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by mmanfrin 7y ago
I've found the reviews on a brand's own store page to be next to useless. The whole page is meant to sell me on a product, why would I trust "reviews" that are likely curated? Although, if I do find negative reviews on a
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by mmanfrin 7y ago
I think you underestimate how popular Half-Life was. The #1 game played on steam right now is a former HL mod, Counter Strike. I don't think the market for HL is small at all. VR, though, is a different story. That absolutely limits th
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That's not cookie stuffing, that's just being deceptive. Cookie stuffing doesnt just mean sending a user to an affiliate link, it means specifically loading unrelated sites, usually in the background (or used with js/flash).
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Glass cost money, more than 10x what this cost, and that was not a signal of their long term ambition. The problem with Stadia is that it costs money, the service costs a monthly fee, and on top of it you have to buy the games. What happens
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by mmanfrin 7y ago
> that stuff cookies like this. It should be noted that cookie stuffing is a term for a specific process where a site will inject cookies for thousands of sites with their own referral code on pageload of a landing site they control. It
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by mmanfrin 7y ago
React, yarn, cassandra. Looking at the first page of your comment history, it seems a good third of your comments get downvoted. It may be wise to reread the HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> Do you think Google is going to do any better at this? They already have no customer support, close accounts without notice....etc... The article is right, this is about engagement. Absolutely. I say this as someone who is still angry
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by mmanfrin 7y ago
Office noise bothers me a lot -- and visual noise. Ironically, I find I work very well in other noisy environments (like bars or cafes). I think I desire to eavesdrop in the office, because it's possibly relevant to my work or me.
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> and go full retard with it. Please don't use language like this.
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Privatizing roads is absolutely not a solution. People do not choose to drive congested roads, they already have traffic information available to them in the form of google maps. All your solution would do is make it prohibitively infeasibl
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ASUS did this with their routers, and pooled reviews by making all of their routers different variants of each other, even if completely different. I was annoyed because I had an unbelievably shitty experience with one of their (very expens
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by mmanfrin 7y ago
When I bought my house, I very nearly fell for this. They are very official looking, with faux degraded copying artifacts on a 'proof' deed. Even if currently legal, this is absolutely a scam.
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She mentions she has better and longer credit history than David, and since they share all financial accounts, she likely reported her income as their joint income. I sincerely doubt they'd be raising this much fuss if she'd put $
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That was literally NSO. They were the company that gave the Saudi's access to Jamal Khashoggi's phone.
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This is a weirdly negative comment section.
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Hi (distant) cousin. My paternal Grandma's maiden name was Casey, she named her son Casey, and I have the middle name of Casey. In 3 generations it had a spot in all 3 names and both genders.
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"Dig" implies malice, I think 'poke' or 'rib' is more precise. </pedantic>
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Honestly, I hope this leads to the state having cause to take it over with no cost. Stakeholders need to bear the burden of the organizations abysmal record.
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Why was this post nuked? It was at the top, then all of a sudden it was merged in to another lower post and has very quickly dropped to the bottom.
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I will check it out, also that analysis about producers interfering after a couple good seasons sounds like 95% of nat geo or discovery channel shows, hah.
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I sometimes go on Google Maps and explore remote areas and I always wonder what life is like in the bleak wilderness; and I think how helpless I'd be if I lived there. I grew up in the SF Bay Area and the thought of being so remote sca
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by mmanfrin 7y ago
How on earth did you get that from what I said? I think they are a hateful group because they so vehemently wanted to deny medical access through their mandated healthcare program.
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> You may not like certain specifics of their employee healthcare policy, but having such a policy does not imply hate on their part I personally disagree, and I disagree strongly.
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I think you're right.
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When I had ambitions for general interest blogging, I had an article kicking around in my head on the dangers of being a superlative tree. Prometheus was the oldest tree, killed by a core sample. Tree of Ténéré, the most isolated tree in th
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by mmanfrin 7y ago
This shows Oppo as being the worst -- but I have had the last 2 OnePlus phones (6T and 7Pro) that received updates within a month of a new release (and OnePlus is Oppo).
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> Interesting how Boeing and Airbus don't manufacture in China https://qz.com/1497137/boeings-china-plant-delivers-first-je...
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Question tangential to Gatsby for those of you who use such static site builders as blogs: are there any good tools for writing/composing posts or are you all doing it by hand? I have set up the same blog maybe 3 times and I always sto
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by mmanfrin 7y ago
Honestly, unfortunately: same. Nearly every time I've donated to something political, it's come to bite me in the ass. Donate to a candidate? They sell/give my info to related PACs and groups (and there's no stopping it,
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by mmanfrin 7y ago
I think you are conflating therapists with psychiatrists.

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