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by abtinf 7y ago
Yes, it's "bullshit on the front page of the Times". Now, I happen to agree that tariffs may cause prices to increase. I've been educated in economics and study it as a hobby; I can explain my point-of-view from the conc
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by abtinf 7y ago
Finance is the fundamental industry upon which all others are built. Arguments against free trade or trade “imbalance” are always one or more of the following: economically ignorant; mercantilist; racist; or nationalist. They all deny indiv
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by abtinf 7y ago
> Intel has about...10x the number of employees. In all seriousness, it is a miracle Intel is able to compete at all. Pros of higher headcount: theoretically lower transaction costs for highly specialized people to work together. Cons of
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4% sounds like it could be many billions.
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by abtinf 7y ago
This sounds familiar. I don’t remember if my friends/colleagues didn’t want to join or what. So it might have been my fault. Still, the system seemed useless as single user.
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by abtinf 7y ago
I got an invite to wave, but no one else I knew was on it, so it had no value at all to me. It didn’t have that attribute that PG ascribed to reddit: the ability to be valuable with a small number of users. They also didn’t have explain how
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by abtinf 7y ago
I agree that generalized trees require too many clicks. What I really like are the limited depth, non-collapsing trees in a lot of UIs now. Like in Slack, where the left nav has few top level nodes—pinned channels/chats, channels, and
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by abtinf 7y ago
The last sentence of the video is “google wave, because... because... fuck you exasperated sigh ”. I burst out laughing at that and I’ve been trying to figure out why. Laughter is an act of destruction, an emotional declaration that this t
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by abtinf 7y ago
If you are going to accuse someone of "spouting nonsense", it would behoove you to know the facts on the ground, not just have a vague notion. Some states have laws about how faithless electors "must" vote. The only rela
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by abtinf 7y ago
It seems like failing a constitutional challenge is the best case. Electors don’t actually have to vote the way state law tells them to—that would require a constitutional amendment that restructures the whole process. When they vote counte
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by abtinf 7y ago
I love games and can’t play my steam collection now. But if I have to give that up so that some silly bug elsewhere in my system doesn’t expose me to a ransomware attack (or worse), so be it. I’ll find another way.
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by abtinf 7y ago
Flash died because Adobe failed in the most obvious ways--even to lay outsiders at the time. They could never be bothered to fix the pervasive performance or security issues. It started to die, slowly at first: the desktop flash blocker plu
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by abtinf 7y ago
I've worked with extremely competent security professionals before. Those people love and are fanatical about security. Based on my experience, it seems a near certainty that Valve doesn't employee even a single such person. T
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by abtinf 7y ago
I uninstalled Steam the moment I read the previous disclosure and Valve's approach to it. Any company that treats security as it used to be in the 90s ought to be shunned.
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by abtinf 7y ago
> I shouldnt be so cocky. Off-topic, but I don't think its about being cocky. For me, the most difficult thing to keep in mind about information technology is that it is entirely a construct of the human mind and we haven't yet
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by abtinf 7y ago
Regarding tabbed browers: they are ancient. I remember the first time I used tabs with a wrapper for IE 4 or 5 back in the mid-90s. I think it was called NetCaptor or NetRaptor or something. It was magical. Of course, back then, no one knew
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by abtinf 7y ago
I was shocked to see the browser market share graph. Chrome appears to be collapsing on itself, dropping from from an all-time high of 65.4% to 55.4% in just 16 months, effectively losing all share gains since 2016. But then I looked closer
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by abtinf 7y ago
Question for the HN admins: What was the impact of removing vote counts from comments? What lessons did you draw from it?
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Thank you for the example. However, it appears that the governor reversed course just yesterday: https://news.yahoo.com/alaska-governor-reverses-course-contr... I've noticed this is a frequent occurance--one faction wi
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by abtinf 7y ago
When have healthcare or education ever been cut? Edit: A lot of downvotes, but no examples. Such cuts are always talked about as if though they have factually happened. To my knowledge, I’ve never actually seen such a cut in the United Stat
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by abtinf 7y ago
The paper itself is locked behind a paywall. No mention of the methodology in either the linked article or the paper's abstract. No indication of the overall economic effects. This is non-knowledge.
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by abtinf 7y ago
My (limited) understanding is that the limit is only applicable to movement through space. The expansion of the universe is not bound by the limit, as it is expansion of space itself. Thus it seems incorrect to talk about a “universal speed
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In the US it’s not mandatory, and most supermarkets do it anyway.
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That is like saying a grocery store that prohibits customers without shirts and shoes is the same thing as the forced famines of communist regimes: they are both starving people.
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Only governments can censor; it is not a concept that applies to private parties. Cloudflare's decision to not continue a business relationship with someone is not censorship in any meaningful sense of the word.
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> Cloudflare is not a government... [we do not have] the political legitimacy to make determinations on what content is good and bad... Questions around content are real societal issues that need politically legitimate solutions. We will
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Note that glucose is only a proxy for the actual thing we want to control, which is insulin.
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The Big Bang is not the beginning of the universe.
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> You just grow them Is it really that simple?
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by abtinf 7y ago
Is this a serious comment? Have you really never heard of stage names? Or even bothered to look at any of their Wikipedia pages?

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