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by exergy 10y ago
> social-bonding hacks/disruptions First, honest question: is there some secret lease that needs to be signed before posting on HN that requires that every real-world phenomenon be framed using 1337 h4x0r terminology? For some reaso
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by exergy 10y ago
Yes, thank you for saying that. I understand that different people have different use cases, but there is an environmental cost to owning too much shit that no one talks about. Here's an example. I own a surface pro 3, and a smartphone
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by exergy 10y ago
This looks fantastic to me, for some reason. How I wish most of the web looked more like this rather than full of Hero images.
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by exergy 10y ago
Please explain to me how complicated and demanding is the workflow of these "salespeople, real estate agents, pediatricians and beer distributors (!)" that you talk about? What exactly is stopping them from getting the smaller 12
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by exergy 10y ago
This also depends on what you're searching for. If you're hunting for a lot of academic stuff from journals, DDG just isn't good enough. On top of that its agonizingly slow. I try to give it a chance everywhere: phone, office
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by exergy 10y ago
I vehemently disagree. This misty eyed myth of slow-life travel in the good ol' days with much exploring the unknown is balderdash. At least to the extent that google maps somehow precludes one from being able to do it nowadays. I re
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by exergy 10y ago
Say what? Maps, Android, one of the best Spam filters anywhere, the best search engine, the best image search engine, Youtube, one of the best web browsers... Much of this isn't "pure" Google development, yes. And god knows G
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by exergy 10y ago
Rubbish. Conversate with whom exactly? Trump? Bannon? When have these idiots ever given any indication that they're willing to listen to someone who contradicts them? Are there any examples of them actually having listened to someone,
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by exergy 10y ago
Also, I will point out that the NYT never, and I do mean never, has a story on India that is anything but negative. I didn't realise this at first, but now I can't help but notice that every article they have on my country is just
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by exergy 10y ago
In fairness, there is much for creative professionals to like about the new MBP, if youtube reviews are to be believed. On the other hand, Ballmer was perhaps cartoonish but not idiotic when he trampled around the stage yelling "Develo
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by exergy 10y ago
"If you don't like it, don't buy it" is just about the worst line of argument you could take. It is highly unproductive and instantly ends any hopes of a useful discussion. "If you don't like Trump, leave the c
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by exergy 10y ago
Linus mentions it in one of his videos. The idea is that Intel doesn't want you worried about the generation, only whether it's i3/i5/i7. I guess this helps them mask over the fact that, year on year, CPUs aren't re
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by exergy 10y ago
Completely agree. This place is now my "front page of the internet" even more so than Reddit. There is a lot of diversity, and little that is frivolous. Also, it's obvious to me that people here will upvote a comment even whe
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by exergy 10y ago
Can I ask something? For me Firefox IS better. Chrome on Android doesnt seem to support extensions (so no uBlock), doesn't have reader view, and would highly prefer it if I signed in. Orfox and Firefox both do not have these issues. Ev
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by exergy 10y ago
That website is adorable. I miss stuff like that, finding blogs on the front page of google, not buzzfeed. It reminds me of Rocket Roberts, who has a giant page on how he built a small observatory in his backyard for amateur astronomy and a
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by exergy 10y ago
The difference being that the touchscreen doesn't take away anything, while the touchbar replaces function keys. You could circumvent this by getting the smaller pro, though. I own an SP3 and the touchscreen is a blessing. Ironically,
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by exergy 10y ago
Am I allowed to jump in and say I find it hugely annoying? It's almost worse than people calling it "Social" instead of "Social Media". It smacks of desperately wanting to be hip and cool.
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by exergy 10y ago
Perhaps it's the fact that I'm inexorably falling deeper into academia every year, but government research is definitely NOT a waste from my perspective. Some of the best PhD students, working on some of the most interesting proje
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by exergy 10y ago
I love that the internet has enabled this. Watching TV in India, where I grew up, was an absolute, unmitigated motherfucking abomination that I wouldn't wish upon my worst enemy. Bland, unidimensional characters whose only purpose was
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by exergy 10y ago
I'm not sure I agree with that reasoning. This works until a future date when someone presses the trigger regardless, and then the nuclear winter arrives. I'm fairly certain you'll agree that past history isn't an indica
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by exergy 10y ago
That's a very valid point, and at the moment, I don't think anything is being done in that regard. However, the difference between the Have's and the Have Not's in India is enormous. Defying-belief levels of enormous. Th
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by exergy 10y ago
Wow, that's a really interesting point. I've definitely seen the "enjoying the patterns of your own thought" thing with Leo from Zen Habits for example. He seems to rehash previous articles all the time, and I haven&#x27
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by exergy 10y ago
Are you fucking serious? Did you even bother with the article at all? What you're making is no different than what Maciej talks about, and just as naff. More connectedness is not more good. I explicitly would NOT want a no-name company
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by exergy 10y ago
Personally, I get the feeling that most people who start a company are tired of _some_ status quo, and have strong opinions on how they want the end product to look like. Therefore, the last thing they want to do is listen to people telling
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by exergy 10y ago
Wouldn't be HN without someone taking something far too literally to the detriment of the original point. How about if we modified the first comment to say "I need you to fix it ASAP"? I can't honestly believe that you&#
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by exergy 10y ago
It has nothing to do with reddit, and everything to do with rose-tinted glasses, since you still haven't given me an example that could serve as an inspiration. Words in a book and italicised quotes are great, but not how the world fun
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by exergy 10y ago
I'm sorry, but that sounds like the kind of thing an edy 18 year old would say. There are no examples of 350 million people being governed WITHOUT a government, and for good reasons.
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by exergy 10y ago
You're right. I meant asocial.
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by exergy 10y ago
Very nice read. I used to be a particularly shy person, but the difference between shyness and being anti-social in general, is that a shy person _wants_ to connect to others, but is afraid of the outcome of attempting to do so. This is why
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by exergy 10y ago
> but I don't get it for power. Spot on. The move towards USB-C is for the better since it's one port to do it all, but charging via USB-C seems going backwards. I wonder how much of a technical challenge it would have been to

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