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by npo9 7y ago
> Without some form of surveillance, you're never going to catch terrorists or other bad actors. The article: Surveillance fails to catch terrorist. Your argument: Without surveillance we cannot catch terrorist. My question: How ar
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by npo9 7y ago
The us population is still increasing.
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by npo9 7y ago
My understanding is almost all PHP dev is done because it’s improving a legacy system or it’s integrating into a legacy system, or the first engineer could just move faster in PHP because of personal reasons.
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by npo9 7y ago
It’s listed on several UIs for purchasing tickets, but usually it takes several clicks to identify the model of airplane.
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by npo9 7y ago
> To pretend the 12 bucks you spent on PBR and cigs is a better way to spend the money than to put it towards savings is the crux of the problem according to my personal experience. Expensive habits are terrible for your personal finance
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by npo9 7y ago
You write as if we do not have access to additional context. There have been several signs that the US economy might be slowing down after a very long (the longest?) bull run in history.
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by npo9 7y ago
I’m unsure if how many layers deep alone is a good indicator of if it’s an immoral maze. I once worked with a company that had 50 employees and the hierarchy was five people deep. I once worked in a company with 10,000 employees and the hi
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by npo9 7y ago
> There is no way to observe that the world would behave differently whether or not the theory is true. If that's so, I can't think what point there is discussing it, except as a mental exercise. This is a very materialistic vi
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by npo9 7y ago
What do you mean by similar devices?
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by npo9 7y ago
Judging from his post the author believes AR/VR can provide a sense of “presence” that will recreate how we interact socially on the net. I remain skeptical, but this has been a recent argument coming from oculus devs and others in the
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by npo9 7y ago
That’s true today. Is it true 10 years from today? If AR/VR becomes built into a form factor similar to reading glasses today I suspect we will see a lot more avatar based chatting.
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by npo9 7y ago
I don’t have a lot of trust in some of the non-profits that plant trees for the purpose of carbon offset. It seems like a “debt” you take on. Today I will produce N carbon and plant enough trees to consume N carbon over 10 years. However,
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by npo9 7y ago
You want something in your ears for a majority of the time because they play music and drown out background noise. Gathering health data is just a good secondary benefit.
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by npo9 7y ago
I wonder what the difference between having an NFL stadium and having a MLB stadium is. MLB plays multiple games a week during a large part of the year, which might provide a more steady bump in traffic instead of occasional tsunamis of pe
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by npo9 7y ago
Sure, the large players stayed about the same in the last decade but we also found some new large players. The entire app ecosystems was in the earliest infancy in 2010. AWS was in its infancy. Slack wasn’t released.
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by npo9 7y ago
I think Microsoft was the biggest surprise. In 2010 MacBooks were starting to become very popular, and it looked like Microsoft’s monopoly on consumer computing was coming to an end. It was common to think Microsoft was on a long decline
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by npo9 7y ago
We have some real problems with health insurance for the self employed. Other than that freelancing is currently a very good option in the us.
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by npo9 7y ago
I’d like to see extended four day working tests to see if Thursday becomes the new Friday.
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by npo9 7y ago
My hunch is that widely mocked and ignored laws is a common human behavior across many societies and times. It’s likely America had their examples of this between 1800 - 1920.
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by npo9 7y ago
Beaming in might be popular for some use cases, however physical presence will still be the gold standard. VR/AR will always represent a big drop in information density compared to reality. In human conversation even a 75ms lag would
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by npo9 7y ago
A real package manager, a standard consumer os feature, would remove this dark pattern.
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by npo9 7y ago
I remember a time in 2012. I was installing Windows on my computer to play a video game. It was the first time I used windows in about 2-3 years. I started installing some utilities. A web browser, steam, a music player, etc. One of t
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by npo9 7y ago
I use to use “jk” for this. I stopped because several vim emulators, evil specifically, did not support this.
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by npo9 7y ago
Furthermore, what is a good way to become a quant?
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by npo9 7y ago
Maybe I’m old school, but I don’t want push notifications from my web browser.
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by npo9 7y ago
About three years ago I started intermittently paying for Netflix— watch some shows on nights and weekends and then drop the subscription for awhile while I wait for a backlog of new content to arrive. I strongly advocate for this type of b
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by npo9 7y ago
How much of American radio consumption is done in the car?
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by npo9 7y ago
Hackernews when discussing amazon reviews: “Don’t trust them, they are easy to fake.” Hackernews when discussing dark net markets: “Reviews keep honest drug dealers in the market.” I’m not saying the reviews are worthless, I’m saying I don’
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by npo9 7y ago
It’s very hard to have any verification that 1. What you’re buying is LSD. 2. What you’re buying if of high purity. 3. What you’re buying is dosed as advertised. It’s a square of paper that may or may not have an illegal substance on it. H
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by npo9 7y ago
Wow, I really like the privacy policy of this app. I think I’d rather use pen & paper for this sort of thing, but I might come back to this to use during times of very light travel

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