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by albedoa 8y ago
This is a really weird line to take. Obviously by "rather than fix" he means fix and demonstrate. Otherwise, why is is up to anyone but Amazon to prove that they have fixed the issues? You are misdirecting the burden.
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by albedoa 8y ago
> I'm sorry but has anybody who praises these quotes actually played poker? This kind of strategy would only work on complete fish. It'd be very quickly exploited by any pro or a decent amateur. Check out the buy-ins [1] of the
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by albedoa 8y ago
He did that all throughout the linked article too: "People do not rate the pain of losing $10 to be more intense than the pleasure of gaining $10." Okay. That's not loss aversion though. "People do not report their favor
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by albedoa 8y ago
Yes! I should have included that I am sure it is purposeful, but I am not sure that they considered the practical implications.
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by albedoa 8y ago
I drive a 2011 MINI Cooper S and have owned a 2007 and a 2003. Every generation has its share of wtf when it comes to dashboard switches. Take my biggest peeve, the blower switch on the 2011: If you press "increase" while at max b
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by albedoa 8y ago
The Milgram experiment did not involve a prison, real or otherwise.
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by albedoa 8y ago
Really brave of you to police comments like this. Not all heroes wear capes.
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by albedoa 8y ago
> So we're going to take something that's not really a standard to begin with (Markdown is about as dependent on the renderer as HTML) and add some code blocks? Hmm... It uses a specific renderer. The renderer adheres to a spec
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by albedoa 8y ago
The docket persists beyond the filing and can have records attached to it under seal by order. Nadya did not draw the equivalence you are correcting.
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by albedoa 8y ago
Yes, that last sentence threw me, as using a name for the rest of your life is a good indicator that it was recognized :D I changed my last name to my very different middle name, leaving me with no middle name (and thus no initial, alas!).
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by albedoa 9y ago
This is not the first article on the topic.
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by albedoa 9y ago
> who have achieved success through alternative routes (make up lines, t-shirts, YouTube channels) than the standard middle class millennial career path of "being born into the right family, liberal arts education... You bled throug
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by albedoa 9y ago
> Microsoft makes the most stable, easiest to use desktop OS > Windows still drives me nuts, has ads, gets stuck in tablet mode when I'm on a desktop, and has driver issues from time to time Stop, you're making this macOS us
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by albedoa 9y ago
There was a license field in package.json, but the author claims it was generated automatically and thus does not stand as an explicit license: https://github.com/wonderunit/storyboarder/blob/25a82cc20b01...
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by albedoa 9y ago
Yeah you really should not be spreading Abramson's rants. They're based on nothing and exist only to go viral: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2017/04/stop-listenin...
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by albedoa 9y ago
The word "alone" in "The population of Nigeria alone " implies that the conversation involves other countries. Are you sure you're not confused because the names are similar?
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by albedoa 9y ago
Then you are objecting to a strawman. "This experiment promises interesting results" is different from "I promise that this experiment will yield interesting results". As in, it's a completely different definition.
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by albedoa 9y ago
I believe this tweet implies that she still (as of that thread) had not written it up: https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/953713207205441536
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by albedoa 9y ago
Agreed, it's such a strange decision unless for some reason they requested but didn't receive the "crash into a wall" cockroach video. It's confusing others too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=
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by albedoa 9y ago
> No, that's not it. That has to be at least partially it for the rest of your comment to be right (which it is!). To say the atom was "held nearly motionless" is to say it moved a little during the exposure. It sent the l
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by albedoa 9y ago
This piece and its sources focus on the share of p2p and BitTorrent traffic as a percentage of the whole, which doesn't tell us anything about its absolute rise or decline. Of course its share is going to fall as other intensive types
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by albedoa 9y ago
Is this a side effect of customizations created by admins?: > Last commented: 1 year, 13 weeks ago > There are no comments yet on this issue. Maybe a large part of the hate is genuinely about the default configuration and UX.
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by albedoa 9y ago
It is not 99% solved by that assumption because if those are the properties used to detect visibility then they will not be the methods used to avoid detection.
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by albedoa 9y ago
If the TV is $500 retail, why are you out $1,000 if it breaks?
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by albedoa 9y ago
The parent is demonstrating the complexity of the problem, not providing a comprehensive list of tests. It wouldn't be a problem if we knew the list.
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by albedoa 9y ago
Not most, but it might be closer than you think: https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/whoseheritage_... [PDF] (Pages 12–13)
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by albedoa 9y ago
The point is not to make up reasons to use phones in class but rather to identify opportunities to teach students responsible use of phones, which will exist outside of class and well into the future.
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by albedoa 9y ago
Why are you assuming that we are not reading the documents? In the initial September 3, 2014 email where Järlström says he is doing related work, he specifies that his engineering degree is Swedish and that his expertise is in motional feed
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by albedoa 9y ago
A lot of this is covered in the discussion you allude to (where you have the top comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14197512 Kiuper's sibling comment in this thread sums it up nicely as far as I can tell.
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by albedoa 9y ago
> IMO stripes design is not the important part, for me it’s the code snippets that are right there on the landing page. This blog post focused on the visual design, but you're right that design is so much more, and Stripe understand

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