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by lurk2 1y ago
Yes, this would be a vast improvement. Most companies don’t even take inbound calls anymore, though.
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by lurk2 1y ago
>What else? Being anything other than a static page where I get your company’s phone number to call and talk to someone whose first language is my own.
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by lurk2 1y ago
Will take a look. Thanks.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> I do not believe for a second that the fact it went different in the US wasn't for lack of trying. The trying hasn't even stopped. What statements did Rush Limbaugh make that could be construed as instigating a genocide?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Pre-colonization these groups were genuinely fluid. Where did you read this? I’ve seen many people make this claim but I’ve never seen any evidence that it’s true. The only source I have found for it is Philip Gourevitch’s book “We Wis
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by lurk2 1y ago
I’m not asking this rhetorically: Are you being sarcastic?
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by lurk2 1y ago
> except that you never have to see the low quality stuff which doesn't interest you. This has not been my experience.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Where can I find a larger library of high quality documentary, educational and instructional videos? The question isn’t whether or not YouTube has this content, it’s if it would have proportionally more or less of this content in the a
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by lurk2 1y ago
> There is an immense amount of the highest quality video content you can find on YouTube, and the trend has only accelerated in the past few years. This has not been my experience.
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by lurk2 1y ago
Documentation, too. I know it’s hard writing instructions with context you already have (think of the “Tell me how to make a peanut butter sandwich” demonstration), but too often I come across projects that I can’t even figure out how to ru
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Without even the opportunity to make money, there's very little incentive for creators to spend time and effort making videos for these channels. YouTube had plenty of content on it before the partner program was launched, and the
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Pixelfed I suspect a lot of these projects are being held back by bad branding. The first time I heard the term “fediverse,” I assumed it was alluding to Facebook’s Metaverse being a project of the CIA.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> What will be interesting is there's a lot of recent work to suggest IQ/personality differences can be seen through physiognomy What work are you referring to?
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by lurk2 1y ago
That would fix the problem if it supported the export of indentation and attachments, but I would still never bother with a proprietary solution when a free-as-in-freedom solution already exists. I’m still holding out for a phone I can use
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by lurk2 1y ago
Interesting. Did they add this feature recently? How do you set it up? Embedded files (photos, video, audio, PDFs, etc.) and bullet hierarchies were the two things that I remember being the most trouble; you can copy bullet hierarchies from
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by lurk2 1y ago
I would not recommend investing in the iOS Notes ecosystem. There is no way to export these notes with their metadata and media intact without using iCloud. If you need a note-taking app, go with Joplin instead; it supports Markdown, has bo
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by lurk2 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by lurk2 1y ago
Andreessen has been interacting with Thiel’s network on Twitter for a few years now. These guys always have takes that can appear intriguing for being contrary to popular opinion, but once you see where the money originates, their attitudes
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Do localities with plasma gasifiers end up purchasing waste from elsewhere to maintain waste input stocks? This wouldn’t be a problem for a very long time. The reason so much of this waste ends up being landfilled or shipped overseas i
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by lurk2 1y ago
If Hacker News charged users by the post we wouldn’t have to view these sorts of inane comments.
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by lurk2 1y ago
People who can’t afford to pay for a bus ticket are not paying taxes.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Transit should be free. Users should pay for the services they use.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Traditional knowledge is also about stuff like exactly how much to use, how to prepare it, what to use it with (and not to use it with), what time of day, beneficial activities before and after, and so on. You are describing convention
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by lurk2 1y ago
> One cannot buy “sacred”. Obscuritan nonsense.
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by lurk2 1y ago
Almost every video I watch these days has a sponsored segment that ends up taking around 1/10th of the video’s total run time. Better than TV, but if I’m paying for the service I’m not willing to watch any ads.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> No, it's quite easy to make $1mm in a rich country and move to a poorer country and chill if you so desire. On an aggregate level this is true and contrary to the prevailing sentiment of doomer skepticism, the developed world is u
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by lurk2 1y ago
> Boston level goods prices I’ve never been to Boston. Why are the prices high there?
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by lurk2 1y ago
I just found it funny that there was a sense in this paper that America could no longer afford to be #1 across every domain, and that all of that seemed to go out the window as soon as the Soviet Union collapsed.
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by lurk2 1y ago
> We frustrate ourselves in attempting to acquire "maximum" capability in our deployed systems. Although we use the words, we have not internalized the reality that we can no longer indulge in the "rich man" strategy
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by lurk2 1y ago
> But high status guys by definition wouldn't be seen dead in clubs like these to begin with. The problem with joining a club is not that it’s a club but that it’s a club governed by Title IX legislation and the Damoclesian threat o

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