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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
Lots of people here agree that something's very off with OP. Maybe it's not NPD, but there's definitely something. Could just be poor personal hygiene or social skills. Maybe he's asking for 7 figures at every first inte
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> Just to clarify - are you implying scientists crave certainty, or non-scientists who enjoy reading about science crave certainty? Mostly the latter, but also the former to some degree. The scientists holding the status quo are often th
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
Top comment as of right now says [1] they ordered one but was never delivered, and the seller never answered to emails. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26662123
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
So a scam, like the Escobar phone[1]? [1] Marques Brownlee - The Truth About the Escobar Folding Phone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8FJSjy3bXA [1] Marques Brownlee - Escobar Responds! A PSA https://www.yout
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
We have decades of steampunk literature to learn from :D
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
In Spain there's a variety of tomatoes called "tomates de colgar" [1], which means "tomatoes to be hanged". I've also heard the term "tomates de invierno" ("tomatoes for the winter"). The id
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> The problem is not the language! It is. A language that lets you write unsafe code is an unsafe language. > If C is not sufficiently safe for you, you shouldn't take planes, or drive cars, or rely on medical devices, because th
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
Carbon emission is only one of all our ecological concerns. I don't know why people only think about carbon. You can look for example at River plastic emissions to the world’s oceans [1]. [1] https://www.nature.com/arti
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> You can plant a tree but You can't plant a forest. Of course you can plant a forest. But there's no need to. If each one of us plant 1 tree per month, we would be planting thousands of forests as a result of our team effort.
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> The manipulation and the written form are fully independent. No, they are related. The optimal written form for a base 10 manipulation system is a base 10 numeral written system. > Before the introduction of Arabic numerals to Europ
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
It's often omitted because the person doing the video usually owns the land. If you decide to build a cabin (not a primary residence) on a piece of land of your property, the amount of work is not insignificant, it's nonexistent.
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> there are regulations on how and where you are allowed to fell trees. If you own the land, and neither the land nor the tree (specimen or species) is protected, you should have no problem.
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> How can humans not be the cause humanity's biggest problems? That's a pretty good indicator of a civilization's state. For an advanced one, the answer to your question would be "it's nowhere near the top worrie
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
Setting a goal, even if arbitrary, is positive if an increased in the measured activity is positive. I think we'll all agree that, in most cases, reading more is a positive outcome. Instead of "read X books" think "run Y
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
I dearly love both sports and reading, but they are very different activities that give you happiness in very different ways. Kayaking won't teach you quantum mechanics or ancient Greek history. So from a certain knowledge-adquisition
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
I don't like the wording at all. "Ask app not to track" means an app can ignore a user's request, just like with "Do not track" on the web. The button should read "Deny", and the denial should be
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
The overlap between HN and Reddit must be huge. Folks just take off their fedora and put on a panama hat.
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
I'll give you my GME when you pry it from my dead, cold hands.
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
I have nothing neither against LastPass, nor for Dracula, and I've never used either so I might be wrong, but here are a few differences that IMO matter a lot: - Dracula is FOSS. LastPass has some FOSS projects, but the key ones aren&#
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> Technology is not the solution to everything It's not the solution, but in many situations (like this one) it helps the consumer make an informed decision overwhelmingly easier and faster. > Almost nobody wants to go to a sto
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> labeling things does exactly nothing for consumers, because most of them don't have a Phd in endocrinology They don't need to. We, as technologists and scientists, can develop solutions to make the decision process very easy,
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
It seems to me that Google is always trying to make their products run much slower on browsers that aren't Chrome.
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> i've never gotten a counterfeit or seen what appear to be counterfeit products on .fr That you know of. There's really no way to know. Counterfeit products could even be manufactured at the official facility, just with no (o
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> I realize it's complicated, but there are things that make me worry the future of the internet might not be so great. The solution isn't easy, but it's simple: stop using Amazon (specially AWS), Google (specially AdSense
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
It's a bit complex, I'll try to summarize. Let's think of being exposed to the sun as a continuum with different risks: 1. The best you can do is sun bathe every single day, all year round, avoiding mid-day hours in summer. T
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
Every time I read some list of advices on life I can't help but remember Mary Schmich's apocryphal speech "Wear Sunscreen" [1] (and made famous by Baz Luhrmann [2]), from way back when the Internet was young and wild. E
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> Neither Apple or Google have the ability to directly remove apps on a users device I'm pretty sure both can. But it's a legal problem, not a technical one.
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
Apple's iOS is way more secure than Android in several aspects. The best example is their 5 years of guaranteed security (and features!) updates, versus 2-3 tops in Android (even <1 with Chinese cheap brands than are very common in
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
Which begs the question: did Ikea name it "Lack" because they knew this, or even designed it on purpose? To me it looks like word play.
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by jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 6y ago
> You can't see it with the naked eye Maybe not where you live. But in dark places it's really ease to spot them.

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