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by s2g 8y ago
Great to hear. Unity was easily the 2nd worst desktop experience I've had, behind windows 8. Windows 8 was easily fixed with a 3rd party tool to restore the start menu. Unity was just so clunky, and no matter the hardware always seemed
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by s2g 8y ago
quit arguing slippery slope fallacies. It's perfectly reasonable to say you want 0.08, but you are willing to accept the margin of error as well.
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by s2g 8y ago
But then you have to tell your assistant what you need done. Then it has to navigate through the maze. This sounds great, but seems fraught with failure.
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by s2g 8y ago
> He compared it to the electric guitar, a technology that helped humans express themselves in new ways and is considered a positive advance. An electric guitar doesn't play for you. It doesn't learn to play for you. It doesn&#
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by s2g 8y ago
> Giving it an obviously robotic voice when it calls. "People will probably hang up," he said. Doesn't that really tell us all we need to know? If the only way to get people to tolerate your service is to try and trick the
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by s2g 8y ago
You're gonna get flagged for pointing out that HN is a pretty extreme echo chamber.
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by s2g 8y ago
> Institutions like “don’t be evil” Google is evil. Maybe they weren't at some point, but they absolutely are now.
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by s2g 8y ago
I'm too spoiled to walk in the rain is hardly rational debate.
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by s2g 8y ago
Force the middle class out of the city, give them shitty transit options, then tax the hell out of them when they decide to drive. Wonderful.
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by s2g 8y ago
Yes, absolutely. I avoid calling customer service because it forces me to work with a machine.
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by s2g 8y ago
We also know the cost of rapidly disseminated lies. Especially the effect those lies have on trust in mainstream news media (helps fox, hurts everyone else).
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by s2g 8y ago
Or they can just start hanging up when this stupid thing calls them.
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by s2g 8y ago
Everyone except trump and Netanyahu said they were. It wasn’t just good faith, thy had to agree to access as part of the deal. This means they have much more freedom to pursue nuclear weapons research.
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by s2g 8y ago
What if I see it and I'm completely willing to accept that risk? What if I'm willing to accept that the government suddenly turn into a dystopian authoritarian nightmare that tortures and murders my family in front of me, if we ge
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by s2g 8y ago
That's not an inalienable human right.
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by s2g 8y ago
> It's also reasonable to start enforcing our monopoly laws. oh but they aren't "hurting consumers. Google learned from Microsoft. They pay their bribes. and you don't have a right to put up videos on youtube.
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by s2g 8y ago
The bill of rights enumerates certain rights, very explicitly stating that it doesn't enumerate all rights.
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by s2g 8y ago
Because banning undesirable communities works. It works well. It doesn't drive them underground, it destroys their ability to easily congregate and damages them. It hurts their ability to casually attract new members. It causes them to
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by s2g 8y ago
Prisoners are allowed to be slaves under the 13th amendment. You don't have to free them to stop allowing slavery in prison.
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by s2g 8y ago
Yeah, the argument is a bit ridiculous. You shouldn't go to the bay area because you will never be able to afford a 2 million dollar house on 300k a year. Stay in Vancouver and just buy a 1 million dollar house on 90k instead.
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by s2g 8y ago
No. it's the worst. don't come here.
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by s2g 8y ago
I would think the experienced engineer contemplating moving their entire family to another country has done the basic math. I really do get tired of this "but the cost of living!" argument being tossed out. People get it. It'
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by s2g 8y ago
Lots less, but the big problem is a lack of competition. We don't have the big companies sucking up devs at an insane rate, or startups doing the same. So they just pay what it takes to fill the spot. Of course they are also incredibly
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by s2g 8y ago
This has been a thing for a long time. We backfill with people from elsewhere who can't get US visas. and another study that demonstrates the silliness of lumping all of STEM together. overall, 1 in 4. In CS, 6 in 10. Roughly doubling
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by s2g 8y ago
yeah, they learned from Microsoft's mistakes. You have to pay the bribes.
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by s2g 8y ago
Elon says lots of stuff. Elon is frequently full of shit.
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by s2g 8y ago
He's never going to colonize mars. It's not possible with out current level of technology. He might kill a bunch of people trying.
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by s2g 8y ago
Then he should be fired because he doesn't care about his job. I am so sick of the cult of Elon. There is no defending his behaviour here.
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by s2g 8y ago
He spent 20 minutes answering softball questions from a youtuber instead.
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by s2g 8y ago
It was fantastic to watch him use Gali as a PR tool while he dodged real questions?

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