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by m12k 6y ago
It's highly unlikely that a regulator would cap Apple's cut at e.g. 10% like that. Apple is using a monopoly on distribution to enforce a monopoly on payments (and can thus monopolistically set prices arbitrarily) so it is most li
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by m12k 6y ago
With so many people finding things via GitHub, I'd highly recommend also including a single paragraph at the top of the repo readme to explain what it is, rather than expect people to be curious enough to go digging for more info. E.g.
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by m12k 6y ago
You think CNN and Fox are the same? I mean sure, CNN didn't exactly report critically on any of the Iraq wars, and I'm sure there's lots of pro-gov and pro-corporate stuff like that. But Fox is literally a propaganda channel
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by m12k 6y ago
I'm not sure what it is about Colonization, but the mood and atmosphere of it just hit the nail on the head for me, and kept me coming back again and again.
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by m12k 6y ago
Also, if you can change the framing so the decision becomes 'which option should I go for?' instead of 'do I want to buy this at all?' then that's a valuable bit of sleight of hand. But it comes with the risk of dec
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by m12k 6y ago
I maintain a 4 year old rails code base. I'm not going to be porting it to Crystal - but if I had an easy way to get ~5x speedup of the most performance critical parts of my code, I would jump at the opportunity. I'm glad someone
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by m12k 6y ago
Most likely, what this shows is just that people with strong immune systems that can fight off the corona-virus also tend to not have vitamin D deficiency (in part because frail people tend to spend less time outside in the sun).
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by m12k 6y ago
Not one of the linked questions from that survey measured whether the respondents wanted more integration between EU countries, only how favorably they viewed the EU. So just to be clear: Those two things are very different. There's a
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by m12k 6y ago
Citation needed. The people pushing for more integration are politicians and bureaucrats, not normal people. Most of the EU (indeed most of the Western world) is in a democratic crisis - moving decision-making even further away from citizen
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by m12k 6y ago
This was what I feared when I voted against the Unitary Patent. I really hope someone manages to prevent software from becoming patentable in Europe.
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by m12k 6y ago
"why can some sparks in one place cause such huge destruction and can we do anything about that?" Forest fires happen naturally all the time, but we've gotten so good at putting them out quickly, that at some point a huge bui
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by m12k 6y ago
I wish people weren't so quick to jump to this simplistic "who's the good guy and who's the bad guy?" mentality. It's quite possible for Epic to be a bad guy in their own right and still have a valid grievance
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by m12k 6y ago
Thanks for fixing them - and sorry if I was overly harsh. Sharing your writing with the world is nerve-wracking enough already without having the spelling and grammar shot down on HN. Truth be told, my first thought was "maybe this is
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by m12k 6y ago
I think this is less about attracting investors who think long-term than it is about telling investors who think short-term to go somewhere else.
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by m12k 6y ago
Sure, neither is mine. But if you don't have the skills to proofread what you've written yourself, then get someone to help that has. I don't expect to be able to write something in Chinese deserving of a wide audience all on
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by m12k 6y ago
"Recommendation system is so successful in many products and services we interact everyday" -> "Recommendation system[S] [ARE] so successful in many products and services we interact [WITH] every[ ]day" I'm sorry
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by m12k 6y ago
"It's not even necessarily the case that going outside is healthy, but that healthy people tend to go outside more." Right, that's why I used the word correlated - while it's not unreasonable to think that having an
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by m12k 6y ago
So Vitamin D deficiency is linked to cancer, heart disease, respiratory infection, stroke, diabetes, and death. But taking it as a supplement helps with none of the above. What is a reasonable hypothesis then? That having an active lifestyl
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by m12k 6y ago
> Obviously if a company acquires another company they will acquire the email contacts and accounts as well. And LinkedIn has the right to connect accounts they own across their web properties. Let's assume this is true, and see whe
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by m12k 6y ago
I thought ReasonML only had tooling for front-end use - is there a mature way to use for backend development too?
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by m12k 6y ago
As someone with a background in Objective-C, Swift, C++, C# and Java, and currently using Ruby, I'm looking for my next language for web development. Elixir sounds like a step up from Ruby, but I really miss static typing, and I find i
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by m12k 6y ago
I'd say if you care about consistency across media, try to make your colors have different luminosity, so they can still be distinguished somewhat when someone invariably prints them on a monochrome printer. Also, pure yellow (and to s
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by m12k 6y ago
I was telling a friend about Bloom filters and he'd never looked into them, because he'd assumed from the name that they were some kind of screen space shader.
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by m12k 6y ago
No, I'm suggesting that once I've authorized someone to be able to contact me, switching to a new email address should not break that.
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by m12k 6y ago
Another problem with email is that it's your responsibility to keep your contacts list up-to-date when people change their email address. By comparison Facebook doesn't have that problem - for example organising a high school reun
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by m12k 6y ago
floatbit is good starting idea, but maybe too long to be catchy. How about a flit?
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by m12k 6y ago
I think the assumption is that you are sharing your screen with others in the meeting, and then use this tool to add highlights or zoom in, which others then can see too.
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by m12k 6y ago
I have another tool (Pocket) that I use for bookmarking interesting posts for later reading/reference that works independently of which site I happen to be on.
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by m12k 6y ago
I disagree that named parameters are just biased toward new users. They're also biased toward reading rather than writing. I find that as a code base becomes bigger and more non-trivial, I end up reading code many times, and the more I
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by m12k 6y ago
This is like lettersofnote.com, but with maps instead of letters - very interesting, feels like something you can dig into repeatedly, with many rabbit holes to follow. For anyone interested in this, you might also want to check out the boo

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