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by ebbv 9y ago
Workers in general do not hold shares of companies. It is a small minority of workers in the US who have shares of their company. The workers are who I'm concerned about, not the board members. The workers suffer from the current trend
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We added JSON LD to our site at work so that our results in Google would be richer. It's annoying always having to play catch up with whatever new toy Google decides to implement on their search engine which is for all practical purpos
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The idea that shareholders own the company and are therefore good, objective arbiters of CEO pay sounds good on paper but even the simplest of examinations of how this functions in reality should tell you what the problems are. First, the b
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by ebbv 9y ago
The author says they lost a week of their life to the Swift 3 renaming but wasn't there a utility that helped with that? I agree that Swift has seemed to been infected with the disease so many open source projects get; focusing on over
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by ebbv 9y ago
That doesn't mean it's not worth discussing. I could get hired to be the CEO of Ford and get a contract for a ton of money. But I'd do a poor job probably. It would be worth discussing afterward; how did this happen? Why are
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by ebbv 9y ago
All cryptocurrencies are ponzi schemes. The early adopters get richer because more people come into the market later. Eventually the increasing values due to more interest will have to stop, whether because people lose interest or because e
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by ebbv 9y ago
Privacy versus AI research is a false dichotomy. Apple has been very candid about how they are able to maintain privacy while using data responsibly. It's in the interest of Google, Facebook and others to get us to believe we have to g
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by ebbv 9y ago
More evidence today's Apple lacks vision. These products are niche. Some people love them I know. But look at the sales. They are not appealing to the mainstream. The future of digital assistants is not dedicated devices in every room
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by ebbv 9y ago
You're right, modeling the political effects is extremely complicated and I would agree almost impossible to do with any granularity. But we don't have to do that in order to know that the effects we can see happening are disastro
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by ebbv 9y ago
I'm not sure even where to begin here. First off, my referring you to make a search wasn't deferring an argument to Google, it was me not wanting to do research for you. Yes, you can find sources that say anything you want, but al
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by ebbv 9y ago
> Bangladesh's population is growing by 1-2% per year [1]. Isn't that just as bad as losing 1-2% of their land to sea level ever year? No, it isn't. First off, 1% of the population doesn't "consume" 1% of th
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by ebbv 9y ago
I used my wife who is an assistant, not a developer or engineer. Exactly what jobs that currently utilize a personal computer do you see being able to be move entirely to a smart phone? If you're so insistent they exist, please supply
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by ebbv 9y ago
Bangladesh is being eaten by the ocean. Other small islands are as well. Droughts and other natural disasters are becoming more severe. Greenland is melting and the arctic ice shelves are receding. There's tons of information out there
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by ebbv 9y ago
My wife is an assistant. She does a lot of her work on email. But not all of it. She can't do her job on her smartphone. Almost nobody can do their entire job through their smartphone, and that's not going to change. They are not
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by ebbv 9y ago
Is an ATM a personal computer? Is a laser printer a personal computer? Is a flight control system a personal computer? Not every device that is made out of a computer is a personal computer. In fact, most are not.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Being scared of AI wiping out the human race while dismissing the total disaster climate change has already started causing is pretty insane to me. It's like dismissing gangrene in your leg "We can just cut my leg off." while
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by ebbv 9y ago
Good column but this ongoing idea that the smartphone is the new personal computer is wrong. It's a different type of device. Smartphones are not replacing computers in terms of a device to get work done, other than email and phone cal
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by ebbv 9y ago
Except that we know climate change is happening and we're still nowhere near strong AI. Lots of people say it's around the corner but people have been singing that song since the 60's.
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If you work for any sizeable company they will require written resignation man.
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I don't feel like I need to explain his motive for posting on SE since the original story doesn't address it either (since he's already fired and seems to have given up. Why is he posting is still an open question even if you
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by ebbv 9y ago
You don't even need to poke specific holes in this story. It's an internet story, so if it smells like bullshit it probably is. Apply Occam's Razor to it. What's more likely; that some unknown person resigned on this g
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by ebbv 9y ago
It depends how drastic. You are talking about people risking their careers. We all have our own moral standards to live by. Maybe they justified it by saying all the other car companies are doing the same thing (and by the way there are som
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by ebbv 9y ago
I live just off a road that has long been popular with cyclists. I used to bike on it myself. But the towns it connects have grown a lot in the past 10 years and the car traffic on it has grown as well. Last year a woman on a bike was kille
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by ebbv 9y ago
Depends on how many long trips you will realistically take. With my Leaf we charge it at home 95% of the time or more. Even though there are free chargers available to us in our area, it's not worth using them. Charging at home happens
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Cognitive dissonance is when you hold two opposing viewpoints at once. Like if you think killing animals for food is wrong but you love eating steaks and plan to continue doing so. It does not mean choosing to ignore reality or being willfu
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by ebbv 9y ago
HN has a cool system where comments get up-voted if they are good or down-voted if they are bad. That really makes it easy to sort the good ones from the bad ones.
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Nope. It's just a specialized news feed. I don't make friends on here or really even talk to people most of the time. I only read informative comments, I rarely even note people's usernames.
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by ebbv 9y ago
I've become convinced all social media is detrimental to mental health. I've stopped using any of it and am feeling a lot better, with no real downsides. My Twitter account is the only one I haven't deleted yet only because I
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by ebbv 9y ago
This article claims our phones don't last any longer because of some fundamental science with Li-ion batteries. But that's horse crap. The 24KWh battery pack in my Leaf is Li-ion. My laptop has a bigger battery than my phone, also
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by ebbv 9y ago
You'd be surprised at how much the maintenance savings are. They could easily make up the difference in price of the car. Especially when you count the $7500 tax refund for getting an EV. It's not just oil changes but everything e

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