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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
"Amateur runners" is an extremely broad collection of people. Everyone from someone training for their first charity 5K to those who run multiple marathons a year can fall into this category. Some amateur runners definitely spen
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Headline: "Apple fans are returning their new MacBook Pros that cost a minimum of $2,800 because they can't reach the advertised speeds" Actual data: two Reddit comments that say they're going to return their MacBooks Wh
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Unless someone is forcing your kid to eat food with sugar in it, it's not a good comparison. Your neighbors don't really have a choice as to whether or not they enjoy "hearing its V8 roar from inside the house through several
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I'm not the person you're responding to but I share that person's sentiment. Some people don't like other people. Regardless of whether my neighbors are nice people who have an excess of delicious baked goods or meth add
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Calling it a "codified Consumer Bill of Rights" makes it sound like you want it to be a law, but the second half of your statement makes it sound like you want it to be like the "certified humane" label on the eggs that
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Ask HN: How to find flexible, part time work?
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Why do you think some societies are objectively more just, and what definition are you using for "just"?
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Even that thread itself was the "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." thread of the future. It's an interesting phenomenon that in the age of the internet there are easily accessible public records of how hard it is t
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I don't think all parties of a chat need to consent for that information to be shared, aside from specific cases like doctor-patient and lawyer-client.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> The goal of the quiz is not to dump your less healthy friends, but to identify the people in your life who score the highest and to spend more time with them. I really don't like the idea of trying to rank my friends like this. No
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
How exactly are you calculating that your desktop+laptop is cheaper than the MBP? 64GB of ram apparently sells for around $600 right now, plus $500 for each 1080, plus $700 for a 16 core threadripper (I'm not sure what 32 core processo
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
They just need a cable that goes from their device to a USB-C port. That's it. Most of the time, the device in question has a USB B port on it so all they need to do is buy a USB B to USB C cable and they're good to go. Sure, some
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Uhm, no, you're just supposed to spend the $19 on a USB C -> Lightning cable to connect them. The wifi thing is just convenient for many people. If it's not good enough or "pro enough" for you, there is still a cable
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
The primitive technology guy doesn't stream, though, as far as I know. He just makes videos.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Putin's wealth can't be accurately measured by anyone except Putin himself and presumably his financial advisers. It's all just speculation.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
That is an interesting way to compare wealth between time periods but I'm not sure it's the most valid method.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
OneNote works pretty well.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> But the software that enables the semi-autonomous driving is free to download. Hotz says this allows him to sidestep the regulatory issue, though it’s unclear whether NHTSA would agree. “We aren’t selling any products that control a ca
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I'd like to see a source for your claim that most Americans live in cities. As far as I know, the census does not differentiate between suburban and urban areas so we don't have any "official" numbers on how many America
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I believe its called dvd.com (A netflix company) now, even though the domain name is dvd.netflix.com
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
It's not like saying that. This is literally Google donating money to charity. That's the definition of being charitable. Even so, many would agree that Facebook and Google are charitable for giving their products away for free ev
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> intention is everything I'm sure the people that received Google's millions of dollars would disagree with that statement. > If these companies truly cared for the people they are helping, they wouldn't even bother wi
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> A viewpoint: charity is power. These companies have control over where this money goes, and are likely to spend more on things that make them look good, or provide long term benefit to the company over things that don't. They are
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
In many cases, the reason they need constant growth is because they're not profitable. They're just burning through cash in an attempt to become profitable in the future, which requires growth.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
A huge part of the problem is that social media is built of bite size chunks that fit into small amounts of time much better than long form pieces.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Yeah I definitely played Pokemon in all of those places at least as far back as 2003 (when I was in the third grade).
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
In my opinion, deleting them from the phone isn't very helpful when the web browser can be used to access them. Can't delete that from the phone (at least, I don't think you can).
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> For entrepreneurs, the monopolistic stranglehold these companies have, make them impossible to beat with a better product. The best possible outcome is acquisition. You may join, but never beat them. Isn't this exactly what everyo
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
It seems obvious that government regulation is the answer to me. That's how we got rid of child labor, created a minimum wage, and enshrined the 40 hour work week as standard in the US. That said, decades of social pressure led up to t
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
What's another example? This one strikes me as unique because ARM just sells their IP. Sure, our mothers probably haven't heard of ARM but that's more like saying they haven't heard of x86. Our mothers have almost defini

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