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by ukulele 9y ago
My original comment doesn't assume anything for or against -- I think your analysis of "it doesn't usually pan out" with associated data would be perfectly reasonable to include in an article like this. I'm fine wit
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by ukulele 9y ago
Part of me dislikes the title "Blood Unicorn" for being sensationalist, but part of me really likes it for being completely accurate and even a little bit poetic. It kind of feels like all titles should strive for this balance, bu
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by ukulele 9y ago
Atlanta thrives on Delta, Coca Cola, UPS, Home Depot, and others. Far from "destroying livelihoods", it's in large part due to the "giants" that Atlanta is a major economic hub in the southeast.
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by ukulele 9y ago
No more or less than the back of a bus I imagine. People seem to prefer windows there while being driven, and I don't suspect removing the driver changes that.
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by ukulele 9y ago
What's missing from most articles (this one included) is any kind of analysis of whether tax breaks make sense for the states in question. It bothers me how it's presented as the state giving $5B of its own cash away to Amazon, as
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by ukulele 9y ago
Agreed on not holding British schools up too high, but as an American, I have to agree with the author's swipe that any US facility that intentionally provided bricks on a playground would be in for a world of hurt financially. It woul
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by ukulele 9y ago
I would be surprised if a majority of new projects with a JavaScript library weren't using jQuery. I personally moved on a few years ago and I suspect that's the case with many people who respond on HN, but there are still plent
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by ukulele 9y ago
Can you maybe flush this question out with some context?
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by ukulele 9y ago
This is such a vaguely worded question and spec that I doubt you'll get anything out of it. All three are fine in the right context and not even mutually exclusive. Maybe do some basic research first, then ask with more details on your
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by ukulele 9y ago
> If your ratio was greater than 2.9013 positive emotions to 1 negative emotion you were flourishing in life. I cannot fathom how honest, intelligent people end up thinking they've "solved" for something like happiness or
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by ukulele 9y ago
*Alcohol abuse is largest risk factor > Most reviews point to a possible beneficial effect of light-to-moderate drinking on cognitive health... By contrast, heavy drinking seems detrimentally related to dementia risk, whatever the dement
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by ukulele 9y ago
*Abusing alcohol is strongest risk factor > Most reviews point to a possible beneficial effect of light-to-moderate drinking on cognitive health... By contrast, heavy drinking seems detrimentally related to dementia risk, whatever the de
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by ukulele 9y ago
It's a fun idea, but I really hope we don't have to sit through a multi year cycle of people using the term "Web 3.0"
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by ukulele 9y ago
Terrestrial planets usually means inner 4 in our solar system, and "earthlike" elsewhere
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by ukulele 9y ago
> The real problem is that the engineer’s mindset, wherein one weighs the available evidence, and accept and incorporate new evidence even if it contradicts what you previously believed, has never been more rare. This is the author'
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by ukulele 9y ago
Serious question: are you typing out colon-smile-colon yourself every time, or does HN convert emojis to text automatically?
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by ukulele 9y ago
What it is: > Wikipedia Zero was created in 2012 to address one barrier to participating in Wikipedia globally: high mobile data costs. Through the program, we partnered with mobile operators to waive mobile data fees for their customers
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by ukulele 9y ago
I can see how the author views this as company mismanagement, but I'd offer a possible counter: Online is killing retail, full stop. High touch sales models everywhere have lost profitablity due to "showrooming" -- curation a
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by ukulele 9y ago
Comparing the level of customer care at a bookstore with that of an Apple store is pretty unfair. Apple makes hundreds or thousands of margin dollars per customer; a bookstore is probably closer to $10.
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by ukulele 9y ago
I like that they started with comparison to other animals, with humans being born "sooner" in the development cycle due to our larger brains. To me, this sets up a nice mental model for the first ~18 months of parenting: your chil
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by ukulele 9y ago
Therein lies my skepticism. It's an industry that seems to be full of "oops we lost your money, trust me" problems. Malice becomes a lot more likely when life changing sums of money are involved.
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by ukulele 9y ago
The referenced post [0] came to the same conclusion as my first thought: this was very possibly an intentional security hole to allow someone on the team to get away with something. [0] https://amp.reddit.com/r/CryptoCu
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by ukulele 9y ago
One of the best things about the internet is the potential for searchable comments like these 20+ years from now. I look forward to seeing how the same things get repeated over and over and over at the onset of each new technology.
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by ukulele 9y ago
This means there is an especially good chance that whatever you write and vote here will be eventually piped into Mark & Sheryl's eyes & ears. Time to unload those pent up opinions!
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> They shouldn't be held to a feature because some salesperson promised it to a customer. This is taking the most extreme end of the spectrum as a baseline, and suggesting the polar opposite (sales & marketing get no leeway) as
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by ukulele 9y ago
This approach is cutting off a major strategic artery. Sales & marketing can do much more than just pushing what they're given; they should be a valuable pulse on the customer, and the truest feedback you can get for an upcoming fe
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> Tip: Your marketing and sales teams should never be allowed to discuss features “in the pipeline” Probably unpopular here, but this is a misguided, engineer-centric view of a business. Sales & marketing should absolutely have some
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by ukulele 9y ago
In theory this is a much better approach than Earth satellites: the farther away an object is, the smaller its motion will appear. With hundreds or even thousands of "fixed" data points incoming, it should be possible to develop a
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Air-Taxi Startup Has a Working Prototype and a Fresh $100M(bloomberg.com)
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by ukulele 9y ago
Not to nit too much, but working class people certainly can afford to not eat fast food. In fact, it's cheaper and faster to cook simple meals. I believe you might have meant "working poor" instead.

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