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by mcny 2y ago
This is an ongoing debate between inclusionists and deletionists and it is far from settled even though the deletionists would have you believe the war is over. See also https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Inclusionism h
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by mcny 2y ago
instead of going to dang.at.hn directly, I am archiving it at https://archive.ph/wip/0acmv so only me, and the fine folks at archive.today, and of course everyone on HN will have access to dang's username :D
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by mcny 2y ago
I’m not holding my breath. Things won’t change until there’s a price to pay for corruption. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurie_Smith
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by mcny 2y ago
Also I recently learned that different people see different comments on the same Instagram post and they to me is something I’d never thought of about echo chambers. Like you could send someone an Instagram post and assuming Instagram has t
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by mcny 2y ago
I think that’s the way we were taught in college / grad school. If the premise of the class is relational databases, the professor says, for the purpose of this course, assume the data does not fit in memory. Additionally, assume that
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by mcny 2y ago
> But immigrating to the US is difficult even if you're from a rich country like one in the EU. If you are thinking like my Portuguese friend complaining about how "hard" it was because it took six months to immigrate to t
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by mcny 2y ago
> The only way to reverse this, would be to invoke protectionism (or have a war, which will do that, anyway). That isn't very popular, with this crowd. Because we know that protectionism with people like those you explained at the t
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by mcny 2y ago
> Retirement age minus 4 would be reasonable compromise for me. So you would not be allowed to run if you would hit retirement age during term. I don't want to give them even more excuse to raise the retirement age.
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by mcny 2y ago
For today's lucky ten thousand, the grandparent comment is about dropbox https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by mcny 2y ago
How did you get your money back? I didn’t get a refund from delta at all…
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by mcny 3y ago
I still believe the best course of action is for most people to CHOOSE to not have children. There is no law that says I have to have children. You can’t put me in prison because I failed to create 2.1 or more children. I want everyone t
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by mcny 3y ago
> I bet if we removed the requirement to get a lawyer and file a lawsuit that those behaviors would vanish real quick, if all you had to do as the wronged consumer was report to an authority that Company X is doing business dishonestly.
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by mcny 3y ago
I thought the fix was trivial - all I need to do is go to settings > my face >> icloud >>> show all >>>> messages and make sure the toggle is off? doesn't that stop iCloud syncing, at least on my end? I u
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by mcny 3y ago
I agree with you but Facebook disagrees with us. https://m.facebook.com/story.php/?id={redacted}&story_fbid={redacted}
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by mcny 3y ago
> The highest bitrate of 4k Bluray Remux movie in my library is ~90Mbps which translates to 50GiB~80GiB per movie. I feel like my sub USD 500 television is not worthy of such high quality.
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by mcny 3y ago
> I just added Neo Store to my boox device. Thanks so much! It is great! Glad to be of service. If you haven't tried it yet, please give KOReader a try https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.koreader.launche
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by mcny 3y ago
> With user permission (allow installation from unknown sources or something), that must've been possible for a decade or so already. > Is this change just whitelisting a bunch of widely used app stores by default (especially in
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by mcny 3y ago
Yes, previously on hacker news https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27218157 > Android 12 will let alternative app stores update apps automatically (xda-developers.com)
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by mcny 3y ago
> runs android 11 that's a bummer. There is a killer new feature on android 12 that allows neostore (F-droid frontend) that allows apps to auto update without me having to remember to manually update them.
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by mcny 3y ago
In swagger/open API, why is everything a post? I tried the first endpoint get suggestions and tried searching for Gemini or Gemin hoping it would at least auto complete a word but the result set is empty. https://stract.com&
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by mcny 3y ago
Yes, the fact that there is no relegation/promotion is strange.
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by mcny 3y ago
I personally use a -> b -> c for sequence, a > b >> c for nested hierarchy. In this context, I read it as a is better than b which is better than c.
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by mcny 3y ago
That's the whole premise of automation and drag net though, no? Sure, it is absolutely legal for a private investigator to park their car outside my home and follow me as soon as I leave and go anywhere in public. They can write down
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by mcny 3y ago
> This has been know for at least 30 years in the eye tracking business and it even has a name - The Midas Touch problem. I wanted to see how it is possible but sure enough, I found a paper from 1995 that cited even older research about
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by mcny 3y ago
The question we should be asking is with what money and on whose authority? Defund the NSA.
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by mcny 3y ago
I think you hinted at the real reason but didn’t spell it out. There are no protocols to follow, lists of checkboxes to check, or “perpetrators” to harass in a self-driving car collision (I have to remind myself to avoid the word accident)
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by mcny 3y ago
Because these are the same talking points billionaires use to scare people with maybe twenty five dollars in cash accounts and no savings and people who have a couple million dollars into believing misinformation about taxes. Our taxes (in
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by mcny 3y ago
> This would just be a new revenue stream for Apple for doing something that they would have done for free anyway. A little off topic but this line of reasoning scares me. The end result of this kind of thought is "demonstrated nee
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by mcny 3y ago
Had to look it up. They've been doing this publicly for a year now. > Bug to track creating a content_shell application that compiles in the necessary parts of blink, content, and components on iOS. This experimental application wil
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by mcny 3y ago
This was my experience as well. I talked to three different doctors in two different states and they were all lukewarm at best about multivitamins when I mentioned them. "It won't hurt anything" was about the best I got from

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