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by smackfu 12y ago
The whole point of this article is that the original MacBook Air had a principle (thinness above all) that the current one has moved away from, and that it wouldn't be surprising if they moved back.
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by smackfu 12y ago
First one renders rather illegibly at this font size here on my Windows machine in Chrome.
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by smackfu 12y ago
One option would be to make the power adapter fancier. Instead of just being a box with a wall cable on one end and a MagSafe cable on the other end, what if it had USB and Thunderbolt ports? You would have the same amount of gear to carr
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by smackfu 12y ago
(For anyone fuzzy on the units, that's 180nm to 140nm.)
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by smackfu 12y ago
In Chrome, that was a bit jumpy compared to using the scroll bar.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Different sections have different styles. This one is just a bit more informal.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Facebook the product vs. Facebook the company.
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by smackfu 12y ago
It's 50/50 that I even have my friends email addresses. Facebook messaging covers 99% of the need.
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by smackfu 12y ago
>- Those same people are now whining about it. I tend to doubt that. HN commenters in one thread are not the same as HN commenters in another thread.
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by smackfu 12y ago
It looks like Amazon discontinued WebPay (person-to-person payments) in October 2014. Maybe Kickstarter was using that (or an API version of it) to pay the funds from themselves to the project organizers? https://payments.amazon
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by smackfu 12y ago
I'm surprised Kickstarter needs a payments partner at all. They are a pretty big business. In fact, I think they already did charges directly for non-US backers.
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by smackfu 12y ago
It's cute but I don't really buy it. You think he hasn't asked his engineers what the chance of success is? And that they haven't calculated it using actual numbers based on the previous test landings?
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by smackfu 12y ago
> If they calculate/print suggested tip amounts they use post tax I see it done both ways.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Y and y are only different for BC dates in the Gregorian calendar, so using the incorrect one generally isn't going to cause problems.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Yeah, it happens every year, unless the 31st falls on the last day of the week. Also, the 'Y' character was a relatively late addition to Java, in v1.7. Before that it was an invalid value.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Why would they bother going into the EU or US?
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by smackfu 12y ago
Heh, is Chrome slowing down the Javascript clock when you switch away from the tab? Because it changes to around 1 beat per second.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Well, the Falcon Heavy has yet to launch, and SpaceX has yet to reuse a rocket. Someday, SpaceX may be 10x cheaper, but until then...
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by smackfu 12y ago
11 million dollars per mile does not seem accurate. They recently widened the Turnpike in NJ from 6 to 12 lanes over a 35 mile stretch, and it cost $2.3 billion. That's $65 million per mile. And that was considered a successful proje
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by smackfu 12y ago
I think you're a bit caught up in stereotypes, to be honest. There aren't many people who are all those things you think you dislike. If you meet someone cool, and then they happen to be a vegan, what's your plan? Argue tha
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by smackfu 12y ago
I think most purchases break down into "I need it now" vs. "I need it in a day or two." Currently, Amazon can't get the first category, so it's served by local stores. And four-hour or same-day delivery doesn
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by smackfu 12y ago
$7.99 + you need to have $99 Prime.
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by smackfu 12y ago
I'm more impressed that the two-hour delivery is free.
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by smackfu 12y ago
This is how the system is supposed to work. You create an experiment, you perform it, if there are interesting results you publish them. Then since it's public, other people can try to reproduce the results. If they do, the results a
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by smackfu 12y ago
So Finland is one country that has 24% VAT (most are lower.) They have very low property taxes but very high income taxes (up to 30% federal + 20% local.)
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by smackfu 12y ago
It is definitely a lot harder to use this kind of tax avoidance if you are a European company.
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by smackfu 12y ago
True, it should say: "EU wants to get more money from transaction for American companies."
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by smackfu 12y ago
Theater chains are pretty spineless in general.
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by smackfu 12y ago
If I was a movie star with a percentage of the profits, my lawyers would be very opposed to that strategy.
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by smackfu 12y ago
Just a second level of approval can be very useful, without requiring orders of magnitude costs. In part because it usually requires that the change be explained in writing to the second approver, and that can often reveal issues.

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