wsgeorge

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Ask HN: Is Google Maps Google's most successful social media app?
1 points by wsgeorge 4y ago|1 comments
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by wsgeorge 4y ago
After wasting several hours fighting the feeling, I give up and indulge myself in my favourite things. I've come to admit that work doesn't always come at will. I don't think it's a very professional position to hold, bu
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by wsgeorge 4y ago
From my experience, pictures taken at the normal human viewing height look uninteresting because they're taken at an angle we're most familiar with, which doesn't have much novelty. Photos taken at unfamiliar angles will pres
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by wsgeorge 4y ago
> Africans themselves tend to have a stronger affiliation to their continent than country My impression is exactly the opposite. We don't even like our countries that much, LOL. Tribal affiliations run strong. Sorry. EDIT: I've
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by wsgeorge 4y ago
> whose entire business model is smuggling That's interesting. I never thought of it that way. Solutions to the "Amazon doesn't deliver here" problem are quite popular in Ghana. Asking someone returning to get you som
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by wsgeorge 5y ago
Perhaps he's good at getting the right people to run the stuff he owns?
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by wsgeorge 5y ago
I am shocked. I followed the link and thought I'd hit the Drudge Report, saw this link and had to double check. I am shocked.
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by wsgeorge 5y ago
Elementary OS is not a DE; it's an entire distribution.
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by wsgeorge 5y ago
> The best thing to do I think is to make sure nobody can even accidentally find it. That sounds like just the sort of premise for an "eventually it was found" story. How about the exact opposite of this: rather than rely on ob
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by wsgeorge 5y ago
It's pretty cool that a comment in this same thread said they do this exact same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27499731
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by wsgeorge 6y ago
> Those who dare will be quickly put down for not following the rules or even making something hard to categorise according to the current rules. This is one of the most insightful comments I've read on HN today. I experience this
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by wsgeorge 6y ago
Associated account bans are a thing in the Android world. I don't know if this extends to other Google platforms.
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by wsgeorge 6y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by "advertising" here, but the way you state the goal of advertising is too close to the general goal of communication to make a blanket ban on advertising quite totalitarian. And I say this as some
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by wsgeorge 6y ago
I'm glad someone has said this. Looking at the West from my corner of the world these days, it feels like all the evil in this world was invented in Europe and propagated throughout the world via imperialism. I've had heated debat
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Eleusinian Mysteries: Secret ceremonies promising happiness(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by wsgeorge 6y ago|0 comments
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A Story in 3 Parts(twitter.com)
6 points by wsgeorge 6y ago|0 comments
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by wsgeorge 6y ago
I'm not really familiar with this space, but what did you think it should run? I can't imagine a team building a smartwatch at Google at that time expecting anything other than Android.
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by wsgeorge 6y ago
> Discriminations is part of human nature. Glad to see someone also came to this conclusion!
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Ask HN: When do human-verification puzzles become offensive?
8 points by wsgeorge 6y ago|3 comments
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by wsgeorge 6y ago
I noticed this just this week! I've found it refreshing watching 30-60 second clips of very random things I wouldn't care about otherwise. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with my general preference for sub 5-minute vi
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Twitter thread on Uber's Nigeria strategy(twitter.com)
2 points by wsgeorge 6y ago|0 comments
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by wsgeorge 6y ago
>But you never hear the same rhetoric about irresponsible promiscuous heteros. We did. Sort of. Heterosexuals weren't singled out for caution about promiscuous sex, because most of the public messaging assumed heterosexual relations
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by wsgeorge 7y ago
Also seen it when searching for some how-tos. More than a few times. I thought it was brilliant, but now that you mention it: why doesn't this show up more often?
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by wsgeorge 7y ago
Your site doesn't seem to be loading. I also had a security warning when visiting it. I'm on Chrome, MacOS.
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by wsgeorge 7y ago
Merry Christmas HN. Thanks for keeping this a valuable community! See you all in next year's thread.
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by wsgeorge 7y ago
I remember once getting confused when Android Studio kept pointing out that an Android SDK method I was calling didn't exist. Turned out I was using the British spelling of "colour". That was the moment I realised most of the
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by wsgeorge 7y ago
For each example, weren't there viable alternatives lurking around to take advantage of the situation? I'm not familiar with Palm OS, but Symbian and JM2E both has the iPhone and Android OSs as growing threats. Google hasn't
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by wsgeorge 7y ago
To GP and this: Have you considered the Android One Xiaomi phones? I can't imagine having ads in the default file browser. And a Mi Account for USB debug is just "No".
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by wsgeorge 7y ago
I've always wondered how viable this was as a corporate strategy: why risk the entire company on one business when you could own several that may or may not succeed, each running (relatively) autonomously, etc... Your comment highlight
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by wsgeorge 8y ago
4chan, despite all its vileness, has convinced me of the necessity to maintain as much unrestrained human freedom in (at least) some quarters of the Internet as is possible. Such freedom seems so essential to Internet culture that, in my op

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