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by threepio 6y ago
Yes! Even his opening premise is flagrantly false: the problem is not that Uber has "failed drivers by treating them as contractors". The problem is that Uber has arrogated to itself all the benefits of an employee-style relations
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by threepio 6y ago
I love Brewster Kahle. He doesn't get nearly enough credit for being one of the VERY few tech zillionaires who has dedicated his subsequent time and money to creating an enduring and necessary public-spirited resource. (And that part o
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by threepio 6y ago
Thanks to Microsoft, the crapware arrives at GitHub. I'm looking forward to a long future of disabling ads* that have been automatically added to my profile page. * Yes, this is an ad for a GitHub project that I didn't ask to be a
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by threepio 6y ago
The problem arises when you're invoking a style (like `h1` or `h2`) that by default requests a bold weight, but the `font-face` declaration only supplies a WOFF declared "font-weight: regular". In that case, the browser will
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by threepio 6y ago
> Plantin is not a "Times alternative," it is a variation on Bembo. Plantin was released about 15 years before Bembo.
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by threepio 6y ago
Unsafe at any speed.
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by threepio 6y ago
> Racket produces standalone applications that can be codesigned using Apple's tools Can you elaborate on how this works? I've been wanting to try something similar.
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by threepio 6y ago
This argument against "the proliferation of platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Medium, Google and many others" would be more persuasive if the surrounding page weren't embroidered with share buttons from Twitter, Facebook, and
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by threepio 6y ago
It’s specifically different in this case: a big part of Stripe's value to a web vendor is that Stripe can collect credit-card info directly from the buyer (thereby exempting the vendor from PCI compliance and other issues related to st
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by threepio 6y ago
Stripe customer here. The question raised is, more broadly, "Is Stripe collecting this data in a legal and ethical way?" This too can be readily answered in the negative. It doesn't matter whether "Stripe.js collects thi
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by threepio 6y ago
"I expect this essay to be the target of criticism. " With good reason: in the midst of a global crisis, Andreessen launches himself into the billionaire-splaining hall of fame by enumerating a litany of critical projects he think
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by threepio 6y ago
By calling this model "iPhone SE", they're plainly hoping to appeal to people who already own the earlier "iPhone SE" (and probably have not upgraded in several years). Among those people, the larger form factor is
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by threepio 6y ago
IIRC the iPhone is the most profitable consumer product ever. If anything, it should be able to support a greater diversity of models than it does. Because even the "small minority" slices are still large in absolute terms. For in
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by threepio 6y ago
The most perplexing part has always been the positioning of the SE as the low-price iPhone. As an SE fan, I would happily, HAPPILY pay $1000 every two years to keep getting upgraded internals in the current form factor. Yes Apple, I'm
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by threepio 6y ago
"Popular design"? On the contrary. As an iPhone SE owner, this is exactly the form factor that fans of the iPhone 4/5 series (like me) rejected as being too large.
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by threepio 7y ago
783 comments and no one noticed Warren Buffett's name was misspelled?
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by threepio 7y ago
Similar points to this critique, previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21776990
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by threepio 7y ago
SLAPP LIKE NOW!
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by threepio 7y ago
The author is correct that Brave is substituting one set of ads for another. The details of how Brave introduces these ads aren't relevant to the author's main argument, which is economic not technological. He does address problem
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by threepio 7y ago
> What needs to be shown is a set of problems that can adequately be solved by racket that cannot be solved as well with competing languages I thought the piece "Why Language-Oriented Programming? Why Racket?" covered that ques
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by threepio 7y ago
I've been hearing nothing but good things about Racket for the last few years. I finally downloaded it last month. It really just puts a silly smile on your face. The language-oriented programming is terrific too. I really want to find