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by madgar 10y ago
> it takes boldness to not roll with the alternative, Yes, like the "courage" it takes to remove the 3.5mm headphone jack.
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by madgar 10y ago
I see a host demanding a guest reduce their answer which might require many words down to either "yes" or "no". Clearly the guest's answer was not as simple as "yes" or "no" but the host required
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by madgar 10y ago
I assume they meant that it was seriously confusing to read an email without context, only to find the context in an earlier email after reading another full page of content.
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by madgar 10y ago
> In your mind if Amazon was optimising for their convenience alone they'd just pocket your money and not bother to ever deliver anything? That's called fraud and isn't generally considered a business model so much as a cr
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by madgar 10y ago
Not the GP but I generally assume that a patient's actual doctors know more about that patient's physical body and how it will impact a procedure than some academics who are classifying/"coding" thousands of case fi
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by madgar 10y ago
Someone should tell the folks at Uber that, somehow it's left out of the billboards they put up in poor neighborhoods. Instead they tell potential drivers that they'll take home a middle-class income.
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by madgar 10y ago
> every time I access production systems, I have a ton of messages telling me that our access is being completely tracked and we are prohibited from doing anything that was mentioned in the article. I haven't actually tested to see
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by madgar 10y ago
alias stonic='ansible-playbook -i localhost, -c local' Should I email you to discuss collecting the $100?
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by madgar 10y ago
I don't think entrepreneurs can be expected to have much consideration for society at large except as legally required. Why would they do somebody else's job? Their job is so dang hard as it is.
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by madgar 10y ago
For those working closer to the metal than I: are these special instructions dispatched to dedicated circuitry, or are they actually microcoded?
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by madgar 10y ago
Do you think only 39% of Americans because the other 61% are all terrified of their government? Or might it be because international travel is a luxury not everyone can afford?
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by madgar 10y ago
And to think, HN is already where I go to get away from politics. The site already only barely tracks the daily/weekly news cycle.
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by madgar 10y ago
I assume skywhopper is referring to undecidable and uncomputable problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecidable_problem
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by madgar 10y ago
My mother told me recently that my six-year-old nephew's personality was already set in stone, and his occasional bursts of energy were proof he needed "tough love" and "a wake-up call," including changing schools.
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by madgar 10y ago
> I'll be impressed when they solve Pacman on a Raspberry Pi, otherwise they are simply grownups playing with very expensive toys. I'm pretty sure "grownups playing with very expensive toys" accurately characterizes &
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by madgar 10y ago
Google had Orkut which was famously very popular in Brazil and India. Network effects couldn't sustain them when Facebook successfully went global and mobile.
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by madgar 10y ago
The blog post explicitly stated testing as the reason why Go needed a font that could be freely redistributable.
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by madgar 10y ago
It's true, no other tech hub can hold a candle to the traffic in Silicon Valley - let alone the cost of housing!
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by madgar 10y ago
Your first glance may have missed that the first sentence of the RFC says it includes modeling for "Remote Procedure Calls" and "notifications for network management protocols." Your first glance may have also missed tha
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by madgar 10y ago
For a sense of just how long ago that was, IE6 was released before 9/11. Truly a more innocent time.
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by madgar 10y ago
In the US, I can sue you just for making this hacker news comment. Doesn't mean I'll make it past the first hearing.
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by madgar 10y ago
Are there really only ~2x the green cabs in Brooklyn? They're everywhere in Astoria/LIC in Queens - maybe because of the airports? Edit: also worth noting that green cab drivers often drive for Uber/Lyft as well. It makes a l
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by madgar 10y ago
The asterisks got eaten in my post, fixed that. To be clear, there were no asterisks on the car. And it wasn't funny.
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by madgar 10y ago
When I lived in central NH there was someone who lived in the town who proudly drove a white sedan covered in racial epithets using magic marker and scratched into the paint. A hangman's noose was scratched into the trunk along with th
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by madgar 10y ago
A random dude on the internet who must know that they their opinion is not current law in any of the countries under discussion?
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by madgar 10y ago
Refrigation also put good, hardworking ice dealers out of business in NYC. Of course, the ice business was controlled by the mafia, but that's just market forces at work.
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by madgar 10y ago
On HN, all men are islands looking to dominate their island's native population. Nobody on this website wants to share wealth. It's about finding the product-market fit to achieve subjugation.
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by madgar 10y ago
Yeah because avoiding nuclear holocaust during the Cold War was a walk in the park and definitely not worth highlighting /s
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by madgar 10y ago
> a result of co-opting definitions from the association that "diversity is cool" If you think that "diversity is cool" is just a given then I have to assume you are not from the USA, or have otherwise been insulated
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by madgar 10y ago
A whole lot of people seem eager to ignore that America arrived where it is today based on tens of millions of voters repeatedly deciding who runs their governments. As if they were the first citizens to look around and find themselves whol

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