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by hopler 8y ago
Ribbon may have been a bad idea, but MS claimed they did a bunch of UX research around it. Why is the standard menu metaphor better? Hunting through a hundred menu items whose names I don't need is a pain, especially if I don't ha
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by hopler 8y ago
Explain why the hamburger menu is bad but the floppy disk icon is good.
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by hopler 8y ago
The white borders was a gimmick to support some new transparency feature, but since Android half-does everything, it doesn't quite work. Android's openness saves the day, you can install 3rd party launcher with icon pack plugins
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by hopler 8y ago
Church. Martial arts classes,or any rec class that isn't age based. Working at a family business.
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by hopler 8y ago
How far does the does spread? How long until it settles?
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by hopler 8y ago
Worse, by monitoring transactions, they know exactly how shitty (er, "Basic") a product can be before returns outweigh sales, without paying the cost of experimentation with their own manufacturing.
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by hopler 8y ago
Funny you mention AWS, because the strategy you describe is exactly how the Amazon Basics line is built, by usurping marketplace sellers.
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by hopler 8y ago
Amazon got massive backlash in 2001 for messing with prices during shopping experience. Some companies do it, but customers and news media hate being toyed with, and loss aversion bias means they tolerate "wait! Before you go!" di
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by hopler 8y ago
I'm fairly sure that ignorance isn't the reason these companies aren't implementing your suggestions.
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by hopler 8y ago
If you were CEO of Amazon, what would you do? As much h as Amazon would love to have you but something you don't really need/want every day, it's not going to happen in substantial numbers. But they need something to keep bra
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by hopler 8y ago
Wasabi is expensive. Horseradish is cheap. Dying horesradish green is a tacky fraud.
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by hopler 8y ago
HN leans atheist in its subject matter, to put it mildly. Bordering on censoro.
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by hopler 8y ago
US prisons do far more than restrict movement. they infringe on prisoners liberties in dozens of ways unfelated to public safety, from reading material to phone calls to lifestyle within prison and more
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by hopler 8y ago
The prison system itself creates a blood feud and cycles of retribution between the State and the citizenry (both the prisoners and their families).
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by hopler 8y ago
Norway also has social welfare programs so prison is not anyone's best option. Prisons aren't mainly intended to deter crime, they are for satisfying the public's vengeance lust and to divert taxpayer funds to cronies of gove
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by hopler 8y ago
Just enough to credibly say that they have a product in the space.
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by hopler 8y ago
If you want to make money betting on the info, you do. Breaking a story matters if no one else was looking, but yeah not of everyone was racing.
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by hopler 8y ago
Channels don't matter. Lying to investors does. Private company CEOs can talk shit as long as all the investors know it's shit
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by hopler 8y ago
3rd party apps do this.
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by hopler 8y ago
Distance depends on how fast you are moving. As do the endpoints of a rotation.
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by hopler 8y ago
Consistently defined time is less useful when events at time 12:04 cause events at time 12:02
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by hopler 8y ago
Nationalism/Sovereignty vs Globalisn/OneWorldOrder. In the past we occasionally had rounds of "harmonization" where countries agree on one set of laws, as with copyright. We'll see what the future holds.
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by hopler 8y ago
Humanity built the tower of Babel, all speaking one language, and was struck down and fragmented for their hubris.
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by hopler 8y ago
It's an elegant way of covering noise with more noise.
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by hopler 8y ago
There was a classic TV ad by an oil company that said that CO2 is great because it is plant food. It's still an argument used by folks who oppose CO2 controls.
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by hopler 8y ago
Other comments say glass does not block UVA
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by hopler 8y ago
Not that there's no damage, but that sunburned skin is top layer skin that is constantly shedding so won't accumulate damage for decades
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by hopler 8y ago
It's a clickbait headline. The article is a meaty (for a webzine) history story, and the headline is to trick people into reading something unsexy.
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by hopler 8y ago
Remember 1-800-JOE-4-OIL ?
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by hopler 8y ago
Aging is the an FDA approved disease, but every symptom of aging is.

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