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by crusso 9y ago
Reasons I hate removal of the headphone jack on the iPhone: 1. Bluetooth headphones require extra charging. I'm always looking around for somewhere to plug in my phone AND my bluetooth headphones. And no, I don't want to b
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The great thing with Elixir in your toolbox is that you're prepared to write the quick mostly-static app or the full multi-server connection-processing behemoth. I just type "mix phoenix.new <project name>" and I have a
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by crusso 9y ago
Complaining about government as paternalistic intervenor ignores the right of people to shape government to work on their behalf, which is the reason they are instituted to begin with. Anigbrowl, I'm sure you and I are just going to
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On second thought, nevermind. I realized that I'm just wasting my Saturday here. Have a nice day.
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That the ban was libelous? I'm not a lawyer, but being extreme according to their own standards doesn't sound like something you could successfully sue for libel. I think that libel involves written statements that have objective
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by crusso 9y ago
You ignored the first part of my post where I said: post elsewhere rather than appealing to government authority. My last statement was suggesting a better idea in a free society than to try to bit-by-bit destroy that free society with yet
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by crusso 9y ago
paid for by their time and watching ads The ads pay for the content you watch at the time. It doesn't pay for your right to dictate the terms of their service in perpetuity. Thus, this whole line of thinking is a non-starter. Furt
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by crusso 9y ago
Appealing to government authority every time some business does something you don't like should make your list of "so flawed" solutions. 1. No one said it was, but it's their business. We live in a society that allows y
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It's a dismissal of the idea that we need to appeal to an authority to solve every problem we see without acknowledging that there are very real ways that the civil society can solve problems without the use of government force and the
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And, Government has right to break up monopolies Youtube is successful and even dominates the space, but is not a monopoly. There are other video hosting services that can be accessed by anyone. You can start your own if you think there
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And yet, without those private organizations and the free markets that allowed them to thrive - the whole notion of having all that is preserved online by them would be utterly unimaginable. The internet as we know it, capable of passing
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should be required by law If your videos don't pass the algorithm, post them somewhere else rather than reaching for the government hammer. Youtube/Google has every right to run their business of posting or denying video content
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Just because an abstraction isn't perfect or it can be misused doesn't mean that it can't also be vitally useful in many circumstances.
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"you could argue it infringes on the rights of the officers" Libertarians typically refer to the Non-Aggression Principle (NAP), where your right to swing your fist stops at my face. It would be hard to argue that filming the offi
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There's no slippery slope? ... and yet here we are discussing how the government creates rules for itself that are different than the rules for citizens. And I'm sure they would use the excuse that it's for the "common
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When individual liberty isn't your prime directive, slippery slope collective behaviors that trample over the rights of individuals are inevitable.
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by crusso 9y ago
If we could just get away from the notion that the President (and the rest of the Federal government for that matter) is "in charge" of anything beyond the explicitly enumerated powers in the Constitution - these political changeo
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I'm sure that machine learning will come into play at some point, but we aren't able to model complex organic molecules in order to understand or evaluate "healthy" on silicon. In order to use ML on actual organisms, you
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1315819/
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I think you're missing the point. I'm not looking to have a computer in RNA that rivals a even a 6502 in instructions per second. I'm not looking to play Doom on it. "Performance expectations" don't even app
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How long before you can buy an "RNAduino" kit online? You plug into your USB and launch the RNAduino IDE, import some receptor nucleotide patterns, some expression nucleotide patterns, type in a little glue code, hit "compile
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Agar.io cost me a lot of productive waking hours. I'm not sure if I should thank you or curse you.. :)
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If they have a patentable breakthrough, they would be able to restrict use of their discovery for the duration of their patent.
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by crusso 9y ago
After the last decade-plus of having car companies try to force you to buy their updated maps, I refuse to buy another car that doesn't include CarPlay support. I rented a car with CarPlay a couple of months ago and I was surprised at
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Getting independent information consists of going on GlassCeiling or Dice to look at industry salary surveys, googling, etc.... maybe even talking with some recruiters about going rates. Going out and getting a job offer is a step beyond th
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I see a lot of employer hostility on HN. While it's good to watch your back, the constant call to go in with guns blazing doesn't seem helpful to me. I know that personal relationships aren't exactly the same as business rel
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Has the boss brought someone in to replace you and said, "Okay, Coldtea, we found someone to replace you at your job. He's as good as you and he'll take a 10% cut in salary over what we pay you. Do you want to take a pay cu
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That's not true at all in my experience. Both as a manager to others, I've always tried to be loyal to employees who invested in the employer/employee relationship - and as an employee who benefitted from having an employer&
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Letting everyone know they'll immediately be shown the door if they dare request an increase would create a terrible culture The person to whom you're responding explicitly drew a distinction between discussing a raise with your

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