JohnGB

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by JohnGB 6y ago
In the end this is really a competition question and whether or not Apple has engaged in anti-competitive behaviour. I remember the days when Apple was pushing to break up Microsoft for including free software (Internet Explorer) in Windows
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by JohnGB 6y ago
That's not a great example as it turned out (years later when the raw data came out) that Gore in fact won Florida. So their overnight decision was objectively wrong.
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by JohnGB 7y ago
I'm still using the last Macbook Pro without a touchbar, and plan on not upgrading until either this dies, or Apple decide to make a laptop with a full keyboard. If it dies before that, it's Hackintosh or Linux time. It honestly
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by JohnGB 7y ago
The fact that it was unanimous really drives home how obviously illegal it was. I would love to see a direct criminal or civil consequence for this, as it negatively affected the rights of all UK citizens.
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by JohnGB 7y ago
The quality isn't necessarily worse. Vinyl is analogue, and so good quality vinyl has a different sound to the same audio played from a CD. That isn't to say that all vinyl is better, just that the best vinyl is better than the
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by JohnGB 7y ago
Why wouldn't the QC at NASA include testing at independent labs for anything mission critical? That seems like a failure on NASA's part as much as it is fraud by the supplier.
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by JohnGB 8y ago
In the Netherlands, if you have a child under 9 years old (it could be 8), your company is required, by law, to let you work 4 days a week if your want. It's actually really common with something like 28% of working men taking a &quot
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by JohnGB 8y ago
I'm not an expert here, but I doubt that he would qualify for a transplant given the heavy toll that the future leukemia treatment would put on the transplanted liver. It's sad, but sometimes there really aren't any more opt
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by JohnGB 8y ago
One of the many things that I love about the Netherlands is the lack of tipping in the culture. People get paid a decent wage, and so tipping is only something done if the service is amazing.
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by JohnGB 8y ago
One is more likely to have you disappear in the night if you share something against their interests, and the other is more likely to bomb your child's wedding if you share something against their interests. Neither is good, so let&#x2
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by JohnGB 8y ago
There is zero incentive for any EU country to be flexible with the UK exiting the EU, as that would incentivise even more disruption. If you cancel your membership at a club, you shouldn't expect to maintain some membership benefits o
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by JohnGB 9y ago
In other news, about 2% of the US counties have about 51% of the population. The problem isn't the distribution, it's the rate of murders when compared with other industrialised states.
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by JohnGB 9y ago
There are 8 billion humans. So we should be allowed to hunt a few hundred thousand a year without anyone having a problem with it. The problem isn't primarily about the numbers of minke whales. It's that they are hunting what ma
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by JohnGB 9y ago
This article reads like a political agenda providing few verifiable facts, and many broad, unsubstantiated claims. If one is going to make bold claims, they should be substantiated by fact, not by other bold claims. I am no expert on glyph
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by JohnGB 9y ago
Okay, so it's okay to go after an engineer at VW for gaming the system, and causing higher emissions than everyone thought, but not okay to go after bankers for fraud which screwed the world economy? I'm not saying that the engine
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by JohnGB 9y ago
In this case, it's probably due to aerodynamic considerations.
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by JohnGB 9y ago
I'm sure multitudes of people like his style of reading, but I have found it to be incredibly slow and frustrating to listen to. He reads.... with ...... far too many..... pointless..... pauses. One can have meter and flow without th
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by JohnGB 9y ago
If he reported it, he runs the risk of the company turning on him (as was the case in the article above). If he doesn't report it, nothing happens. It's a choice between the certainty of no loss vs the possibility of great loss.
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by JohnGB 9y ago
> “A child who is learning two languages will have a smaller vocabulary in each than a child who is only learning one; there are only so many hours in the day, and you’re either hearing English or Spanish,” Dr. Hoff said. That is rubbish
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by JohnGB 9y ago
> ... the producer will have to fix or replace it. That's a common misconception. It's actually the seller that has to fix or replace it, not the producer. It would make a lot more sense though if it were the producer.
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by JohnGB 9y ago
The general usage of "third-world" has changed over time to be focused more on development than on whether a country was pro-USA or pro-Soviet. If one were to hold to the original meaning of "third-world", then one would
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by JohnGB 9y ago
I really wish that journalists would learn some 3rd grade maths before writing anything with numbers in it. How does the life expectancy vary by "more than 20 years" when the difference between the counties with the highest (85)
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by JohnGB 10y ago
In this case, the police refused to give him any information after the fact, forcing him to hire a lawyer. The police only apologised after a lawyer got involved, not after they realised that they had arrested the wrong man. Additionally
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by JohnGB 10y ago
Are there any types of companies or areas of interest that you are focusing on in this batch? And if so, would you please elaborate on it.
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by JohnGB 10y ago
I'm sorry to hear about that, and as unfair as it is, if it's your dream, there are other options worth exploring. If you can get a PhD position at almost any EU university, it is always fully funded (and in fact paid). Many cou
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by JohnGB 10y ago
I wonder if the same would have happened to an American company in the USA. If so, what's the deal with the bankers that did orders of magnitude more damage?
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Ask HN: How to let Google know that my app name isn't a misspelling?
6 points by JohnGB 10y ago|0 comments
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by JohnGB 10y ago
So total student loan debt is something like 10% of the cost of the Iraq / Afghanistan war. Tell me again how it's not affordable to make college free, when it's affordable to spend so much money on an unnecessary military i
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by JohnGB 10y ago
From El Capitan Apple have been "courageous" enough to essentially disable many of the most useful apps with some of their new "features". I still use El Capitan, so I have yet to deal with the Sierra issues, however I
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by JohnGB 10y ago
Karabiner (and its predecessor) is invaluable for me every day use of my macbook. In general using a touchpad feels like trying to type with only one finger, but with the "multi-touch exension" (I think it's based on touchse

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