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by hn_acc1 9mo ago
IMHO, it's MUCH more common in sciences though, that someone that is expert-level in one field comes into another and thinks they CAN solve a long standing problem in that field quite easily, and then repeatedly falls into all the pitf
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by hn_acc1 9mo ago
Gretzky is well-known for saying he thinks kids should play multiple sports and avoid hockey in the summer, like he did (IIRC) - he mentioned soccer, etc.
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by hn_acc1 9mo ago
>Honestly, AI is better at replacing the cost of upper-middle management and executives than it is the customer service problems. Sure, but when the power of decision making rests with that group of people, you have to market it as &quot
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by hn_acc1 9mo ago
Yeah, it was a different world. I worked at a company using X + Motif on SCO Unix back in the early 90s. I had a 386sx with 8mb ram + 6 MB on an ISA expansion card! When you changed a header file constant (like a label string) and had to re
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by hn_acc1 9mo ago
I mean, Broadcom / VmWare is basically doing the same, just more for enterprise level software. OTOH - if Vimeo has given up all hope of further new features, then giving current users the chance to keep going isn't completely evi
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
AIUI, the whole "certain amount of willpower" was a misunderstanding / exaggeration / bullshit claim that's not really held to be true anymore.
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
This 100x. I go to work because I don't want to have a long uncomfortable conversation with my boss, and because I hate interviewing, and not having income is even worse. Even at work, I often find reasons (like HN) to do actually DO w
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Even if they are the leader in percentage point rent raises, and do it 5x as often as every other landlord? And blackball a renter they don't like, not from 1 specific house, but from 10K all at once?
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Guaranteed those 100 individuals won't all raise their rent 10% (or whatever) on the same day, every n months.
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
They ARE, or INTEND to? It's not Jan 31, 2026 yet, so, AFAICT, only the "Yes" option can be short-circuited if it occurs. They can't pay the "No" side until Feb 1, 2026, right?
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Even then, 95% of it is probably already earmarked / targeted for some friend's grift.
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Once those additional vaccines are off the "routine" schedule, they'll be pulled by the suppliers, because it eliminates exemption from lawsuits. If you "choose" a non-routine vaccination, people can then sue pharma
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
How long did INDIVIDUAL humans survive without vaccines and modern medicine? It was very uneven - crazy high infant mortality, suffering for many through multiple preventable diseases, etc. My mom had measles as a kid in the 40s and as a re
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Yes - it was a direct transfer of $$ from taxpayers to Haliburton (Dick Cheney, IIRC) et al.
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
And, sorry, but your analogy sucks. Multiple students can get 0-100% on any given test independently. Now imagine if only one student out of a class of ~200 (~195 countries in the world) can get the right answer to each question (200 questi
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
I think that was their point.
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
When I saw that quoted here, I figured the author hadn't actually read up on anything about google for 10+ years.
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Yeah, I wasted 60 seconds of my life on that stupidity. Makes me much less inclined to read another article by the same author.
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Tried that. Does nothing regarding snowflakes that make article next to unreadable.
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Someone managed to read that article? With the constantly falling snowflakes? Dang, his UI choices seem worse than any he might be criticizing..
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
It's like the KDE developer who reluctantly gave out the script to set "border offset" from a window back to 0 (i.e. how close you could snap/drag the window to the border of the screen). He had defaulted it to something
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Windows is borderline unusable to me without Open Shell / Win 7 settings. I refuse to learn yet another icon idiom, just to have it change 2 years later. Thinking of trying Bazzite for my new upcoming 2nd gaming machine (for daughter)
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
>Thats just… weird? Why would you want to use somebody else’s fridge? Like I get its a few hundred dollars but they last decades. Citation needed on the longevity of new/fancy refrigerators past warranty. Heard too many horror stori
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
I guess you're right that if the CEO is too corrupt, unions will be ineffective.
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
This is definitely the problem - it has spread from being just "hope for hopeless" (aka opiate for the masses, a way to pacify those over-affected by inequality) to it now being acceptable for the rich/powerful to actively st
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Interesting ideas..
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Came here to say this too!
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
This. When I moved from Ontario, Canada (where they charge a yearly fee for them), to CA, I was all excited to get a vanity plate - until I saw they also charge a yearly fee.. In the most ironic twist of all - Ontario did away with license
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by hn_acc1 10mo ago
Agreed (without regard to applicability of this article) - I was hit twice (i.e. other cars running into mine, their fault) within a calendar year after 5 day RTO went into effect in mid 2024 at work here (the valley).
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by hn_acc1 11mo ago
This feels a lot like the "humans must be ready at any time to take over from FSD" that Tesla is trying to push. With presumably similar results. If it works 85% of the time, how soon do you catch that it is moving in the wrong di

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