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by xNeil 3y ago
That's nice to hear - I didn't use Twitter in 2009! As I've said earlier - the groupthink on HN is at astoundingly high levels nowadays. First everyone said subscriptions are the way to go. Seriously - this was unanimous. And
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by xNeil 3y ago
App Store rankings most definitely cannot be taken to be a reliable indicator for anything. Max is at No. 3, while Netflix is at No. 29 - this doesn't actually tell you anything, except that Max has more downloads at the moment . Thre
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by xNeil 3y ago
Hard agree. Twitter used to be actively bad for me - the for you page is simply incredible , and dialogue on the platform enriches my life every day I use it. It's the first time in my experience I actually feel like a social netwo
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by xNeil 3y ago
*every successful presidential campaign is a personality cult.
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by xNeil 3y ago
While owning a jet is a valid point, in his case I'm willing to believe its efficiency related as opposed to some luxury purchase (the time savings are simply insane, that's why Warren Buffett has one - would you call him indulg
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by xNeil 3y ago
Per my experience, I can't attest to that of cannabis, but the percentage of students drinking alcohol underage is significantly higher than 50% in every college I have heard of or visited.
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by xNeil 3y ago
I'm sure it is - but sleeping in his friend's mansion is most definitely not indicative of Elon needing money to fund his 'uber-rich' lifestyle. You haven't refuted my points of him not owning anything indicative of
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by xNeil 3y ago
because someone familiar with coding discussion will likely have a basic grasp on logic and maths. this alone makes them more ‘well read’ than the average X user, especially considering all the conspiracy theories (and groupthink) floating
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by xNeil 3y ago
what uber rich lifestyle? he owns no mansions, no yachts, and i’m not sure he has any super cars. this is a man who sleeps at the office on several occasions.
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by xNeil 3y ago
can the internet please decide whether SpaceX is an autocracy, or if (as several media outlets put it) Elons companies succeeded in spite of him as opposed to because of him. both of these cannot be true at the same time.
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by xNeil 3y ago
i remember i think back when jack dorsey stepped down and parag agrawal was slated to be the next ceo all of HN was doing nothing but talking about how the only viable path for twitter was to put the entire thing behind a subscription becau
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by xNeil 3y ago
I'm not sure I have ever seen anyone that has networked close to as much (and maybe as well ) as Jeffrey Epstein. I mean - it's mind-boggling how many people he knew.
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by xNeil 3y ago
That's a very valid point! I simply assumed due to the subject matter (coding discussion, in depth tech industry discussions), the average HN reader would be more well read as opposed to your average X user.
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by xNeil 3y ago
I came to HN because it seemed to be a place of free dialogue. > It's certainly under no obligation to promote right-wing propaganda and hate. It's certainly under no obligation to promote any propaganda or hate. That's
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Ask HN: People who worked through the Dotcom Bubble – what are you doing now?
12 points by xNeil 3y ago|8 comments
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by xNeil 3y ago
Interesting! Think I read an article a while back (we're talking several years here) that said the Dotcom Bubble's biggest bust was a company called theGlobe.com - I think the founder was the grandson of the founder of Nestle or s
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by xNeil 3y ago
What's a line of blame?
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by xNeil 3y ago
All of a sudden it seems the commenters have started name-calling and stereotyping the poster (realjhol) without any evidence or links to dispute his statements. Maybe replying in good faith would be a more helpful discussion, with links to
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by xNeil 3y ago
Not who you were replying to, but thank you - I'm on the floor laughing :)
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by xNeil 3y ago
I'd assume they mean the mice that connect to the PC via Bluetooth, but you have to connect a separate (tiny) USB to the PC first in order for the two to connect.
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by xNeil 3y ago
I mean, if you go back I'd assume you didn't find the answer. If you close the tab, that's a different thing, and tells me you did , in fact, find what you were looking for.
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by xNeil 3y ago
Thank you very, very much for the link sir! Learnt a whole lot from it.
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by xNeil 3y ago
Again a valid point, but there's an incredible variety of languages Indians speak. But you may be right - Hindi, Tamil and Telugu seem to be extraordinarily popular languages. Actually, now that I think about it, with the raw number of
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by xNeil 3y ago
Why would they want to split up?
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by xNeil 3y ago
A lot of the response in India regarding overpopulation came about during the 1970s, when the Prime Minister's son, worried about overpopulation, started a Compulsory Sterilisation Program, the horrors off which I have heard a lot abou
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by xNeil 3y ago
They do share a common religion though - I think that might be the source for what we call "Indian culture"? Like Islamic culture is a thing, even though Muslims are all over the world and vary widely. In much the same way, I thin
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by xNeil 3y ago
While your point is quite interesting (I didn't know Romanis originated from India!), they did emigrate around 1000 CE, or 1000 years ago. I'm not sure whether you can even call them of Indian origin anymore?
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by xNeil 3y ago
While that's a very good point, I also wonder about other countries. Indian origin residents have had major impacts in countries throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East as well, to an extent I believe greater than that of the Chi
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by xNeil 3y ago
I mean, it's optional. Don't remember what the default is, but you can opt out of their ads.
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by xNeil 3y ago
I guess I can see why you feel that way - you intended to say a company that seems strong may be at risk of failing just like any other company (in this case, just because Google seems large does not mean they are not failing) - which is so

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