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by freepor 7y ago
Ordered 2 Logitech Brios but then when I saw the resale price made $450 profit and went back to my 720p webcam.
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by freepor 7y ago
Some of us don’t have security as a high priority. I for example wouldn’t really mind if my computer’s entire contents were published at nytimes.com. What I care about right now is my kids getting to see their family over Zoom or whateverx
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by freepor 7y ago
Can anyone explain why they do 12 deploys a day? Are engineers pushing to production as a way of iteratively testing a feature?
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by freepor 7y ago
Governments have created the arbitrary bipartite distinction between employees and contractors. They need to create a third category for gig workers that accommodates the flexibility that these workers desire while also giving them the labo
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by freepor 7y ago
No, Wikipedia is not set up for whimsy. This kind of thing has to come from a single author with a point of view, not from a crowdsourced article with conflicting points of view.
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by freepor 7y ago
But the best encyclopedia, Brittanica, had flights of whimsy. Sentences like "Bostonians are incorrigible jaywalkers." Wikipedia killed Brittanica, and ultimately is far more valuable to the world, but I miss those sentences in Br
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by freepor 7y ago
In a few seconds you got 4 new music recommendations? I gotta try this.
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by freepor 7y ago
This is my least favorite thing about Wikipedia -- it's taken all of the whimsy out of general knowledge resources.
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by freepor 7y ago
I would not love it if he improved my post, so I am glad to have the clarification that this is only done to YC-affiliated commenters and with at a minimum some kind of implicit buy-in from them.
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by freepor 7y ago
So, you have explicit permission to do this ahead of time, from the user?
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by freepor 7y ago
Wait, are you saying that you actually edited the text of someone's comment?
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by freepor 7y ago
It’s more for Indian outsourcing companies to build spaghetti code line of business applications for large-cap B2B companies.
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by freepor 7y ago
The analog outs on those Squeezeboxes are exquisitely clean.
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by freepor 7y ago
The thing is that the heart rate monitor gives you an excuse to buy. As a notification device it can seem like a pointless luxury item. If it has a heart rate monitor you can tell yourself/parent/spouse that “this thing could save
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by freepor 7y ago
For me it’s film cameras. Because they were not a rapidly obsoleting product, they were built for decades upon decades of use. The mechanical perfection is just a joy to use in every knob and click. My two favorites are a Canon F-1 with 85m
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by freepor 7y ago
That’s like saying we choose the government. It’s true in theory, but in practice the top management uses the “owners” like Soylent Green.
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by freepor 7y ago
Basically, if an industry is limited to “cost plus” profits (eg 5% of payouts) their incentive is to drive payouts as high as possible.
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by freepor 7y ago
Microsoft and Google both offer a feature where the audience can follow along on their device. I've only used the Microsoft version personally... you can watch the slides on your screen, get a translation into the language of your choi
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by freepor 7y ago
IKEA needs to Apple it up a bit. Increase the hardware specs, , add 1/3 to the manufacturing cost, double the price, build an app store for people to download new effects to their box, charge 30% of the revenue from these effects.
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by freepor 7y ago
What's the relevance of the tiger's age? Is that young or old for a tiger?
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by freepor 7y ago
The term teleportation was coined awhile back too.
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by freepor 7y ago
Lots of reasons that it could be omitted. Drug overdose, drunk driving, private family.
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by freepor 7y ago
People put too much behind Markdown is what happened. It was just a random idea on a blog post. But people made it a universal authoring standard and it is just not up to the task.
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by freepor 7y ago
At my university that was explicit policy. If you needed a book for academics and they didn’t have it, they’d order it.
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by freepor 7y ago
I don't understand your comment but realize that I do understand it if I change your opening "no" to "yes."
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by freepor 7y ago
Western medicine is, IMHO, too averse to exploiting the very real, very powerful, placebo effect. To get a treatment approved you need to prove that it's not a placebo, which excludes, of course... effective placebos. In India, for exa
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by freepor 7y ago
LOL. With inherited wealth allowing her to enforce her property rights with an armed government, with a log cabin built with modern technology, with fuckin’ running water. She lives 110 years in the past, not 200,000.
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by freepor 7y ago
My sons first multisyllabic word was “OK Google.” 15 seconds later the Google Home was unplugged and it’s still sitting on the mantel unplugged two years later.
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by freepor 7y ago
The press always goes after the top dog. The articles about factory worker conditions are always about Apple, not Acer, even though Acer's are almost surely worse (due to no press scrutiny). Zoom is the top dog in videoconferencing rig
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by freepor 7y ago
I use them, because when they disappear I can quickly move to a new one. If I'm building a data "asset" then I am careful about using something that will be around for the long term but if it's just for an ephemeral vide

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