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by polote 5y ago
My point is that only a handful of people have been able to create several successful companies. Because we don't know how to create such company, so most advice in that case are wrong
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by polote 5y ago
VC give pretty bad advice in general. Their advice is the the description of founders they want to invest in. Most of the founders they give money to, more or less follow the advice they give (not directly, but because they have been select
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by polote 5y ago
"Although not a member of the EU, Norway is a member of the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR was incorporated into the EEA agreement and became applicable in Norway on 20 July 2018. Norway is thus bound by the GDPR in the same ma
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by polote 5y ago
You can't decide when the wind blow and when the sun shines. And you can't either decide when people turn on their washing machine. So it is obvious there is a problem
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> One important thing to notice is that uranium is a finite non-renewable resource. One important thing to notice is that place on earth to put wind turbines and solar panels is limited. Now imagine that electricity needs greatly increas
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by polote 5y ago
6. If everyone had the same electricity mix than Germany we would have total blackouts everyday
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by polote 5y ago
Why do people still care about covid ? Vax your old people, stop getting tested and live like before. The faster we get everyone infected the faster old people who didn't get vaxxed will either recover or die and after that the ones wh
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by polote 5y ago
> What does "super attractive" look like? Basically be a model > Women can have just as much of a hard time as men, especially for certain ethnicities. Can't find the study, but black women are actually having a tougher
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by polote 5y ago
I was saying it is not 100% wrong to ban people. The fact that the banned people are still paying and dont get their money back clearly look like fraud (even if this is more complex, as Tinder is very smart about how they communicate, they
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by polote 5y ago
Is Bumble big tech ? No, still they have the same tactics than Tinder. I'm not saying there is no problem (I have wrote several article criticizing Match group and the app dating market), I'm just saying this has nothing to do wit
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by polote 5y ago
> rule #1 on tinder is “be physically attractive” For guys it used to be right, now rule #1 is more "be super attractive" or "be attractive and don't have standard" For girls rule #1 is "be a girl"
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by polote 5y ago
The founder of Bumble is one of the founders of Tinder. But others founders of Tinder are not founders of Bumble, this is true. Also we could argue that Bumble has two founders, but this is insignificant anyway
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by polote 5y ago
It has always been like that on Tinder. My phone number can't create a new account for example (never receive the confirmation code). That's called shadowban in the case of OP. Bumble started doing the same practices a year ago (w
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by polote 5y ago
So you are blaming Zoom security issues coverage on Microsoft without any proof and the comment asking for evidence is flagged. What's going on HN ?
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by polote 5y ago
Thanks, I need to improve my english haha
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by polote 5y ago
The idea is more interesting when you think about scrapers. Take any ecommerce website, there are several scrapers that download all pages every hours, it would be more efficient if a provider had a live copy of the website and then serve t
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by polote 5y ago
Do you have stats showing that people younger than 18 years old have more accidents than older people ? Because the fact that some young people exceed the speed limit doesnt show anything neither is excludes the fact that some older people
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by polote 5y ago
> It is embarrassing that developers [also designers and other creatives in gaming] are the core of any tech company Clearly not true, especially in b2b enterprise where you can sell even if you don't have a product
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by polote 5y ago
First, listening 3x is impossible for most content, I almost never listen to x1 but I'm very rarely able to go past x2.5. Also at that speed it is almost impossible to understand complex things, so if you listen at x3 or x2 and you nev
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by polote 5y ago
> with personalisation of search results There is not much personalization on Google except on your location, which is not going to help you have more relevant results as a doctor
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by polote 5y ago
Is RSS really a technology or a part of the failed attempt of having a semantic web (the real web 3.0) ? RSS is easily replaceable by just scrapping a website, technologically speaking it doesn't make sense to have everyone making a re
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by polote 5y ago
A post can be black on the front while not be black when reading from /active or /classic. So this not something tied to a post. And it seems to change every minute or something like that
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> Ruffle investors' feathers, however, and there may be consequences. Because that's their main power https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29320078 Your Board of Directors is Probably Going to Fire You 718 po
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by polote 5y ago
I honestly think that Google underestimated how much they are going to piss off users with MV3. There are thousands of extensions that will stop working and be impossible to build. But also there will be a lot of broken experiences as remot
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by polote 5y ago
14 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29303611 76 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28609188 3 month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28566044
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by polote 5y ago
My bet is that people will start posting a comment saying "upvote this comment if you want to downvote", the comment will rank first and it will be as if you have a public dislike count
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by polote 5y ago
Because on HN there are only two possible states for comments. Flagged or visible. The upvotes and downvotes just help compute the order. This is better for freedom of expression and showing the split would be a bad idea imo. Comments who a
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by polote 5y ago
You missed the point of op. The point was that it is not unvaccinated people who fill up icu beds. That's everyone. If you kill all unvaccinated people you have 100% vaccination rate and icu beds will still fill up
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by polote 5y ago
Don't keep two similar solution working at the same time. Keep the one that has the better foundation, implement the most important feature of the second platform and migrate over all customers, kill the other one. If you don't do
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29234805 14 days ago

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