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by freefaler 1y ago
Yes, it's a very unfriendly decision by Google. However, I don't think they haven't measured the number of users installing apps outside of the Play store. May be they just don't care about the small % of total users who
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by freefaler 1y ago
>> The Dock was useless and violated Apple’s HIG. Oh, the atrocities of "simplification" made during Ive's later years of leadership are so numerous that they beggar belief. Many aspects of iOS and macOS no longer conf
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by freefaler 1y ago
The government is also keen to have these devices controlled more tightly. Now with the help of the big companies so much data is on the device and in the cloud about you that policy enforcement, tax evasion or anything else that the people
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by freefaler 1y ago
For people who won't setup any wallet this can be useful. Self custody wallets are scary for some users.
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by freefaler 1y ago
Yes, but they aren't very detailed to a tactical, day-to-day level. He talks more about the strategy, how to choose the problem you're working on and etc... They are very good, just not that down to earth for regular people.
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by freefaler 1y ago
You can export the google docs version to epub: File > Download > epub
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by freefaler 1y ago
The best practical book I found that is way better than overly generic books on "deep work" is Jason Skycak's "Advice on Upskilling" https://www.justinmath.com/books/ (scroll for the second on
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by freefaler 1y ago
Even in the smallest groups, like a small village or a hunter-gatherers in Africa the algorithm is the same. Free markets usually aren't too prone to long-term monopolies. There are some parts where markets fail but most "monopoli
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by freefaler 1y ago
Yeah... but in free market based economy if you can't swap your skills for money to swap for something you need what is the alternative? If I just sit in YouTube all day how will I pay for my bills? Free market economies are brutal, if
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by freefaler 1y ago
Nothing is free, servers must be paid. On top of that owners want to make money. We can enjoy free services while the investors money last, but in the end every long-term service must find a way to pay the bill. (And some owners are more gr
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by freefaler 1y ago
> "...They have a huge array of facts compressed into them but that compression is lossy (see also Ted Chiang)" indeed, Ted's piece (ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web) is here: https://archive.is/iHSdS
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by freefaler 1y ago
13 years ago, Cory Doctorow warned us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI So basically market forces and profit optimization is at work here as always. However, if we can still unlock the boot loader and install Li
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by freefaler 1y ago
13 years ago, Cory Doctorow warned us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbYXBJOFgeI So basically market forces and profit optimization is at work here as always. However, if we can still unlock the boot loader and install Li
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Tell HN: I Found Out Who the Russian Chief Designer Was Who Spat on Elon Musk
12 points by freefaler 1y ago|1 comments
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I Found Out Who the Russian Chief Designer Was Who Spat on Elon Musk [video](youtube.com)
6 points by freefaler 1y ago|2 comments
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by freefaler 1y ago
In October 2001, Elon Musk, Jim Cantrell (a "space/rocket" fixer with Russian contacts), and Mike Griffin (future NASA administrator) flew to Russia. They wanted to buy a cheap launch to Mars for the "Mars Oasis" pr
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by freefaler 1y ago
So as a pilot you can't override the software to stop it from "thinking that the plane is on the ground" mode? Something similar happened recently with A320 when it didn't want to land on an airfield during emergency unl
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by freefaler 1y ago
I had almost all of them and the Treo smartphones. Also one of the best were Psion's. Very well designed keyboard and the software was also good. Now with so much hardware capabilities the usability can be much worse. I don't know
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by freefaler 1y ago
BTW, this is very useful: https://open-slum.org/
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by freefaler 1y ago
Decentralization and interoperability, including the TCP routing protocols give the ability for the network to grow freely, but makes those kind of attacks easier. The easiest way to mitigate those problem will be to decrease the openness a
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by freefaler 1y ago
- chatGPT plus - Perplexity and nothing more. I get why people like to charge a subscription, but I will not pay a subscription for something that doesn't have ongoing operation cost by the vendor. If he needs to pay for a storage&#x2F
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by freefaler 1y ago
The supply of doctors and nurses (invite from abroad), certification of medical equipment & FDA drug approval (if it's certified in a normal country do a very lightweight approval process). If the patients want it, allow for more r
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by freefaler 1y ago
May be we should have more supply, less regulation & more open information on pricing. (in the US you can't get a quote on your medical bill beforehand in many places) Currently the hospitals are working in an environment where the
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by freefaler 1y ago
Thanks for digging this out! I keep wondering why Andy didn't see that before nominating him?
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by freefaler 1y ago
There are people who got out of Google and were the founders of the companies and indeed many more made enough money in the startup scene. I had 6% in my first startup as a programmer, 15% at my second, 5% at the third and 90% of the curren
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by freefaler 1y ago
Andy Grove left in 1998, even though he was on the board of directors until 2004 (with diminished role). After he left the CEO role Intel just lost his way.
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by freefaler 1y ago
All the jobs I had in was contractually required to work from X to Y at a place Z. So my experience is that is indeed a selling skilled time. The ones you describe where there is a contract for output, usually with external contractors not
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by freefaler 1y ago
24-18 = 6 hours "non-working" time. Eating, washing and shitting is min 1 hour/day.So 5 hours of bed time with around 4.75 hrs of sleep at most, because we don't fall asleep right away. The math doesn't work long te
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by freefaler 1y ago
Employment contract is a contract and usually it's fixed hours per workday for a salary. So basically you as employee swap X hours per Y amount of money. If one of the parties is in breach of that contract it's normal it to be dis
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by freefaler 1y ago
The landlord can raise the price because the supply of new apartments is low. With limited supply, the supply/demand equilibrium is going to a higher point. Why is there a limited supply if people need places to rent? Governmental reg

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