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by apatters 8y ago
Yep that's a great point, maybe they are not communicating what the unique benefits of Lubuntu will be in the future, or maybe they don't actually know what they'll be. Right now Lubuntu's niche is really clear for me, i
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by apatters 8y ago
> our main focus is shifting from (providing a distribution for old hardware) to a (functional yet modular distribution focused on getting out of the way and letting users use their computer.) I like Lubuntu and often use it for low
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If the justification for becoming a multiplanetary civilization is that it will mitigate the threat of extremely infrequent catastrophes (as in, they happen once over the course of thousands or even millions of years), doesn't that sug
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Alcopops are a recent example of the alcohol industry finding a way to make their product more addictive (by adding sugar, another addictive substance).
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I couldn't even scroll to the end of the page on my phone. Why do idiots feel the need to take a perfectly good document and ruin it with buggy Javascript.
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I don't see why anyone should doubt your observations about the quality of your sleep over time. You've surely paid closer attention than they have, what with it being your sleep. Causality is harder to prove though. Was it really
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by apatters 8y ago
Congrats on shipping an MVP! In my humble opinion however Kanban and email are not a match. In fact for most people (definitely for me) I believe email is a very poor backend for a todo list. My reasoning is that your email inbox is somethi
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by apatters 8y ago
This is a very naive question, but is there some distance from the sun at which it would heat an object in space to a temperature that we would consider comfortable? I guess the obvious answer would be "the distance which the Earth is
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The pricing change is understandably very frustrating for users of Google Maps who are affected, but it seems like a big win to me for everyone in the mapping market. Google is trading away a monopoly position (and related regulatory risk)
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One thing to consider is that social networks are naturally unequal. They have hubs and connectors and edges. Which one are you? Which one is he? I think a hub will tend to have more shallow relationships because he has so many connections
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Ask HN: Are you happy with your newsreader?
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by apatters 8y ago
I think most people in Thailand do all of those things with tap water, but there may be exceptions in especially poor, isolated or rural areas. In Bangkok the debate has advanced to whether the water is actually drinkable now (in much of th
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by apatters 8y ago
If you're an investor the other advantage is that youth is cheap. The VC model is to fund a lot of sometimes wacky ideas, the founders live on ramen for a year or two and work out the kinks of the business model and code a prototype. Y
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Thais mostly drink bottled water, which is clean. They aren't drinking river water or something. Most of Thailand lacks drinkable tap water. Food hygiene standards are more lax than in the West though.
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Another fun thing is that you will learn a lot more about your customer base if you do the research and write those heuristics yourself, vs. having ML do them. A business that understands the behavior of its customers is much more competiti
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by apatters 8y ago
It's definitely not a universal scenario that the agency can produce 100% of the content for the client. Sure the content should be part of the planning and budgeting up front, and the agency should do as much of it as they can. But a
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It's quite remarkable really how tone deaf the product planning at Facebook has been. For centuries thousands of families have deemed it a wise decision to forbid politics as a discussion topic at the dinner table. Zuck jumps right in
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There's an alternative though, which is to do all of your fulltime recruiting in-house, and hire a software development agency instead of a recruiting agency to fill the gaps when you're short on employees. The model of the re
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by apatters 8y ago
You're cherrypicking one metric with a nonchalance that Facebook's investors surely do not share. FB is experiencing its slowest global user growth ever, and US users are declining. Popular/media criticism and boycotting actu
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Wouldn't it be more practical to just teach them to read and write? The model for getting out of poverty is well established at this point and literacy is an essential component. In fact I'd argue the stakes are pretty high becaus
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To answer this question accurately you have to look at it from the perspective of the person who has the authority to make the hires (e.g., C-level, VP, people with financial control). Aside from the multiplier effect of a good manager whic
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by apatters 8y ago
This is probably a sign that the situation is more complicated than it appears to be. I mean if they have hundreds or thousands of engineers, billions of dollars etc. they have surely considered these heuristics before, and there's pro
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by apatters 8y ago
That depends on your use case. If you live in a country where you could be prosecuted for making a DNS request to a politically sensitive website, yeah, you're probably better off trusting Google with your DNS history.
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Great comment, as a slight tangent this line stood out to me: > There is probably something else I have never heard of happening right now which is what a young person ought to be doing. The way you point out these special opportunities
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> The history of global regulations on the military application of useful military technologies is not too impressive. I don't think that's true at all. Since WWII we've been quite successful at reducing the use and prolif
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> Would you be OK if they helped other countries as well? That would depend on how closely that country's interests and values are aligned with my own. This is what arms export regulations are intended to address.
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I meant to imply that Americans (or citizens of any nation) have certain interests that not all humans share, but in general, we're a lot closer than we think.
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These are all highly opinionated statements, but: - If you're American, you should support Google developing technology for the US military. - If you're human, you should support a foreign policy that only considers military actio
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Your comment is not wrong but it's all problems and no solutions. If I was designing an engineering office I would not go open plan (or the open plan area would be small). But today we have a lot of open plan offices that inhibit produ
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The premise of the article is so ridiculous that I wonder if it's a false flag. "The 9.9," by and large, are not the ones who have subverted the basic American principles of democratic governance, free markets, and equal oppo

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