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by merrywhether 3y ago
That 0% platform royalty was on top of the $300 flat fee for the Windows operating system (or however much, I never ran Windows myself), whereas iOS is technically free (no fee for major updates). You’re paying for the OS/platform one
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by merrywhether 3y ago
These are famously the types of questions surfaced in countless sci-fi books. And as long as humans don’t destroy themselves first, it is likely that we will have to address them eventually. In most stories it generally happens too late aft
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by merrywhether 3y ago
Many people don’t like equating human and AI learning (see sibling), but it’s interesting to pull more on that thread. In all three of your transformation examples, you likely would’ve paid the NYT either indirectly via ads or directly via
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by merrywhether 3y ago
Maybe we should help them out and start calling them 737 MBA-8/9/10.
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by merrywhether 3y ago
If you’re public enough about it, other passengers who overhear might decide to join you. If that becomes even semi-regular and trends on social, that might be the most effective change agent. Right now regulators are increasingly broken (u
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by merrywhether 3y ago
He was doing it for the money (at least at the end)! That and the psychological safety of not doing his own things.
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by merrywhether 3y ago
> “There is something so vulnerable and frightening about doing your own thing, because it’s your fault if it doesn’t work. And then there’s this other kind of work, where you’re paid an extraordinary amount of money, you’re the hero bef
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by merrywhether 3y ago
If Zelda is so great why doesn’t Nintendo make it available on more platforms? Being able to run Nintendo games is a prime feature of the Switch product, and being able to run Apple software and services is a prime feature of an iPhone prod
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by merrywhether 3y ago
I’ve wondered about a similar thing. If there was something automatically constantly generating nudes of everyone, surely the noise would desensitize people to the signal.
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by merrywhether 3y ago
Tattoo artists also make money off generating infringing content all the time. I thought the issue was not in the generation but in the subsequent usage. Outlawing generation borders on thoughtcrime.
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by merrywhether 3y ago
From a climate perspective, cities should incentivize people to develop their land into dense/efficient usages because urban dwellers have the lowest per capita environmental impact. The alternative is suburban or rural dwelling which
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by merrywhether 3y ago
At least for the previous model, the sensor module was an all-in-one that I was able to easily replace myself with the exact part from AliExpress. It wasn’t officially replaceable but it was fewer than 10 screws and like a 2/10 difficu
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by merrywhether 3y ago
It’s like they missed bikeshedding about whitespace and whether variable names were appropriately self-documenting in PRs.
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by merrywhether 3y ago
> functional programming gang This is a bit of weird assignment, given that the Class syntactic sugar over Prototype was one of the marquee features of that release.
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by merrywhether 3y ago
An interesting point about VR (and AR eventually) is that clunky UX can move from being merely annoying to literally nausea-inducing. I’m not sure that there can be VR equivalents of the low-end Android market for instance where there you c
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by merrywhether 4y ago
I wish the defunding movement had instead focused on moving monetary liability from the city instead to the police union. Let the officers pay higher dues to protect their problematic colleagues from million dollar judgements. I feel like t
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by merrywhether 4y ago
What they really need to do is layoff BrightScript. They are certainly big in the streaming device space, but not enough to justify having a proprietary language. The rest of the industry is coalescing around portable apps based on web tech
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by merrywhether 4y ago
Not exactly the same, but reminds me of the saccharin rat studies. Massive dosing (the human equivalent of ~800 diet sodas per day!) plus a physiology that highly concentrates urine led to bladder cancer in rats. Turned out to be completely
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by merrywhether 4y ago
> Forget about new products, forget about improvements to existing products, forget infrastructure work/cost optimization, forget not having major data breaches regularly, forget mitigating large-scale security vulnerabilities(i.e.
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by merrywhether 4y ago
The irony here is that you could easily fire 80% of the C-suite and VPs and a company should survive for some time. This is kind of a tautology because leadership at bigger companies should be mostly operating at the months-to-years timefra
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by merrywhether 4y ago
FWIW a personal “fork” is being made for you, the tooling just makes it invisible.
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by merrywhether 4y ago
What tipped you over the edge to jump back into the job market? I certainly empathize with prep bringing a significant increase to the threshold energy.
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by merrywhether 4y ago
These claims have been coming under scrutiny: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32724569
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by merrywhether 4y ago
> most teams beyond grade school have tryouts... Apologies if my 0-minute edit was too slow (I always find minor issues in my comments after submission; the HN comment box is not optimized for readability), but I immediately added "
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by merrywhether 4y ago
Most sports are not as “brainless” as running, and by that I mean so thoroughly dominated by solely physical traits. It’s simplistic and patriarchal to reduce the logic to “because men are ~10% faster than women (or stronger or whatever), t
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bug: TypeScript is not an ECMAScript superset post-ES2015(github.com)
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by merrywhether 4y ago
I think another obligation of a society that truly wants to tackle this is to help provide a life that is “better” than addiction, so to speak. Addictive drug use is frequently a symptom of a deeper root issue (long-term pain, physical abus
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by merrywhether 4y ago
Isn’t there tension between what I’m assuming is land-value tax to push developers to create more housing and keeping people in the home they’ve lived in for 20 years? That home has probably become inefficient from a public value standpoint
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by merrywhether 4y ago
Safari only zooms if your input text is too small (less than 16px). The answer to defeating autozoom is to not make inputs that many people would need to zoom manually.
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by merrywhether 4y ago
Holy smokes. It sounds like you weren’t given the option, but did you prefer that to the risks of GA? (Honest question, no agenda. That sounds like something that would make me never go back to the dentist, but maybe that’s just me projecti

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