drone ownership would be a hindrance if drones become a useful tool in preventing poaching. After all, guns are used in fighting poaching yet gun ownership is restricted in (I presume) most countries.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
You'll also notice how they're premising stuff on realities that don't yet exist e.g. improvements in the design will make it fully independent from using the grid, or that it's a backup plan for when global warming make
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
If someone told you to produce "a huge quantity of ceramics" would you go for huge in size or huge in number of items made?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Question: If Bernie Madoff had advertised his pyramid scheme in, say, the New York Times, can the paper be held responsible for subsequent losses suffered by those who took up the offer made in the advert? Is this case legally similar, or d
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Where are the nutrients for plants coming from? They say plants are grown in coconut husks instead of soil. Does the coconut husk act merely as a plant holder, or is it the one that provides the nutrients that the plant would otherwise obta
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Why would a streaming service need it? Don't they already know the identity of the music they're streaming? Or am I missing something?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
My knee has jerked and called this BS. Take electricity generation. When you include water used to generate electricity in this "cost" calculation, you're implying that money was spent to source the water or put it in the dam
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
We could ask this question recursively ad infinitum. Because their intention to respect wherever it says they'll respect the blog post can be questioned too.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Wait, are we now using Trump's name to make an adjective in the same way we've used Orwell's and Kafka's?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Well, if this video [0] is anything to go by, most of the other jobs will be automated as well. And although I have no foresight to know how it will pan out, it looks like advances in technology (which have produced previously unimagined jo

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