greggman2

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by greggman2 7y ago
I'm not arguing having Ethos Capital is good. I'm arguing the UN running it is not a solution. (nor any likely government body for that matter who will likely take down any organization they don't agree with)
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by greggman2 7y ago
https://www.webmfiles.org/demo-files/ Play in Chrome (Mac/Win/Linux/Android) and Firefox (Mac/Win/Linux/Android) but not Safari (Mac/iOS). Here's a few more https://co
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by greggman2 7y ago
As much as I like Apple it seems like they are in the back pocket of big media when it comes to this topic. AFAICT Apple only supports h.264 and h.265 meaning 1.3 billion iOS devices have browsers that can't access open standards for v
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by greggman2 7y ago
No! I agree with you that it seems like it should be cheap but imagine the UN ran it. China would veto ".tw" as just one example of the many problems with government type entity in charge.
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by greggman2 7y ago
> people, despite saying otherwise, are not actually interested in spending more money for a better product Hmmm, cheapest Mac laptop $999. Cheapest Windows Laptop $199. Sure PC sales are higher than Mac but isn't that at least one
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by greggman2 7y ago
My experience is different. Upvotes/downvotes are not public on HN and yet I obsess about them. I've hidden them because of that. It's not about comparing since I can't see anyone else's. I don't want to see th
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by greggman2 7y ago
I LOVE THIS!!! I've hidden my score/points on HN via UBlock Origin. I've also hidden the downvote button so I can't downvote anyone (one reason I wish I could run another browser on iOS so I could do the same there) I wa
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by greggman2 7y ago
I know no good math teachers. Most math teachers pre-college don't know the material themselves. I still don't know why something is "efficient with" (a coefficient). And every time I try to get into any math there'
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by greggman2 7y ago
there are plenty of stories of soldiers who went through similar experiences and didn't come out the other side happy for each precious moment.
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by greggman2 7y ago
Thank you for the warning
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by greggman2 7y ago
This seems trivally easy to counter. Should the starving homeless person look at every day as a blessing? How about the sex traded slaves? "They were going to live another day, what did they have to be concerned about?" I'm
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by greggman2 7y ago
I happen to know several instances of Google, Amazon, Facebook, and even Apple not doing this. But I guess "established large tech companies" is a big list and GAFA is only 4 companies. I realize that these instances are not 100%
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by greggman2 7y ago
But now Apple is disadvantages competing maps apps by making all maps links open in Apple Maps. It sucks. As a Google Maps user I have tons of labels and bookmarks in Google Maps. When I click a maps link in any iOS app I get shuffled over
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by greggman2 7y ago
Seems to be working for MacOS
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by greggman2 7y ago
what is your point? Apple's own bugs deleted entire hard drives. https://www.wired.com/2001/11/glitch-in-itunes-deletes-drive...
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by greggman2 7y ago
> they quite likely have done lots of user testing that has shown clear desirability, improved value to user, improved usability I have never worked at a company that did user testing or if they did it was always done in a way or interpr
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by greggman2 7y ago
I'm guessing they are copying medium? Which also sucks for code. Sure, do whatever is best for non-coders but please give coders a markdown option as it's what we're using every place else. I recently did my first post on med
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by greggman2 7y ago
ProseMirror has many of the problems the linked article described.
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by greggman2 7y ago
I think I don't understand these. They seem too high level to actually be useful. There's a old Steve Martin skit from the 70s where he's says he's going to tell you "How to get a million dollars and never pay taxes
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by greggman2 7y ago
it's not just polite to accept offers. It allows the other person to feel good for the act of giving.
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by greggman2 7y ago
Interestingly it might just have to do with the age of the roads. When I was living in Baltimore in the late 80s my fellow Californians complained how bad the roads were in Maryland compared to LA. Now 30 years later the roads in California
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by greggman2 7y ago
> If there's a flaw in some alternative browser that iOS app developers now have a dependency on, Apple would be unable to do anything about it other than wait for that other browser vendor to ship an update. they could fix the bug
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by greggman2 7y ago
markdown allows arbitrary html. just paste in <table>. At least in my experience all table format miss something that makes my tables illegable
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by greggman2 7y ago
they weren't wrong. hanasemasen = can't speak hanashimasen = don't speak It's arguably more proper to say "nihongo ga hanasemasen" (I can't speak Japanese) than "nihongo wo hanashimasen" (I don&#
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by greggman2 7y ago
How is that a unique problem? If you have an iOS native app and you want an Android native app the difference are probably 100x the differences needed to deal with Safari's quirks vs Firefox's vs Chrome's. Same for Mac->Wi
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by greggman2 7y ago
The story in HL2 is a mess. You go from city controlled by invaders to zombie town to "They" town to nonsense alien citadel. They all have absolutely nothing to do with each other, they're just glued together because some des
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by greggman2 7y ago
There's a difference between actually harm and perceived harm. Lots of people feel harmed and threatened by vaccines. I'm not saying you shouldn't have privacy but I claiming you "feel harmed and threatened" isn&#x2
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by greggman2 7y ago
An interesting interview this week on Econtalk about price transparency. The interview happened before Trump's price transparency plan was announced but the podcast just made it up this week. https://www.econtalk.org/ke
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by greggman2 7y ago
I don't really get your argument. gcc has lots of non-standard extensions. Should gcc not be able to call itself a c++ compiler?
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by greggman2 7y ago
I shared it because they all sounded like extremely reasonable points. They didn't sound crazy or irrational. The question was "are there any positive things to say about brexit" and the answer is "yes". Does that m

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