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by tim58 7y ago
Thank you. There is a tendency in tech people to dismiss politics as less than important ("just politics", "just political"). It's a fundamental part of our social fabric.
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by tim58 7y ago
Find a local lab, ask about submitting a lab, collect then deliver samples. There isn't anything special that says a blood test has to be requested by a doctor. A lab is rarely going to advertise to consumers directly (some startups do
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by tim58 7y ago
> 7 years in with my original DE and brush Badger hair brushes should really be replaced more frequently than once every seven years. The soaps/creams build up over time, and bristles get damaged during use, and it's something
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by tim58 7y ago
Chiming in on shaving. The double-edge safety razor can either be something that's cost saving compared to Gillette or an expensive hobby. I personally know people that spent $750 in shaving equipment, only to go back to an electric P
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by tim58 7y ago
It's a total managed solution. Predictable. Requires less human capital to administer. Contract is negotiable with M$.
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by tim58 7y ago
I'm sad Windows still has a (basic) monopoly on computer gaming.
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by tim58 7y ago
A protection racket might be the best business, but it's also a very risky business.
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by tim58 7y ago
A Link to the Past randomizer is easily the most popular randomizer, but there are now many more randomized games. There are other Zelda games like Ocarina of Time and Wind Waker, and there are non zelda games like Final Fantasy and Castle
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by tim58 7y ago
> the ongoing human rights violations in China We have ongoing human rights violations in the US. I'm not saying The United States is on equal moral footing with The People's Republic of China. I'm saying that both have
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by tim58 7y ago
In large teams it's worth the reduction in 'code velocity' to have engineers document what they are building. I specifically make efforts, and encourage others to do the same, to keep most documentation outside of slack. Do
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by tim58 7y ago
> transcription support If I wanted to add transcription support to a podcasting app, which third party services or software packages I use to turn the audio into text? A similar problem stumped a weekend project ~5 months ago for me. T
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by tim58 7y ago
> Mandatory helmets Mandatory helmets is a separate thing. You're arguing against a policy none of the parent comments or the root article talks about. > Both cyclists and motorists tend to take slightly more risks when wearing
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by tim58 7y ago
> CPSC (Consumer Products Safety Commission) impact test standard only tests for a guided free fall from a height of about 6.5 feet To be fair, not every bicyle helmet is designed to meet minimum safety standards.
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by tim58 7y ago
Asking cyclist not to wear a helmet is like asking drivers not to wear a seatbelt. Yes, they are not needed if everyone follows all the safety rules. Yet accidents still happen.
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by tim58 7y ago
I think that artificially decreasing the price of a good/service through regulation decreases the incentive to produce more of the good/service. The solution to the housing crises is to build more housing. This discourages buildi
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by tim58 7y ago
I'd cut at the team or department level. I'd choose teams/departments based on KPIs and necessity.
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by tim58 7y ago
> Has anyone here ever thought of building an army of tick-detector robots powered by solar panels that can go around and grab as many ticks as possible? This reminds me of mosquito killing ideas my friends and I would come up with when
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by tim58 7y ago
The connection is this: Google has a large amount of influence in the Chromium code base. Using Chromium, a codebase Google Controls, gives them addition leverage in controlling how the web is viewed and built.
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by tim58 7y ago
> “because we care about your privacy, we have partnered with Bank X to develop the first credit card with truly private transactions” It would have been awesome if Apple provided the lender and Visa/Mastercard/AMEX with a non-
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by tim58 7y ago
> there's no reason for privacy-conscious users to stick with Apple. There is a cost of switching platforms.
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by tim58 7y ago
> Meaning that when they get all users and Google is gone that they can turn all the tracking they like. I don't think we have to worry about that. Apple has a small (10-20%) portion of the global market. In many sub markets Apple
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by tim58 7y ago
This was before Chernobyl, and without Chernobyl the industrialized world would probably be mainly on nuclear fission power by now. This was also at a time when nuclear fusion energy was theoretically possible but before half a century of r
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by tim58 7y ago
I do. Chromium/Chrome has a huge impact on the entire web ecosystem, to the point that they have an impact on people that do not use their products.
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by tim58 7y ago
A platform should support the entire spec. An app should correctly implement the parts of the spec it chooses.
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by tim58 7y ago
Web browsers existed 20 years ago. We should be able to visit and use a website written in 1999 on any modern browser.
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by tim58 7y ago
Sure Chrome can. However this reduces accessibility. What if someone has never heard of FTP? Learning about it and installing an FTP client is a large barrier compared to starting a download. Reducing accessibility is a breaking change I
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by tim58 7y ago
I'm not fine with this. I'm of the mindset that code written 20 years ago should run today. This is a breaking change on a critical piece of internet infrastructure. Google, by nature of operating the most popular web browser, h
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by tim58 7y ago
Most websites are resource hogs.
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by tim58 7y ago
I bet they even have theft insurance.
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by tim58 7y ago
I'm going to double down on this. Early America was so hyphenated that people only occupied regions with people of the same original nationality. We still see places with lots of French street names, or a place with lots of German str

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