mFixman

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by mFixman 6y ago
All retail outside of large supermarkets is disappearing. It's impossible to compete against online services that are cheaper to run, more scalable, and overall mode comfortable. The bookstores that will survives are the ones with comf
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by mFixman 6y ago
I don't have a background in biology, and that quote confused me. What's an experimental method for protein folding and why is it so good? Are they talking about creating an actual, physical protein in a lab and observing how it f
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by mFixman 6y ago
Beggars are people. Have you tried asking them what food they want?
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by mFixman 6y ago
If you want to have a look at a world without Internet targeting and cultural bubbles, go to the "Trending" tab in YouTube.
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by mFixman 6y ago
> "I hate modern communication culture. It's obviously terrible and young people are getting dumber for using it." — Every human being in recorded history when they hit 35 years old.
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by mFixman 6y ago
I used to have a huge selection of MP3s with obscure and non-obscure music of my tastes that I've painfully curated over the years and I listened using an MPD server. I'm glad I decided to keep the collection behind when I changed
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by mFixman 6y ago
You are missing out if you don't have 4 USB-C ports in both sides of your laptop. You can charge your laptop and connect a display with a single cable and without caring about putting the computer in the right direction.
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by mFixman 6y ago
But Schmidt is not renouncing his citizenship, so he'll still have to report dividends back to the IRS despite also being a Cyprot citizen.
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by mFixman 6y ago
Can't you set up an offshore business in a tax heaven without being a citizen?
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by mFixman 6y ago
I don't understand why he does this. The IRS will tax him regardless of whether he has assets in the US or outside of it, and he's rich enough to get a working visa to anywhere. Does anyone know of any other possible tax advantage
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by mFixman 6y ago
It's chilling how nobody born between 1924 and 1942 (or 1946 if Biden doesn't count yet) became the President or even tbe candidate of any major political party during a US election. Maybe people who grew up during the Great Depre
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by mFixman 6y ago
Even worse, "you put the climatologists in climatologist". Still, I love when small people silly personal projects get promoted in HN. We should have more of these.
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by mFixman 6y ago
The US went through periods of much higher division in the last 150 years. Whatever fuckery is being caused by Trump is nothing compared to the cultural wars and the Vietnam protests in the '70s, the anti-segregation movement in the &#
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by mFixman 6y ago
If you are a worker, AB5 would lower the probability of you being classifier as an employee with benefits instead of a contractor. Uber can now legally hire people without paying them benefits, there are lots of employers looking to do the
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by mFixman 6y ago
If you try to define what is or is not coffee (or chocolate, milk, meat, ...) using its composition you'll end up with a lot of ambiguous and incorrect rules. The correct way to solve this is to remember that language is an imprecise m
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by mFixman 6y ago
This is a good time to ask a question I wondered for a long time: why is does the clipboard depend on the window manager at all? Wouldn't it be easier to make it a separate service instead of having X or Wayland deal with it?
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by mFixman 6y ago
If you get paid in Peso you lose money every payday that you don't get a significant raise in salary. If you get paid in Dollars your salary raises roughly on pace with inflation.
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by mFixman 6y ago
The USD has been one of the best performing currencies in the world in most people's lifetimes. I'm sure that most people would prefer to be paid in that currency. For every Swiss Franc that strengthened 15% against the dollar in
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by mFixman 6y ago
You cannot verify that the researchers won't change the plugin to malware in the future.
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So does the University of Cambridge, and that didn't prevent one of their researchers from scraping and selling user data to Cambridge Analytica.
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by mFixman 6y ago
The researchers ask people to opt in tracking a restricted amount of data, and then install an extension that has access to their entire Facebook accounts. There is no way for Facebook or anyone else to prove that the current or a future ve
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by mFixman 6y ago
Even in the best case scenario where everyone starts using different instances of Peertube, won't it end like 2012 Reddit full of racist and paedophile instances? You need a minimum amount of moderation to remove the least desirable gr
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by mFixman 6y ago
I can think of 0 times in my 15 years of owning a cellphone when I received a call that was worth losing sleep to. Aeroplane mode has two advantages for me: I don't receive calls or notifications for the night, and I aren't tempte
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by mFixman 6y ago
I'm an immigrant, and Facebook shows me a lot of targeted ads for local companies that sell snacks from my native country. The TV constantly shows me ads for cars despite the fact that I don't even have a drivers licence. The firs
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by mFixman 6y ago
Why doesn't the European Union have tech giants other than SAP?
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by mFixman 6y ago
This should stop in a type error just like `0 + False` or `1 + "1"`. This code is almost always a programmer error.
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by mFixman 6y ago
That has been the COVID experience in Britain in the last couple of months: the government is spending a ton of money in training new people and creating new processes, which is causing a ton of slowdowns and bugs. In the grand scheme of th
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by mFixman 6y ago
Every time I see a problem like this I can't stop thinking that computer education is terrible everywhere. We are able to teach almost everyone how to use complex software like Word and Excel. Why can't we teach people how to use
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by mFixman 6y ago
Why must this be an application with a demo? You can easily make a website with the same purpose.
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It's the latest TikTok meme. Writing curses and hexes against Donald Trump in Ahramaic is the new random K-Pop gifs.

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