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by ebbv 9y ago
The comment I was replying to was saying we need to replace banks with crypto. The user hostility is one reason why that's nowhere near happening.
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by ebbv 9y ago
You realize the user hostile nature of basically all crypto currencies is not a feature right?
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by ebbv 9y ago
I didn't equivocate them, I listed them both individually. Didn't seem like a hard sentence to parse to me?
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by ebbv 9y ago
I'm supposed to feel bad for Peter Thiel? The guy is a billionaire. He can go wherever he wants and do whatever he wants. He thinks it's hard to be a conservative in California? Try being a liberal in most of the red state parts o
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by ebbv 9y ago
Are you for real? There’s major headlines about screw ups with crypto codebases and exchanges constantly.
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by ebbv 9y ago
This is truly nuts. We are living through some truly irrational craziness that makes the dot com bubble look like nothing. When this correction comes it’s gonna be really bad. Greed is not a good thing folks.
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by ebbv 9y ago
So HN has devolved to the point where people are defending the actions of people in the textbook case of a speculative bubble. Yikes....
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by ebbv 9y ago
I would wager most programmers implementing AMP don’t feel they have a choice. Either they need to do it for SEO purposes or they need to do it because project managers say so it for SEO purposes. That’s kind of the whole reason AMP is bad.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Dude this discussion is an even worse waste of my time than that awful movie was. I gave you the obvious reasons why it gets roasted so badly by anyone who knows anything about movies, if you don't want to hear them or don't agree
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by ebbv 9y ago
The Ward/Jakoby thing was a really sad excuse for the same old buddy cop dynamic we've seen a thousand times, but done better in almost every other case. The "world building" was lazy and beyond boring; take a bunch of u
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by ebbv 9y ago
Is this for real? There is no justification. It’s theft plain and simple. Nothing has gotten me to turn on NoScript by default but if this becomes commonplace I will. I know the author is doing opt-in mining but that’s obviously going to be
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by ebbv 9y ago
It is one of the worst movies I have seen in years. I do not understand how anyone likes it. Literally nothing about it was good.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Bright was a truly horrendous movie. Everything about it was terrible. The writing was beyond bad, the performances were weak, even Will Smith was just a bad R-rated version of previous performances. One of the worst movies I have seen in a
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by ebbv 9y ago
Look how long Theranos was able to keep it up despite experts calling b.s. from basically day one.
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by ebbv 9y ago
The entire crypto coin world including BitCoin is totally awash in scams and heists. I know some devs like Rusty have the best of intentions and are true believers, but they are so vastly outnumbered it's not even funny. Being unregula
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by ebbv 9y ago
Yep I was a programmer at a university until 2002 when I had driven my own career into the ditch along with my personal life. I had to start over from a lower position after gathering my wits about me, and work my way back up. The hardest p
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by ebbv 9y ago
It’s the same thing that’s happening to VR and lots of other things that are getting hyped before the hard problems are solved. There’s been a serious epidemic in the last decade or so of mistaking solving the low hanging fruit for being “a
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by ebbv 9y ago
There might be reasons why it’s safer in Europe than the US. One example is locally the entire underground water supply west of Ann Arbor, MI was polluted by Gelman Chemicals illegally dumping over decades. Now that’s not a river, but there
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by ebbv 9y ago
For the same reason I’m not gonna spend my time writing a lengthy rebuff of psychic surgery. It’s total nonsense and we as a society have known that for decades, and even a cursory examination makes it obvious.
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by ebbv 9y ago
It’s not name calling. It’s calling it what it is. They promise extended life which they cannot deliver at all. They are just like an astrologist or psychic surgeon.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Again, I'd say, that it comes with an adapter and you can still use whatever headphones you want. So it's a non-issue IMHO.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Man the DAC in the phones was never that good anyway, so complaining about the sound quality of the earbuds is silly. Sure they don't sound as good as better headphones, but the iPhone comes with an adapter so you can still use whateve
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by ebbv 9y ago
Apple’s sales haven’t really been affected. From personal experience I don’t miss it on my iPhone. I’ve used the adapter maybe a dozen times in the year I have had the phone.
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by ebbv 9y ago
What is the point of this comment? To disparage the complainant? Who cares if he's a meth head and dead beat dad. It has no bearing on whether Uber, Lyft, etc. are acting within the law or not.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Yeah and you don't write your own app to do Uber or Lyft and you can't dump a passenger out on the sidewalk to pick up a better ride in the middle of it. These arguments are ridiculous.
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by ebbv 9y ago
Restaurants do have shifts but no it is not rare to get called on your day off if you’re a good server who is up for additional shifts and does a good job with them. Nor would it be crazy to get called to two at once because often times if
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by ebbv 9y ago
That totally depends on the people who manage those restaurants. And I would argue it’s a detail that has no real relevance.
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by ebbv 9y ago
This example is super flimsy. I could be a server who works shifts at two restaurants. They both call me the same morning with available shifts that day. I pick the one that usually gives better tips. I’m still an employee of both. Edit: Gu
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by ebbv 9y ago
> still get frustrated on OSX when I minimize a window and have to hunt around for it. Learn to use the dock? The taskbar on Win 95 was evolutionary rather than revolutionary, and the Dock from NeXT was one of the influences. Which is t
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by ebbv 9y ago
It's an obviously over simple answer to a complex issue. But fear can cloud our judgment, so try to think about things rationally and decide if it might be worth taking the leap on a case by case basis. That doesn't sound as catch

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