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by vikramkr 6y ago
Because people want to? I think a big part of it is that people like trying new things and trying to differentiate in some way. In something as competitive as web dev, it makes sense that the churn in frameworks is so high, because everyone
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by vikramkr 6y ago
The secret is to print all prices and marketing/performance numbers with 8 bit displays. Then you will make all the money.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
19 sounds more "real" since it isn't a round number
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Yeah, binary search where you don't know what the upper bound is with a narrow therapeutic index drug is not necessarily the best option
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Or by handing them a CD
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by vikramkr 6y ago
no but the comment that this comment is replying to is not a normal case of a drowsy driver - it is definitely not normal to not know you are drowsy until you already fall asleep, and that is wildly dangerous
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Uhh- the thing about not knowing you're sleepy until you fall asleep is not normal. The other discussion in this thread about whether or not its morally OK to drive drowsy does not apply to your situation. Definitely do not drive u
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by vikramkr 6y ago
MIT has a reputation for super sketchy press releases, but their research reputation is fine still. Even with the whole epstein scandal. I wonder how much it takes to actually tarnish their reputation.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
because its an industry standard. Its not illegal to go "looks like everyone else is charging 30%, let's charge the same). And in general, you don't have an incentive to undercut on price in a situation like this since nobody
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by vikramkr 6y ago
You can sideload apps on android - im far less sympathetic to Epic here compared to their case against Apple. I remember looking into seeing what fortnight looked like on mobile a while back and for Android I dont recall there even being an
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Unless the ticket is being reimbursed by somebody else. Hello business travel.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
EEE is not going to have any impact on Linux (and also, EEE hasnt been Microsof's strategy for a while). Once they start extending with proprietary additions, you basically just end up where you were with two operating systems, a propr
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I'm surprised by the level of discussion around whether or not this is "justified." The purpose of a corporation is to maximize the utility function of its stakeholders. That doesn't have to be profit, and political&#x2F
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by vikramkr 6y ago
If employees refuse to support it and they have the market power to change the company's behavior, then yes, they should be allowed to stop servicing ICE. Its not a power that the companies are "given" - it's a power th
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I think you misread my argument - It's not a shallow dismissal and I know what the authors point is. I'm pointing out that keeping posts short is hard for a lot of folks and requires work - you might be able to get a lot more post
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by vikramkr 6y ago
If I had just said "easier said than done." - then it would look pretty darn easily done, ya know?
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Suppress? Is there something I'm missing? What's being suppressed?
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by vikramkr 6y ago
For anyone with experience in nuclear physics/fusion - how big a deal is this? I know that hard-tech findings tend to get, well, "selectively" presented to the public (I see at all the time in biotech), so I'm curious if
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Easier said than done. Being concise is hard. Even this comment has 3 sentences when 1 would have sufficed, and one of the sentences is an overly meta multipart monstrosity that is adding no value and should be removed.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
It's looks interesting - congrats on your first indie project. My main concern is - is a directory that anyone can submit to in bulk through a service without even knowing what the directory is really a directory that is going to drive
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I think a lot of HN in general is made up of programmers at big tech companies working on what seem like small problems, but from the perspective of someone working in the biotech sector, let me assure you there's a lot going on outsid
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by vikramkr 6y ago
Sure, but those examples that you gave seriously undercut that. Antigravity, teleportation, those would be wildly profitable. And we've got an entire anti-aging industry investing billions into immortality drugs. In fact, the investm
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by vikramkr 6y ago
I think its nonsensical to condemn the rate of progress because we didn't achieve a vision of science fantasy grounded in what people thought in the 1950s. A lot of those ideas are "thing that exists, but more magic." We have
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by vikramkr 6y ago
somehow i doubt the actual wade davis is on HN, so based on your username, I think people are missing a not terrible joke here by downvoting you.
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I actually really appreciate this research - this is proper Mythbusters type stuff, looking at debunking an urban legend. Also, considering that this is an urban legend originated and propagated by an anthropologist also apparebtly known fo
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by vikramkr 6y ago
They're one of the winners this year, I assume that's why this post was made.
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by vikramkr 6y ago
That's a good normative standard, and one I wholeheartedly endorse, but the problem in politics is also that your normative standard there is far from universally endorsed. There is a significant (and, during times such as 1930s German
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by vikramkr 6y ago
There's a part of me that's happy that there's finally a nice example of technology fraud to point to that's a non-medical tech company. After Theranos, the takeaway has been "biotechs, especially diagnostic compani
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by vikramkr 6y ago
In my opinion- the big question in politics is - "what is the big question in politics?" We spend so much time trying to figure out whats even important in the first place, and when theres this much disagreement on what the big qu
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by vikramkr 6y ago
That is true and could be a way for anthropogenic panspermia to occur. My totally uneducated gut feeling is that the chemists and geologists are going to get more out of this finding than the biologists though. Theres a lot of cool rocks an

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