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by ggg9990 8y ago
Apple’s hatred of third party repairs isn’t because of the impact on revenue. It’s because of the possible impact on brand, and Apple is maniacally protective of their brand. If the repair shop does a bad job, or uses a non OEM part, then t
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I wonder what the likelihood is that a DeePhi employee tries to exfiltrate Xilinx IP back to China.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Anyone who has read even the tiniest amount outside of HN and Zed Shaw knows that there is no such thing as a group of humans where everyone is equally powerful. It is a stupid fantasy or deliberate lie in all circumstances.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The thing that made the Internet adoptable by the masses was centralization: first onto the single protocol of HTTP, then onto the single search engine of Google, and then onto the handful of Web giants today. If Bitcoin follows the same pa
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Many times they do taste better. The spoilage rate is higher so only the healthiest foods survive, and also farmers who are expecting a higher price point recognize that they need to also taste good (I.e. there is a market for bad tasting $
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Yeah, in today's world, I can only imagine supersonic being of even any benefit on flights longer than 8 hours.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
That's like when I had Chinese food in China. Nothing like Chinese food in America. I'm sure if I had never had either the real stuff would have been better, but I was hoping for a better version of the comfort food I remember fro
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Cincinnatus, Washington, de Klerk... probably a handful more
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Does the batting material between the bottom layers matter?
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by ggg9990 8y ago
If you’re asking him to shut down Facebook, you are asking him to relinquish an amount of power that maybe 5 people in history have walked away from.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Zuckerberg has no really good move here. The human brain is simply not ready for the volume of crap ingestion that the Internet has enabled.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Because it’s the default place to go in everyone’s mind when you need some random one off item like an ALF alarm clock.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Fascists and communists are both animated by the same principle: that Papa knows best and must be obeyed.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
And similar statements were also made about Pet Rock and Beanie Babies.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It is. If we can’t stop China from subsidizing their tech we should subsidize our own.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Stripe is a huge company now though. Big companies waste money on all sorts of garbage with little ill effect.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Is that weird? Tons of brilliant people through history have believed in God, spirits, and other supernatural stuff.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Gigabit Internet is largely pointless for home use. Unless you have a Mormon family all watching different 4K shows at the same time or something.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Parents love to see kids indulging their interests/hobbies. I'd be very excited if my daughter made a computer program to tell me where she was. That doesn't mean we wouldn't ever have another conversation.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
The Dropbox client still syncs files much faster than the competitors.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
It rarely makes any sense for a large multibillion dollar company to operate a tiny business that has no material impact on its financials. It's like Bill Gates owning a taco truck -- even though it might be a perfectly financially via
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by ggg9990 8y ago
fMRI studies are like studies showing which transistors are active during certain computations. Maybe it means something, maybe it doesn’t.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Never knew that Soros funded LQDN. That makes me admire him even more than I did before, which was a lot!
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by ggg9990 8y ago
India has exceptionally skilled mechanics. I saw one resuscitating a worn axle by stick welding new metal onto it! (In the street)
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Sure, but I still don’t like the idea of a customer badgering a waiter to do something that could get them fired, especially because their wages are tip based.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
That’s not always possible. Chain restaurants and such can’t do that because they use the sale records to decide what supplies to order for tomorrow, what items to remove from the menu, etc.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
I know that, that’s why I said Walmart.com. It’s still mind blowing
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Yeah, it’s easy to forget how hard the Second Law works against you when someone else is taking care of it for you. It’s like how some developers today don’t realize what it was like to run a web service before AWS. I once lost a box and ha
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by ggg9990 8y ago
When I see stuff like this I do get about a 500 millisecond urge to vote for Trump in 2020 just to give a big middle finger to people like this CEO. Then I realize the cost of that middle finger and it’s too expensive for my tastes.
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by ggg9990 8y ago
Can’t see how a company can do this and then meaningfully claim to care about “diversity.” Also worth noting that this decision falls wholly on employees and not at all on customers — best to abuse the people who will find it much harder to

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