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chrstphrknwtn
9y ago
More people know what Ben & Jerry's ice-cream is than understand how a touchscreen works. What's your point?
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Well, your whole argument seems to be based on what ill-informed people will tolerate, not was is ethical. I agree marketing is intended to manipulate your thinking... or "market towards you". I suspect I have a different attitude
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9y ago
"A lot" of people also think the world is flat. Not really.
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9y ago
It's more to do with convenience. It was more convenient (and cheaper) to just get Napster / Limewire / Soul Seek / other p2p sharing app and download music than buy it online. In the beginning it was a tech-minded gro
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9y ago
Leaving aside "an average facebook user" (which is just an average person really), and weather they understand what decentralised means, I believe most people would care if they were aware of why the data is sold. If you said to
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chrstphrknwtn
9y ago
Maybe my question was too broad... I was curious about things that won't degrade... or will degrade on a time-scale of centuries. Like arranging atoms in a crystalline material or something.
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Ask HN: Permanent physical data storage?
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chrstphrknwtn
9y ago
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9y ago
Typefaces of this quality and scope come along all the time. I don't really understand how it's a big deal. Take Source {Sans, Serif, Code) Pro, by Paul D. Hunt for Adobe (also open source); it's arguably a better typeface fo
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chrstphrknwtn
9y ago
He says exactly that in the first 15 seconds of the video.
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chrstphrknwtn
9y ago
I 100% agree on the Touch ID point; storing a key in my mind is more secure than just requiring a part of body to be in some spatial relationship to the device. I'm surprised that people believe Touch/FaceID are secure in any real
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10y ago
The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Typographic_St...
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chrstphrknwtn
10y ago
This is true, but at the moment Firbase hosting only supports a single subdomain across all projects account wide... so it's not possible to have two projects on two subdomains.
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10y ago
I've been using it as my main browser since release. I've noticed two things: 1) With gifs, Safari TP will loop the first few frames (or whatever loads quickly) and loop that, whilst the remaining frames load, but then never updat
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K is the new l, yo. Git status, colour file size and rotting dates on *nix CLI.
(github.com)
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chrstphrknwtn
13y ago
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