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by JohnsonB 14y ago
This is not the way to teach a kid responsibility, with a list of seemingly (to a 13 year old) arbitrary and draconian set of rules. Let the kid save up his own money, buy the phone in person, and be responsible for it. That's exactly how i
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>Yeah, it's all just a few bad apples, there's no underlying problem. Just like all the other women with appalling experiences of sexism in the tech community. Except without the sarcasm, that isn't all that an unlikely hypothesis. Hack
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Is this some sort of satire at the futility of explaining fully a highly technical subject without the technical jargon? A non technical user is not going to want to absorb that laborious descriptive setup just so they can understand the
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Makes sense, it is not irresponsible to refuse to entertain debts to shady creditors. One is responsible for the fate of one's investments, but not when the investment itself is betraying certain ethical and business standards that would
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>Then perhaps you shouldn't be giving design advice. I think design is something that is relatively easy to learn (for a hacker) if it just has to be "good enough" to pass muster with the latest design and UX standards. Certainly someth
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Necessarily? Powerful incumbents can put up artificial barriers, but many times these players can be blindsided by the innovative competition anyway. So is America's economic system, and the full business environment for internet startups i
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Nothing changed, it was never a good question. There are many ways to be productive, entrepreneurial, and creative while working "within the system", so the question was intrinsically discriminatory to those who did so.
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Well, if there would be enough general interest in "The Magazine"'s format, such that a service Marco sold would cause a flood of app-store clones, then whether Marco sells one or not, such a clone will inevitably be created and allow the
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Why would a gyro abruptly stop? If there's some sort of collision with enough force to crumple the gyro casing, which appears to be buried deep in the vehicle and can be made of very strong material, you have a lot bigger problems than th
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>The lack of a start button/desktop is not a usability issue in and of itself Tell that to non-technical users who have trouble remembering to use the start button when it's staring them in the face, they need that visual cue at the v
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Saturated fat isn't bad for you.
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
"No studies" at all might be a stretch, but all of the studies averaged together certainly do not support the "saturated fat is unhealthy" hypothesis.
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
No, it's only for UNIX like OSs and is command line only, making it impractical or putting it out of reach of many users, even those on HN. Putting it as the drop in replacement for Dropbox for backup is simply inaccurate. The services I
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Tarsnap isn't the best choice in most cases, it's just by a HN user. But backblaze, carbonite, crashplan, spideroak are more practical/windows available options.
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>The more productive you are, the more likely you are to get down on yourself and think at the end of the day, “I wasn’t very productive today.” Wow, that sounds like an incredibly unjustified relationship, with only the superficial sup
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
A separate interface that's optimized for touch based devices makes sense. But that doesn't explain why for one, did they have to use the tablet-optimized interface for the default, user friendly desktop mode, and secondly, why did they for
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>To leverage the Desktop monopoly to force users to get familiar with the interface of Microsofts mobile offerings, which had no success to gain user acceptance on their own. >FUD. I'm not sure how anyone could consider that FUD. Th
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
You mean combing for old game show footage on youtube? What does this have to do with reddit?
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>The point of that particular song and dance was that the ultimate cause of long term weight is net caloric balance. That's the one, simple, verifiable truth about nutrition that everybody agrees on. Everything else is a bunfight. Any h
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>This thread is going to be hilarious. There's nothing quite so beautiful as people who read the same half dozen pop science books arguing about nutrition, a stupidly complex science about which almost no universal statements can be mad
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>1. Eat something >2. Not too much >3. Mostly plants There are a lot of diets that disagree with this, diets which many people find success in. For example the Ketosis diet says: 1. Eat as much as you want 2. Mostly protein and
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
I only checked the new features list compared to IE9 so that's why I missed spell check and sync. But it is still a huge stretch to call IE10 a good browser compared to it's competitors considering spell checking is more than half a decade
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
This is cute and all but is essentially a reddit level posting.
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>IE10 is really good. Not "good, for IE" good. Just good good. I'd have to disagree. Does it have bookmark/password syncing? Does it have in browser spell-checking? Large library of secure addons? Built in PDF viewer? Quick close-able t
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
> Fruit is more than just sugar, it's a source of vitamins and minerals and it should not intentionally be limited from your diet. You can dump a bunch of vitamins into a bottle of coke, that doesn't mean you can eat it without limit an
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>The fiber present in fruit blunts the impact of the sugars they contain (addressing the "quality" issue I mentioned elsewhere). Some, but not enough to discount the fact that it is essentially sugar you're eating. >That said, whole
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Yes, it is harder to overeat or get addicted on natural fresh fruits, and there's less of a negative effect. But if you do, you're still back to square one: significant insulin spikes, a tendency to turn those calories to fat just like pure
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Quitting sugar is hard without a diet replacing it that satiates your appetite on a daily basis. I highly recommend Why We Get Fat: And What to Do About It . Basically, an Atkins diet. That means eat as much as you want, but low carbs, hig
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
>adding fruit Just a sidenote: fruits are carby, so you still have the same problem if you replace wheat/sugar with fruit. They are slightly better for you because of the balance of fiber, but if you just replace wheat and sugar for fru
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by JohnsonB 14y ago
Shame they seem to have given up on their version of street view, Streetside, however.

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