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by apatters 7y ago
The argument behind entertaining huge fines or damages in tort cases is that it acts as a deterrent against future violations of the law. If the damages were only $10K then Apple would have less incentive to create safe software and fix bug
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by apatters 7y ago
I miss the days when comments on Hacker News focused on hacking and startups instead of scoring Internet virtue points. Aside from this figure being totally irrelevant (billions of humans don't like and don't eat beef; the parent
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by apatters 7y ago
I'm guessing you only got one or two downvotes. That's enough to gray out a comment on HN. The threshold should be higher imo.
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by apatters 8y ago
For those of us who employ developers remotely and ask for a sane number of hours per week (usually 40), does this mean there's an opportunity to hire great developers from China who would like to have better work/life balance? Wh
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by apatters 8y ago
It's not worth my time. Signal-to-noise ratio is too poor. The guy can go talk out his anger issues with a therapist, and when he's done, if he wants to write out a succinct post that compares Mozilla's issues with those of t
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by apatters 8y ago
This seems reasonable and might be true, but they didn't study how often people exercise. They had study participants wear accelerometers and tracked their total physical activity during waking hours. What they found was that people wi
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by apatters 8y ago
Twitter and Facebook in 2019 are both dumpster fires, but they aren't the totality of social media. Before (and concurrent to) them we had Friendster, Myspace, Orkut, and a plethora of hybrid services that have social networking featur
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by apatters 8y ago
That's true for sure, but it's worth noting that Facebook's actual customers (advertisers) don't like it much either--many outright hate FB for its business practices.
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by apatters 8y ago
Is it really true that you can have all your food cooked for you and delivered to you at less than $432/mo in the US? I haven't lived there for a long time but that's only $14.40 per day which sounds like a pretty restrictive
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by apatters 8y ago
This is a really interesting thing to think about. If we pick on Facebook as an example, most people look at FB and see that it has 2.3 billion customers, then go on to assume it's an amazing and innovative company filled with great pe
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by apatters 8y ago
I don't have a citation for this, but I read something recently about a study where people who had been introduced to the concept of decision-making fatigue experienced it, while people who weren't aware of it didn't. The min
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by apatters 8y ago
With good planning and recipe selection this doesn't have to be true. Soups, stews, pasta, beans, chili etc. can all be cooked in bulk and frozen with no waste. They can incorporate leftover ingredients from other cooking and can be qu
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by apatters 8y ago
This is just another example of how crappy Google's customer sevice is. News flash, monopolies always have crappy customer service, duopolies and oligopolies are almost as bad. Phone OSes and app stores are a duopoly, Google and Apple
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by apatters 8y ago
It's really just another manifestation of the tendency techies have to get overexcited about novel tech. Which is hardly the worst vice in the world, but when you want to build something that will reliably make an impact at scale, you
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by apatters 8y ago
One thing I have thinking about recently is that there is a class of hostile behaviors which only seem to manifest online. This is the stuff that people usually don't have the balls to say in the real world -- only when they're sh
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by apatters 8y ago
I think the social fabric of the US is more complex than you're making it out to be. I'm an atheist with liberal Californian views on most social issues, but I also happen to be pro gun rights and grew up celebrating Christmas. It
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by apatters 8y ago
If I was ever diagnosed with cancer, I would fully expect to fight a hard battle which I might win or I might lose. Obviously the odds will be different depending on the type and stage of the cancer, but I don't believe for one second
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by apatters 8y ago
I commented on a different post a few days ago with my thoughts about why this is happening, in my opinion it is a problem that has evolved over several years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19111306 A Search Quality
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by apatters 8y ago
Thai people will say "Ow?!" to express confusion/surprise, so I guess it's not quite universal.
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by apatters 8y ago
Where do you find it?
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by apatters 8y ago
I use www.searx.me with Google, Bing and DDG results weighted, and in my opinion the results are flat out better than Google alone.
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by apatters 8y ago
The business world is vast and diverse so generalizations are tricky, but as an example, the combined profit and owner compensation on an owner-operated service business with a $1M annual turnover can be 25-30%. The VC model would put this
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by apatters 8y ago
The organic search results have also been tweaked over the years to put a greater emphasis on domain "authority." Google SERPs are a very different animal than they were 5 or 10 years ago -- back then there was a greater emphasis
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by apatters 8y ago
I was reading an article recently about managing small business growth. Not tech or startup related, just a good old fashioned blog post from an accountant who said hey you've started a business and it's growing, here are some thi
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by apatters 8y ago
Indeed, it's almost as if the laws were designed to defend liberty and hinder authoritarianism. As if even when authoritarianism sounds like a good idea, it is not...
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by apatters 8y ago
Can you elaborate on this?
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by apatters 8y ago
There's no one answer. There are plenty of work cultures where you would be considered the worst member of the team because you're not putting in the time. The classic example is how at many Asian companies nobody dares to leave t
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by apatters 8y ago
Ironically it's easier than ever to be informed, but harder than ever to maintain self-discipline and avoid consuming junk. The Media Bias Chart is a good tool for assessing the quality of sources: https://www.adfontesmedia.
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by apatters 8y ago
I don't think you can paint all smokers with the same brush but a lot of them seem to turn to the habit for the purpose of stress relief/escape and then they get hooked. The key point is the same: neither cohort benefits from bein
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by apatters 8y ago
This is a toxic and harmful attitude. There are genetic, dietary and fitness components to obesity. This is not disputed. At least one of these components is outside of the control of the individual. Others can be influenced. If someone is

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