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by miroljub 3y ago
While this is true in some cases, more frequently I saw apps designed and able to handle millions of users and billions of transactions that ended being used by tens of users and hundreds of transactions. All the effort spent on testing and
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Care to claim something substantial and contribute to the discussion in a non-trivial way?
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> User counters 13000 word meta study by simply stating the opposite without giving any arguments, sources or studies. I am giving my opinion on a random forum, not writing a study about mindfulness. I didn't even say anything contr
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by miroljub 3y ago
Mindfulness meditation may reduce stress levels, but only temporary. Instead of focusing on the source of stress and trying to solve the underlying issues, it fights the symptoms. I don't say that it doesn't "work", but
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> 17 year olds drinking beer between their late afternoon classes is not unheard of and often tolerated. Well, it's between classes, in their free time.
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by miroljub 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slivovitz for the win. I still miss the quality homemade one when far away from the Balkans.
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by miroljub 3y ago
Why would it not be tolerated? They are almost grown up. If they are considered mature enough to make their driver's license, why wouldn't they be allowed to drink?
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by miroljub 3y ago
> If this text feature is available on the web (as all of the other features seem to be?), this puts TikTok ahead of Instagram's Threads. It's not like TikTok is behind Threads in any of the relevant metrics right now.
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Of course. As soon as they reach a critical mass of users, ease of onboarding stopped being a priority.
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If everyone else is wrong, and only you are right, what does that tell you? Maybe you are the outlier that moves fast and breaks things, while the rest prefer sustainable progress over the long periods?
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by miroljub 3y ago
In order for a country to be developing, it has to develop itself first. If we look at the pace UK develops, a better term would be a stagnating country.
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by miroljub 3y ago
15% survival rate for any startup category is pretty good. Why would one expect that specifically AI startups would do better than the rest? Personally, I would even expect lower rates, since now people see AI as a gold rush.
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by miroljub 3y ago
HN is also very slow. Looks like it can't handle all the traffic when Reddit is down. After all, it looks like these's significant overlap between Reddit and HN users, as much as HN folks see itself as a kind of elite when compari
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by miroljub 3y ago
> So that doesn't really answer the question "What is a hate organization?". It's the organization that censor hate. That's why it's called "hate organization".
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by miroljub 3y ago
> 2. The $10M buyout comments was a reasonable comment countering the statement that reddit loses $20M each year by users using Apollo. A comment which was a half-joke, as the audio recording shows clearly. In that case, buying Appolo fo
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by miroljub 3y ago
I agree with you, and that's why I listed some missing things that would help it to be a Reddit replacement. Regarding mobile clients, there are at least a few third party mobile clients on both Android and iPhone that work quite well.
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by miroljub 3y ago
You are writing this using the best Reddit replacement. If HN had a subforum feature and an ability to embed pictures or videos in posts, or some kind of markdown light syntax, Reddit usage would die for me.
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by miroljub 3y ago
> hey, guess what? reddit "profits" a LOT from unpaid work from their moderators. That work is not forced, they all choose to "work" for free and can quit any time they want. And that work may be unpaid in monetary te
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by miroljub 3y ago
The destruction of Cartagena is the first known example of purposeful destruction of the whole civilization. The USA and the annihilation of native american civilizations came many centuries later.
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Since those users are their own, it's easy to just write "select count(*) from usres where fake = 1" and report it. It's not like they need first to detect those users are bots.
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by miroljub 3y ago
I understand why people still use Excel, but then, it's to be expected that there will be errors. And that's fine, some errors can be tolerated if the saving for using cheap tools with a cheap workforce is big enough. But if you w
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by miroljub 3y ago
That's why you use SQL and not Excel to analyse the data.
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Both. I can't imagine a company being so successful and so influential being badly run. Of course, if someone uses a moral, ethics, or personal political and societal view to judge if a company is well run, then I agree it may appear t
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by miroljub 3y ago
Twitter is not badly managed. It managed to grow to the point of being indispensable, and drama is just one of the reasons why it keeps being popular.
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Taleb explained both phenomena and many others in "Antifragility" and "Skin in the game". Worth reading.
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by miroljub 3y ago
Marx always preached that the way to go is for the working class to become owners of the means of production. The only logical way to achieve exactly this is to participate in the stock market and own company shares. I still don't unde
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by miroljub 3y ago
> This is available today and already used by millions. > The US government will never endorse it or allow major banks to give their full support through because they want control over the network to "keep the bad guys out".
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> I've had absolutely terrible experiences with Palpal. Lawmakers should be urging everyone to use a better service, forget worrying about PayPal's ban. I'd rather have the government enforce something like user-friendly f
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by miroljub 3y ago
I doubt Pakistanis will ever allow them to just "move north". A global war would ensue, where everyone would try to defend their southern borders from the intruders and try to "go north". And billions of deaths will happ
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Isn't this how humans work since the beginning of their existence?

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