moduspol

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by moduspol 5y ago
If the moderation here starts banning / shadow-banning / hiding prominent voices that run counter to HN's politics, they will.
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by moduspol 5y ago
> I know plenty of people who don’t have Twitter accounts and live extremely normal lives. Even this I'd say is a stretch. If they're consuming any kind of news or contemporary entertainment, Twitter is absolutely impacting the
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by moduspol 5y ago
Yep. That falls under costs being "hidden or absorbed somewhere." Arguably there could be even more beauty in not even raking them! That doesn't mean leaf blowers and rakes are comparably cost effective, though (as implied by
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by moduspol 5y ago
> There's a myth that groundskeeping is more costly without them A... myth? Have you ever used a rake, and a leaf blower? How about for many hours? If there's no change in costs when switching between the two, it's getting
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by moduspol 5y ago
I still get the same issue with HDMI cables when you want to do more than 4K (like 4K60 4:4:4) with a cable that's more than half a meter long. Cable length apparently significantly impacts throughput. It's even worse on Amazon wh
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by moduspol 5y ago
They do have a replacement consumer monitor in 2022 [1], but in the meantime, they were selling and supporting the LG UltraFine 5K [2]. I haven't bought the new studio display, but the Thunderbolt Display was great and the LG UltraFine
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by moduspol 5y ago
They do--they just include the monitor as part of it. That seems to have been the vision since at least 2011 [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Thunderbolt_Display
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by moduspol 5y ago
The value tends to hold a lot better, too. I just sold my old 27" Thunderbolt Display on Facebook Marketplace for $200 earlier today. Apple stopped selling it in 2016. I think I bought mine in 2014, but recovering $200 on an eight year
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by moduspol 5y ago
I had the same situation once (a missed 1099) and my biggest complaint is that they waited almost a year to let me know. And of course by then it was quite late so I owed them even more money! Even if they can't tell me what numbers th
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by moduspol 5y ago
> Educated worker has higher job mobility and is able to respond quickly to shifting business needs. Well, a worker with a college degree has higher job mobility. The worker being educated may be orthogonal. And I'm not sure if beco
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by moduspol 5y ago
> I'd feel safe if an executive who OKs a software update that kills someone risks significant jail time. If that means no self driving cars for 20 more years then I am totally fine with that. The status quo is 139 people dying ever
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by moduspol 5y ago
It'd work for me. I'd absolutely trade long battery life to only ever using 80% of the battery for pretty much all my electronics.
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by moduspol 5y ago
iPhones do have logic in software now to hold off on charging above 80% until the user is expected to take it off the charger [1]. Probably still not as good as personally optimizing your charge time based on battery level, but it's at
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by moduspol 5y ago
Sorry--I was making a joke. The implication being that in a middle class divorce (at least in the US), it's pretty common that the standard of living for the mother and children is maintained when it comes to house size, yard, etc. bec
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by moduspol 5y ago
> education has more to do with lower divorce rates than an ethnicity. Perhaps, but correlation doesn't imply causation. It seems at least as plausible that the kind of people able to commit to higher education are more capable of c
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by moduspol 5y ago
Not necessarily. It could result in one house and yard staying the same, and the other one being a one bedroom apartment across town with almost no furniture. In this case, only one party's standard of living goes down.
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by moduspol 5y ago
I understand it's not really your point, but if you're actually looking to export all the data from the table, they've got an API call you can give to have DynamoDB write the whole table to S3. This doesn't use any of yo
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by moduspol 5y ago
> The downside of on-demand is the pricing - it's more expensive if you have continuous load. True, although you don't have to make that choice permanently. You can switch from provisioned to on demand once every 24 hours. And
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by moduspol 5y ago
I mean from a business perspective if you're not doing any training then you're essentially just sitting on your hands waiting for the day employees unionize. And it's not like unions go out of their way to give a fair and co
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by moduspol 5y ago
> If Upwork is the middleman here providing a payment platform, then I'd expect them to swallow the cost of card fraud, not the freelancer. Yes. To me, it's whoever's in the best position to reduce fraud that should be res
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by moduspol 5y ago
I'd like to say it makes sense (at least in the US) so that daylight saving time transitions can be automated. My history with cars, though, is that it often is not used for that.
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by moduspol 5y ago
Tell that to the numerous people who see an ad for something actually relevant to them instead of something only vaguely relevant to the site's primary audience. Imagine your own mother being subjected to this kind of thing. Wouldn&#x2
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by moduspol 5y ago
I was being sarcastic, but yes, I do think these threads tend to encourage a groupthink mentality. The vast majority of users like free websites and do not feel like targeted advertising is a serious problem. This was true before GDPR and t
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by moduspol 5y ago
> Prison sounds a bit harsh though. Especially for the cookie banner end of the spectrum. The developer knew what s/he was doing. We're not talking jaywalking here--this person (!!) made it slightly more difficult to make a cho
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by moduspol 5y ago
Maybe imprisonment would be better. Just a few years to teach the lesson. I mean this developer knowingly aided in getting users to see more targeted ads!
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by moduspol 5y ago
With a date that soon, you must have ordered the Performance, right? I ordered a non-Performance Model Y LR late October and the delivery estimate was May. Then it moved to June. Then three days ago, I got notice it's ready for deliver
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by moduspol 5y ago
I'd only do that if you think it's likely to decrease in value. Do you think it'll be more or less valuable in 5-10 years?
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by moduspol 5y ago
To be honest, I'm seeing parallels in the opposite direction. There's a reason we don't have anti-golfers, or threads over and over again rehashing how dumb it is to have 18 holes, or about the number of senseless injuries su
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by moduspol 5y ago
Saying "your location is somewhere within X, up to ~5 meters" isn't lying. It's not even a half truth, but it's still pretty far from the point here. It's trusted because it's been far more trustworthy tha
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by moduspol 5y ago
Perhaps, although I didn't pick the analogy, and even accepting at face value what you're saying: clearly there is justifiably a much higher level of trust in GPS than public health advice, and for good reason: its scope is limite

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