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by jsdalton 16y ago
I completely understand the principle you are trying to communicate. But your assertion that "it doesn't matter" is false. Please consider the following: If it is true that energy accounts for 100% of the price of everything, then raising t
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Fair enough, but I'd wager that carbon-based energy is cheap enough that it accounts for only a fraction of the price of many (probably most) products. Also, producers have no incentive to utilize alternative sources of energy while carbon-
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The "easy" solution is for society to imposes higher taxes on energy, particularly those forms of energy which we wish to discourage our reliance on. This would particularly useful in the realm of consumer purchasing decisions. Which apples
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The initial designs look outstanding: http://jquerymobile.com/designs/
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Same. I lasted a few weeks, and would occasionally go back to Google when I wasn't satisfied with how a search turned out. A few times I wanted to switch back to Google, but I couldn't justify it rationally to myself. Around that time I bou
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He and Zed got into a pretty heated discussion in this thread and a few others: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1570694
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Hmm, I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but this is a pretty lame article. It's more like a thinly veiled advertisement disguised as a thought-provoking content piece: "People say email is dead. No, it's not! In fact, we've got this a
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by jsdalton 16y ago
From last year... "Poll: What do you think of Google Wave?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=635354
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Are Vitamin D supplements and Vitamin D obtained from the sun the same thing? What I mean is, are supplements good enough, or is sun exposure really required?
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There's one single paragraph in this entire article that addresses the root of the problem: > In 1970 the proportion of Americans behind bars was below one in 400, compared with today’s one in 100. Since then, the voters, alarmed at a s
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by jsdalton 16y ago
The compass and stocks apps aren't "junkware" in the sense the term is being used in the article (and the HN discussion here).
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Just grow a beard dude. It requires serious maintenance only once a week.
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The site is running off of OSQA ( http://www.osqa.net/ ). Your comment is a bit like complaining that someone running the default theme of a Wordpress blog is "cloning" other blogs.
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I only saw one image in the article. What are you guys looking at?
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Not to hijack this thread, but since we're having a meta-discussion about HN already... I am (mildly) aghast to discover that people are using the flag feature as a substitute for downvoting! There are numerous comments throughout this thre
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by jsdalton 16y ago
The title of this article is a bit confusing. Given that the blog itself is called "Planning For Failure," I expected it to be about how Greyhound "knew" how to fail in a graceful manner. I read through about halfway until I realized it was
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What are the advantages/disadvantages of using a messaging framework like Celery vs. handling asynchronous tasks in threads?
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We had an extremely poor experience with goto webinar (I wasn't directly involved, I just heard about it second hand). Apparently the presentation was seriously disrupted by technical issues.
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Ask HN: WebEx alternatives?
21 points by jsdalton 16y ago|34 comments
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The reason I say mythical is that I have never heard these arguments from someone who actually works for one of these enterprises. (This is not surprising to me, because I know that if I worked for a company that only allowed IE6, the las
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I've heard this argument a lot, but it doesn't hold up. These mythical IT departments could quite easily allow for a modern browser to be installed alongside IE6, so that users could continue to access legacy applications while enjoying a m
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by jsdalton 16y ago
I would like to install Google Voice, as a native app, on my iPhone. Without jail breaking it. And sorry, but the HTML5 version of GV is just not that great. Somebody please explain to me how this issue of mine is only a matter of "percepti
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> Also contrary to popular belief, nano does support syntax highlighting - this just isn't enabled by default in most distros. Did not know this! FYI, a bit of googling uncovered the following: http://code.google.com/p/nanosyntax/sourc
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Does Latitude run in the background, or do users need to launch the app or otherwise "check in" to record their location? From what I can tell you have to hit the Latitude website on an iPhone for it to capture your location (which severely
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Actually, I remember reading it and having the exact same reaction the 37 signals guys did in their thread -- so I certainly wasn't immune to the marketing ploy myself.
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I knew I'd seen this ad somewhere before: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/353-fly-on-the-wall-lifelock-...
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My employer uses Trinet: http://www.trinet.com/ . Essentially, we outsource all of our HR functions like payroll and health insurance to them. Though we've grown quite a bit over the last 10 years, we've used Trinet since back when we had
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by jsdalton 17y ago
> If not, how is it any less open than ChromeOS? You're setting up an artificial comparison with ChromeOS. I think most people are comparing the iPad to a Mac or PC. There's no question that it's far less open than either.
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Ask HN: Web designer who codes, or designer + front-end coder?
6 points by jsdalton 17y ago|8 comments
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This is already possible via any netbook or tablet -- via the browser, at netflix.com. I've been watching streaming Netflix videos this way on my laptop for a long while. Are we honestly going to get hyped up about every last feature of exi

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