justaguyhere

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by justaguyhere 6y ago
I've a macbook air which is 9 years old, which never gave me a problem until now even after tons of abuse. My work laptop is Dell, about 4 years old - wifi drops at random, battery has swollen etc. Maybe the reason Apple customers don&
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
Google evil etc etc aside, they have been decent custodians of their users data Maybe, but can you guarantee they will be good custodians tomorrow, even if they are good custodians today? Privacy is a unique problem, in the sense that it
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
any resources you can recommend?
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
I really want a device like this Just curious, what is your use case?
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
dumb question - why do phones cost so much? for 1400, we can get a pretty good laptop. Is it harder to make phone hardware than laptop hardware - because of size etc?
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Ask HN: Are you excited about any upcoming computers, especially AMD laptops?
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
Are there any CEOs that reached such levels of success without being at least a bit nasty - nasty to their employees, friends and family? Makes me wonder if being nasty is a requirement ...
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
I find I learn a lot from Twitter, HN and Reddit Are these learnings useful in your daily life and career? I too have learned a bit from these sites but I really do not know if that knowledge is useful in practice. Sure one can argue that
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/14... This was four years ago, I wonder what the status is today. Key sentences from the article: There would be serious punishments for th
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
where do you get the word lists from? edit : never mind, found the list https://www.onelook.com/?d=all_&v=s&sort=&langdf=all
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
I dunno, it feels like an impossible task to create a youtube competitor. Even harder than creating Google's search engine competitor. The storage and bandwidth costs are so big that it can deter most rich companies except maybe a few
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
Babies breathe this way. Somewhere along the way to becoming an adult, we lose this ability without even realizing.
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
Any resources that you have used and can recommend?
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
If celebrities (with their fame, reach and money) can't bother owning their own domains, what chance does a normal guy/gal have? It would be trivial for celebrities to set up their own websites and share whatever stuff they are sh
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
Did you consciously develop lucid dreaming skill? Or was it natural? Any good/bad side effects? Also, why do you think you lost it with age? Is this like physical abilities that degrade with age?
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
If someone on H1b wants to create a business, a non profit, or just wants to freelance - what are the options available to them?
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
How does one decide what information to consume? If I shun news altogether, then how will I come to know of some events that might have a direct effect on my life? Even with what we consider useful knowledge, how much of it is really usef
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
Just curious, what do they do with this data (other than maybe integrating into search)? Do they sell it? If yes, who buys these and what do the buyers do with it?
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
The no kids thing is already happening on a small scale. I decided when I in college that I'll never bring a child into this world. There was even a guy who wanted to sue his parents for his birth. As absurd as this sounds, it makes on
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
From what little I know of unions, I'd say it is better to have unions (with all the problems they bring) than not at all. With unions, workers have a chance at least to get fair treatment. Without them, it is totally one sided. Just l
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
I think we are at a tipping point - my dad had a single job all his life, for 30+ years. While the organization he worked for wasn't great, they also didn't actively sabotage their own employees (benefits etc) as far as I know. At
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
It is not easy to avoid these mega-corps though, they make it very hard. If you go to the supermarket, how do you know any product that you pick is not coming from a shitty mega-corp? How much time an average person is willing (or able to)
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
I'd gladly pay 5k for a robot that can auto-organize my stuff around the house Cheaper option might be to have less stuff in the house :P
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
Maybe humans are nature's biggest mistake!
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
Maybe I am, but I don't own any shares of any company. How does it benefit me? :P
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
Owls can fly almost in total silence, peregrine falcons can hit close to 250 mph, eagles can spot a tiny mouse from tens of thousands of feet... Mother nature is wonderful and terrifying at the same time. Suddenly I am feeling sad for sitti
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
I had similar experience. We had a middle aged woman at work (we were all fresh college kids at the time). Nobody took her seriously ever - she talked weird, dressed weird (tennis shoes to work etc) and the girls in my team especially weren
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
Water monopoly is a problem. Shitty companies like Nestle are prime examples. There are private corporations thinking of all kinds of ways to control rivers and even ground water. With water shortages being predicted all over the world, thi
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
I forget the name, but there was one company that bought properties throughout the US after the 2008 market crash - we are talking about hundreds of thousands of properties here, massive scale. I remember (2014 or so) looking for apartments
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by justaguyhere 6y ago
Wrong incentives probably? Gone are the days when good work alone was enough to get noticed and get appreciated. These days, everyone needs to be aggressive and market themselves, so everyone tries to do stuff that gives them maximum exposu

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