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by sgustard 6y ago
How would those people have found steady income driving strangers every day without Uber? My mind draws a blank. Uber does not have a monopoly like a stock market. If there's a more effecient way to do this, competitors will find it.
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by sgustard 6y ago
The 20 laws are presented alphabetically, not in any order of importance. (I'm not defending it, just observing.)
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by sgustard 6y ago
Prosecuting is mostly irrelevant. A lot of attacks come from countries outside the reach of US law enforcement.
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by sgustard 6y ago
Current events indicate the US can take something the rest of the world accomplishes and make a royal mess of it.
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by sgustard 6y ago
It's similar to children of mothers who all stayed at home. A generation later, many of their daughters decide (or are forced) to enter the workforce, but not all. I see working and non-working moms coexist today without any undue tens
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by sgustard 6y ago
That logic doesn't hold up. The overhead in learning your way around a Google or Microsoft-sized codebase is much larger than learning a new language or framework.
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by sgustard 6y ago
I started an internet forum in 2006 whose audience was almost entirely female. It grew to a reasonable size, not huge, but what was remarkable was a nearly complete lack of trolls, arguments, and bad behavior. We saw that women just engage
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by sgustard 6y ago
On the one hand, that's entertaining and it's easy to laugh at people who don't know those shortcuts. On the other hand: to this day I don't know if iOS Mobile Safari supports finding text on a page.
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by sgustard 6y ago
How do you remember the user has opted out of cookies without storing a cookie? Does anyone have an example of a site with a clear opt-in/out? I'm curious about what's actually stored on my machine in each case. And of course
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by sgustard 6y ago
More young people going out = more cases. Those people infecting their parents and grandparents may lead to more deaths in due time. And it has been news. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/health/coronav
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Your next car will be electric(mondaynote.com)
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by sgustard 6y ago
Why does a CPU running 500+ gigaflops struggle to animate a gif? Is the software stack really that bad?
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by sgustard 6y ago
> how left wing protests seem to frequently degrade into violence "The Women’s March on Washington was likely the largest single-day demonstration in recorded US history" and entirely free of violence. > all Americans were o
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by sgustard 6y ago
Well I certainly want Google Maps to act like an app (which it does): panning, zooming and so on. And I'm happy for Hacker News to act like a traditional website. At that point it's a false dichotomy: different solutions for diffe
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by sgustard 6y ago
In return for these employee benefits, the employees make less money, and are less likely to be hired, since every mis-hire is a potentially fatal error for the business. The laws of economics are not magic and the costs have to go somewher
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by sgustard 6y ago
"Idiotic" is a strong word. The question is: if candidate A answers these successfully, and candidate B does not, is there a reason to believe that candidate A is a better fit for your SQL data analyst position? You may say no, th
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by sgustard 6y ago
Hmm, my doctor specifically said a few weeks ago: "During active COVID-19 infection symptoms (fever, cough), please AVOID these common supplements: Echinacea, Elderberry, Polysaccharide extracts from Medicinal Mushrooms and Vitamin D
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by sgustard 6y ago
Ad revenue has also dropped with DVR use. It's amusing to think about adding 20% of ads to compensate for 20% of viewers skipping over the ads, since it's a race to 100% ads that nobody watches.
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by sgustard 6y ago
The first goal of drug advertising is to define a category and convince people they have a disorder that no one had ever heard of before. Viagra invented "erectile disfunction" and went on to make billions of dollars, and an indus
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by sgustard 6y ago
I believe that you, and I, have a robust filter to identify trustworthy content. But would you agree that most people consume only reliable content on YouTube, or Facebook? There is plenty of evidence that is not the case, and these platf
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by sgustard 7y ago
The population of my neighborhood has doubled since the shutdown as everyone's kids came back from college. No gestation involved.
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by sgustard 7y ago
I get why corrupt politicans hate the media, which is because it holds them accountable. Why do you choose to help them tear it down? Are we better off with no media and just the raw tweets of our leaders?
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by sgustard 7y ago
Um, so if you want to publish an article on how many people will die of the virus, how do you ensure it's true? Obviously you either don't write the article, or you quote the most reliable projections you can find. But those are s
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by sgustard 7y ago
My definition is declaring each dependency explicity. "A, B and C depend on D or E." Add a watcher on D and E to go update A, B and C. Repeat for every combination of dependencies. When app is complex enough I threw that away for
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by sgustard 7y ago
Exactly! I've built plenty of rock-solid flawless products that never got any traction. I can assure you none of them were dissected on Hacker News. Personally I'd go for getting mass adoption followed by endless free security con
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by sgustard 7y ago
We've adopted a framework as a small team and it has nothing to do with onboarding new people. We adopted it became clear that if we stuck with vanilla JS, we'd end up re-building something like jQuery to keep our code and abstrac
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by sgustard 7y ago
Also, granting a website access to my camera, granting access to my microphone, and so on; which are really not functions I want to be granting any websites. I don't run a browser to have it randomly turn on surveillance devices. I pre
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by sgustard 7y ago
An airplane cockpit has two pilots and literally several hundred physical buttons. No one wants to drive that car. In cars we're mainly talking about the volume and fan speed. Personally I much prefer knobs for those. But I wouldn&#x27
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by sgustard 7y ago
Same reaction here. My company's unoccupied office has a glass door and I lie awake thinking about someone stealing the 10-year old PC off the receptionist's desk.
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by sgustard 7y ago
Here's a list of schools that are already "test optional." https://www.fairtest.org/university/optional I leave it an exercise to the reader to decide if these schools are less egalitarian than (say) the

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