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by gxs 5y ago
I think that works in the browser not the app, and the browser app is pretty nerfed. That is probably going to be my best bet though.
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by gxs 5y ago
More and more the web is turning into cable TV. The other day youtube was showing me ads, without exaggerating, every ~20 seconds. This would happen for 3-4 minute stretches before they got less infrequent. This may not sound like much but
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by gxs 5y ago
I stopped using thewirecutter.com for this reason (there are workaraounds, but in the end not worth the trouble). An account is now required just to read reviews. Over the years I've stopped using a number of sites - it's such an
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by gxs 5y ago
I came to say the same thing - at one point only 10% of the screen was article text. What a god awful website.
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by gxs 5y ago
Hm I hadn’t thought about this in that way - this is very true - we maintain a lot of close relationships with people we don’t spend nearly 40 hours a week with. And fwiw, I think I fall within this line of thinking - for me going to the of
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by gxs 5y ago
Regarding it's not tax until it's sold, this isn't necessarily true. One little trick here is to take out huge loans using things like stock holdings as collateral. You're not paying tax on the money, and you can pay it
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by gxs 5y ago
There's a time and place for everything. Sometimes that level of precision is required, sometimes it's not.
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by gxs 5y ago
My average typing speed is 80-110, but I can max out at 121. This is for standard english words, not the crazy blocks of letters and special characters used for competition, which IMO isn't practical for the average user. I actually sp
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by gxs 5y ago
Another one is machinery where you have to "enter" the machine to do maintenance. Think industrial ovens. You're supposed to turn off the circuit breaker and lock it with your own personal lock that only you have the key to.
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by gxs 6y ago
The article makes the claim that these are examples of white supremacy in math: *The focus is on getting the “right” answer. *Independent practice is valued over teamwork or collaboration. *“Real-world math” is valued over math in the real
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by gxs 6y ago
It's not Google's prerogative to scrape a website and display its content, no matter how awful the website.
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by gxs 6y ago
No one said they would over take - merely they that are a formidable foe and will have a presence no doubt. The kind of hubris in this thread tells me despite how asinine these articles are they hit HNs nerve.
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by gxs 6y ago
I agree, but never say never. The Chinese will for sure have their own version of Silicon Valley and their giants will rival ours, no doubt. I think there will be other critical centers of tech innovation, similar to how Hollywood is Hollyw
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Ask HN: How do you manage areas where you aren't familiar with the tech/domain?
1 points by gxs 6y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: How do you lead/manage areas where you aren't familiar with the domain?
15 points by gxs 6y ago|6 comments
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by gxs 6y ago
Gotcha, that's why I added the bit about going through due process vs a private entity (especially an entity that runs an entire platform) deciding your speech is banned with no oversight. This issue gets complicated, as stated cureent
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by gxs 6y ago
Maybe we're approaching this from different angles/aren't on the same page. I was looking at this through the lense of free speech/censorship.
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by gxs 6y ago
The difference is our constitution doesn't explicitly say to remove speed limits. If it did, we'd have to go through proper process to get the constitution amended.
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by gxs 6y ago
But the key word is forced isn't it? Do we really have to police what people are allowed to endorse?
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by gxs 6y ago
Often we confuse there being precedent for an event with the precedent being actually right. I understand both perspectives here: what's "morally" right and what is strictly by the book right. Personally, I lean towards the l
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by gxs 6y ago
I remember a story about how when competitors opened the first iPhone, they were surprised to see how the entire phone was more or less a battery with a screen attached to it. I do wonder if Apple building a car would generate some sort of
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by gxs 6y ago
I don't know, from that perspective my biggest gripe is that it breaks a lot of functionality. It breaks zoom on a lot of pages, and the pages don't load with whatever settings you have saved on the site (nothing fancy, maybe a ni
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by gxs 6y ago
Going to college is this peculiar process where what you get out of it is commensurate with what you put into it, 100%. I was a math major in college. A lot of my exams were open book - because exactly like you said - it's mostly about
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by gxs 6y ago
I'm not intending to make some grandiose point here, only that I suspect natural language aptitude is highly correlated with success in various different domains, not just programming.
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by gxs 6y ago
I don't know why you got down voted, this is actually an interesting thought experiment, and it's obvious what where you're going with it. I suspect it would end up in the supreme court, interesting thought.
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by gxs 6y ago
Ha! I thought I corrected it before anyone saw :)
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by gxs 6y ago
Tangentially related to your point - math is an extremely dense subject. Small little statements with just a few symbols can be LOADED with information - things like complex, meaty definitions for even the most benign terms (e.g., a functio
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by gxs 6y ago
That was an EXCELLENT read, thank you. I was a math major in college, and somethings you learn how to work out mechanically and understand intellectually. I dont do anything remotely close to academic, undergraduate mathematics, but it&#x27
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by gxs 6y ago
>> The dropbox post was right Enough said.
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by gxs 6y ago
The problem is you only hear about botched excel jobs - you never hear about all the successful projects, so when you hear a horror story you just jump to the conclusion excel sucks. Ok, ask a geneticist to build what they need with their “

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