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by plonh 11y ago
They have had trouble getting support for new tablets/OS versions, and it is a huge pain to reset an Amazon device. No developer switch like on Nexus
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by plonh 11y ago
Created by who ?
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by plonh 11y ago
Extracting profit from a system is different from efficiently allocating resources. At an extremely example, consider bank robbery. Then consider LIBOR.
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by plonh 11y ago
The space shuttle program was a horribly expensive sideways step that help back space exploration.
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by plonh 11y ago
Been seeing this announcement frequently recently. Thank you! Of course, you could also collapse subthreads automatically (like reddit) when a comment gets downvoted very low) instead of policing manually.
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by plonh 11y ago
Reminds me of why I was so happy to leave school debate and focus on math and computers where arguments were productive;, and how sad when I realized how relevant school debate nonsense was to actual political and legal reality (about the s
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by plonh 11y ago
"States rights" only gets brought up when the Repulicans don't like a Federal decision. If they'd quit the special pleading, people might believe them.
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by plonh 11y ago
Was this because the phone system had the only people the prisoner could talk to about their problems?
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by plonh 11y ago
Amazon PR guy's behavior is debatable and has been debated, but this article and its misleading title do not improve the debate. HN itself is host to dozens of Amazon employee/critics that have not seen personnel info leaked. also
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by plonh 11y ago
Yes. Infinitely large sets are decidedly unphysical, and taking the metaphor too literally can be misleading. Imagine: how could the proprietor even communicate with those infinite guests?
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by plonh 11y ago
Do you allow linear space?
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by plonh 11y ago
Look like either bad communications or some sort of discrimination about your in person appearance, or they filled the open headcount with someone they liked better.
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by plonh 11y ago
That may be true for the person who interviewed you, but that isn't any sort of official standard
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by plonh 11y ago
All I see is a full page pop-up ads for their email list, with no escape control in view.
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by plonh 11y ago
VR seems mainly for providing an environment ("celestial sphere"). To use it to examine a target (such as a human performer) you'd gave to walk around in a ring, which seems a weird movement while watching porn. Unless you we
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by plonh 11y ago
In probability , the fraction of the population at exactly 50%ile is approximately 0.
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by plonh 11y ago
The Left hates TBC. The Right loves it. The Left (who invented the word) believe "meritocracy" is sheep's clothing covering the wolf of privilege. The Right believes they have better genes. There is no common ground, both sid
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by plonh 11y ago
Has the intent shifted? The 2001 article specifically called out the Blair government for , well, Blair tbought it was good intent, but that is the problem: Young argued that it was being used to negatively impact society.
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by plonh 11y ago
You miss the key: a huge amount of my value is generated by tools created by our ancestors -- who deserves credit for those tools? Me? Those dead people's children?
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by plonh 11y ago
Why?
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by plonh 11y ago
These sound like problems in Amazon's system, Amazon mistakes mislead customers.
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by plonh 11y ago
> "company gave me the product for free to write an honest and unbiased review." Those are Amazon Vine reviews, promoted by Amazon to generate reviews for new products.
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by plonh 11y ago
It isn't about dignity of the job. It is about health insurance and living wages.
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by plonh 11y ago
His Facebook unicorn success was hugely dependent on the Harvard classmates who hired him to start the project he branched from, his Harvard cofounders, and his Harvard employees. He couldn't have done that at UMichigan.
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by plonh 11y ago
What does the end product show? Doctors kill plenty of patients.
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by plonh 11y ago
There are more people with perfect scores than seats for them. The SAT iant a hard enough test to distinguish elite students -- it is a high school level math and English test.
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by plonh 11y ago
Customers don't care what they are getting when they get a bud light, except that it is a cheap buzz.
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by plonh 11y ago
The problem with #1 is when you get fired for not building anything sophisticated and your teammates get promoted to replace you, because they built something fancy. Unless you manage to take credit for their work. Externally imposed politi
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by plonh 11y ago
Because the weight is hidden behind the visible page content, which had a different size. Page weight is the sum of the sizes of the resources used to build the page.
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by plonh 11y ago
Still, I imagine it would be better to forget the 2MB page load issue, and drop frames/colors/resolution to cut 50MB off the video size.

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