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by easong 11y ago
Some company has to be first. Imagine you're an entrepreneur, and you've identified a heavily regulated industry full of sclerotic companies with connections to the regulators that serve large numbers of customers extremely poorly
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by easong 11y ago
We have a dysfunctional government that's clearly beholden to various powers, including ones whose business model relies on stupid laws not changing. (I'm not personally sure I would even call our government a plutocracy, since th
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by easong 11y ago
It's the easiest (not the best, IMO) way for companies to reach out to a broad market right now, because consumers as a whole haven't yet figured out that advertising is a negative quality signal and are currently terrible at cont
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by easong 11y ago
Actually, yes, all ads are irrelevant to me. I have never purchased an item from an ad, and cut out ads form my life as much as possible. I run multiple layers of software to block advertising on all my devices, refuse to use services/
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by easong 11y ago
The same NIMBYs that prevent new housing also prevent new public transit. Build both - whichever one comes first will speed the other along.
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by easong 11y ago
Antiviruses are useless and you probably shouldn't be using one in 2015. Run the ISO in a VM if you don't trust it. (I didn't downvote you.)
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by easong 11y ago
If any recent startups can say they're taking a go at changing the world, it's the guys trying to solve world hunger by engineering healthy food that can be mass-produced by genetically engineered algae in tanks.
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by easong 11y ago
Since I can't edit this comment any more, the quote from their CEO is wrong - it's actually based on a quote from the CEO of Soylent somebody from reddit changed. That's what I get for not checking...
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by easong 11y ago
The soylent forums have discussed this quite a lot in the past and people who seem to know what they're talking about have come to the conclusion that the levels are both nothing to worry about and also significantly under a lot of tra
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by easong 11y ago
It's actually not bad at all - I can't speak for the java side of things, but transitioning a couple random nodejs services to lambda took under ten minutes each, with most of that time being testing (my only complaint is that the
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by easong 11y ago
No, and ssllabs seems to think the cert is fine as well. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=blog.torproje...
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by easong 11y ago
An even easier test - give subjects the advice for a different person than the one they're writing to. If there's a similar success rate, then the personality advice is meaningless. Crystal does have a couple cool things going for
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by easong 11y ago
Sentiment analysis to avoid overt negativity or rudeness is a great idea. It might prevent people like me from commenting too often, and I could see some perennially-depressed Reddit/OkCupid users getting a useful heads up from it as w
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by easong 11y ago
I'm extremely skeptical that this works a fraction as well as it claims. Almost all of the information it provides is astrology-like well-meaning doublespeak that applies to everyone at one point or another. There's even a name fo
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by easong 11y ago
Is the source for the guide available anywhere? I like the ideas in this a lot, but I think that I would need to play around with a concrete project built in it in order to really grok the practical implications.
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by easong 12y ago
I don't much care about the width of the seats, but I've flown on a couple (relatively expensive) flights where I literally didn't have enough room for my knees in front of me and had to stand for the bulk of a transatlantic
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by easong 12y ago
Can we not put the apple symbol in the name of the watch, or at the very least not in article titles? It's really lame marketing and breaks on a lot of non-Apple devices.
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by easong 12y ago
Not necessarily. As a counterexample, people (many of whom are very creative and talented) put staggering amounts of time and dedication into playing and becoming skilled at video games for no reason other than personal entertainment. Video
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by easong 12y ago
My intent wasn't to refute your argument (I can't imagine engaging here would be a productive use of time for any party) - I was just adding a bit of context to the above comment. Cheers!
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by easong 12y ago
All of his comments are rants against women/minorities (including admitting not hiring a female programmer because her resume had too many mentions of "women") and complaints about google banning his adsense account for fraud
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by easong 12y ago
There are a lot of false positives, but if it buzzes and then lights up, it's probably time to turn. It's not ideal, but it's good enough when you don't have any other options.
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by easong 12y ago
I've used my Moto 360 on my motorcycle, on the highway, wearing it on my right wrist. It's not for use with gauntlet gloves, but really all you need to know is that you need to take the next exit - a wrist buzz and the screen ligh
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by easong 12y ago
Something like domain blocking? https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/disconnect-mobile-privacy/id... Full disclosure: I work for Disconnect.
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by easong 12y ago
You could always package the game as a node-webkit app.
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by easong 13y ago
HN punishes (punished?) the ranking of articles with those keywords very heavily.
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by easong 13y ago
Getting a tailor to custom-make your entire wardrobe is wayyy outside of the financial capabilities of almost everyone except the very very wealthy today. In the 40s one might as well have said that handheld calculators will never work - we
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by easong 13y ago
I was a big iPhone hater at the time. Still kind of am. 1. It was really, really expensive when it first came out - there was a several hundred dollar price drop before it really took off, IIRC. 2. I had a windows mobile (HTC TyTN II) which
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by easong 13y ago
There are tons of indie garages already, and you're way more likely to get a fair deal at them than the dealer - a mechanic who owns his own shop will quickly die if he does a bad job while a dealer that does a bad job will continue to
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by easong 13y ago
Googling for statistics about the profitability of rural car ownership seems to be a fruitless task, so I can only speak from the anecdotal experience of one who has spent most of their life 1. living in rural areas and 2. has worked for an
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by easong 13y ago
Great for them too, since buying a car from a dealership is one of the biggest scams the average family walks in to on a regular basis. This is especially true in poor rural areas where cars are non-optional - there's a reason that the

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