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by xster 8y ago
For what it's worth, Chomsky has been saying "If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged." since the 90s. https://chomsky.info/1990____-2/
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by xster 8y ago
While I agree with the points you're making, I'm not too sure how much generalizable wisdom there is to extract from it. Forget a couple hours drive, I could take a 30s elevator ride to the ground floor in SF and see widespread me
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by xster 8y ago
Also Comcast is more politically mature and dangerous, and more capable in manufacturing consent around issues of monopoly. The average person will have an easier time understanding the concept that his favorite pundit is less discoverable
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by xster 8y ago
Also worth noticing that Comcast owns NBCUniversal/NBC/Chris Hayes. Not saying they instructed him specifically on how to opine on this one issue but there is a general conflict of interest.
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by xster 8y ago
In another the-body-realize-it's-ok-to-open-the-floodgate moment, I would always get really sick after making it through some intense deadline. I think it's just the body finally realizing it's ok to stop constantly keeping e
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by xster 8y ago
This needs to be top comment. Society's tolerance for bombastic 'journalistic' claims with no consequences is the source of so much of our present issues. Conclusions are cheap.
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by xster 8y ago
This is on me :S I created a lot of those widgets on iOS. I'd really like to learn more from your experience however. What would you say are the main things that made it feel off? Here's otherwise a list of things we're worki
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by xster 8y ago
Hi, I'm working on said emulated UI :) and absolutely value community input on our prioritization. There's definitely still many things that are work in progress for iOS ( https://github.com/flutter/flutter&#x2
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by xster 8y ago
Are there studies for how these measure up in practice? Also curious about wear per weight characteristics between concrete and asphalt.
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by xster 8y ago
Can't we say that about most of the tech? What's the point of hybrid? Not gas, not electric. What's the point of a non-prime lens? Not wide angle, not telescopic. What's the point of the Switch? Not mobile console, not T
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by xster 8y ago
I do wonder why conceptually, the bezel can't be just tensioned along one axis instead of being fixed. Sure more movements will be a nightmare for dust/waterproofing etc but there's no indication that this device is anyway.
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by xster 8y ago
This product category solves a huge problem for me. Sometimes you know you'll be sitting down for 5+ min and a larger format is just more useful, whether it's for reading with bigger fonts, shopping with more items displayed per p
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by xster 8y ago
I think the GP is being sarcastic (i.e. making the same point you're making)
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I would totally not be surprised given how non-frowned upon the practice is culturally but I do wish the article had something more material to present than A alleges B of doing X. http://iri.jrc.ec.europa.eu/scoreboard18.ht
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by xster 8y ago
If you already are a Canadian citizenship: PSA to get started early in the process so you're prepared in the possible eventuality https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
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by xster 8y ago
I think we also need to stop assuming the fiction that Reddit isn't already one of the most heavily and arbitrarily censored sites https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/apu3oz/with_the...
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by xster 8y ago
Monosyllabic isn't quite precise enough. It's more than all the Chinese digits are CV only whereas in English, only 1 is (two).
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by xster 8y ago
> Instacart has since said it was a glitch — caused by the fact that the customer tipped $10 I was ready to pull out the pitchforks, but then in an effort to keep journalism honest, tried to look to the primary sources for where this was
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by xster 8y ago
While I agree with the general sentiment, I can't quite put my finger on what's off with this text. It's a bit like saying I'm pro-9/11 because I used a quarter to buy some candies, thus backing our military support
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by xster 8y ago
> while others are encouraging customers to leave 22-cent tips — a nominal amount meant to show solidarity with workers — through the app and then adjust the tips higher after a delivery has been made This seems like a strangely optimist
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by xster 8y ago
I wish there was a way on HN to follow and subscribe to individual users' comment feed.
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by xster 8y ago
Their CFOs better not travel to Canada anytime soon :D
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by xster 8y ago
This is just random nit picking but the five year plan is a stalinist concern to rapidly industrialize an agrarian to fit into a marxist model of having a means of production to conflict over in the first place. Marx had no such concerns.
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by xster 8y ago
Not being flippant but as a genuine question, besides just bribery, remnants of colonialism or heavy tourism destinations for North Americans, is a tipping culture existent anywhere besides North America? https://en.wikipedia.org
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Also the increasingly common practice where a seller takes your money, wrongs you in the most blatant way, such as just not sending half of your order (Instacart), charges you for wasting your time and never providing any service (Uber) a
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by xster 8y ago
I think it costs them a transaction fee from the credit card company each time too and affects their future ability to use the merchant network when they get too many chargebacks.
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by xster 8y ago
Ya, that one game was a bit... 'fresh'. But saying that it relies 'entirely' on abusing blink stalkers isn't quite right. It did it in 1 game of the 5 they were showing.
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by xster 8y ago
This is my biggest confusion reading the summary. Since all kinds of inputs can lead to the same measured output (such as being more scared about the entire theme and self-censoring), how would they single out 'implicit bias' and
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Depends on the individual's travel style I guess. I'm a very spontaneous unplanned type traveler so I use a lot more than just navigation data during the day. Things like venues' reviews, event tickets, hotel bookings, train
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by xster 8y ago
Indeed. An interesting experiment would be to go on https://www.theguardian.com/uk and search for the word 'vest' or 'gilet'. Then go on Twitter and independently decide how newsworthy/baghdad-like

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