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by sah2ed 8y ago
The superfluous posts are now dead. Rules working as intended.
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OK, here’s your original claim about what you were convinced about Apple’s strategy with respect to competition from web/ads companies like Google: “Am I the only one who is convinced Apple is focused on privacy because its cloud tech
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> (I honestly don't expect to be able to cite any sources regarding Apple's decisions based on their level of transparency into their business. If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to not, you know, not spec
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You'd be hard pressed to find any credible source for your conviction. Apple's privacy stance is what Steve Jobs believed in, and what Tim Cook has stuck with, because they know that leaving privacy-based decisions up to third-par
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by sah2ed 8y ago
To further butress DanielBMarkham's excellent comment below, here is a HN discussion [0] from early this year where China gave Africa a no strings attached helping hand that turned out to be "Greek gift" where they snoop on a
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by sah2ed 8y ago
> They have been very effective in reducing poverty and improving infrastructure in Africa. I'm sure Joe Stiglitz, a Nobel prize winner in Economics, would disagree. In fact, he clearly articulated why in his book: Globalization
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You are being over-dramatic. He clearly mentions Sean and even includes a couple of frames in the video of Sean working on the device's PCB. Start here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo&t=70
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> My one criticism is that sometimes he ignores oppositional arguments where I think he should address them. Yes, that's because Thomas Sowell skews libertarian as mentioned by another commenter elsewhere in the thread. I think this
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The quality of a news source passing a simple test of credibility by presenting an accurate account of a topic the reader is deeply familiar with. For instance, if you are a Computer Scientist and you find yourself agreeing to a layman expl
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> No company is a what it actually does company. Or perhaps that companies, like individuals, have facets. Someone calling Google a search engine company is no more correct than you saying they are an advertising company, technology co
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(A small note on your interchangeable use of reproducibility and replicability in research because they mean slightly different things. reproducible : independently achieving the same result using existing data; replicable : independently
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I must have missed this in my weekly HN newsletter. Thanks for the link Dan!
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For anyone else wondering about TUF, I believe it refers to The Update Framework (TUF)[0]. [0] https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf
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> The interesting point is that electric cars don't reduce oil consumption by ~20%, they reduce it by ~100% (or ~99.5% since 0.5% of US electricity comes from oil). In aggregate, oil consumption may drop, but it doesn't acc
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by sah2ed 8y ago
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962) by Thomas Kuhn is a fantastic book that explores the history of science while also debunking the commonly held belief that discoveries (of gravity, oxygen gas etc) are instantaneous observati
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This is a very well written comment. It made me curious: what kind of training would one receive to be able to know what to scientifically check for in a building? Building biologist? Thanks!
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> This is why companies care about OSS licenses and sudden changes in those licenses. It's not out of pettiness. Automattic dropped React just for this very reason. I believe the blog post [0] by the Automattic CEO where he announce
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And here's a JSON of their IP blocks: https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json
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The first (Damore) was an engineer. The second (Rubin) was an executive. To Google, executive >> engineer hence the outrage by rank and file.
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> That a walkout like this only happens at Google and not, say, microsoft, where surely sexual harassment also occurs and is also brushed aside, is telling about the employee culture at Google. There's a much simpler explanation t
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by sah2ed 8y ago
Sounds like freelancer position you have on your hands. You should consider posting your position to the Whoishiring thread tomorrow. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18113145
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> (More than NPM FYI) I found your claim hard to believe so I went digging but couldn't find any recent resource on the total number of downloads npmjs.org handles per month. I could have sworn they used to publish aggregate stats
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Matt Levine's Money Stuff [0] is a great read on problem with Musk's "funding secured" tweet. [0] https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-08-13/funding-f...
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I agree with you that the grandparent misinterpreted the theorem as the Wikipedia article includes something similar to your reply: "These results might seem irrelevant (after all, none of the conditions are met in the real world), but
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World's longest sea crossing: Hong Kong-Zhuhai bridge opens(bbc.com)
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Interesting to learn that 9 out of the top 100 are solo founders ...
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Intent matters. Linux, gcc, git OSS projects are less concerned about capturing value from the economic activities enabled by them, which is why they were all set up as not-for-profit enterprises; the expectation is that donations will help
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This is a great list! It would be nice if you put it up as a table in Markdown on your GitHub so others can contribute additions or corrections, along with citations.
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> Success itself is whether the idea had merit and a solid team is built. Even the concept of an idea being meritable is relative -- it depends on who is making the assessment. Fred Wilson didn't think AirBnB had merit, in fact he t
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> To come full circle figuratively means to be back where you started. What you meant to say is that you've done a 180 (a U-turn) on the idea. I think his use of the expression is accurate—coming full circle to HTML—not to RSS. Th

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