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by jbob2000 8y ago
> your version implies that they are at leadership positions _because_ they are Jewish, and furthermore there can't be any palestinean for the same reason. I did not intend that implication and I'm not sure where you're de
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Yes. I love reading the comments, there is so much wisdom in this community. Also, HN has shown me that I seem to have a rhythm to my mental health. I have a few good weeks where I post good comments and get upvoted, then I have a few bad w
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by jbob2000 8y ago
What? How was this comment racist? I'm actually curious. Do you disagree that google has a strong jewish presence? I never said anything about them in banks, media, politics. All I did was search "google executive team" and l
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by jbob2000 8y ago
While a sad story, I'm really failing to see why this is relevant to HN.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Google leadership, up and down, is filled with people who are of Jewish and Israeli heritage (or are married to them). What did you expect? Find me a Palestinian in any of their leadership team. I'm not suggesting they're intentio
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Would you drive a Chinese car that looked like a German car? When you straight copy a design, it signals that you don't give a shit about what you're doing. Safety? Security? Quality? Fuck it.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
iPhone XS resolution: 5.8 inches at 2436 x 1125 pixels. Nokia 7.1 resolution: 5.8-inch at 2280 x 1080 pixels. The notch gives them nothing here, in fact it eats up pixels they could have used to make the resolution better. At least the ipho
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> So now you get the downside of a fragile glass back without any kind of benefit like wireless charging. Just leaving the back metal would have been better. The entire phone is a knock-off, they've cargo-cult'd the main featur
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Just because you went looking for something and didn't find it does not mean it is not there. I couldn't find my car key this morning and had to use the spare, does that mean my normal key doesn't exist and never existed? No,
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I don’t care about the assholes who tailgate. I watch them tailgate me and also the sports cars racing up on the passing lane. Rushers are going to rush, let them get frustrated and do their thing. I am relaxed, safe, and happy.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Well dang, sign me up!
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I actually really like my 2016 C-class. It has a “hold” feature where, if you are at a stop light, you can give the brake pedal an extra push to “hold” the brakes and you can then take your foot off the brake pedal to rest, while the car ke
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by jbob2000 8y ago
He's a pop-psychologist and likes to throw big words around, pseudo intellectuals love him. He bases his ideas off of sketchy social science and if you have even a modicum of exposure to this material, you know he's just a slick t
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Scientists don’t have TV shows, if they don’t win awards, how else am I supposed to hear about them?
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by jbob2000 8y ago
If you look at companies after the MBAs join and gain footing, what do they look like? What did Apple look like when Jobs left? What happened to Oracle when all the engineers left? What happened to Star Wars when it was bought by Disney? MB
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Considering the prevalence of the church and its properties at the time, there really was no “correct” forum for Galileo to promote his findings - everywhere is disrespectful! He was pushed out of every forum he went to. This guy has the sa
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> Don't mean to get political, but when many U.S. administrations talk of throwing billions towards military weapons, but nowhere near as much towards positive research like this, it just gets me frustrated. I picked up an adage fro
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Would you have called Galileo the same thing?
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I’m really surprised this hasn’t been mentioned yet, but; playing a musical instrument. I don’t know what it is that makes music pleasurable, but when you get in the flow and the music is just coming naturally to you, it feels like you’ve b
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by jbob2000 8y ago
It’s kind of weird to charge money for an ad blocking service. Instead of me giving $20 to the content owners by putting my eye balls/clicking on ads, I’m paying you $20 to remove the ads and the content owner gets $0. At least when th
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by jbob2000 8y ago
You asked when it would be ok for a leader to tell someone they should be aborted and I gave you an example. Don’t throw away the example just because you don’t like it or it doesn’t fit your theory.
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by jbob2000 8y ago
My parents joke about that with my brother and I; "Dammit jbob, we should have aborted you!". Jokes like these require context and when you look at them from the outside, they look terrible. It's not "necessary", bu
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by jbob2000 8y ago
This just sounds like a problem with your car's stereo. For me, I get in the car, plug my phone in (always have a car-only charger cable), press "Media" on the dash, and it picks up whatever was playing on my phone. I don&#x2
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by jbob2000 8y ago
> just hop in the car and play music, listen to talk when we get bored flip around the channels This is nice, but is it $21.99-a-month nice? It's $300 a year, that's the problem. That's twice as expensive as Apple music an
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Sirius is in a tough spot. I've heard from many people that they only listen for Howard Stern. If Howard was smart, he'd pivot to selling podcasts and doing live streaming like Joe Rogan. He could cut out the sirius middleman and
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by jbob2000 8y ago
In Canada, you get a 20-25% surcharge on your fines called the "Victim Fine Surcharge". It goes directly into a fund that pays out to victims of crime. Aside from that, the fines go to the jurisdiction that charged you, which can
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by jbob2000 8y ago
SiriusXM is dying, if not already dead. Why do I need satellite radio when I can just listen to a podcast, or preload a bunch of music on my phone? Or just stream? 10 years ago, you could still do these things, but it was harder or very exp
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by jbob2000 8y ago
Have you ever strapped a go pro to your head? It's heavy and really throws you off. I think they've found that if you add battery capacity, you also increase the weight, which reduces the number of places you can use it. Did you s
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by jbob2000 8y ago
The idea alone isn’t invalid in theory, but in practice. Add up all the people who can’t ride bikes for whatever reasons and you see that we’re exactly where we’re at now; some people ride, most don’t. You seem to think that it’s a small nu
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by jbob2000 8y ago
I absolutely do not hate cyclists, I am one myself. When I lived in the city, I commuted in to work on a bike. I have lived that life and know what it’s about. What I disagree with is the idea that we can build a society around cycling. I w

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