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Because flex just references the layout engine, and div intentionally has no semantic meaning. Fwiw I don't think InlineStack is a particularly good name either, but the criticism of this needs more justification than just "it&#x2
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The benefit of components like InlineStack is that the components then have names that semantically describe their purpose in the layout.
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It's not solely the fault of government, but heavy corn subsidies and the food pyramid travesty didn't help.
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case-in-point, my mom was effectively cured of a cancer in 2024 that they wouldn't have even tried to treat in 1980
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The reason young people often have a lower standard of living is because: - there is a shortage of housing - predatory loans for higher education - chronic health crisis due to terrible government health policy and guidelines - globalizatio
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The VR investment was a calculated risk that may or may not pay off in a longer time horizon. Meta is the leading VR company and well-positioned to benefit the most from whatever comes from the industry in the future. The demand for more AI
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Moreover, if a government is funneling taxpayer money into the projects of a few citizens, that is a clear red flag of corruption. Whereas if private entities are deciding to invest their own capital into infrastructure, it's unclear w
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the argument being made by the article is that microsoft 95 was better than operating systems now operating systems aren't where most innovation happens, obviously, nor should they be, but they have made progress in usability, security
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people would rather complain than put in a little effort, especially if it means losing the chance to invent an evil empire to rebel against
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1. Basically all the examples given in the article are of tech that is better now: - Nintendo Switch games don't have microtransactions now - VHS are unplayable now because people no longer have the machines. You can still buy anything
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This particular blog doesn't heed device settings and, as such, forces light mode on its readers. The author also changes their mind halfway through and decides the problem is actually color contrast, not dark mode.
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It seems like an oversight to me that all the discussion about political impact leading up to this has focused on consumers. Statements like "Gen Z likes TikTok, so banning it risks alienating them", "Gen Z will forgot about
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I think they meant that because content is siloed already by language barriers, the only ecosystem that would be affected by the removal of US users is the English-speaking subsystem. That said, the English-speaking world clearly extends we
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Trees produce CO2 during respiration and intake it during photosynthesis. The carbon captured during photosynthesis will be offset to some degree by the tree's own need to consume glucose.
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To a degree. I was tiny in school, always smallest kid in my grade, and lugging 30 pounds of books around every day means I now have scoliosis.
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Many of the beneficial affordances you mention that are available for print but not in ebooks is partly because ebook technology is kind of bad. Navigation and annotation for example could be much better in ebooks if developers put more car
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"Defamation" is well-defined in the legal system, and anyone is able to seek the remedy of damages through the courts if they wish to.
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the token generation part isn't well understood, but the output "chain-of-thought" used to produce the final answer can be scrutinized for correctness with a traditional CoT model (although this would require model providers
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depends on the circumstances. lin-manuel miranda can probably write a better musical by himself than a team of 20 people with equal input would. also, the bottlenecks that teamwork helps solve (eg the high cost of gaining expertise and low
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the benefit of democracy is primarily that it prevents governments from doing bad things, less so that it empowers more effective governance
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Here are a couple points of confusion for me: 1. The sampling documentation is confusing. "Sampling" means something very specific in statistics, and I'm struggling to see any connection between the term's typical usage
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Specifically comparing HN to reddit is old as well. It's mentioned in the guidelines to not say HN is turning into reddit. The examples of this shared in the guidelines go back to 2007
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I think it's still noteworthy that what many people consider a "fair toss" is not in fact a fair toss. In other words it's interesting from an applied psychology perspective even if the physics of the phenomenon isn&#x27
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to be fair, free is a price, and one that is very hard to compete with, at that
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The vast majority of people just like their free stuff and don't go on hacker news to discuss it
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Accurate ads does in fact help consumers. Ads facilitate free stuff. Better ads = less ads. When I was a kid every TV show timeslot was like 25% ads. Do you not remember those days? Do you want to go back to that?
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oh no, please don't give me any more free stuff, Google!
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the government can't even build us a public toilet at this point
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I'm reading this on a non-Chrome browser based on Chromium, the project Google gave freely to the world that enables competitors to reach hundreds of millions of users
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Hypothetically, why would some buyer using Chrome's monopoly to establish a market advantage in an adjacent domain be different than Google using Chrome's monopoly to establish a market advantage in an adjacent domain?

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