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by adevine 11y ago
Wow, on the order of 10 million dead - half the population. That's Hitler-level genocide right there.
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by adevine 11y ago
They have wholly to do with the health benefit pre-funding mandate (mentioned briefly in the article) which amounts to about $5.6 billion a year.
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by adevine 11y ago
Regardless of how it is accomplished, I use Twilight for Android, and I love it, and it is the number one reason I can't go back to using iOS. It has made a HUGE impact on reducing my insomnia, and I will not look at any screen without
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by adevine 11y ago
That's only an incentive for developers if they individually are writing the code for both platforms. Many (most?) shops where an app is the main product (or a very important piece of the main product) have separate iOS and Android dev
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by adevine 11y ago
This is not just an issue with housing. Virtually EVERY product is built with less long-term quality. I collect antique espresso machines. Some of these are highly sought after because they use big, heavy, high quality components: big brass
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by adevine 11y ago
The fact that flutter exists doesn't really change my view that I don't believe that Google is pushing it. Flutter to me seems much more of a "Hey, let's get some brilliant people at Google on a fun, hard project" t
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by adevine 11y ago
I think that essentially their pitch was that they would become the development platform for building apps. If they had considerably grown the number of apps on their platform, and gotten lots of positive developer buzz, they would have e
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by adevine 11y ago
The problem with this circular logic is that it is an EXACT symptom of what happened in the housing bubble "Bubbles can only happen when people believe the price will only ever go up. Look, there are a bunch of people saying housing pr
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by adevine 11y ago
Yes, it is much more efficient. It takes a lot more energy to transition water from gas to liquid state (energy which is mostly wasted when the water vapor is converted back to liquid) than is needed just to work against osmotic pressure.
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by adevine 11y ago
Perhaps, but the beginning of the article reeks of him thinking he's somehow "too good" for prison, and that his transgression was just a temporary moral weakness. While I'm glad he's bringing attention to the trage
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by adevine 11y ago
But a very, very large percentage of the time the reason that conflicts happen in the first place is that one of the devices was offline at the time of an edit. So to say the solution is "tough, you just won't be able to save anyw
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by adevine 11y ago
Agreed. I don't understand this at all. The whole point of syncing was that it got around all the inherent limitations of requiring an always-on network connection in a client-server architecture. And now somehow going back to requirin
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by adevine 11y ago
There are plenty of countries in the world that prevent stores from opening on specific days or times, and it's not exactly like these countries are backward cesspools of government oppression.
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by adevine 11y ago
> Want me as CEO of GroupOn or Yahoo? Damned straight you're giving me a severance package whether I screw up or not, otherwise I'm taking a less risky job. Why? Tons of employees take on this risk when joining a startup, and t
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by adevine 11y ago
As an American, it confuses the heck out of me, too. I sometimes think of the "retail ruining of Thanksgiving" as a pretty good argument against libertarianism. That is, if government mandated that stores can't open on Thanks
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by adevine 11y ago
And your answers are fundamentally why >2 person marriage isn't coming anytime soon. All of these solutions are basically break the entire slew of existing financial setups around marriage. Do you think a company would be willing to
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by adevine 11y ago
I think this is wrong. As Dan Savage pointed out, heterosexuals had ALREADY changed marriage long before the gays came along. Forgive the bluntness, but marriage used to basically be a property transaction where a woman was transferred from
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by adevine 11y ago
Which is impossible with any app of reasonable size that uses third party SDKs (which are often required for business reasons). Apple didn't catch it, how can we expect hundreds of small developers to catch it?
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by adevine 11y ago
> Parrish is so enthusiastic about her work it is contagious. Showmanship is not how we should evaluate clinical therapies.
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by adevine 11y ago
But the forecasts given in the article most certainly could support that 9 billion valuation (i.e. 2.8 billion in revenue in 2018). Looking at the 90 million run rate is pretty meaningless given that Pinterest only relatively recently start
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by adevine 11y ago
It would probably be trivial to pre-process the text with the script if you wanted to - at the end of the day it has to just be outputting DOM elements. I for one love that it doesn't require a preprocessing step, because it means that
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by adevine 11y ago
Interestingly, I've read an article that explains why it's easy to make a great cup of coffee in Denver. The boiling point of water in Denver is 202, so you can add coffee to boiling water and it's right at the right temp (so
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by adevine 11y ago
Meh. I live in Austin, and I have yet to find a shop that makes espresso drinks as well as I do (at least to my taste). Don't get me wrong, Austin has some great shops. However, I feel like there was such a strong move away from the &q
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by adevine 11y ago
Yeah, I was and 23andMe customer before the ban, and I loved the data it provided. In particular, I thought 23andMe did an excellent job of describing the statistics behind genetics in layperson terms (that is, it wasn't "you&#x27
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by adevine 11y ago
I had a similar experience. I don't understand how people find use out of Nextdoor - the signal to noise ratio (where "noise" is borderline crazy people) is just way too low. When I used it, I was instantly reminded of that F
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by adevine 11y ago
But I'd argue that the "jargon" version is more precise in most cases. I mean, to me, roadmap means a very specific thing about lining up high-level features with milestones, while plan and strategy mean something more generi
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by adevine 11y ago
Did you read his followup email? He said they called but he did not pick up. Whenever you have a large layoff, it is fairly standard to lock accounts immediately.
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by adevine 11y ago
While they may be jargon, they're not meaningless. I mean, roadmap? Is there anyone who has worked at a tech company that doesn't know what a roadmap is, and why it's important? Is there anyone who doesn't know that nimb
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by adevine 11y ago
He said he would give it to you straight, not ELI5. They are focusing on fewer things that they believe are the most valuable, and stopping stuff that isn't core to their purpose. What about this is confusing to you?
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by adevine 11y ago
No one is advocating punching anyone in the face. The journalist is essentially advocating public shaming, i.e. "Hey, look at this asshole who dumped the whole complimentary bowl of lollipops in their bag." I find the Hacker news

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