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by sbov 11y ago
Making people aware of the problem and recommending they help with it is part of working towards change. Which is all the OP really did.
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by sbov 11y ago
If you've been working on a bug for an hour+ and it's 2AM it usually means it's time to put the keyboard down. For me, what usually happens is I go to sleep, wake up, and have it fixed in 5 minutes.
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by sbov 11y ago
Is there really no reason not to grow foods - is this a researched opinion of yours or just conjecture? The last article posted on HN about the trend of rendering skyscraper designs with greenery noted many of the problems with actually bu
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by sbov 11y ago
I'm curious, how many Australian websites force you to enter your shipping address before you shop? In the US to properly account for sales tax you basically have to get the coordinates of the address you're shipping to. The most
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by sbov 11y ago
Does anyone know, by what logic are the auctions price fixing? Generally they seem like one of the fairest ways to determine a price - are they doing something odd in their auctions? Or are they just grasping at straws?
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by sbov 11y ago
You bring up a good related point, although I don't care as much about the mouse and keyboard. My issue is with the UI. This is different from checkers or chess or go. The Starcraft UI is part of the balance of the game itself, so if
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by sbov 11y ago
Only the most vulnerable. The 1989 epicenter was around Santa Cruz. Something similar to the 1906 earthquake would be probably be very bad.
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by sbov 11y ago
Much to my boss' disappointment, it's almost impossible to find a 1366x768 laptop, or more generally, one that isn't 1080p.
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by sbov 11y ago
Your own link has a link showing California is already running into these problems you say are not problems: http://ww2.kqed.org/science/2016/04/04/what-will-california-... Batteries are obviously not th
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by sbov 11y ago
In an unlimited subscription model you aren't voting with money, you're voting with whatever Amazon decides you're voting with, which is currently the maximum page you reach.
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by sbov 11y ago
When people talk about Northern California they generally include the SF Bay Area.
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by sbov 11y ago
This reads like some slightly useful, but obvious, advice mixed with attempts to "stick it" to companies based in the US. I think it's telling in your example that the friend laughs because their grandma did it, not that the
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by sbov 11y ago
Based upon your example, you seem to be arguing for a flat (as in dollar amount) tax. I have no idea how that would ever work unless there were no taxes at all.
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by sbov 11y ago
I'm always conflicted with this. On one end, I feel like security is hard enough that we don't need to go weakening it, in any way, to allow the government to be able to (with a lawful warrant) read the data. I feel like the citi
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by sbov 11y ago
Actually this just reads like scientists being blind to their own biases. One of the guys heading the original study was Ancel Keys, the father of the lipid hypothesis.
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by sbov 11y ago
For the average programmer it ended a decade ago - most of us suck at concurrent programming.
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by sbov 11y ago
So you agree with https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11482075 but also just felt like calling the parent an asshole?
888.
by sbov 11y ago
Isn't this basically event driven programming?
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by sbov 11y ago
I say all of this who has been out of the Facebook scene for about 4 years, so things might have changed: At any given point in time Facebook favors certain integrations more than others. By not being a user you are more likely to waste ti
890.
by sbov 11y ago
Forever? No. But what is reasonable to you? 0 days? What if it's a home appliance I paid around $5,000 for, like my most recent furnace install? Also 0 days?
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by sbov 11y ago
This seems like a really uncommon case. The vast majority of bugs I've ran across is an incorrect mental model of how something works: your system, some library, or an external system you're interfacing with. Aside from building a
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by sbov 11y ago
I assume you're trying to imply that it comes from the government. Fractional reserve banking started before central banks, and that extra $900 came from notes the bank printed out, which people would accept as payment for goods and s
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by sbov 11y ago
There are several things that go into a product. Using your metric, if you chip away any one of them the other parts tend to become worthless. You wouldn't have a product without the ideas that go into it. You wouldn't have a pr
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by sbov 11y ago
I feel like you might be hinting that software is one such field. IMHO software's problem is not that it doesn't take 10,000 hours of practice - it is that it takes much, much more. It can be months (or years!) before you receive
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by sbov 11y ago
Note that according to spacex fuel is only 0.3% of the cost, but materials are also only 2% of the cost. ( http://www.space.com/21386-spacex-reusable-rockets-cost.html ) A rocket is not worth 10s of millions in raw materials,
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by sbov 11y ago
At worst we wouldn't do anything for 1,000 years because there's been little effect. In the meantime we've built up another 1,000 years we're going to have to deal with, which might be impossible at that point. In compa
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by sbov 11y ago
But if you're not feeling your current effects until 1,000 years in the future you may be completely screwed before you end up doing something about it.
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by sbov 11y ago
Why does it even matter? Why people believe what they believe is more nuanced than "freedom". Freedom is certainly is a factor but not the only. Stereotyping everyone in a community is easy but ultimately lazy and somewhat point
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by sbov 11y ago
Can't you use the same argument to equate drugs, guns, cars, sticks, water, and imperialistic wars? I mean, they all can be used to harm people.
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by sbov 11y ago
I wouldn't. I don't really like food that much. It's easy to ignore when you've had something a million times, but it's harder to ignore when it's a completely new, unpleasant sensation. But, I understand tha

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