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by gxs 3y ago
In these cases, the argument is always of the type you just mentioned. “What’s the big deal the data is already available, relax”. On top of that, it comes with an air of condescension as if no one had ever thought about that before. One co
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by gxs 3y ago
I think what you’re saying is accurate, but it’s also important to be practical about stuff. These are pretty well know excel limitations by now. And really, anyone using excel who is somehow not aware of that limitation is probably not som
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by gxs 3y ago
I went to my friends eecs graduation a long time ago at ucla and the founder of Qualcomm talked about how what drove him to get his phd was his curiosity and determination to understand truly how radios worked. He said that he got his phd b
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by gxs 3y ago
Agree. Not saying csv doesn’t have its issues, but I don’t think the author made a convincing argument. A lot of the issues the author brought up didn’t sound that bad and/or it sounds like he never looked at the source data first. If
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by gxs 3y ago
I’m familiar with the concept and it doesn’t apply as clearly as you make it seem to here, which is why it’s taken so long to sue Apple. Their ecosystem was closed from the beginning.
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by gxs 3y ago
Yeah exactly, for some of us this is a feature not a bug. And I say this as a customer that also supports open source software. Yes it's possible to support both. Like damn, what if I intend to build this ecosystem from the outset, doe
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by gxs 3y ago
How is this fearmongering? I can just as easily accuse you of moral righteousness, it's not a cover for anything, it's what's happening and with neither you nor I citing sources, it's just your word against mine. Even th
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by gxs 3y ago
This is a huge problem with housing in general that is mostly ignored. Let people build 4 units where today it's zone for 1, and if you disagree, you're an out of touch racist/classist/luddite who is just not a visionary
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by gxs 3y ago
Because that’s the sad reality of the world we live in. As I approach my late 30s, a constant question in my head is: is this whole sensitivity/cancel culture really a problem, or is it some sort of rite of passage to think things have
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by gxs 3y ago
This is a common response but it seems to be one of those things that is just repeated over and over that in the end doesn’t even shed light into why china is a problem. And this is what I meant as well, people like being dismissive because
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by gxs 3y ago
It’s been quite a few years since anything US-military related didn’t also bring up thoughts and questions about the Chinese military for me as well. The gap between the two has closed so much within the last decade, people just do some han
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by gxs 3y ago
Some of these sites are un-fucking-bearable on my gen old iPhone. And the if I’m in a place with a shitty signal, forget about it, this problem is 10 times worse. I’m not even talking about the cluttered UI where only a third of the page i
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by gxs 3y ago
That’s cool. I’m not antagonizing you here at all, I’m genuinely curious about what people do and how they think. Do you ever think that being in academia and involved with startups, which on some level have similar vibes, keeps in you in s
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Ask HN: Where do you consume content outside of tech content?
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by gxs 3y ago
Seriously, I’ve browsed some of those sites in the past and the info is always bad info. Or at the very least, it’s not possible to discern the good info from the bad info on those sites. I’ve never understood what compels people to go to t
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by gxs 3y ago
You should request your data from a company like axciom. You can ask them to delete it while you’re at it. They already know more about you than you’d ever want them to know. The fact that they hadn’t automatically matched your name before
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by gxs 3y ago
Worth noting that ph is a logarithmic scale. This means that apple vinegar is more acidic than you might think just by looking at ph if you don’t take that into account.
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by gxs 3y ago
I don’t think you made the point you think you made here. It’s possible to not care about something and still submit an opinion. Or maybe it’s the degree of caring that is confusing you, I care enough to comment and have a viewpoint, but I
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by gxs 3y ago
This is an honest question and something I happen to have been thinking about recently. Recently I questioned my assertion that the internet isn’t all that great anymore, but I couldn’t really come up with reasons beyond the shitty bloated
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by gxs 3y ago
Except in this case your beloved android lets you do whatever you want, so why not go use them? And there are multiple manufacturers that aren’t associated with Google who make phones. If this were truly such a shortcoming, more companies,
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by gxs 3y ago
What a false equivalency. No, you can’t avoid capitalism, you’re born in the country your born and you don’t have that choice. This is more like moving to a capitalist country and then complaining that you live in a capitalist country.
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by gxs 3y ago
Because people are incredibly entitled and want to have their cake and eat it too. So you bought an iPhone knowing you can’t download apps and then go cry because you can’t download apps? Then your argument is that well, all my friends have
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by gxs 3y ago
> I’m not sure what exactly we are trying to finesse with your suggested changes. Maybe you should ask then instead of going on some dumb rant? Maybe that was an attempt at a rhetorical question, but given how much you missed the mark, I
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by gxs 3y ago
No, not every stern response you see online means it “struck a nerve”. I must have struck a nerve with you after my objection to the format of the question. My only mistake here was not saying those were oversimplified made up examples, tho
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by gxs 3y ago
And this is how you end up with the IP laws we have today. This sucks man, at least this only cost you potential earnings (that it sounds like you weren’t pursuing) vs any actual money. I wonder if in theory, should you want to, there’d be
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by gxs 3y ago
This is a nice ideal to strive for, but until everyone goes through the same education system there will always be a need for some form of...standard testing across the board. I think the closest we’d be able to get to this is maybe smaller
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by gxs 3y ago
A reminder to all that 50 years ago was 1974 and not 1954.
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by gxs 3y ago
This is far from a "genuine" question. It's easy to deduce that it's a big deal for macbook air users because it wasn't possible before. It's easy to deduce both from the article and from other comments here, w
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by gxs 3y ago
Yes, even at my current company, which is by most measures, I'd say successful, this comes up to an absurd degree. PMs will be ready to roll out a product with their finger on the button and Sales is like yo wtf we don't even know
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by gxs 3y ago
Ha, sorry, guess I was a bit defensive. Forget sometimes not everyone is a jerk by default online.

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