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by _Tev 8y ago
What about citing some arguments from the article, so not everyone has to read 12000 words and wade throuh 60 references. It would be easier for everyone to check the validity of the argument then. There has not been any counterpoint to ori
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by _Tev 8y ago
> There are two reasons why we can’t: We live within a finite ecosystem of resources and finite systems can by definition not sustain infinite consumption Yeah this gets thrown around a lot, but people clearly misunderstand what it actua
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by _Tev 8y ago
Seems like a good strategy, focus on (portion of) US users and drive the business to the ground.
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by _Tev 8y ago
They're right in the center of the Cz political scene. The context is that we have very big gov't with lot of benefits, and (kind of, it's complicated) high taxes. In such situation left has nowhere else to go (defending stat
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by _Tev 8y ago
Yeah, talk about arguing in bad faith, then move the goal posts (when lay people think the job is too hard / boring, they will not choose it when choosing education, seems pretty obvious?) and claim the other side is "arguing for
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by _Tev 8y ago
And let's keep in mind how successful NASA safety policies actually were. Perfect safety is a pipe dream.
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by _Tev 8y ago
Boosters don't really "explode". When ruptured they burn really fast, but (assuming engine shutdown and non-malfunctioning capsule separation) at such high altitude there is not that much danger from simple conflagration. Sur
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by _Tev 8y ago
> What about citations proving that programming is dry, tedious, or boring? From what I've seen this is standard assumption by ordinary people. And it does not target only programming, any office job that involves "sitting at t
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by _Tev 8y ago
> There's so much evidence to suggest that there is far more at play here than simply "engineering is laborious and dry [so women must not want to do the work]" that I'm willing to state it falls under wikipedia'
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by _Tev 8y ago
> However, Wired did a write up[1] on why Damore's memo was clumsy despite trying to use scientific evidence. Mainly in that he cited facts without extrapolating on them and noting the small differences in the numbers. Further, ther
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by _Tev 8y ago
> I’ve read and reflected on your comment, re-read your source, my five sources, and the polls they link to, and I am just going to agree to disagree with you. You’re invested in “being right” about this but the data don’t support what y
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by _Tev 8y ago
SEC fined him over something so much easier to verify that I wonder why is everybody bringing it up? Why do you think truthiness of Apple'a / Amazon's statements will be obvious in next year or two? Why do you think that accu
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by _Tev 8y ago
More trouble than if they pissed China off enough to threaten Apple's manufacturing in China?
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by _Tev 8y ago
I wonder why people on HN take these arguments seriously. You either anger govt that is authoritarian & capable of confiscating your entire production (basically ending your current business) OR You make some half-truth statement (not n
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by _Tev 8y ago
You have got to be kidding me, this whole discussion (under the article) is citing several stats in which is US at best tied for the most awful police force. For a guy pulling the handwaving argument you don't seem to try too hard.
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by _Tev 8y ago
> But, objectively, for the everyman, is the Apple ecosystem currently the best? It absolutely is. Sorry but that is simply delusional. Cost alone makes Apple products non-starter for a lot of "everymen" (assuming you don&#x27
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by _Tev 8y ago
And what you are doing if not handwaving? I'm all for breaking HN-stereotypes, please show us some statistic in which US police does not look like a bunch of murderers.
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by _Tev 8y ago
Don't forget that every "try again" adds 80-150M to the cost for new launch vehicle. SpaceX is starting to change this, but most of the NASA history / planning was done in context of high launch costs.
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by _Tev 8y ago
I realized that Chrome now (M69) forces the forced-logging-in solution (not sure, cannot test atm). Then my post is mostly moot (can't edit already), and for simple-users is this change probably good.
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by _Tev 8y ago
> I should also mention, there's another place it gets used - in Chrome extensions. That should use the same identity. That's actually good use case for the browser login feature. (when one is using some google-acc-connected ex
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by _Tev 8y ago
And others are thus highly incentivized to publicly block your attempts for politicizing FOSS project. See how that works?
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by _Tev 8y ago
It seems to me like you provided no arguments how is login-into-browser feature clarifying things. You even mentioned people being _confused_ about it. People don't need to understand oauth to use it. (and before you pull that one agai
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by _Tev 8y ago
> I can't think of an example where auto playing audio without user interaction is a good idea anyway. Ringtones/notification sounds for a communication app. User is (almost always) logged in from previous session, just opens t
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by _Tev 8y ago
Z5 Compact user here. It's very good, only occassional issue is Sony's "What's new" bloatware and its notifications. Easy enough to swipe&ignore. I wish Sony will keep this line alive, Apple SE was only real alt
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by _Tev 8y ago
Stop pretending this is only about "publishing copyrighted works"
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by _Tev 8y ago
The arguments sound good, until you consider collissions have already occurred ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_satellite_collision And once you open door to reckless processess the chance of Kessler Syndrome r
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by _Tev 8y ago
From my ~10y experience with multiplayer games voice activation IS clearly superior. Not sure what games are you talking about (and what's "competitive" level for you), but there was never enough keys for in-game actions and
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by _Tev 8y ago
Apple review process is a joke, they reject and accept apps randomly ...
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by _Tev 8y ago
This is how American left loses elections. I was really thinking that your crazies on the right simply make up that "intellectual left that looks down on them", but boyyy, HN discussions have convinced me that the US left is quite
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by _Tev 8y ago
Quote them. Seriously. Because you really sound like making stuff up, just to confirm your bias against Damore. The whole memo was about something else, yet you claim that because: > He then prescribes things based on that generalization

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