che_shirecat

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by che_shirecat 8y ago
> the value you get from playing video games, or watching anime comes at a cost. Some people incur a huge cost, as they become addicted. you could say this about almost any activity in life. the fact that facebook adds nothing meaningf
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
You're obviously not the target market.
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
Why do they need https for a static page?
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
Apple? They clocked almost $10B in revenue from China in Q3 2018, close to 20% of total revenue.
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
quantity != virality. Christmas and Easter sermons are definitely not viral material. Plus, google is definitely not going to go out of their way to push Christian videos on people haha.
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
> And if anyone at Google is reading, you should try recommending these strategies for speeding up pages instead of pushing self-serving faux standards like AMP. That's hardly fair, Google has been advocating the same web optimizati
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
If I ever heard "What salary do you need to maintain a comfortable cost of living and what do you consider a fair salary given your experience and the job requirements?" I'd be walking straight out of the interview. That jus
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
It's interesting how whataboutism is called out in every thread about China but its somehow okay when the topic of interest is the Brits/French. Your two examples don't even hold water, the first one is a temporary exhibitio
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
The United States was land that was forcibly colonized by the British, French, Spanish, and Dutch. The original inhabitants are Native American people [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigenous_peoples_of_the_A
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
The right to free speech shouldn't supersede all other fundamental human rights. Why should we afford modern day nazis a platform to call for the extermination of jews, when they so obviously do not respect the right to life or freed
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
The alt-right playbook ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaPgDQkmqqM ) is a great summary of common experiences with this sort of cancer online. It's next to impossible to engage with these people for rational debate,
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
minor nitpick, but Apple (the publicly traded corporation) by definition does not own any shares outstanding and therefore would have none to sell. But yes, if 90% of Apple shareholders sold in a single day, something would be terribly wro
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
there's over 20 different types of "dollars"
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
1) it's part of the social contract. freedom of speech is relatively new phenomena, and the history of the US has shown both the upsides and downsides of that right. standing in a town square and criticizing the king/emperor&#x2
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
Most charitable explanation is that OP is just adding some color to their characterizations. Least charitable explanation is that subconciously or not OP perceives young "females" in positions of authority as being unfit for thei
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
Link to the web service? I'm very curious as to why you would be getting these letters
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
>his stupid uneducated bimbo of a wife that is most definitely not a fact, it is an opinion, namely your opinion. It's also a pointless and needlessly inflammatory insult that engenders no productive discussion. Would you say the
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
well they're definitely getting a comprehensive, free-of-charge penetration test now
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
Likewise users in the EU have an agreement with GPDR-compliant companies for control over their data.
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by che_shirecat 8y ago
So what's the point of your argument? Should we scrap GPDR because it isn't 100% effective in curbing personal data misuse? You could argue along similar lines that almost any law gives you a false sense of security - why do cop
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by che_shirecat 9y ago
Qualcomm/Broadcom was mostly just political grandstanding
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by che_shirecat 9y ago
Another aggregator. It could even be a clone (think Voat). It's a free market.
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by che_shirecat 9y ago
Youtube holds a pretty dominating market share of video sharing but there are 10+ other relatively large sites that you could host the content in question on. There's a difference between access and an audience - youtube shouldn'
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by che_shirecat 9y ago
Discord seems to be doing just fine. Nobody really gives a shit about product names.
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by che_shirecat 9y ago
novel uses of cryptocurrency will almost inevitably gain traction because of their worth, especially considering how hot the market is right now with whales willing to throw ETH/BTC at anything that has a tiny chance to moon. how woul
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by che_shirecat 9y ago
a "dark pattern" is a UI tactic that is very purposefully crafted to deceive or manipulate a user. confusing button styles as you describe them are just "bad practice," they aren't dark patterns until designers us
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by che_shirecat 9y ago
I don't normally think the default "he" as a singular gender-neutral pronoun is a big deal but in this case when describing the ideal of a CEO I would suggest that you use the singular "they" or "he/she&qu
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by che_shirecat 9y ago
What’s with HN’s weird obsession with China? Every other day it’s a new sensationalized headline about how China is somehow taking over AI, or startups, or the world. Is China just a easy catalyst for American insecurity or is there some
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by che_shirecat 9y ago
consistently mediocre? what are you trying to say?
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by che_shirecat 9y ago
Until this only-online "exchange" is "hacked" and suddenly you can't claim any BTC with their tokens anymore. Did you read the "counter-party risk" part of my comment?

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