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by kick 6y ago
I don't think that's exactly fair. There are plenty of other great ways to look good to MIT that are primarily available to people in higher income brackets; it's not controversial that MIT caters more to the middle-class tha
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by kick 6y ago
Panoramic no (panoramas work on a single axis), but interesting despite that. One of the applications for a thing like that would be creating 3D environments of concerts and other historical events that were fairly accurate from any angle,
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by kick 6y ago
Feynman definitely had some undesirable features, and he probably should if nothing else be re-examined as the poster boy for American science, but yeah, most articles criticizing him seem to be from people who haven't read anything he
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by kick 6y ago
The value of an Ivy is the prestige that comes with it. CMU is only prestigious in computing. Academically Duke is better than most Ivies, and it's got some pretty nice name recognition because of its outreach programs, but it doesn&#x
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by kick 6y ago
I didn't complain, and I didn't even criticize it in "several" comments; the only comment with anything resembling criticism is the second one I wrote, and it's just a single comment! I said I didn't like som
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by kick 6y ago
All three of those can be easily written off by anyone who likes the project. Claim that 4chan is toxic; people who like 4chan will think you're an idiot, but it won't really ruin their mood. Point out specific examples of their f
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by kick 6y ago
I was asked why I dislike something. I answered. "Unsubstantiated" is a really weird thing to use in the context of opinion. An unsubstantiated claim exclusively applies to fact, while I was very clearly giving my opinion. None of
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by kick 6y ago
It might actually reflect your own prejudice a bit that you're interpreting it that way. Speaking as a rainbow myself over here, it's...not unlikely? Throw a bunch of teenagers or young adults in support groups together with the
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by kick 6y ago
While CMU is huge in computing, it's lacking in prestige. Cornell is most-frequently referred to as a 'fake Ivy' everywhere college discussion can be found, and has been since the 1980s. I direct the audience's attention
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Operation Condor(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by kick 6y ago|0 comments
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by kick 6y ago
I'd prefer not to be more specific, actually; at least on most points. Complaining about popular new things in threads about them is a trend I find irritating, and using a thread about how someone finds something cool to give reasoning
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by kick 6y ago
I'm not missing that variable; the comment you're replying to was explicitly written to try and clear up that I was not missing that variable.
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by kick 6y ago
In order from most to least, all concerns but some that I'm usually happy overlooking: * Poorly-implemented versions of theoretically-interesting ideas * Poor implementations, technically * Lacking merit compared to its best competitor
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The Prisoner Trade [pdf](harvardlawreview.org)
1 points by kick 6y ago|0 comments
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by kick 6y ago
The appealing features of whatever it is are still appealing despite the learning curve. To highlight what I object to, because I feel I may have come across ambiguously: Not much about all this setup feels appealing. The good features
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by kick 6y ago
Thanks!
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by kick 6y ago
I really dislike Nix/NixOS, but I think it's kind of unreasonable to claim something is unappealing because of a learning curve. Pretty much everything on the planet has a learning curve; if a project is genuinely innovative or ai
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by kick 6y ago
Was the original title the article's title? I'm really curious now.
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by kick 6y ago
To be fair, that twitter account is incredibly far from funny.
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by kick 6y ago
I responded to this elsewhere in the thread to avoid having to make a dozen comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22971567
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by kick 6y ago
Most of your comments in this thread have been dull and poorly-conceived strawmanning with ad hominem interlaced. If you don't see how "income of population" relates to "What citizens will spend money on," you'
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by kick 6y ago
Look at median household income to get a better picture of the market for high-end laptops; what your customers have to spend is a better way to figure out how big your market is than raw bodies or statistics that can be heavily-influenced
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by kick 6y ago
Linux users does not equal people able/willing to order overpriced high-end laptops. Most of the EU is significantly more poor than the US, and you have to consider spending power when thinking about market size. To quote a previous co
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by kick 6y ago
It seems like it's changed from about two years ago; really strange.
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by kick 6y ago
It's even more apparent when you compare them by GDP.
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by kick 6y ago
I'm absolutely sure, yes, especially if we're talking about the EU alone (but I'd prefer to argue for Europe as a whole), that the market for high-end laptops is significantly smaller. Eastern Europe is an order of magnitud
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by kick 6y ago
Market-share might be higher, but the market is much smaller, and it's still a minority. Selling to a minority in the US is much more profitable than selling to a minority in Europe, solely because of scale.
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by kick 6y ago
Sure. It's understandable that'd be frustrating. It's still probably more likely due to poorly-adapted copy than due to a genuine interest in selling Linux laptops in France, or incompetence.
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by kick 6y ago
Stable's entire selling-point is to be the Linux of yesterday, tomorrow. You probably would have had better luck with a distribution that didn't intentionally aim to be ancient.
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by kick 6y ago
Did you check the wiki for your specific model? It looks like there's still a few problems, but it's actually got pretty trivial fixes for just about everything: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_Thi

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