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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I think Apple's approach is the right tradeoff, though I admit I think it's cool from a nerd that likes gadgets perspective. If there's enough of a market for that that they can survive that's cool, but I think th
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by fossuser 5y ago
I think I've gotten more than 5mbps (or at least was for a time) - I haven't done anything, but I might be wrong about this (I don't rely on tethering most of the time so haven't noticed). IIRC a long time ago all of Vis
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by fossuser 5y ago
Interesting - must be regional I guess, I get good speeds where I use it.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Visible is a Verizon subsidiary with unlimited everything for $25/month with “Party Pay” and no contract. You can tether with it and the only trade off is that you get deprioritized first in crowded environments. There’s also no store,
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah agreed - the emails they show also have bad grammar and misspellings too along with the general writing. It's basically understood that unlimited PTO means untracked and within some reasonable amount - if you were at an At Will co
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I think that's the core, outlier events are extremely bad. I think there are real things that could be done short of a total ban, but the issue in the US it's a constitutional right so it's hard to restrict in any sens
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I don't disagree with you on that. It's the threading model I think is superior - the forum pages model where you get hundreds of slowly loading pages and horrible quoting, signatures, etc. make it unusable for me.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Its design is interesting and the non-zero cost of IDs make sense as a way to build reputation and eliminate spam: https://media.urbit.org/whitepaper.pdf I'm no fan of CY's neo-reactionary politics, but he's
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by fossuser 5y ago
Forums are awful UX - really bad, it's why all this other stuff exists. I don't like discord either and don't like the model of megacorps sucking up all our communication and locking it away while creating a massive privacy r
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by fossuser 5y ago
I know you’re being sarcastic, but Bitcoin and the rest of crypto? If enough people start using “fake” money then it stops being fake.
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by fossuser 5y ago
There was an old rumor that the first internet e-commerce transaction was a bag of weed. I don’t remember the specifics though. I think it was between Stanford and MIT in 1971 or 1972, something like that. I probably read it in Hackers.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Text summary is here: https://www.justine-haupt.com/blimpdrive/index.html I thought it was a really cool looking (if scary) project. Justine was on HN a while back for her rotary cell phone (also a super cool project).
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Stupid-Simple Electric Paramotor(youtube.com)
4 points by fossuser 5y ago|1 comments
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by fossuser 5y ago
We're apes that compete for status to attract mates. There's always going to be some of this kind of thing in everything. I'd accept the concentration of it in social media (TikTok is probably the worst of them) is not health
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by fossuser 5y ago
I found it: https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/health/a4263/learning-to-s... Search terms I used were: starting smoking at 40 cigarettes It was the sixth google result for me.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I also remember it - I’m pretty sure he was 42? Some other things: - might have been the Atlantic - he talked about etiquette around things like flicking ash and smoking circles - he talked about asking his doctor about starting smoking It
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by fossuser 5y ago
An issue I have is often shortly after 2 the excitement is over for me and I like going back to 1 in some other subject.
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by fossuser 5y ago
That came later iirc - initially they were thinking of using them prior to running infantry in. I think there are old public test videos where they actually did this kind of thing. I also recall a group of scientists trying to elevate the u
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by fossuser 5y ago
I take this as work towards the next platform/UX of AR enabled glasses. These look a lot better than previous attempts and embed the hardware pretty well so that's cool to see. Absent the actual AR part though I don't think t
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by fossuser 5y ago
When something has achieved some threshold of 'political-ness' online discussion defaults to being tribal crap. There's sometimes still some interesting discussion buried in comments somewhere, but you can almost predict the
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by fossuser 5y ago
I wrote this a while ago which got some attention on HN at the time: https://zalberico.com/essay/2020/04/19/how-to-become-a-hacke... It gives some context to what got me interested and what I found helpf
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah - I think we agree.
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by fossuser 5y ago
Just because others have made the same mistake in the other direction doesn't mean it's good to do the same thing in pursuit of a different conclusion. Skepticism is good, but if you find yourself preferring one outcome over anoth
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by fossuser 5y ago
This is the default for any motivated reasoning where people are interested in a specific outcome (regardless of what's true): https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/too-good-to-check-a-pl... It's hard work to
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Too Good to Check: A Play in Three Acts(astralcodexten.substack.com)
4 points by fossuser 5y ago|0 comments
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah the front door sucks. It’s all referral or brand name (Stanford, mit, FAANG). If you didn’t go to a famous school make friends with someone who works where you want to be and get a referral through them.
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by fossuser 5y ago
I agree - I found the writing to be the kind of thing that makes me immediately skeptical. A lot of fanciful connections that seem “smart”, but without much to back it up - it’s possible there’s truth to some of it, but someone could simila
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by fossuser 5y ago
Yeah this is basically my take too. It really reveals how low quality most public discussion is on any complex or nuanced topic - specifics be damned.
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by fossuser 5y ago
The lottery of front door applications is largely a waste of time. The best way to get an interview if you didn’t go to Stanford or MIT (I didn’t) and haven’t yet worked at a famous company is to get a referral. Which requires somehow makin
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by fossuser 5y ago
It’s totally false even ignoring extreme outliers like Tim Cook. The reason there are so many angel investors in the Bay Area is because of the feedback loop of ipos giving regular employees 1-5M pretty often (and 5-50M+ less often). It’s a

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