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by RONROC 5y ago
All hard-to-argue with pain points that could be addressed in a novel way. There’s a lot of unsolved problems in the new media morass and it would be great if a couple of new white hat firms emerged in this space to cut through the noise an
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by RONROC 5y ago
> forgotten by time Wildly successful children’s movie seen by many millions of children. I remember it being fairly cutting edge at the time, an accomplishment that helped bolster the nascent Pixar’s reputation as a global animation pow
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by RONROC 5y ago
I guess the grand irony of all this is that data scientists — of which, the "good" ones (rational Spock-types, highly technical, sometimes to their own detriment) are, historically, not socially inclined — are the ones responsib
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by RONROC 5y ago
How’d you land at 97? Probably best to use 99, 100, or some variation of “I’m fairly certain”, no? I am only 96% kidding ;)
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by RONROC 5y ago
Here’s what Elasticsearch thinks: https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/08/07/0040229/elasticsear...
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by RONROC 5y ago
I think one of the only second order effects of wokeism is the fact that many times it gets results. “Call out culture” runs the gamut from obvious to pendantic, and, more often than not, the result is a net positive. So, my question is: Wh
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by RONROC 5y ago
I hate the big baby billionaire pissing match more than the next guy, but establishing clear-cut consensus protocols for looting the solar system is the least these companies can do. I’m surprised these talks are happening between two Ameri
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by RONROC 5y ago
Sorry dang! Could of definitely left that last sentence out.
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by RONROC 5y ago
I’m sure the irony is not lost on them. There’s a highly rated post regarding that very thing on the sub right now ( https://old.reddit.com/r/nosurf/comments/ovdngk/dont_be_fool... ). Where do you propose
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by RONROC 5y ago
I was wondering why hckrnews.com was rendering poorly on Safari (iOS). Your comment helped connect the dots. Funny side effect!
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by RONROC 5y ago
It’s incredible that we even have to state that. This leaves a bad taste in my mouth, full stop. I got the vaccine, and am shocked that I may need to comply with another dose or “booster” shots. I’m trying my hardest to be a team player but
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by RONROC 5y ago
https://archive.is/8oiJT
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by RONROC 5y ago
He’s a smart, gifted orator, who fancies himself a misunderstood academic. Yet, this self-proclaimed outsider status is still just a chip on his shoulder. He has the resources and reach to bankroll his own research and get even with his old
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by RONROC 5y ago
The mental gymnastics needed to market Bitcoin are becoming more and more absurd. Not sure how to convince maximalists that non-believers _actually_ do understand Bitcoin—they just don’t see any practical uses for it other than funny money.
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by RONROC 5y ago
100% with you. Generally posts like these induce the HN crowd blinders, since people who typically post here are sympathetic to software developers. The same software developers who are making money hand over fist. The same software develop
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by RONROC 5y ago
https://archive.is/20iZl
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by RONROC 5y ago
I agree. Once Wall St becomes your landlord, something is irreparably broken.
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by RONROC 5y ago
Housing market crash is not inevitable. The market crashed in 08 because banks gave loans to unqualified people who could not afford their mortgage(s) otherwise. The current housing “bubble” is driven by-and-large by private equity groups w
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by RONROC 5y ago
Probably an unpopular take but cancelling typically occurs in domains that either deserve the maximum amount of public scrutiny such as politics and show business (the reasoning here is that the people who operate in these domains have, a
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by RONROC 5y ago
This is an opinion piece, not a research paper. Jesus.
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by RONROC 5y ago
“Not to bring you down, and not adding anything useful here, but...”
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Ethereum on Amazon Managed Blockchain(aws.amazon.com)
4 points by RONROC 6y ago|0 comments
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by RONROC 6y ago
I've seen comments about the supposed "information firewall" a couple of times in various threads related to the GME WSB fiasco across a few different websites. I am not a financial professional, but I am not stupid. Anyone w
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by RONROC 6y ago
This high minded woo woo bullshit is intended to be accepted as a “good faith” devil’s advocate argument, except it fails to address the following: Watching these “patriots” trying to interrupt and attack the democratic process with such bl
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by RONROC 6y ago
/rj It seems like Slack is massively overvalued. At my current organization which has a small team of around ~10 people, we simply could no longer justify the astronomical per-seat price tag, the needlessly convoluted admin UI, among a
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by RONROC 6y ago
I can understand this level of pearl-clutching when we’re talking about social media, but I just don’t see Apple as the five-alarm fire it’s made out to be. Practically speaking being “locked” into a system would only be a possibility in a
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Up and Then Down: The lives of elevators (2008)(newyorker.com)
26 points by RONROC 6y ago|13 comments
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by RONROC 6y ago
Because (per the creator) a more stable release will follow. If people are interested (the people who are upvoting), they can provide suggestions/feedback and possibly get involved with the project in some capacity. Im candidly wonderi
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by RONROC 6y ago
This comment/poster reminds me of the verge’s pc build fiasco aftermath. ‘ThAts nOt HoW YoU aPpLy TherMal PasSte’
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by RONROC 6y ago
For an amateur like me, who’s more concerned with getting his code to actually work, something like this is actually less daunting than stack overflow. The problem with stack overflow (again, for someone like me) is that issues posted on th

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