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by writepub 8y ago
Ah yes - empower politicians with regulatory powers, and expect them to not use it to their advantage while in power. Lest we forget, everything from gerrymandering to supposedly non-partisan agencies like the FCC have taken giant craps on
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by writepub 8y ago
> Also, don't you know that the Saudis put $50 billion into Softbank's fund? Anyone with a conscience would refuse Saudi funding, funneled via SoftBank or directly. Remember how HN and googlers were up in arms against accepting
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by writepub 8y ago
Moot point. If public, Tesla can't stop the Sauds from buying stock. However, they can refuse a bailout from the Sauds to go private
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by writepub 8y ago
Saudi money is dripping with blood - the kingdom's wealth and control is a result of well documented massacre of dissidents, of Shias and of funding terror and patronizing the Wahabis, especially against philosophies opposed to the ki
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by writepub 8y ago
But all the other major, and most minor companies have already acquiesced. That's how one's allowed to do business in China, and China is a market one cannot ignore.
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by writepub 8y ago
Is this open source alternative to medium - a blogging, publishing, commenting platform?
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by writepub 8y ago
The editor is indeed TUI. But TUI doesn't support editing/saving local files, which write.pub allows. There are multiple other features, like WYSIWYG diff and version control that make this app compelling
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by writepub 8y ago
Shameless plug: http://write.pub supports most of the features of MarkDeep, and allows WYSIWYG writing. It also shows with built in version control, you don't have to know git to use it
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by writepub 8y ago
We're drifting into debating opinions, which is typically a dead end. Suffice to say that the elimination of Osama - the killer of over 10,000 innocent Americans, and head of a terrorist organization with hundreds of thousands of membe
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by writepub 8y ago
How's the elimination of the most wanted terrorist who reshaped geopolitics a 'temporary geopolitical goal'? Your deduction is neither demonstrable, nor is it objective. You've really proven nothing
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by writepub 8y ago
I think your understanding of spycraft is naïve. If you are a target of an international spy agency, like Osama was, trust nothing or no-one. CIA is blameless. They didn't mass infiltrate the vaccination program of the entire country
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by writepub 8y ago
Why? How's it going Tesla's cash crunch? If it won't, stop distracting the company, Elon
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by writepub 8y ago
This kind of contact makes no sense!! Even an iPhone has alternate vendors for every external part used, how can the Pentagon award it to a single vendor? They need to pick 3, in my opinion, and make the 3 constantly compete against one ano
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by writepub 8y ago
What the SF City officials are covertly asking for is campaign contributions!! This is literally not affecting daily life or commerce for residents, but it's a great distraction and fundraising opportunity for city officials
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by writepub 8y ago
Are cats more risk averse than dogs? Or other animals? Is that why they lie indoors all day? Is going to business school an indication of risk averseness? None of this seems rooted in science. "A and B have correlation, and A is anecdo
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by writepub 8y ago
I tried to understand what slackware is from it's homepage, without much help. Can someone please explain what it is
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by writepub 8y ago
Is this tending on HN, on account of being a YC company? There's nothing in the article, but PR.
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by writepub 8y ago
I'm tired of blogs and deep analyses, like these, of something as useless as tiresome comments. How can we keep meaning less, uninteresting content, such as this, off HN? Maybe a blog or deep dive how-to can help?
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by writepub 8y ago
No. You cannot rationalize someone's malicious intent to exploit and profit off of trust people place in you by getting into your cab on the gig economy, or anything else. That's a slippery slope where bad actors place blame on no
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by writepub 8y ago
Indeed, semantics. Wherever Americans specifically call out their gratitude for veteran's service, they're not thanking them for their allegiance to government institutions that may or may not be on their side. They specifically p
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by writepub 8y ago
This guy is a veteran?!! What a shame, that someone sworn to protect Americans now cowers behind semantics and loopholes to exploit their trust!! Clearly ridership dropped on notifying them of the streaming, no excuse can hide the truth her
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by writepub 8y ago
Hello HN. You might like to try a competing offering I developed, http://Write.Pub
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by writepub 8y ago
Depending on the SKUs of parts used, a single product (say MacBook pro 128GB ) may have multiple SKUs, i.e. versions of the underlying board, to accommodate for different parts and their dependencies. If you're under the assumption tha
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by writepub 8y ago
There are huge gains to be had in herd-ing. For instance, if everyone herds towards Uber instead of Lyft, you effectively pick Uber as the winner by merely herding, instead of merit or market economics
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by writepub 8y ago
This is bad design on the OP's part. I hail from hardware where, for instance, Apple chooses 3 providers for it's SSDs (SanDisk, Samsung, Intel, ...) to shield itself from price gouging, supply issues with any single party, busi
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by writepub 8y ago
True. But silicon valley's left lean is a fact
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by writepub 8y ago
Dubious to say the least. If anything, silicon valley culture is legendary for being unapologetically left leaning, and has been harder on right leaning content, let alone toleraing far right propaganda. This is a "sting" operatio
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by writepub 8y ago
What evidence points towards higher productivity at Google? In my opinion, this is largely a myth. When Google acquired Motorola, snotty Googlers paraded around claiming to be at least 2X smarter than the average Motorola employee. They pub
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by writepub 8y ago
How's stencila supposed to produce reproducible research? No one's fudging the formulae, they're fudging data. And stencila will digest whatever data you give it, real or fake
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by writepub 8y ago
Please take http://write.pub for a spin. It has built in Versioning

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