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by brlewis 6y ago
I'll be hard on HN here. The more generic discussion is barely relevant to the article. It's a prime example of people seeing an article title as a chance to say something they've already been thinking rather than a chance to
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Was that the hypothesis, or just the marketing? Obviously real names make it easier to integrate marketing data from disparate sources.
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Like everyone who has an account on HN, I'm aware that there are companies acquired by Google that no longer exist. But some -- Android, youtube, Nest, etc. -- still exist. What makes you think Fitbit will fall in the former category?
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> I am super happy with my Fitbit but given Google I assume it will be "sunset" within a year or two I work for Fitbit. I don't speak for Fitbit, but now that the deal is closed I can share my own opinions and ask my own q
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See the section "Don't have a mobile device available?" on https://www.fitbit.com/setup for desktop apps. Some functions, like sleep tracking, are too computationally intensive to do on a wrist computer.
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> Free speech is something provided by the government, not by private companies It is not provided by the government. Congress is prohibited from passing laws that abridge freedom of speech; Congress is not the fountain that free speec
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by brlewis 6y ago
Here is the most important paragraph in the article. Can anyone confirm or refute the part about Parler's TOS and moderation? It is true that one can find postings on Parler that explicitly advocate violence or are otherwise grotesque
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> I feel like we've all been a bit brainwashed by the government in our notion that "free speech" must have limits Convince me. I have a side project that's intended to foster free speech, but I disallow advocating ha
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That would be terrifying, but a squad of trained humans is still more terrifying. If you're worried about what a military is going to do, robots are mostly a distraction.
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Android? Termux will run it, even the Termux in the Play Store.
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This article is complementary. I particularly liked how it describes some other interesting rail trails around the world.
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Is it censorship to add a warning message? With limited exceptions, I'm against removal of speech as the verb "censor" is defined here: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/cen
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by brlewis 6y ago
It sounds like you're saying that since we can trust teenagers to get themselves home from school at all, it follows that we can also trust teenagers to get themselves to school from home on time. I don't think this logic works fo
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I'm very new to Termux and recently installed the Google Play version. If I install the F-Droid version will it have access to all storage, such that I could edit Dropbox files in emacs and have them automatically sync?
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I'm not sure about that. I feel like I get more upvotes from sarcasm and jokes than from insight. In this instance, I think it's because when people hear something dumb said seriously in real life, they're not going to readil
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by brlewis 6y ago
Absolutely. Keep 100% of the smoke inside your own home, and it's nobody's business except yours and your home mortgage company's.
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s/literally/theoretically/ When I'm looking to spend money to solve a problem, I search for a product or service to buy. I never, ever, ever search for a patent to license, because that's stepping into a legal minef
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I think the system was not designed so much for end products, but for industrial technology that produced end products.
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I don't know about 2021, but at some point we'll see fewer deaths. Lots of people who would otherwise have died in that future year are dying this year.
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We can expect the per-capita death rate to jump around by at most 1.2%, based on data since 1950. https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/deat...
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by brlewis 6y ago
> can also explain a lot of it as well What do you mean by "a lot"? There are statistics here if you want to dig in more: https://data.cdc.gov/NCHS/Weekly-counts-of-death-by-jurisdic...
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by brlewis 6y ago
It won't be refusing to look; it will be asserting speculation as fact, e.g. saying that the excess deaths are from increased domestic abuse and suicide because of the lockdown. EDIT: This is not in reference to comments here on HN. I
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Hazards are (1) user accidentally removing data they want when doing "clear browsing data", (2) Mobile Safari deleting data if you don't visit the site frequently enough and (3) unanticipated future changes to browsers that m
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What does "good success" mean in this context?
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I'm inferring that you, like me, are a longtime emacs user with some inertia. I used to not use daemon/emacsclient until it got annoying to have multiple emacs windows popping up, then I switched. Nothing to be impressed about it;
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Lumping all world lotteries together introduces a lot of handwaving, so let's start with what we know and work forward. According to the article, this event happened for South Africa Powerball, where 5 numbers are chosen out of 45, and
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That's different. The average "gambler" in the stock exchange comes out ahead.
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It's also arguably worse. It adds a conflict of interest that the "numbers game" never had. The same government that is responsible for providing an education that makes people resistant to the lottery has an interest in peop
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Maybe the quote I used was too long. I'll shorten it to just the part that shows it's more than a single case, and add caps to emphasize it was more than ONE exception. >>"so I guess these guys have just NEVER hung out
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> How come I know exactly where this essay is going? This is the question I've been thinking as I've checked back in on comments here a few times this morning. Why do so many people "know" that this essay is all about

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