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by sho 8y ago
"Is known to"? By who? It sounds like you've read the anecdote about the Cobra Effect and generalized into the conclusion that no bounty system could ever work, which is demonstrably incorrect. Place a nominal bounty on the m
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by sho 8y ago
Couldn't agree more. I used to buy all my glasses in Japan or Korea - the market there is mature and competitive. Over $100 would be considered "luxury". These days I go to Owndays, which has successfully expanded out from Ja
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by sho 8y ago
In your first sentence I thought you were being sarcastic. A little weird, I didn't know German government jokes were a thing, but OK. In your second sentence I realised you weren't. Wow. If this is "innovation", then le
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by sho 8y ago
Oh yes you do, or you couldn't even use this site, let alone do any programming. For better or worse left-to-right has "won" in programming-land and I fully agree with alangpierce that it's the natural choice for evaluat
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by sho 8y ago
You hit the nail on the head, I agree completely. But: > Try thinking like a regular user, who just wants everything to work properly out of the box, rather than a technical user I'm by any measure a technical user, with over a deca
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by sho 8y ago
Thank you for that, hadn't seen it. Very interesting, if somewhat dated, but perhaps cause for cautious optimism.
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by sho 8y ago
> the fact [..] that the New York Times, an American media company, is effectively banned [..] from reporting it This is absolutely fascinating to me too, that an Australian court order is influencing the behaviour of media in another co
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by sho 8y ago
Of course I know that. I'm explaining why the lack of somebody capable taking responsibility for providing a "curated" linux with a world-class UI and backing it up with deep and broad app and services ecosystem means that it
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by sho 8y ago
> China has a long history of civil unrest > The return to authoritarianism can be seen as battening down the hatches Obligatory not a "China expert" but I think you're very much correct. A lot of people don't seem
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by sho 8y ago
Sigh. No offense but it's comments like this that remind me why no, I haven't tried desktop linux recently. No, I am not going to mess around trying KDE Plasma or SomethingElse Tumbleweed or OpenWuffe SnufflePuss XL or any other o
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by sho 8y ago
I'm in the same boat and have the same thoughts. I'm essentially trapped on OSX, and have been for a decade - sure, with enough pain and effort I might be able to kinda-sorta get by on linux, but in practise the barrier is just to
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by sho 8y ago
To flip your question around, should a prosecutor have the power to, upon an 11th bank robbery occurring, simply drag in the guy who did the last 10 and present him as "probably" the guilty party? This has happened any number of t
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by sho 8y ago
> CBTC has been an utter shit show in San Francisco CBTC is used all day, every day by cities all over the world without issue. I've personally taken hundreds, if not thousands, of trips on train systems with this technology and it
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by sho 8y ago
Well, I don't know about Iran, but I can tell you that a lot of jobs in developing countries will come with a driver - or two. It's just considered a necessary part of the "package". Bear in mind that in the places I&#x2
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by sho 8y ago
> but rich people who display their wealth This is the key IMO. I know a few people who fall into various of the categories mentioned and, well, you wouldn't know it meeting them. The place they live is probably the only real tell b
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by sho 8y ago
I still can't get over the fact that Google rejected mxcl, author of homebrew, possibly the most important piece of software on OSX, because he couldn't remember some useless piece of easily-googleable (ha) CS trivia on the spot.
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by sho 8y ago
> the difference in UI performance is astounding I could not agree more. I've made numerous attempts to embrace the new hotness that is VSCode but I just cannot get over the performance. Yes, it has some cool features, the plug-in
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by sho 8y ago
> the fiction that we live in a world that's totally governed by fairness and laws For those who follow China closely, this delusion doesn't really exist. Check out this article from 2010: https://www.chinalawblog.co
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by sho 8y ago
Not sure if you are being sarcastic, but if testing on your browser means downloading a 4GB+ image every couple months and having it take up all my memory in a clunky VM and messing around with how it gets its IP and then trying to update i
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by sho 8y ago
> Nature is already a mad scientist that runs random experiments on babies. Excellent way of putting it. I'm adding that quote to my arsenal..
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by sho 8y ago
> But confidently wrong is completely on brand for this magazine, so thumbs up for them I don't think that's fair. Yes, I disagree with this particular article, but The Economist makes more effort than most to offer non-partisa
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by sho 8y ago
> also somewhat expensive Ha, what? My old commute on the Singapore MRT - 5 stations - cost me the grand sum of SGD$1.07 (USD0.78). Even to the airport is only a couple of bucks. Tokyo isn't quite as cheap but it's still very a
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by sho 8y ago
> Javascript APIs Markup In other words, every single page application ever built?
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by sho 8y ago
> it's a static site and not using something like Rails There's nothing "static" about this site. You're still querying a back-end database, you've just outsourced it to a third party. And looking at the exa
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by sho 8y ago
Next article in the series, "Why I killed my co-worker"
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by sho 8y ago
At least one of them is 4+ years old, and rlonn is a veteran. I'm inclined to give the benefit of the doubt in this case. Bit of a lesson here for "show HN" hopefuls though to not have too many greentext usernames piling on..
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by sho 8y ago
> And to offset environmental impact, every Thelio sold plants a tree with the National Forest Foundation. In other words, they donate a dollar. Not that I'm against it, I guess. There's just something about the "buy our p
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by sho 8y ago
Yes they do, although I'd be surprised if they fill it every day or even most days. J is notoriously choppy as it doesn't have the price discrimination carriers can use to smooth Y pax around to fill up the days. Simultaneously it
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by sho 8y ago
You really need references to support that claim because it's also the complete opposite of everything I've ever heard. While it's true that simply multiplying seat numbers by advertised prices is not giving the whole picture
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by sho 8y ago
And your comment brought back memories for me, too. For various reasons when I was young I had to fly internationally a lot, and I have memories of endless hours sitting in dark cabins listening to the CDs I'd bought in the previous co

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