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by adt2bt 7y ago
On the flip side, I have a hard time imagining how a homeless drug addict will be able to kick drugs while on the street and then somehow find a house and then become a 'meaningful' member of society without support. They basicall
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by adt2bt 7y ago
It’s ridiculous to expect him to add an opportunity cost to a concrete cost in this example. They’re different units, even if they can be expressed nominally in dollars. He described both in their own terms, it doesn’t invalidate his claim.
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by adt2bt 7y ago
You’re correct, the transactional part is true, but MasterCard is following a relatively basic process: 1. Authenticate the transaction (is this ‘uber’ Company ok and is it reasonable this user is using it for fraud detection) 2. Check that
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by adt2bt 7y ago
I don’t think added complexity is a ‘feature’ us front end devs strive for. Instead, there are a lot of useful UX abstractions that are increasingly expected by users and are becoming extraordinarily tricky to roll on your own. Yeah there’s
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by adt2bt 7y ago
What would an application platform look like that isn’t a ‘document’ delivery platform? In my opinion, the ability of your browser to be essentially the OS of the web was responsible for the second great explosion in usefulness of computers
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by adt2bt 7y ago
I'm with you, because I've walked to work right through 3rd and pike/pine and 2nd for ~5 years now every day and, yeah, it's not ideal, but I also don't live out this post-societal collapse fantasy in my head every
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by adt2bt 7y ago
Outside of the keyboard fiasco what else has Apple designed that’s so bad? I quite like Face ID, the latest gen iPad Pro, and even the new Mac mini, and Mac Pro. Sure the keyboards were bad, but like it or not Apple has a pretty obvious goa
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by adt2bt 7y ago
I love how this was quite literally just litigated yet you're here assuming the entire legal process for this case was a sham.
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I remember taking numerous vocabulary tests and quizzes in grade school where the definitions given were of the ‘modern’ type in this article. I wonder if the change in the dictionary was driven by a test based approach to learning the lang
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That doesn’t seem to be his point to me at all. Just because the definitions he is referencing are a century old, doesn’t mean he will suddenly start writing in an anachronistic manner. His point to me is the modern dictionary has lost a lo
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by adt2bt 8y ago
It takes a long time for housing to get built, or rather upzoned, bought out by a private developer, deconstructed and then rebuilt. It would have looked absolutely foolish 10 years ago to start the process of upzoning and building as much
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by adt2bt 8y ago
I didn't turn a 180. I laid out that housing supply cannot keep up with the rise in demand in my first two paragraphs, which leads to the conclusion that the rise in demand will result in a rise in prices.
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> By why does bidding have to happen in the first place? Because there isn't enough supply. If increase of supply matches increase of demand, the price doesn't go up. Housing isn't as easy to create as normal products. The
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by adt2bt 8y ago
I cannot imagine how you feel right now. I've only been inside once two years ago, and I am devastated to see this structure burn. Can you perhaps comment on what restoration work may have caused this?
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by adt2bt 8y ago
I didn’t see this one, but I did see a shuttle launch, and I gotta say his experience seems to be pretty much the same as mine was witnessing a shuttle launch.
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by adt2bt 8y ago
If I recall correctly, items are priced based on their rarity, which doesn’t change. So an uncommon thing is 800 vbucks (~$8) up to 2000 for a legendary item/skin. Imo the shop isn’t as much of a dark pattern. The game is just construc
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by adt2bt 8y ago
To some extent, that sense you have that 'they always seems to have some sort of short-term problem going on' could be driven by the unnatural level of media coverage Tesla receives. Perhaps my intuition is wrong, but I feel like
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by adt2bt 8y ago
> The even bigger difference is that those representatives then go and vote on far more issues than they did when the system was originally devised, which increases the dilution of individual voices, by bringing more important issues to
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by adt2bt 8y ago
What is with this comment on Hacker News? This is not appropriate. GP gave his experience with Blue Apron and you’re here picking fights about his marriage? I understand if you’re not a fan of Blue Apron, if so, try to stay on message.
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by adt2bt 8y ago
The irony isn’t lost on me, but it does not mean the article is wrong in some way because it is published by Buzzfeed News. If anything, I would be inclined to trust Buzzfeed’s expertise in garnering views, clicks and ad revenue from Facebo
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by adt2bt 8y ago
Hey thanks for writing this out. I’ve felt similarly about quite a few hacker news discussions lately. I worry that HN is turning into hot takes and gotchas and getting away from enthusiastic curiosity.
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by adt2bt 8y ago
They already are in it with Beats. [1] I imagine the engineering challenge of ANC with earpods is enormous. If they can shrink that down to AirPod size, that’d be one of the biggest technological marvels they’d accomplish. 1. https:/&
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by adt2bt 8y ago
What I do is put them back in the case real quick and open it near my iPhone. That seems to do the trick though it’s arguably not much better than going into Settings.
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by adt2bt 8y ago
In the spirit of Twitch Plays Pokemon, I created an interactive app that uses twitch chat to fill out a novel. It's set to pluck a word from the community every 30 seconds and append it to the novel. Happy to answer any questions about
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Show HN: Twitch Writes a Novel – a community created novel for NaNoWriMo(twitch.tv)
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I imagine Uber+Lyft don't consider their driver routing algorithm a significant barrier to entry to the self-driving car market. They likely expect the first company to come up with true self driving cars to start their own competitive
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by adt2bt 8y ago
So far, no issues. I’ve seen a few scattered reports of problems in the owners facebook group but it’s impossible to tell from that overall reliability. I can say their support has appeared to be top notch. The pan is insanely easy to clean
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by adt2bt 8y ago
I got one of the 2nd version June's as soon as they came out and I cannot recommend it enough. It makes so many things an absolute breeze. Salmon is surprisingly good, though the June does not get the skin crispy - if you like crispy s
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by adt2bt 8y ago
Op mentioned they’re from HK, it wasn’t a call out as much as a helpful tip to a (probably) not native English speaker. If anything, your comment was far less necessary and rude.
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by adt2bt 8y ago
That's pretty similar to what Microsoft does with its myriad Cafés on campus. The food seemed cheaper than a restaurant, as if they charge for labor + ingredients. You could only order there as an employee or guest of an employee, thou

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