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by pompino 2y ago
What metrics are you using for build quality? Admittedly I don't know a ton of mac people (I'm an engineer working in manufacturing) but the mac people I know, stuff always breaks, but they're bragging about how apple took ca
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by pompino 2y ago
>The UX differences are absolutely massive. Examples?
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by pompino 2y ago
"Engineers" - ironically the term used in the software industry for people who never standardize anything, solve the same problem solved by other "engineers" over and over again (how many libraries do you need for arrays
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by pompino 2y ago
Its not an argument, just ask why people lust after the latest iPhones in poor countries. They do it because they see rich people owning them. Unless you experience that, you won't really understand it.
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by pompino 2y ago
Its absolutely ridiculous the level of arrogance to presume you can apply some debate-bro logic and talk your way out of NOT HAVING ANY DATA. NOT HAVING ANY DATA means your product fails. End of story, thanks for playing, nice try, go back
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by pompino 2y ago
Maybe the person calling the FDA "nonsensical" should be someone who has actually researched, manufactured, and sold a pharmaceutical product, not some rando on HN. People who dismiss patient safety cannot be taken seriously in my
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by pompino 2y ago
Because you can't honestly presume to know the outcome of a clinical trial of an untested product.
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by pompino 2y ago
>One big problem is the FDA's slowness regarding treatments for otherwise fatal diseases like GBM. What do you mean by slowness? They can't skip all the safety stuff!
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by pompino 2y ago
I think a bot posting content is no worse than a human posting comments in their own echo chamber. I see a lot of snootiness from HN, but HN is also heavily in decline due to certain political agendas preventing free discussion.
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by pompino 2y ago
Nice straw-man, but getting back to reality, nobody in this thread has put forth the belief that automated systems are infallible, or is arguing that point. Also the fact that humans are fallible, hasn't stopped us from setting up judi
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by pompino 2y ago
repairing increases its lifetime and prevents things from being dumped into landfills. some of the highest selling products are screen protectors, and cell phone cases. Clearly the consumers don’t believe your argument about durability. The
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by pompino 2y ago
couldn’t that be done off-line? The active system would just collect the data, plate number, GPS, etc., and the off-line system would process it with a overlay of the city map, etc.
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by pompino 2y ago
how does it compare versus human error?
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by pompino 2y ago
Okay that is fair, you'd reduce administrative and enforcement costs if the tax code was simplified, but creating and managing new programs would also lead to extra overheard. I suppose to ground these arguments we'd need to discu
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by pompino 2y ago
No thanks, I don't want your fake "higher standards". >Does this sound like gouging the customer to line their executive pockets to you? Yes, it does, when they lobby to fight against right-to-repair. Yes, it does, when th
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by pompino 2y ago
Just because I bought an iphone, doesn't mean my interests align with Apple when they price gouge me for extra storage, or when they use child labor, or when they continue to create products which fill up landfills due to their anti-re
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by pompino 2y ago
I hope you realize that these federal agencies are funded through revenue collection - i.e tax code. Unfortunately, Your simplification isn't really a simplification.
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by pompino 2y ago
You’re barking up the wrong tree. More than a third of people file their own taxes.
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by pompino 2y ago
Is there a specific country's tax system that you look up to as the ideal? I see often people claim that the US tax code sucks (nobody is going to defend it with the rising inequality), but there isn't any proposal about how exact
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by pompino 2y ago
The only thing Apple cares about is Apple making more money. they will gladly gouge the end User so that their executives can line their pockets. there is nobody here you can actually ”trust”.
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by pompino 2y ago
The tax code is also designed to incentivize behavior that we wish to promote as a society. for example, directly reducing the tax versus tax benefits of a 401(k) and other such mechanisms. ultimately, the government is there to serve the i
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by pompino 2y ago
that’s a common talking point, but that is not exactly true. they don’t know how many dependents you have, if you are eligible for certain tax credits, whether you use your home as a work location, etc., etc.
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by pompino 2y ago
VPN or not, the biggest MiTM threat to privacy on the web is Google. They may not be actively malicious and steal your bank info, or do other nefarious stuff, but they will always oppose end-end encryption. Google's stance is to lock o
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by pompino 2y ago
Agreed, There are many ways of looking at it.
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by pompino 2y ago
Most programmers are notoriously bad about estimating anything - ship dates, time to investigate bugs, time to close bugs, time to implement features, complexity, etc, etc. I wouldn't blindly believe a programmer about a tool increasin
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by pompino 2y ago
The problem is who decides what really matters? Every department is biased towards their own needs. Upper management is usually clueless when it comes to technical needs, even if they've done the job before - because it was probably
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by pompino 2y ago
Your department head should have discretionary funds to cover $1000 easily. I understand this tweet is in jest, but cmon.
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by pompino 3y ago
Google rewards them by ranking them so high. In any case, Google doesnt actually give a shit about any core web anything when they’re raking in the adsense monies. These are simple distractions, they know which side of the bread is buttered
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by pompino 3y ago
Google News is operating a content + link farm by copy/pasting content from other sites. Google is pretending to be legitimate but in realty they are just as trashy. If anyone else was doing it, Google would have banned them faster tha
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by pompino 3y ago
>who apply every possible bloated inefficient awful ad/tracking/targeting/react/javascript spawn of satan into their site as possible, all written by the worst programmers in the world They do this because Google want

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