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by bdrool 10y ago
You may not have had a problem (or at least not realized it), but plenty of other people commenting on this article have, and there is now a new article at the top of HN that shows how big the fake / counterfeit problem is getting: ht
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by bdrool 10y ago
Maybe they can't, but that won't stop the people who benefit from high rents[1] from trying! [1] (And the people they have somehow brainwashed into being on backing them up, despite it being against their best interests.)
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by bdrool 10y ago
I've stopped using Amazon for: - Anything eaten - Anything that consumes or stores power (too much fire risk) - Anything worn on the body (even socks) And now, based on this article, it appears I'll have to stop using t
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by bdrool 10y ago
I wonder how the quality compares with MozJPEG?
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by bdrool 10y ago
For reference: - Snapchat is now worth nearly 10x Facebook's acquisition offer from 2013 - Snapchat is also worth ~1/14th of Facebook's worth - Snapchat is also worth somewhere in the range of 2-3x Twitter
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by bdrool 10y ago
> says in its prospectus that it has no plans to make money and maybe never will Assuming you are talking about this sentence from the "risk factors" section of their S-1: > We have incurred operating losses in the past, exp
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by bdrool 10y ago
For reference: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531381/bio
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by bdrool 10y ago
This is the end of innovation on the internet, and the beginning of a few large, highly-entrenched incumbents with high barriers to entry. Unless your application is unusually low-bandwidth, you won't be able to compete, and that'
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by bdrool 10y ago
Aside from a throwaway line about a possible "macroeconomic meltdown", there seems to be little attention paid to big signs of an overall negative trend in tech jobs: * "Bay Area: Tech job growth has rapidly decelerated"
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by bdrool 10y ago
> "It is no discredit to Walt Whitman that he wrote Leaves of Grass, only that he did not burn it afterwards." Damn.
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by bdrool 10y ago
Slight correction: it was called the "nanokernel".
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by bdrool 10y ago
Too bad Dart has fallen so far out of fashion.
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by bdrool 10y ago
The US is so polarized now that no one looks at an action's merits any more, just whether or not the red team or the blue team did it, and then they either express maximum outrage (always maximum, never anything less), or do mental bac
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by bdrool 10y ago
Yes, but since everyone is super-polarized these days and only listens to "news" outlets pushing narratives they already agree with, that means no one hears it who needs to. It's very hard to get a story to get widespread att
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by bdrool 10y ago
I have never seen a claim from anyone who wants to block new housing that actually stood up to the slightest scrutiny. There is only ever one reason why people take this position: homeowners in California are hopelessly hooked on the Free M
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by bdrool 10y ago
I am sorry to hear you experienced that. For those who doubt it: yes "benevolent" sexism (or racism) is real, unfortunately. There are many ways it can manifest itself, but what it always boils down to is someone with the proverbi
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by bdrool 10y ago
I'm in tech because I'm an idealist and believe very seriously that, done right, technology can change people's lives for the better. For the record, I don't think I could be convinced work at Uber.
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by bdrool 10y ago
What service do you use to rent it out?
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by bdrool 10y ago
> Heck, why have driveways? My point is that millions of them already exist, with a distributed network of roads leading to them, as well as storage (garages). It would be costly to suddenly rip all those up.
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by bdrool 10y ago
> Also: Private car ownership is going to fall off a cliff shortly after autonomous ride services arrive. Which probably means general demand for vehicles will fall off a cliff. Or, if everyone has a self-driving car of their own (or one
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by bdrool 10y ago
I've been on Metafilter for a long time (since the early 2000s -- edit : longer than that, as I just recalled discussing the 2000 US presidential election on there, so it's been quite a while it seems). It was and still is miles
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by bdrool 10y ago
Well said. As far as I could see the whole thing was a huge scandal and black eye on the scientific community. The way Robert Park of the American Physical Society acted was particularly bad (he outright accused scientists of fraud without
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by bdrool 10y ago
> Click the Like button on a Page that challenges your beliefs, interact with that information and you'll see more of it. Yeah ... not gonna happen. I already use private browsing windows to read anything even remotely controversial
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by bdrool 10y ago
> As in research projects, which this project expressly states that it is? This is from comma.ai, who famously tested on public roads with a reporter in the car and very little prior testing ("the first time it worked was this morni
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by bdrool 10y ago
> The truth is, if as a continent we are to point at individual world leaders who did the most for African nations, Fidel Castro is very high up that list, if not at the top. Many don't know this, but George W. Bush had quite an imp
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by bdrool 10y ago
Can people please be honest and say "trendy" instead of "modern" if that's what they actually mean?
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by bdrool 10y ago
Or he'll do the opposite, as in he'll shoot his mouth off so often people will give up trying to hold him accountable, making him an unpredictable wild card that can pretty much do anything he wants. (In fact I'd say he cross
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by bdrool 10y ago
This event and Brexit are proof that you cannot shame people into voting how you want. Calling them bigots over and over just galvanizes them if anything.
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by bdrool 10y ago
This, obviously: https://youtu.be/E7Or2M7XUb4 https://github.com/avatsaev/touchbar_nyancat
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by bdrool 10y ago
People have been playing a lot of political football with this story. I saw a Facebook post making the rounds saying that this cancellation proves once again that women tolerate pain better than men. And these women sharing the story and ha

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