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by deveac 12y ago
Screenshot: https://twitter.com/yurivictor/statuses/473978204852453376
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by deveac 12y ago
>Feminism was originally about equality (e.g. suffragettes for voting law, domestic violence law) but it has exceeded its mandate long ago and become primarily a tool to secure legal advantages for women. Again, that is not what femini
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by deveac 12y ago
>feminism is not about equality You could not be more incorrect. Equality is the very core of feminism. It is, in fact , the dictionary definition of it: >1. : the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sex
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by deveac 12y ago
How has the voice recognition in public spaces suited you over time? Based off my brief demo, it wasn't too great. I placed it at or just barely below the voice recognition on the Google Now & Siri app on my iPhone (neither of wh
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by deveac 12y ago
jxf is far more qualified to answer your question than I, but I did a quick write-up on Hubski from when Google took Glass on tour: http://hubski.com/pub?id=117777 That was just a quick, unvarnished reaction to putting Glas
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by deveac 13y ago
>When I worked for a small research firm, we basically wouldn't have employment discussions with anyone who had a non-compete even if it seemed unlikely their current employer would go to the mat over it. Just the existence of a no
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by deveac 13y ago
>The parties on both sides of the Rice/Dropbox debate have good arguments: Ms. Rice has been a very important representative of a US administration that caused a lot of people to die in Iraq and elsewhere;* I actually think this
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by deveac 13y ago
Agreed. As a cloud service provider, they seem to have forgotten or not cared about the fact that they aren't just selling space, they are selling trust.
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by deveac 13y ago
>It's not a question of denying people the right to be together, "Being together"? That isn't the right gay Americans are asking to have equal access to.
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by deveac 13y ago
>In 2008, Barack Obama and Brendan Eich both were against gay marriage...Barack Obama inexplicably remains, as of this writing, president of the United States of America, but Mr. Eich has just been forced out as CEO of Mozilla because o
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by deveac 13y ago
>Old smoke detectors had this feature. You just take the battery out. The feature was having the detector unknowingly disabled. A better analogy would be the batteries in your smoke detector running out.
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by deveac 13y ago
Apparently many Mozilla supporters seem to think it is okay to bully a qualified person out of his job only for his political views He was not qualified for his job. Mozilla is a non-profit organization founded on ideals. It has a social
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by deveac 13y ago
When you have to give your product away in order to help generate output from your developer community, that is an issue. The lack of hardware freebies at Apple = developer opportunity essentially. Your "gift" is a healthy vibrant
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by deveac 13y ago
Don't forget http://grooveshark.com Don't even need to restrict yourself to indie. I've got a Spotify Premium account that my wife sometimes hijacks to listen to at her business. Since you can only listen on one m
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by deveac 13y ago
As did I, quite some time ago. I found it did a poor job with rooms that had actual stuff in them, -particularly the corners. Seemed cool but I discarded it as an option even without an alternative. RoomScan has been making its way around
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by deveac 13y ago
Also, over-sharing to too broad an audience pollutes the feeds of those users with likely irrelevant info, making the entire property less appealing to those users. I don't think this has anything to do with altruism.
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by deveac 13y ago
>but if Google was the buyer, there would be much more positive comments here. I don't see a fundamental difference between the two. Both have the same model of scraping your data in order to further monetize their ad space. The b
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by deveac 13y ago
>Did you read to the end of the article? You know, to the part where the actual internal policy document is posted. If you had actually read that far you would have seen that this was in fact a "no cold call" agreement for eng
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by deveac 13y ago
>Students are NOT the consumers of the textbook industry, professors are. Exactly. Besides the conflicts of interest you mentioned, the actual contents of the texts are crafted for the benefit of the customers (the professors of course
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by deveac 13y ago
|A charge back doesn't immediately make the merchant eat the cost. The merchant has a chance to rebuttal the dispute (show proof of purchase and delivery &c). If the merchant did nothing wrong the card issuer eats the cost,| Absolu
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by deveac 13y ago
And cards like Amex can come with their own unconditional return policies that are more generous then those if the retailer you purchased from. There are a lot of pro-consumer reasons to use a card. That, the ability to execute chargebacks
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by deveac 13y ago
So use-case wise you think the implementation is on point, it just needs better execution it sounds like...
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by deveac 13y ago
Exactly. Too many news organizations eschew investigative reporting and instead lazily settle for "presenting both sides." And what if there are more than two sides? Well two is enough. It'll do. To even decide to report on a
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by deveac 13y ago
A relatively minor error in an extremely large body of quality reporting on an immensely important topic. On the balance The Guardian deserves many accolades for their reporting in this area.
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by deveac 13y ago
>I will watch how this plays out, but I suspect this will be my final HN comment. Might be a better idea to test the system and see how it affects your posts in actuality instead of relying on anecdotes from others though. Just a thoug
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by deveac 13y ago
I understand your point, but for a long time the tougher nut to crack for online forums has been quality, staying on topic, and not derailing the discussion by being uncivil or hostile. One of the nice things about HN is that users are rath
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by deveac 13y ago
Meh. Site has up and down votes as well, along with flags. This is just another effort to keep the crap level down and quality up. If you've got something to say, you can say it in a way that isn't inflammatory or low value. This
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by deveac 13y ago
The entire article read like a bad infomercial to me. Just. Bunch of anecdotes and unsubstantiated claims and promises.
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by deveac 13y ago
I'm curious what percentage of smart watch wearers, having sported one for a while, view their devices as essential to having them on their person every single day. Did the anticipated use cases map with reality? Execution-wise I see
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by deveac 13y ago
>The way I would account for human behavior is to intelligently disable certain functionality as the car is moving. Compared to someone else's life, how important is that text message? Thereby ensuring a situation where the person

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