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by steven2012 8y ago
I was sad to see Tuft and Needle get acquired by Serta. I bought 3 TN mattresses from their post here, and I love them. I vociferously recommended them to anyone I know. I really doubt their quality will continue to be maintained now that t
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by steven2012 8y ago
Is this because of the leadership of Sundar Pichai? It seems as though he might have good plans on making more revenue, but it flies in the face of the expectations of his employees. Does this bode poorly for him as CEO if his employees are
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by steven2012 8y ago
Have these planes ever been used in real combat?
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by steven2012 8y ago
Pancreatic cancer is scary as hell because there's no warning signs until it's too late. I wonder why we're not doing more to develop blood tests or other ways to detect this much earlier in the process when the results are s
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by steven2012 8y ago
I use eBay frequently. I have only bought things, but I want to sell things, however I'm terrified of getting scammed. And eBay does nothing to ameliorate those fears. I got as close as taking pictures, writing a description, and stopp
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Ask HN: What is the performance of CPUs post-Meltdown/Spectre
2 points by steven2012 8y ago|1 comments
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Mutually Nonconsensual Sex(theatlantic.com)
43 points by steven2012 8y ago|30 comments
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by steven2012 8y ago
Organic doesn't mean they're not using pesticides at all, and no fertilizer and singing kumbaya to their crops every night. The problem with the term "organic" is that it means different things to different agencies.
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by steven2012 8y ago
I've had people bleed on my on the SF MUNI, it's thoroughly disgusting and scary.
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by steven2012 10y ago
I've traveled to a dozen cities with Uber and didn't have to change my account, even in China. So the answer is no.
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by steven2012 10y ago
As a side note, the OP's username "superchink" seems pretty offensive to Asians on Hacker News.
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by steven2012 10y ago
Lol $635k. Maybe including condos but definitely not SFHs
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by steven2012 10y ago
No I don't think so. It sounds like he was fired for at the very least strange behavior, and all of his potential employers picked up on it. If he were technically good, it wouldn't matter what Chrysler said. But it seems like he&
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by steven2012 10y ago
Unfortunately I think this person seems mentally ill. I have a friend who in his 30s became a paranoid schizophrenic and although he was very articulate, he had major flaws in his logic and behaved erratically. He also filed many lawsuits a
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by steven2012 10y ago
Yes that was a concern of mine as well. They stated that if they do go out of business they would open source everything so that we could build our own solution. That's basically what convinced me to go all in with their product.
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by steven2012 10y ago
The stuff from wirelesstags.net are generally very good. I have a bunch of sensors and their Reed sensors for detecting opening and closing of doors are very good. I hook it up with ifttt and turn on my Hue lights when I open and close my d
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by steven2012 10y ago
I worked at a PHP-based company and after a year of intense interviewing, we finally decided to switch core languages and tech stacks because we weren't attracting strong enough candidates. What we found is that most good programmers d
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by steven2012 10y ago
The other side of that coin is that if you don't have a lot of money then you most likely won't get sued.
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by steven2012 10y ago
Yes it works with no internet connection, you connect to a hub on the local network. Pulling a new wire is better but also much more expensive. Adding a new switch for me is~200 and I can't move it around like the Hue.
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by steven2012 10y ago
I use wirelesstags.net which is good enough for me. Pretty effective for my uses, batteries last about 1 year for updates every 10 mins, and you have access to all your data for all time.
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by steven2012 10y ago
What security liability? If you're talking about a random attack, then they would need to somehow piece together my various email addresses and break different passwords. The cameras (Dropcam, Smartcam, Ring) don't keep ports open
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by steven2012 10y ago
It's fun as hell knowing what's going on in the house at all times and feeling that I'm protecting myself and my family. Whether or not that's true is to be determined.
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by steven2012 10y ago
The nest cost $250, insulation cost 10x that, and new furnace is 40x. I agree that insulation and upgrading the home would produce the nest results but my point is that the data is useful, not useless. I could shut my heating completely and
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by steven2012 10y ago
I have the Hue dimmer switch which makes them infinitely more useful. I can now control my lights without having to pull wires etc.
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by steven2012 10y ago
Some IoT is a fad. But there are very useful things that you can do if you have many connected data devices and sensors at home. I have ~15 temperature sensors and door sensors that alert me when doors get opened. I was able to use that dat
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by steven2012 10y ago
Basic income can succeed on a small level definitely but it can never succeed on a national or even city or state level. The reason is simple economics: inflation. When money comes so easily it will drive up prices. If it's done on a s
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by steven2012 10y ago
Wow. When I started 20+ years ago in Toronto I made $30k. I can't believe that starting salaries are that low today. Within 3 years I was making > 50k but that's because I didn't know how to negotiate salaries. And a year
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by steven2012 10y ago
The culture of cheating and lying in China is so bad that even the government posted economic numbers aren't trusted. I have plenty of very close Chinese friends and they would be the first to admit that the mainland Chinese culture is
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by steven2012 10y ago
Most of the companies came from older tech companies like Yahoo, Intel, etc which had slow growth anyway so they probably aren't responsible for the vast increase of jobs over the last 5 years. I'm curious what the layoff situatio
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by steven2012 10y ago
Antivirus scans are one of those things added on IT checklists to cover their ass whenever something wrong happens. But it rarely is useful. It only causes problems. We've seen so many issues related to virus scans throughout the years

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