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by eric_h 9y ago
> a meaningful, proper analysis would be appropriate Maybe you should just base it on what a given repetitive activity does to your life insurance premiums.
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by eric_h 9y ago
There's a very good chance you're correct, of course. I suppose my comment was just my general hopeful optimism coming out. Really, though, how does one actually "deprogram" someone with opinions like this? Can it actual
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by eric_h 9y ago
Honestly I think it's better than nothing. Discrimination like this is usually based on complete ignorance/lack of exposure to different cultures. A course on Asian cultures may actually have some effect of humanizing the asian pe
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by eric_h 9y ago
> The Phoenicians were unfamiliar with the animal and in turn had a hard time taking the religion seriously. Given how incredibly dangerous we know hippos to be now, I find this to be quite amusing. I guess they could look kinda cute in
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by eric_h 9y ago
Honestly I think higher ups in finance have more money to use to sweep it under the rug.
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by eric_h 9y ago
Absolutely. I actually started listening to discover weekly playlists without giving it any feedback and it started based on my previous trends and gradually drifted into the more main stream stuff. Once I realized I just needed to give its
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by eric_h 9y ago
I'd also add that ever since I figured this out I've wanted to invent an ebook reader that actually gave you a third dimension, multiple (say ~20) eink pages with perhaps an additional tactile slider on the binding as you progress
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by eric_h 9y ago
Personally I've found that the loss of one spatial dimension in the transition from paper to ebook actually makes the book less engaging and more difficult to retain details. I think (again, my personal experience) that reading while a
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by eric_h 9y ago
This is quite possibly the first post I have ever read on the internet that mentioned the RIAA with a positive tone. For others, here's a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization
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by eric_h 9y ago
Indeed, some friends of mine in college had an acrylic sphere that they left on a couch while they went to class. They came back to find the FDNY finishing up putting out the fire it caused.
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by eric_h 9y ago
I'm curious how much of that is actual infrastructure improvements and how much is ISPs increasingly prioritizing traffic to speedtest.net.
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by eric_h 9y ago
You are correct, "kind" is the subject of the sentence and the right conjugation would be "flourishes". You are also correct that it's a very common error that has generally just become acceptable.
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by eric_h 9y ago
> don't go to the casino to win money couldn't agree with this more - gambling is about the ride and the "free" drinks you get while you're playing - never bring more money than you can afford to lose. Craps is a
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by eric_h 9y ago
Likely it wasn't in the title when this poster posted it, 2 hours before you replied. It's common on HN for older stories to get posted and get upvoted to the front page, and commenters will make a note in the comments that it is
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by eric_h 9y ago
> there's 10x as much noise Honestly I think you're being extremely generous about how much signal there is in the noise. I think the decimal point needs to move at least two places to the right, but probably more like four.
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by eric_h 9y ago
> which is like calling up a casino for gambling addiction A random aside - the gambling addiction helpline in the US includes an item in the IVR for making reservations at a casino (I believe it's the first item mentioned), or at l
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by eric_h 9y ago
You can't purchase a laptop from apple with more than 16GB of RAM, and what you get is soldered to the motherboard anyway.
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by eric_h 9y ago
At the time silent truncation was an undocumented "feature", IIRC. I think I found a description of the issue buried on some forum somewhere.
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by eric_h 9y ago
> MySQL's silent data truncation is such a nuisance. Yes, yes it is - it burned me so badly (catastrophic, unrecoverable production data loss) in the early days of my career (~15 years ago as a junior level dev in a senior level rol
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by eric_h 9y ago
> It may sound obvious but don't forget that HN isn't one person. Honestly I think the total absence of avatars can make it quite easy to forget that HN isn't one person. "That person with their name in little grey le
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by eric_h 9y ago
> Where did that come from? Maybe because it makes your machine's fans sound like a race car? Honestly this is the first I've heard of this usage as well.
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by eric_h 9y ago
I think it's fair to say that both of our quoted descriptions are valid. Brave's advertising model is a bit different from the standard model for web advertising. Whether or not it'll work is a different story.
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by eric_h 9y ago
It's a "privacy first" browser. https://brave.com
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by eric_h 9y ago
It sort of follows the unix philosophy ;) It does one thing very, very well. It's literally a massive gun with wings attached.
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by eric_h 9y ago
I've not worked with Vuforia, but I can confirm "Unity being a garbage heap of bad UI and poorly documented processes"
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by eric_h 9y ago
That's only google's search ads, though. DoubleClick does a lot more than text ads on google's search page.
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Astronomers may have seen a star collapse directly to a black hole(blastr.com)
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by eric_h 9y ago
iOS requires a password after a reboot, after 24-48 hours of inactivity or after several failed attempts with the fingerprint. I'm glad it's not every few hours because my iPhone password is quite long.
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by eric_h 9y ago
The first time I saw a blind person using an iPhone on the subway (years ago, I think it was an iPhone 4), I was completely blown away at how much he could do with it. Personally I think apple should allow you to turn the backlight for the
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by eric_h 9y ago
> but it's not because it has lower energy...There is a "window" in the visible light fair enough, I got my physics a bit wrong there, but I was under the impression that that window was in the blue/green part of the

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