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by ecf 5y ago
Not only that, Apple-skeptics previously highlighted how including a cable that wasn’t able to connect to the latest Apple laptops was bad design. Just goes to show Apple is damned if they do and damned if they don’t.
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by ecf 5y ago
I leave my MacBook’s lid closed for a week and I can open it to maybe 5% battery drain. The article should explicitly state… > Under no circumstances should you leave a Windows laptop in any sleep/hibernate/standby mode when
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by ecf 5y ago
What I’m trying to say is that it doesn’t have to be this way. There are plenty of companies out there which ARE NOT like this, no matter how much you try to say that employers are not your friend. I feel you’ve been involved in some exploi
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by ecf 5y ago
> They owned the company, they paid their employees salaries - beyond that they owed them nothing unless otherwise negotiated. I’m sad to hear that is your experience. Perhaps find an employer who wouldn’t treat you like a slave if legal
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by ecf 5y ago
Sales + Marketing routinely have commission as well when it’s normally unheard of for devs to be included in profit sharing.
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by ecf 5y ago
I don’t know of a single A&W around where I live that isn’t an addon to a more popular chain like KFC. It almost seems like corporate wants it to be an afterthought in America with cheap vibes attached to the brand. Whatever their plan
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by ecf 5y ago
> the only valuable model that is interesting to big VC is exploitation and dark patterns The growing number of fintech startups accepted into YC this year that service Latin America and other ~~easily exploitable~~ underserved markets w
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by ecf 5y ago
My storage requirements are low and I’m currently using the 25gb or so of space that comes with the droplet. Unfortunately I can’t comment much on a Nextcloud setup with block storage.
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Show HN: CLI to download emojis from a directory of 47,000(github.com)
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by ecf 5y ago
You won’t regret setting it up. I was hesitant at first as well but three years later with zero-downtime and 100% auto-update success I can honestly say I’ve spent less than 30 minutes administering it. Currently have it running on DO with
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by ecf 5y ago
> It's nice to see that you don't have to be a monopolist to be legally barred from anti-competitive behaviour Can someone ELI5 why Apple is considered to be anti-competitive for not dedicating resources to assisting another bu
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by ecf 5y ago
This, my friends, is the thought process that allows Equifax-like breaches to happen. In the same way that a business doesn’t exist if the business can’t do business, someone’s identity might be safe if the business never existed in the fir
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by ecf 5y ago
> It said that religious establishments can’t be treated differently than similarly situated secular establishments. So can this be viewed as new precedent for removing the tax exemption of churches?
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by ecf 5y ago
You’d be surprised how much my father raves about simply having news shown to him when he opens up Edge. Nobody asked for this, but telemetry at MS shows these have extremely high engagement by the people who don’t immediately disable them.
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by ecf 5y ago
> Modern games though are clearly designed to get you as addicted as possible and to play as long as possible… The de-facto example of this nowadays is World of a Warcraft. For those unaware, WoW charges you $15 per month play, as well a
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by ecf 5y ago
Not a tough opinion, just a flawed one. > I’m glad they can’t get into college. I saw this sentiments a lot with the older workers I was surrounded by when my father put me to work doing manual labor for construction sites during my high
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by ecf 5y ago
Even 1% would result in West coast numbers increasing while statisticians from other areas can proclaim theirs are decreasing.
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by ecf 5y ago
I’ve witnessed more SF police doing traffic-duty at Embarcadero parking lots than anything I’ve seen related to crime.
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by ecf 5y ago
After working for a startup law firm, I am no longer surprised. Lawyers depend completely upon their younger paralegals for the most trivial of tech use cases.
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by ecf 5y ago
> had been declining for years in America yet increasing only on the west coast > That alone contradicts the premise Other states throw their homeless on busses bound for CA so they can have declining numbers while only the west is gr
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by ecf 5y ago
Are incarceration rates low because people behave or are they low because SF police don’t bother to arrest people?
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by ecf 5y ago
One of their seven main points explaining why they stick with Lenovo laptops “for Linux” is the red tracking nib. In my roughly decade of experience in IT, the only people who enjoy those are people who won’t ever use anything other than a
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by ecf 5y ago
As with most YC acceptees, most here have “for x country/demographic/race/gender” Is the best path to forming a startup these days to take an already existing product and market it to a very specific niche while taking invest
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by ecf 5y ago
> The pack of self awareness is astounding Could start with yourself but you’re using a throw away account so you obviously aren’t very confident in your opinions.
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by ecf 5y ago
Working on a little script that determines who the moderators are for the top X subreddits and auto bans all of them because /r/all is ruined for a couple days every single time these mods get uppity. I’m vaccinated, btw.
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by ecf 5y ago
> Maybe you need a better phone Maybe you need a better brain
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by ecf 5y ago
The comment I was replying to described the website as “perfect”, so I expect the website to be accessible. Quite frankly, it doesn’t matter where I decide to read it and on what device I decide to read it on. HN people praising 90s web des
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by ecf 5y ago
Really? I found it impossible to read on mobile.
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by ecf 5y ago
Half the comments aren’t remotely fun or interesting, just shitty variations of the same thing having to do with salary. I guess I went in expecting something else and left with another anecdote of why people find tech bros insufferable.
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by ecf 5y ago
The only thing you need to beat obesity is exercise and reduced caloric intake. The idea that entire companies can be started to wrap that fact in a neat little package for people makes me depressed. > It leads to an average 15% decrease

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