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by ballenf 6y ago
Ads on Prime on kids content is especially frustrating. My biggest goal with kids is to help them with their focus and limit exposure to "infinity pools" of content. It's not that I have a problem with the content of the ad
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by ballenf 6y ago
I don't know. I've been that guy, except I didn't whine about it in a blog post. I didn't know anyone who knew these things and didn't know how to find answers. Naive web searches were surprisingly hard to parse.
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by ballenf 6y ago
Yes, and people have to right to tell random strangers to fuck off and give kids the middle finger. Doesn't mean we can't try to talk someone out of doing that or discuss how such behavior makes society slightly worse.
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by ballenf 6y ago
They also lost my trust when they sold our small team on a particular plan and then pulled all the valuable features out of that plan and raised prices 50% (or 100% if we wanted most of the features back). The messaging around that was al
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by ballenf 6y ago
You see it here on HN all the time. An inflammatory post gets scolded/graciously questioned and the person retracts/apologizes/softens. Not every time, but a lot. But HN might be unique in that regard? Or maybe there's j
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by ballenf 6y ago
I just see listening for a trigger word as surveillance. Your (and your guests) every word is analyzed and at least temporarily saved somewhere outside your control.
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by ballenf 6y ago
> humans have a hard time comprehending large numbers ... the difference between no one dying and one person dying is quite large, but the difference between the 100th and 101st death is far less impactful. I think this data illustrates
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by ballenf 6y ago
I prefer the current option to hit the '-' to collapse threads when I'm done with them and not having any more click/touch targets on screen. It seems like the collapsing is remembered while logged in across devices and
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by ballenf 6y ago
If it’s 100% accurate 49 out 100 times and 50% accurate for the rest, the net is more like 75% accurate. Right?
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by ballenf 6y ago
And hand writing post it notes is the same as owning a newspaper?
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by ballenf 6y ago
I think the issue is one of the consumer's intent: are you buying a phone with a bunch of extra capabilities or a microphone hooked to a data center around the world? And that explicit decision is what is jarring to people who value pr
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by ballenf 6y ago
Thanks that makes total sense. And a good rule of thumb for me to remember.
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by ballenf 6y ago
A second-hand Mac mini is an alternative that I've used for network Time Machine backup targets. Can also turn on caching iCloud/App Store/system updates for your home, if bandwidth is metered and/or slower than your loc
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by ballenf 6y ago
Sorry for the snark, but Douglas Adams also demonstrated this: the earth as a super-intelligent computing device ended up getting a piece of itself onto a passing space ship, avoiding complete destruction. I just like the idea of thinking a
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by ballenf 6y ago
Why wouldn't the <enter> key interrupt or freeze the keypress queue? I don't think you need some advanced async logic to get this right. The only potential downside would be if people expected to be able to cancel the <en
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by ballenf 6y ago
That was kind of the point of the article — the precedent once set is hard to limit to those with press offices. There was no argument with the particular action in this case.
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by ballenf 6y ago
If collecting, organizing huge data sets and creating good (or at least functional) UI for convenient access has zero value... that will be news to a bunch of people here. And also Netflix.
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by ballenf 6y ago
If you want to play with TCO in a node-type environment, the built-in JSC on MacOS is one option. It doesn't include system integration tools (file operations, etc.) and isn't suitable for production (at least not in any way I&#x2
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by ballenf 6y ago
Stabbing a bit in the dark, but maybe TI wants to prevent a competitor from being to say "we didn't steal anything from you, we got all this info from sites that you were perfectly happy to let continue to operate freely". Th
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by ballenf 6y ago
I ran across an extreme example of this recently trying to track down an old acquaintance: the website mylife dot com. There was a street address of the person but if I wanted their email address it was like 10 minutes of progress bars befo
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by ballenf 6y ago
Isn't is plausible, if not expected, that countries with different industries and economic structures would do differently with the exact same kind of lockdown plan? That is, a country that has a large WFH-capable population would feel
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by ballenf 6y ago
I had them in several houses over the years and don't think it was superseding technology that was the problem. Intercoms were: - kind of ugly and bulky - fixed in place - you needed to walk over to the panel and push a button to use;
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by ballenf 6y ago
If Amazon's research is correct that 250 companies were targeted, that indicates just as a matter of a scale there had to be significant resources behind the effort. I'd call that sophisticated even if just in terms of organizatio
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by ballenf 6y ago
Also, if the jar is glass (many natural PBs are) then 30 seconds or so in the microwave on first open makes it much, much easier to stir. It will be very runny until it cools and sightly hard to spread, but it will quickly cool on the bread
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by ballenf 6y ago
if you’re wondering why doctors don’t do this regularly, they can actually get into trouble with insurance companies if they have a policy of not collecting or forgiving copays. There have been a few very high profile lab companies that hav
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by ballenf 6y ago
Presumably meant for another front page story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25656827 (Simulating Terminator PIN code hacking scene)
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by ballenf 6y ago
So GH has effectively given admin-level repo DELETE permissions to everyone in the organization. Not sure they really thought this one through. Here comes a new employee onboarding document to sign: no Iranian VPN nor travel to Iran.
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by ballenf 6y ago
This is not tricky in the slightest. All the points you make are distractions from the central concept of what people understand purchasing something to mean. The computers these people played on with auto-updates disabled, would continue t
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by ballenf 6y ago
So far it doesn’t look like there’s even too strong of a pattern establishing the link between the account suspensions. Even if there was a link just because the app is accessible doesn’t mean Reddit can’t ban it. If the Reddit website isn’
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by ballenf 6y ago
Vegas is just a big adult theme park. The giant pirate ship is not seaworthy.

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