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by davidcbc 9y ago
That's not the iOS behavior. Toggling "off" just disconnects you from your current network, you will still connect to the next known network you come in contact with.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Micropayments and a fixed access fee are completely different models in my opinion. With micropayments you are making small payments for articles as you go and not paying a fixed fee, the problem with that is that you end up with click bait
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Why would they pay after they already read the article? If it is on the honor system people just aren't going to pay.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
How will the reader know that the article is worth something unless they pay?
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by davidcbc 9y ago
That would solve all the current problems because the internet as we know it would collapse overnight and the world economy would be devastated.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
People likely would use it. It's a HN account, not a bank account.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
TouchID had a much lower bar to clear, just be better than a pin or password. FaceID has to be at least as good as TouchID or it is a step back for the iPhone.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
> A survey of young people really disturbs me. Some 40% don't believe we should have the right to free speech. Do you have a link to this?
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by davidcbc 9y ago
> I want a world where even the deplorable are able to express their thoughts and feelings. Yes, but we (speaking as a person, not a representative of any company) don't have to supply them with a platform to spread their hate and w
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Not really, the 7 is waterproof up to 30 minutes in 1m of water. I shower with mine all the time and have taken it into a pool and it has worked great.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
The iPhone 7 was IP67, no clue if the 8/X will be higher
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by davidcbc 9y ago
I agree that this is sloppy reporting. Amazon said they want metropolitan areas that have a million people, not necessarily cities with a million.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
The quote is "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Their plan for profitability so far has been "invent a ground breaking technology that will change the world before we run out of money in a couple years". That sounds more like delusions of grandeur than unstoppable juggernaut. H
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Unless a competent CEO comes along with a plan that is better than betting the companies existence on solving autonomous vehicles in the next two years they are going to run out of money either way. If Uber wants to be a player in autonomou
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Humans are pretty bad at driving though, so I'm not sure that basing self driving technology on us is a good idea.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
I'd rather not drive but if my choices are driving or staring out the window with nothing to do I'd rather just drive to help pass the time. Safety is a factor, but it isn't the only factor. I'd be incredibly safe sittin
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by davidcbc 9y ago
That's a pretty unreasonable desire. Technology changes so much in 10 years that it wouldn't be feasible to support a generation of phones for that long. 10 years ago was the original iPhone. How much of a money sink would it have
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by davidcbc 9y ago
First Uber has to survive for the next 5-10 years until autonomous vehicles become practical at the scale required for them to replace their drivers.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Betting the house on perfecting driverless cars before they run out of money has always been a fools errand. If Uber is lucky Immelt will find another path to profitability.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Unless you can come up with a scenario where all minorities line up to get on airplanes willingly that aren't accomplishing their goal without massive amounts of violence. They know this, which is why they are heavily armed. Whether th
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Nazis aren't (and shouldn't be) a protected class in the United States.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
They were calling for America to be a whites only homeland. You don't get from here to there without murdering lots of minorities
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Can you give examples of BLM killing people? I'm not aware of any.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
His claim was that "lowering the bar" was hurting Google, not that Google should "lower the bar" further by expanding those policies. Using the term "lower the bar" has negative connotations and he is using it
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by davidcbc 9y ago
> Nobody has the right to be offended by facts. What are the "facts"? He doesn't back up his claim with any data at all. Where is his supporting data that Google's hiring practices in regards to minorities hurts Googl
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by davidcbc 9y ago
It is under the section talking about the harm to Google. How is decreasing the rate at which qualified candidates are rejected harmful? He is saying that this is harmful to Google, so he is saying it shouldn't be done, so he is saying
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by davidcbc 9y ago
No matter what qualifiers he tries to put on it, saying the bar is being lowered implies there are people at Google that he thinks do not deserve to be there.
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by davidcbc 9y ago
He claimed that Google's diversity policy lowered the bar for hiring, how can you read that and not think he was claiming that a portion of his female/minority coworkers were underqualified for their jobs?
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by davidcbc 9y ago
Autism and introversion are not the same thing

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