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by dhimes 7y ago
Tech built their companies on the idea that they didn't need people-facing people. It shows in lousy customer support, click-away liability, and so on. In the early days Google had a press conference where one of the founders (Larry,
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by dhimes 7y ago
Google isn't moral, they don't see this fine as a mistake to be learned from. It's an operating expense. They won't change their tune unless it's more profitable to do so. This is exactly how Microsoft grew evil.
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by dhimes 7y ago
Agreed. I hear their Ad Words is tough to beat for those who make money that way.
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by dhimes 7y ago
It's not really trust. It's really that there is no alternative, and the laws are such that they have no accountability.
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by dhimes 7y ago
But if you can't modulate or demodulate gamma rays (which is anything above a certain frequency), you can't even see if they are transmitting information or not. Even radio waves modulated with spread spectrum techniques look lik
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by dhimes 7y ago
My suspicion is that they are communicating at frequencies we can't modulate/demodulate yet. Look how short of a time it took us to get from KHz to GHz. Since there's a trade-off in that the higher the frequency- the more d
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by dhimes 7y ago
Nah, it had nothing to do with PC. Back then, PC was about labels: "disabled" (they tried to get "differently enabled" to stick!) vs. "handicapped," "little people" vs. "midgets" and stuff
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by dhimes 7y ago
I love tiling WMs but I do have one gripe (and it's not the fault of the WMs): Every "about" window for every program should have the name of the binary in it so we can call it from the command line. Text editor? You hav
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by dhimes 7y ago
Agreed. And great link. The “your” seals it.
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by dhimes 7y ago
it's not "minions." Way way way back in the early days of the board we actually discussed what downvotes should mean. Argument 1 was that a vote should only indicate whether or not you thought a comment contributed to the
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by dhimes 7y ago
So if we're using the Nautical Almanac for navigation purposes,does it matter if we use NIST or Navy? Or is the synchronization very close? Also, where can I learn more? In the sailing community these questions come up, believe it or
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by dhimes 7y ago
I have an iphone 6 (not even 6s), with the original battery. The battery health says capacity is 96%. Maybe that's a poor estimate? There are some things that run down the battery at a fascinating pace, but that's a very recent
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by dhimes 7y ago
And when an ad pays well, publishers create content that will show that ad {rant: This- this right here- sums up my frustration with the evolution of the web. Getting ready to launch a new site, I looked around a bit at "SEO."
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by dhimes 7y ago
I don't understand how they can get away with this blatant idea-stealing. Isn't there something in the grant process that can punish them for misbehavior? If one team has a laboratory notebook showing they did the work, it seems
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by dhimes 7y ago
(All: the link is to a music video). At least warn us that we're clicking into something irrelevant and silly if we follow the link.
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by dhimes 7y ago
Even so, I'm not convinced that trust can be completely rebuilt. Maybe it varies with the person, even in human relationships.
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by dhimes 7y ago
So if I read a book for a day and stop at the 20% mark; then come back to it a month later and finish it, does the author then get 100%?
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by dhimes 7y ago
Also worth noting that in the case of Kindle Unlimited (Amazon's "Netflix for ebooks" program), authors get paid per page read. I don't like this anyway. If I buy a movie from Amazon Prime and only watch part of it, d
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by dhimes 7y ago
> Lesson #1: Test and trim keywords sets before hiring an agency to scale things This isn't how agencies work. You did the keyword research and testing yourself and then paid some one else to do it again. Unless I misunderstand yo
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by dhimes 7y ago
It's understandably naive. As I commented in another thread, many many years ago there were discussions here on HN on doing just this. Most of us agreed it was immoral behavior. These guys are endorsing it. The argument from the o
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by dhimes 7y ago
I was scrolling the comments here to see if this was being discussed. It's my biggest takeaway from the article. We had a discussion many many years ago on HN (maybe more than one) and the feeling among the startup devs (not all, min
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by dhimes 7y ago
And especially that world. “Literally” has also meant “figuratively” for over 150 years [ https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-lite... ] I used to argue the other way too, then one day on a whim I look
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by dhimes 7y ago
No, it was my try at humor: I almost crapped my pants when I thought it cost $52 a roll.
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by dhimes 7y ago
I almost had a spontaneous need for their product when I saw the price was $52; but then I clicked the image and discovered it was for 48 rolls.
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by dhimes 7y ago
Great explanation. Thank you. And, I got to look up "arrow notation." I had never heard of it.
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by dhimes 7y ago
So, in the limit it's not observably different from death? Then it's death.
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- Chrome on mobile automatically shares your location with your default search engine i.e. Google Holy fuck!
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TLDR: Copy what good leaders do.
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Hecht is an amazing author IMHO. Even his intro physics book is remarkable for introducing Emmy Noether at the outset of dynamics.
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by dhimes 7y ago
It would be so much easier to make the websites honor "do not track" settings in the browsers.

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