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by veidr 9y ago
No, because it takes precisely 18 minutes to use a keyboard if you already know how a touch tablet works, and 3 days to learn to touch type. So, they'd have a 3-day-18-minute advantage in all sorts of jobs
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by veidr 9y ago
1 quintillion upvotes
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by veidr 9y ago
> Did inventing the internet cause anyone grief? Well it could certainly be said to have caused Al Gore some grief...
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by veidr 9y ago
Yeah, more precisely, I threw the Nest camera in the "junk box containing items I might end up trying to sell on e.g. craigslist if I ever find the time, which I probably actually won't, so the best outcome would likely be that on
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by veidr 9y ago
Absolutely! Wiring your house for video is awesome, for a huge array of potential reasons. I bought a cloud-connected Nest camera to use as a baby monitor. Quickly realized how awesome it would be to have cameras in (almost) all rooms in my
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by veidr 9y ago
> you could probably count on one hand countries that would be better to be poor in That's not true; I'm American but I have personally been to more countries where the poor are (much) better off, in terms of health care or j
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by veidr 9y ago
You are utterly wrong about that, and it is easily proven. (People not only believe the fake news stories, some of them even arm themselves and storm pizza parlors to rescue the innocent children Hillary Clinton is trafficking as sex slav
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by veidr 9y ago
Did you really read the piece? The reason I ask is that what he wrote and what you wrote are essentially the exact same: I’m happy to write integration tests. I insist on it. But a part of me registers the need for integ
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by veidr 9y ago
You're entitled to your opinion, but for many people (me being one) first-class TypeScript support is absolutely a compelling feature. I may not choose Angular for every project, but I would certainly never again use untyped JavaScript
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by veidr 9y ago
I've worked with Angular 2-5 and it's nice; IMO a lot nicer than Angular 1.x, which I still do have to work with (supporting a customer-facing 1.6.5 app). I haven't done a big app with it yet, but from the small ones I&#x27
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by veidr 9y ago
The notable part of the “and more” is the first stable release of the Material theme/UI library.
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Volkswagen Official Gets 7-Year Term in Diesel-Emissions Cheating(nytimes.com)
397 points by veidr 9y ago|285 comments
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by veidr 9y ago
They do if they don’t want their photos of their kids plastered with ads for fart apps and other unsavory garbage, though...
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by veidr 9y ago
That sounds unreasonably dismissive, in my view. Perhaps there is a sort of knee-jerk retro-hippie back-to-the-basics trend happening nowadays. But the choice to limit children's exposure to electronic gadgets really isn't arbitr
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by veidr 9y ago
There are millions of n=1 studies across the globe. Most of the ones I’m familiar with reached a similar conclusion, but YMMV. That’s the thing about parenting: you will have to make thousands and thousand of decisions without the benefit o
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by veidr 9y ago
Is that something like the sense of smug satisfaction that people who don’t have any children get from making condescending comments on Internet forums about parenting decisions made by people who do?
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by veidr 9y ago
The Churchill quote is here: https://www.winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-...
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by veidr 9y ago
I agree with you. My grandma used to say, "children are as complicated as people, only more so." But rules and obedience are an essential abstraction. With my own young kids, I try to let them challenge the rules and chart their
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by veidr 9y ago
> But that's the bigger issue isnt it? Yes, but so what ? There is no chance we're going to get meaningful competition among Internet providers in the USA. So you can choose an imperfect but helpful solution that exists toda
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by veidr 9y ago
I hear you, and I have the same problem (hi, Dad) but it is worth noting that this latest re-occurrence of the bug happens only to machines that were not up-to-date when they downloaded (or rather, when Apple remotely installed) the secur
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by veidr 9y ago
TL;DR for those who forgot the back story: StartCom was a low-cost certificate authority that sold to interests whose web of ownership links back to a telecom owned by the authoritarian government of China. Given the brazen nature of that g
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by veidr 9y ago
I came here to recommend Ancillary Justice too. A surprising, awesome sci-fi novel that won the Hugo, Nebula, British Science Fiction, Locus and Arthur C. Clarke Awards.
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by veidr 9y ago
The cost of figuring out exactly what to contract somebody to build, though — especially for a non-technical bureaucratic agency — is likely to be fairly astronomical. (I doubt they are sitting around the conference table saying "Fuc
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by veidr 9y ago
What people like you[1] are missing is that Internet providers all benefit massively from regulation that PREVENTS competitors from threatening them. NN rules are just a counterweight to all that mess. There is no way in hell that we are go
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by veidr 9y ago
A lot of proponents of what you call "net freedom" lie about fast lanes or wave their hands and pretend that won't happen, though, because they are deeply unpopular with a huge majority of internet users.
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by veidr 9y ago
You are right that it's an oversimplification. And you are right that real competition between Internet providers would solve the problem, better than net neutrality regulations do. However, the most important point is that we have n
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by veidr 9y ago
> Targeted policy? Hmm, good idea. Let's see... maybe we could have a policy something like If you are one of the few companies providing Internet service, and are protected by various laws and regulations that limit who may provid
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by veidr 9y ago
First, 20 years ago, in 1997, it wouldn't have worked. Hop in your time machine and go back and ask random people on the street how many of them want to pay a monthly fee for "internet access". Follow up with a bonus question
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by veidr 9y ago
I completely agree with you, and didn't mean to imply otherwise. Although I do think there tends to be a broader overlap on the "conservative" side, for reasons for that are complicated and don't necessarily have a lot t
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by veidr 9y ago
You are wrong. One of the many bad consequences of this legislation is that Internet service will almost certainly become exactly like cable TV, as has already happened in places without such rules, in that you will be allowed to access a s

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