GSimon

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by GSimon 9y ago
You were more dismissive of one source over another so I brought it into question. I am very familiar with Vice's reporting for the past few years and while they cover a wide range of topics and have an appealing style of presenting th
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by GSimon 9y ago
I don't largely disagree with some of the concerns I question the motives and timeliness of the decision to de-rank a media outlet like RT. It's not something that is done for the reasons presented and the whole Russian influence
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by GSimon 9y ago
One is conceivably less false to people so it is the authentic genuine source by default, seems to be the current trend of thinking
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by GSimon 9y ago
There is also a subtle but noteworthy difference between highly opinionated think pieces trying to present their views as being unbiased reporting and credible state-sponsored media outlets that don't force feed propaganda. But I guess
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by GSimon 9y ago
but a higher standard of what? His words will be more scrutinized but beyond that should a higher standard of censorship be implored? If that's the underlying suggestion than who's this arbiter of good speech and how might that go
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by GSimon 9y ago
The feeling was just that they pulled the rug away on another feature and didn't provide a solution. Periscope is brutal for this too, I want to listen with the lock screen on in my pocket but that's not happening..
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by GSimon 9y ago
I never knew about ProTube, but since YouTube disabled playing videos in background even on Safari/Chrome it's been very annoying. I used to love listening to long format shows/audio in the background. It's still possibl
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by GSimon 9y ago
Too busy working on April Fools day material: https://redditblog.com/2017/04/13/how-we-built-rplace/
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by GSimon 11y ago
I too grew a distaste for them, more accurately the Freakonomics Podcast. Steven Levitt comes across like a total snob and he has all these annoying quirks and preferences, I find his personality really irritating. He reminds me of someone
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by GSimon 11y ago
You should take a look at ProcessWire: https://processwire.com , I absolute love it after previously building site after using Wordpress as a CMS.
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by GSimon 11y ago
That's one way to look at it. You could also see it as 45% of your workforce has now a much greater difficulty finding a normal job because of this now visible gang affiliation. Those 45% have less options to make a traditional living
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by GSimon 11y ago
Explosives Worker -> Librarians I guess opposites do attract.
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by GSimon 11y ago
"I think those claims are unsubstantiated due to lack of sufficient evidence" or even "I think those claims are unsubstantiated" alone comes across better than "pretty sure you're making that up". Best not
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by GSimon 11y ago
weird how so many people had this issue, myself included
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by GSimon 11y ago
> No, he means what do you find unusual about it > It seems like a big security hole.
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by GSimon 12y ago
Whichever ones I can find at: http://www.rlslog.net/category/ebooks/magazines/ :) I actually am commenting because I have a real n00b, meta question. How do you create a 'Ask HN' thread? Do you just
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by GSimon 12y ago
Nice a topic I know a lot about on HN Mechanical keyboards are more enjoyable to type on for one so that's something to consider on it's own. In terms of your pinky getting sore after long usage it might be less likely to occur wi
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by GSimon 13y ago
Weird, checked back just now and it is letting me view it.
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by GSimon 13y ago
agreed, was just playing that moments before seeing this coincidentally.
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by GSimon 13y ago
The lack of a Wacom style digitiser seems to be it's biggest critique (aside from price). The point about their being only 1 USB port is a good one, I wonder if it's possible to charge the device while using the port if you have a
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by GSimon 13y ago
Would be nice, however it's current processor is decent enough and including an i5/i7 would likely sacrifice battery life. Maybe when Windows 9 is released next year something like that would be available.
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by GSimon 13y ago
Obviously. What I'm saying is if they continue to improve their tablets at their current rate it will be to their benefit because other manufactures (i.e Apple) have been slacking in the specs department as of late. If this keeps up Mi
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by GSimon 13y ago
I think this year and the next few years should be promising for Windows in the Tablet/Phone market. They were behind in specs for a while but their products are improving and are getting harder to ignore. I recently ordered Lenovo&#x2
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by GSimon 13y ago
Yea but you take that also as them needing to compensate for the loss of sales, so a higher price for less volume. Or you could take it one step further and suggest they did it so that less people would buy it (because of the higher cost),
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by GSimon 13y ago
If Microsoft purposely did that with the intention of making the desktop default in Windows 9, that's kind of smart trick. A cruel, but smart one, that is if they do make the desktop in Windows 9..
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by GSimon 13y ago
Wrong again! It's an interesting concept but only an ok idea that has no real world application given its limitations.
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by GSimon 13y ago
As a front end web developer, my hardest bug is Internet Explorer. Most recently, trying to get Javascript to run correctly when images that have been cached already (issue described here: http://mir.aculo.us/2005/08&#x