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by jedrek 10y ago
It's why malware that lets you call and text from a compromised phone is so dangerous to your typical user.
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by jedrek 10y ago
DST is an issue, as is the political selection of time zones. There's a great map[1] that shows how arbitrary time zone shifts are. Even in the EU, the eastern edge of Finland is over an hour east of the center of CET, while western Sp
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by jedrek 10y ago
The true tl;dr is this: hours are meta-information. Just like 5am is very early in every time zone, 11pm is late. We expect businesses to be open from 8-11 to 16-19, just like we expect everybody to be awake between 11-21. Now, remove that
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by jedrek 10y ago
> it seems like there's a lot more emphasis on this now, and it seems more dangerous and higher risk. College costs more than ever, so "pushing through" means you might make the playoffs, might get noticed and get a full r
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by jedrek 10y ago
> It just means, for example, that it probably would have been even harder if you were an Eastern European woman who grew up in a poor family. Spot on. If the previous poster went to a technical institute in Eastern Europe, I am willing
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by jedrek 11y ago
My favorite part of this app is how they only released it in three countries, because nothing says "front page of the internet more" than a good ol' geo-lock.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Flying cars are a horrible idea. Flying requires a 20x higher energy output than driving. It's extremely weather sensitive. It requires space for landing, unless you go VLTO, then your energy usage skyrockets even more. There are huge
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by jedrek 11y ago
That's easy to say. Tons of websites can actually function financially due to those ads and analytics.
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by jedrek 11y ago
In fairness, that's because VC culture is a parasite on normal society.
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by jedrek 11y ago
JSX is also very natural for people who've written HTML for years. I wasn't a fan when I started, but now I love it to bits.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Except there's no science research against vaccination, there's just hucksters publishing "work" on sites like PRWeb ($99/article).
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by jedrek 11y ago
Except that smoking rates have dropped to one third of their 1965 levels. If this tax gets those kinds of results, I think the pro alternative energy community would be ecstatic
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by jedrek 11y ago
Much better screen overall.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Google Plus came out years after Facebook with a fraction of the features. No events, company profiles/fan pages or apps. No levity.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Most people have trouble adding MSG directly to their food, restaurants have no such qualms.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Resident thinks their city is less exciting than exotic locale? Well that's unexpected! Seriously though, I live in a city where locals keep discouraging tourists from coming, and tourists keep talking about how great it is. Part of it
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by jedrek 11y ago
One thing that's weird for a lot of Europeans is that the US has exactly one national newspaper, USA Today. All the other papers are local: NYC, Chicago, LA, Baltimore, etc. The NY Times is a great paper but go past above the fold and
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by jedrek 11y ago
I used to be a heavy Flickr user and I remember clicking around one day and thinking, "I can visualize the sql calls being made to generate these pages". That didn't feel too great.
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by jedrek 11y ago
The main roles of the US Armed Forces are currently the support of US business interests abroad, corporate subsidies for contractors and as a government jobs program.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Agreed. Neither Facebook nor YouTube run without JS enabled, which means that the vast majority of your users will never even consider turning it off.
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by jedrek 11y ago
If you think drug houses in the US aren't a thing, you're sadly mistaken.
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by jedrek 11y ago
The average age of a car in the US is 10 years old.
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by jedrek 11y ago
That's between you and your employer.
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by jedrek 11y ago
What a strangely clickbaitish title for HN.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Good. I don't understand why companies need to be bribed to come to markets. Want to sell your goods, great, pay the same taxes every other company pays. This is nothing more than government subsidies for specific private companies.
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by jedrek 11y ago
One thing I found funny was that when Obama was pushing through the Affordable Care Act in the US, the GOP was scaring their voters with visions of nationalized hospitals. Around the same time, here in Poland, the right-wing-ish PiS party w
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by jedrek 11y ago
...in a handful of markets.
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by jedrek 11y ago
I hate fixed bars on desktop as well - I still scroll with my keyboard and it chops content off willy nilly.
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by jedrek 11y ago
Also, after removing a covered casserole dish from the oven, take the top off for a second. Otherwise moisture can form a seal around the lid so tight that when the air inside cools, it will shatter the pot inwards.
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by jedrek 11y ago
+ 28 billion quid spent on roads.

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