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mdoms
5y ago
Yeah I'm sure any woman would love to date this guy who is financially incentivised to get rid of her on a "typical VC vesting schedule". What a dork.
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mdoms
5y ago
It will also fall flat on its face for CSV files that contain values which contain escaped commas.
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mdoms
5y ago
This isn't Reddit.
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mdoms
5y ago
> I get it, it's hard to see past the memes and bubbles and bullshit and buzzwords in the crypto industry. I really don't think you do get it.
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mdoms
5y ago
It seems to be largely focused around very recent American politics - well over 10% of entries contain the words "trump", "biden", "obama" or "brandon" (I just learned about this last one a couple of
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mdoms
5y ago
> Is this jumping on the bandwagon or genuinely beneficial? Considering that to this date blockchains and cryptocurrencies have not solved a single problem better than their "legacy" counterparts, I'd say the former.
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5y ago
If they can determine that any phone in usage today running Android software may be prone to this bug they should issue an immediate recall on all devices. That's likely to be almost every Android device purchased in the past couple of
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5y ago
I just opened the front pages of CNN, Fox News, BBC News and NBC News and found the Maxwell case either completely uncovered on the front pages, opinion-only coverage, coverage of only this particular Twitter story, tabloid nonsense or cove
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mdoms
5y ago
> Decrease reliance on Visa. Has Visa ever let them down? > Instant, cross-border payment settlement. Like Visa? > Other features like money streaming. ?
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mdoms
5y ago
It's very funny to me when I talk to Americans who bang on about the convenience of Amazon and almost can't imagine life without it. From a country where Amazon never existed... life is just fine.
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mdoms
5y ago
That's not how analogies work. If I say "it's like a sauna in here" I'm not saying "this room is literally like a sauna in every possible way, to the same degree that a sauna is like a sauna".
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mdoms
5y ago
Ah there it is, the 'slippery slope fallacy' fallacy. Slippery slope arguments are not fundamentally fallacious. There's no such thing as "the slippery slope fallacy". There are slippery slope arguments, some of whi
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mdoms
5y ago
What you're describing would be a ridiculously massive government overreach into a private company. I'm not American and I'm not some loony libertarian but you have to understand that private companies are and should be free
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mdoms
5y ago
> Microsoft has not added any functionality to their operating system or applications since 1998 This is simply absolute nonsense. Are you really contending that no real functionality has been added to Windows since Windows NT? I know HN
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mdoms
5y ago
I'm not sure how your post is related at all? Is USA Today one of the small news organisations involved in these lawsuits? My understanding is that USA Today is a behemoth news organisation.
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mdoms
5y ago
News media organisations were forced into bed with Google and Facebook by a tragedy of the commons. Readership was going to go to those platforms as long as any small proportion of media organisations published there. Smaller orgs like the
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Tesla Drivers Can Now Play Video Games Even with Car Moving
(nytimes.com)
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5y ago
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5y ago
I would just like to plug my very very expensive 2 year old Intel MacBook Pro into a monitor without the fans immediately running at 100% and cooking my desk. A problem that has gone completely unacknowledged by Apple despite the several hu
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mdoms
5y ago
Not sure if you've ever worked on complex systems before, but features simply don't exist in isolation. Features interact - sometimes in complex ways, sometimes in unexpected ways. The cost of supporting user-facing toggles for ev
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mdoms
5y ago
Great idea! Why vertical scrolling though?
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5y ago
Exactly. I can answer every question on my list, and you'd think any interviewer could because we've all used our interview sheets again and again and seen every caliber of answer. If you waste my time by telling me up front you&#
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5y ago
It loads after a long, long time. It will transfer upwards of 10mb of who-knows-what before displaying a useless morphing cube and zero information.
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5y ago
I have literally no idea what this website is supposed to be.
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Spotify Is Breaking Podcasts
(wired.co.uk)
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5y ago
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5y ago
I would be utterly embarrassed to produce a 1mb payload on anything but an image- or video-heavy website (where the images and videos are the actual content, not superfluous crap). There's absolutely no reason for websites that are pri
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5y ago
It is so funny to me when people on this website absolutely refuse to believe that some people really do like to rise early and get things done in the morning. I almost certainly get lots of stuff done before you get out of bed. You probabl
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mdoms
5y ago
Now try loading it in a browser like everyone else. You will find cookies for giphy.com and cookies.giphy.com. Please stop spreading misinformation.
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5y ago
Every major video codec does this exact thing. Can you please stop spreading this misinformation all over the thread?
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5y ago
If your website has janky scrolling I'm not using your JS library. No exceptions.
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5y ago
> Here it is in a nutshell: In the general case, how do you distinguish 'telemetry' from 'surveillance'? By never sending PII to your telemetry system. Or if you must use PII (you don't need to) then you lock it
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