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by ochoseis 6y ago
Nah, he and Harris are senate insiders who will work relationships across the aisle and get things done.
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by ochoseis 6y ago
Are you launching in Malaysia as well?
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by ochoseis 6y ago
> don't, say you stand for freedom of expression when you have appointed yourself the arbiter of truth This is a great point. I always thought of the big tech companies as upholding classically liberal ideals; however, now that the
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by ochoseis 6y ago
The equivalent option would be to offer the charger by default, and allow eco conscious consumers to opt out. Making it opt-in for folks without a working charger would strike a nice balance, even if it’s not feasible.
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by ochoseis 6y ago
Apple’s move and their explanation honestly feels about as genuine as hotels asking you to be eco friendly by hanging the door-tag to skip room cleaning. The difference is that hotels at least give you the option.
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by ochoseis 6y ago
A common hotkey for a site’s search box is “/“, vim-style.
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by ochoseis 6y ago
Planet Money has a good 3 and 1/2 minute overview as well: https://www.npr.org/2019/10/04/767095401/the-baumol-effect-a...
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by ochoseis 6y ago
What seems novel here is that the author _actually works_ at Google and still can’t help despite being an insider. Although, not sure if that says more about Google or more about the banned account.
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by ochoseis 6y ago
Agreed, a comparison of the median is better. Although, it’d be nice if the mean and median weren’t too far apart.
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by ochoseis 6y ago
I like this idea as long as it’s transparent that’s what’s happening, because it creates less of a wedge and is humorous to most. Booting people off a platform would lead polarizing resentment imho.
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by ochoseis 6y ago
Can’t tell if you’re trolling, but I believe Anglosphere refers to countries that use the English language, not ones with Anglo people.
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by ochoseis 6y ago
I think you're on the same page. The gist is that while you'd hope to have a stable interface, in reality things change. By marking fields required, they basically have to stay that way forever so you can support older clients. In
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by ochoseis 6y ago
Keep in mind the framers of the constitution in the US realized this type of issue, which led to the Bill of Rights protecting things like free speech and other government encroachments on individual liberty. I appreciate that corporate pla
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by ochoseis 6y ago
For the sake of simplicity, could we just serve up a subdomain darknews.ycombinator.com, same content, just different stylesheet?
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by ochoseis 6y ago
Any shot you recently listened to an episode on a podcast called The Portal? https://art19.com/shows/the-portal/episodes/7d086129-e19d-4e... They touch on how being comfortable with being uncomfortable for lo
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by ochoseis 6y ago
“oil firms have resorted to renting tankers to store the surplus supply and that has forced the price of US oil into negative territory”
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by ochoseis 7y ago
3blue1brown did a good video explaining the logistic shape of pandemic curves: https://youtu.be/Kas0tIxDvrg My key takeaway was that once you see the inflection point, you know that you’ll have roughly 2x the number infecti
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by ochoseis 7y ago
Aren’t Finns famous for avoiding small talk?
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by ochoseis 7y ago
EconTalk recently did an episode on pricing in healthcare that talks about a lot of these issues. Well worth a listen: http://www.econtalk.org/keith-smith-on-free-market-health-ca...
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by ochoseis 8y ago
These guys are also in Venezuela right now: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/25/venezuela-madu...
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by ochoseis 8y ago
It's probably a lot easier to just blackmail or bribe existing employees, probably similar to how the supply chain hack worked.
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by ochoseis 8y ago
Also curious, does GP have some way to shutdown gracefully when the car turns off, and reboot fast when it turns on? You could potentially handle this with a laptop and some battery-settings but not aware of an external battery solution for
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by ochoseis 8y ago
The article glosses over the fact that the US (and to a lesser extent UK) is a great exporter of its culture and language through movies, TV, and music. This is aided by the fact that the US has a values-based society where you don't n
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by ochoseis 10y ago
The economist is another good option. They have decent digital versions, including a daily edition that's just enough news for me.
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by ochoseis 10y ago
Have you read a book called Code by Charles Petzold [0] by chance? It walks you through how a computer works from low level relays all the way up to building a processor and running an OS. He talks about both the Z80 and 6502, and peppers i
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by ochoseis 10y ago
I think it's the best equivalent to an Apple TV in the Android ecosystem. Great performance and 4k, but way less apps (notably no Amazon Prime TV app). If you're into cord cutting they do have an app for Sling streaming cable serv
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by ochoseis 10y ago
I believe the mantra in NC and probably many states is "9 you're fine, 10 you're mine"
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by ochoseis 11y ago
Seeing multiple parallel lines (I'm guessing condensation from the pressure wave?) makes me wonder if the boom you hear is actually multiple nearly simultaneous booms.
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by ochoseis 11y ago
I didn't realize it was supersonic: Maximum speed: Mach 1.3 (858 mph, 1,381 km/h)
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by ochoseis 11y ago
I surprised no one's mentioned Brillo[0] or Weave[1] from Google. They're trying to solve this problem in an open, standardized way. [0] Brillo - Embedded Android - https://developers.google.com/brillo/ [1] W

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