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by btmiller 5y ago
I’d also really like multi-stop navigation planning like Google Maps has. I’m planning on a cross-country road trip to see family for the holidays and I’d love if Apple could improve upon the multi-stop planning experience that Google threw
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by btmiller 5y ago
Sounds to me like the invisible hand of the free market economy. Use that phone, then. A given company is not obligated to serve all of your specific needs and desires.
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by btmiller 5y ago
This was only part of your comment, but I’m very happy with my Apple TV purchase (especially now with the “fixed” remote). The hardware has always been sufficiently fast which enables app devs to present the best version of their UIs. Thoug
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by btmiller 5y ago
In practice it really isn’t. The city sprawls endlessly with no mass transit, so you end up staying in your corner of the greater Houston area all the time, which is 90% suburbs with no walkability. Urban Houston is more diverse yes, but on
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by btmiller 5y ago
These flippant type of comments are not why people come to HN comments. Please be better.
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by btmiller 5y ago
Yeah the Twitter OP is wayyyy off base here. No one compels employees to merge accounts???? What the hell is this story even. This feels like someone with an axe to grind, and external readers are none-the-wiser to reality internally at App
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by btmiller 5y ago
I’m not sure I understand. I recently saved and strategized and worked hard to buy a not-cheap house in Seattle. Who said I was entitled to specifically what I worked hard to get? I’m very fortunate to have what I want, and by no means is i
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by btmiller 5y ago
Let me know if you’re ever in the Seattle area, happy to grab a beer any time :)
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by btmiller 5y ago
From the bottom of my heart: who cares. Stop glorifying celebrities. I’m not going to disparage their earned wealth like is so popular right now, but they are billionaires and we shouldn’t be looking to them to solve all the world’s problem
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by btmiller 5y ago
Here’s a good guide on how to go about this :) https://btmiller.com/2019/12/12/regain-control-over-your-inb...
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by btmiller 5y ago
My time to shine! https://btmiller.com/2019/12/12/regain-control-over-your-inb...
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by btmiller 6y ago
Full disclosure: I’m being pedantic. Are you suggesting Clubhouse doesn’t use cryptography? More seriously: cryptocurrencies don’t need to be shoved into everything, and I’d like if HN cryptocurrency warriors would stop assuming that it’s t
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by btmiller 6y ago
But it does make public bathrooms much more manageable.
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by btmiller 6y ago
Yup. It makes chasing the best storage deals an endless game of whack-a-mole.
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by btmiller 6y ago
I’m not sure which reality you live in where begging an individual on desktop to install more things is simple.
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by btmiller 6y ago
This is a dangerously bad take. Real progress is being made by this change and the assumptions you’re making risk taking wind out of its sails over essentially a non-issue.
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by btmiller 6y ago
Parler was explicitly unmoderated by choice and hate speech was its selling point. You’ll have a hard time finding a) a service provider willing to tolerate that and b) much public sympathy for the service promoting hate. Yet it called into
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by btmiller 6y ago
I just bought a PHEV from Volvo and I love it. It gives me the flexibility to roam around town on pure electric while also providing the range I need to go hiking in remote areas. A lot of the Seattle area only has street parking on residen
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by btmiller 6y ago
In a fit of irony, a comment I posted on a previous day referencing this paradox was removed as baiting and cliché. And I must say, I do support the removal of Parler, but here on HN having my thoughtful (at least to my perception) comment
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by btmiller 6y ago
Apologies, that wasn’t the intention but I take your point. It’s a difficult time in the US right now and it requires difficult decisions on the type of discussions that are useful.
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by btmiller 6y ago
I’m afraid absolute freedom is slightly overrated. You have to draw the line somewhere. I’m okay with where it’s been drawn today. It’s a “you’ll know it when you see it” thing. This isn’t authoritarianism, and we can still rightfully claim
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by btmiller 6y ago
Frankly yes. A tolerant society does not tolerate intolerance.
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by btmiller 6y ago
In terms of physical intrusion, a tremendous amount of security theater was exposed today. Quite astonishing how easily people were able to gain access.
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by btmiller 6y ago
Rare is not never.
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by btmiller 6y ago
That’s the wrong way to look at it. If HN struggles in certain situations then it is not right-sized. You don’t beg of users to walk an unintuitive happy path (i.e. logout when not commenting).
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by btmiller 6y ago
Hard to read that with a straight face. What counts is what people use.
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by btmiller 6y ago
Why can’t that insight be done offline?
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by btmiller 6y ago
I finally watched Hamilton the other day and the contrasting narratives of Hamilton and Burr offer a good comparison of how Facebook sets policy. Facebook has the choice to take either take their shot and speak their mind or to talk less an
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by btmiller 6y ago
The east side of the hurricane is typically the dirty part. The west side will be spared most of the destruction. But it’s only narrowly going to miss Houston. Beaumont, Port Arthur, and Lake Charles are in for a very, very terrible night.
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by btmiller 6y ago
Yep. Great segment from Jobs that seems to hold true today: https://youtu.be/39iKLwlUqBo

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