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by xref 7y ago
That may affect people buying onesey twosey bits off AliExpress, but that stuff is still available on amazon from resellers who buy and ship it stateside to a fulfillment warehouse in bulk.
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by xref 7y ago
Why is someone raising the question of p-hacking and suggesting a replicated study is needed being downvoted?? The paper is described as “barely statistically significant” so p-hacking, which on HN we see is rampant, seems like it should be
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by xref 7y ago
I was reading the 1993 bio Hard Drive about Bill Gates recently (great to go back and read old books centered on tech, really makes you remember why people hated Bill/Microsoft...and he’d barely gotten started!) and it mentions several
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by xref 7y ago
Not sure if that’s a question or an agreement with the parent? GitHub is of course one of many, gitlab, bitbucket, or self-hosted being common alts. Same with LinkedIn, it’s just social media like Facebook/Twitter/reddit but empha
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by xref 7y ago
You’re being downvoted but this seems like a very legitimate question seeing as a major part of the current US/China trade dispute is appropriation of intellectual property
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by xref 7y ago
I’m extra curious for things like Madrid’s superblocks that are 9 blocks square!
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by xref 7y ago
As a former delivery driver I’m curious how shops get shipments of multiple pallets of...everything? Early in the morning are trucks allowed? are the pallets broken down and handtrucked to each shop?
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by xref 7y ago
The tall skinny 1L smartwater bottles are perfect for backpacking, haven’t carried a nalgene in several years now
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by xref 7y ago
Like I mentioned though, with no dates every page is unsatisfactory. I’m not gonna waste time clicking each link to look at the date before I devote time to reading it
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by xref 7y ago
I switched from Chrome+Goog to Firefox+DDG...but had to dump DDG a week later. The results just aren’t anywhere near on par with google. The results have no dates so I’m constantly served results to outdated tech info (5 year old posts abou
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by xref 7y ago
They glossed over the “wood is viewed as fire prone” thing and I can’t find the article posted to HN a few months back which discusses it further. The gist was wood protects itself with an insulating layer of charcoal as it starts to burn,
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by xref 7y ago
GP specifically claimed Uber was an efficient market, not simply a market. (Regardless, Uber is in a market, but it is not itself a market)
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by xref 7y ago
Not sure I follow, like a clown who was an independent contractor and accepted a gig from a company that booked clowns, a job they in turn got from someone who called the company asking for a clown?
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by xref 7y ago
I’m still looking at Dropbox replacements, is it easier to admin than Seafile? Along with native iOS/Android/win/macOS/Linux clients (not 3rd party)?
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by xref 7y ago
Article is upfront about it not being “elemental transparent aluminum” (a distinction not made in the Star Trek movie I believe?) I mean, even aluminum aircraft bodies are mostly alloys but we call it aluminum
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by xref 7y ago
> Transparent aluminum, also known as aluminum oxynitride, is a transparent polycrystalline ceramic with a cubic spinel crystal structure made of nitrogen, oxygen and aluminum. It is optically transparent in the near-ultraviolet, visible
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by xref 7y ago
You mean the cli doesn’t prompt you to type the pwd separate from the cli command itself, akin to how Postgres ‘psql -p’ works?
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by xref 7y ago
That’s the meat of it, Zoom wanted an app feature macOS said was a no-no so they coded up an insecure workaround. On iOS that would get your app pulled at the least.
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by xref 7y ago
Why is it that Perl (apparently) didn’t survive the transition from 5->6, but after years of acrimony Python looks like it will survive the 2->3 transition?
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by xref 7y ago
Lots of claims here but no descriptions of how DoH is worse for end users
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by xref 7y ago
I don’t get any of this comment. Oil is the king of being sold at market rates, and if we aren’t producing any market rates skyrocket. Also doesn’t matter where oil is burned, it still becomes CO2 and other greenhouse gasses if we don’t le
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by xref 7y ago
None of those assassinations lead to a coup or revolution though, just peaceful transfer to the 2nd person in line. That seems like a vote for stability
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by xref 7y ago
Fram (wiki mod in question) is apparently the Linus Torvalds of the old-guard Wikipedia community. “He’s a prolific genius!” vs “He’s a toxic asshole!” and much like the Linux community there have been no effective systems to deal with some
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by xref 7y ago
Right, that’s why I said it wasn’t an apt comparison
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by xref 7y ago
It’s a pretty awful practice, even worse is moving stubs to “draft space” purgatory where they can’t be found until you, as a single editor, create the entire article yourself without community support.
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by xref 7y ago
> The concern is that articles that no one cares about are potentially places where damaging content could fester and dealing with them That could describe the bulk of the millions of articles, why single out stubs for the axe specifical
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by xref 7y ago
Benevolent dictator? Really? Seems like getting bounced for cursing people out is a very basic and mild response in society, not “ho ho this monarch is making up the rules from whole cloth!”
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by xref 7y ago
Huh? Android is the epitome of the surveillance panopticon. Google has every incentive to monetize that data for their ad sales targeting. Apple doesn’t. Beside that I’m a big fan/contributor/user of OSM (maps.me is my app of choi
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by xref 7y ago
Strong disagree on gmaps, especially with Apple Maps available for iOS users. Gmaps is strictly better, but not enough to balance their incentive to truly abuse that data against me.
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by xref 7y ago
I’ve been using self-hosted localtunnel but man is it unstable. It loses connections several times a day and never releases now “dead” urls, so you can’t count on a specific sub domain. I’ll have to give serveo a whirl

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