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by freyr 7y ago
When did "evil" become "anything that doesn't personally suit me"?
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by freyr 7y ago
Bill Clinton would have been nine years old when this was filmed. The boy in the clip looks a bit too young to have a nine year old kid.
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by freyr 7y ago
> You'd have to also make it less attractive to be a landlord. More apartments, condos, and houses lead to more rental units, which lowers rents, which makes it less attractive to be a landlord.
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by freyr 7y ago
I mean, you could spend a minute reading both sets of commenters. One is well-informed and reasonable, the other is an angry mob carrying pitchforks.
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by freyr 7y ago
If you read the comments in the Reddit thread, this is clickbait fear-mongering. It's a sad state of affairs when Reddit users are savvier than HN users.
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by freyr 7y ago
Even the Redditor commenters are not falling for this. Not sure why HN is getting hit so hard by the anti-big-tech FUD over the last few days, or why we keep taking the bait. Maybe just because HN has start up culture at its core.
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by freyr 7y ago
I'm genuinely curious, what SaaS tool requires Gmail?
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by freyr 7y ago
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by freyr 7y ago
Yes, an unsubstantiated claim by one random person trying to circumvent a company’s revenue model is definitely reason to break up that company.
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by freyr 7y ago
You can pay for it now? The narrative in this thread seems to be that people are being forced to use Gmail against their will, and paid options don’t exist, both of which are obviously false.
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by freyr 7y ago
Speaking of false dichotomies... Google doesn’t “operate” email. Gmail one email service among many, that people can choose to use or not. Yahoo Mail is still an option.
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by freyr 7y ago
That is Schmidhuber in a nutshell.
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by freyr 7y ago
People are bad at probability. This shouldn't happen even once or twice. If each human who ever lived flipped 1000 coins a trillion times, it shouldn't happen. If there were a trillion planets, each with a trillion people, each fl
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by freyr 7y ago
They're not moving anybody to Google's own DNS servers. If your current DNS provider offers encrypted service, they'll begin using that. Starting with version 78, Chrome will begin experimenting with the new DoH feature. Und
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by freyr 7y ago
It's a meritocracy in the sense that boards want to hire executives with prior experience running large companies or large divisions. How many such people are available for hire and didn't run their last company into the ground?
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by freyr 7y ago
MacBook Pro is now overpriced and kinda sad. It peaked in 2015, and it was a truly beautiful machine.
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by freyr 7y ago
What if they flattened the keyboard completely? Replaced it with smooth glass? It could also be the display. It would be a computer, but the size of a pad of paper.
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by freyr 7y ago
Let's not call it that.
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by freyr 7y ago
$7M apiece would buy you quite a nice car.
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by freyr 7y ago
The article makes a case why Wittgenstein is overrated. OP reduced the article to: "Anything that is complicated is not worth understanding," which is disingenuous. The article isn't deep or academic or profound, but isn&#x27
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by freyr 7y ago
Nonetheless, Go has many advantages over C that are not related to GC.
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by freyr 7y ago
Area. Or width. It doesn't matter.
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by freyr 7y ago
We've been hearing this same argument for twenty years. It scared me away from the industry, back when I was in college and the scaremongers claimed that all the software jobs would move to India and the U.S. programmers would be laid
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by freyr 7y ago
Again, unable to defend Wittgenstein's work on its merit.
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by freyr 7y ago
And yet you're guilty of exactly that which the article admonishes against: celebrating the cult of Wittgenstein on the basis of its inscrutability, not its merit. Just because something is written in a clear and approachable way, it s
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by freyr 7y ago
I briefly joined an industry R&D team that was producing smoke-and-mirror demos. The ideas were good, but nothing really worked. One day I noticed all of the team’s demos had been done already by an MIT professor. I guess that’s where t
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by freyr 7y ago
There are also yogis who claim they can levitate, read minds, or bring dead babies back to life. Some healthy skepticism is in order. https://www.quora.com/Have-you-seen-Himalayan-yogis-who-clai...
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by freyr 7y ago
I know many engineers who want to get out of the Bay Area. San Francisco is a disaster, they’re priced out of the the peninsula, and commuting one or two hours each way from the hinterlands loses its appeal real fast. That said, getting lai
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by freyr 7y ago
She was involved in the NYMAG story? They don't quote or credit her.
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by freyr 7y ago
You're both right, here's his blog entry on leadership in World of Warcraft: https://joi.ito.com/weblog/2006/03/13/leadership-in-w.html I'd guess by this point, he'd already made some

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