DavidWanjiru

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by DavidWanjiru 9y ago
Are there bots that downvote comments on HN? Why would anyone downvote this comment?
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by DavidWanjiru 9y ago
About remembering which letters I type to go to which site, I assumed that's just the latest and greatest with browsers, and loved it without noticing that I do. But now that I know it's a Firefox feature, I'll knowingly love
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
The govt is not my girlfriend. Why would I want tell them anything?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
BS plauditory apology. You don't get to call something you said "profound." Others can find it profound, but you can't. It's like a comedian finding themselves funny. It's normally the audience that finds the c
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Which Password Manager Do You Recommend?
1 points by DavidWanjiru 10y ago|4 comments
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Since we're talking health outcomes here, how prudent is it to measure these outcomes based on respondents' self assessments of how healthy they are, as this study does, rather than empirically measuring those outcomes?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I don't follow chess, and I didn't know it's gendered. That doesn't make sense. Why would chess contests be gendered? That's like a gendered photography contest.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
How do people know where to find/make the things they do have an innate need for without advertisement as you seem to define it?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
What law is he being above? The article says he checked with the US embassy in Oslo before travelling, and they said it was all good. He isn't trying to be above the law, he double checked with the law first.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
He makes capital. Capital is a resource that you need to run, say, a software company. Makers don't usually go too far without it. And they, makers, are the ones who put their creations on the market, for good reason.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
The companies he owns make and sell stuff and services. You know, a bit like the company owned by Bill Gates, whom you seem to hold in better regard.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Hacker News is not a trade union or some other special interest group where the nature of discussion topics is predictable and consistent. It's a group of people who start off with a special interest, tech, but are more broadly interes
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
While I also find the comments more compelling than the links themselves, sometimes a thread degenerates and gets marooned on Pointless Island. It helps to be able to identify PI from a distance and hence stay away.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I may be wondering because I'm standing on an atoll of ignorance in a sea of knowledge, but I wonder why the intelligence themselves can't became Tor admins and do away with needing to recruit anyone.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Is these a way to get in touch with this person, follow their work, read their research, etc.?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
My guess is buyers of mechanical watches know this already. I've never seen a luxury watch advert whose main selling point was the accuracy of the watch.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
No, not this one. The one I'm talking about had people talking about the product and how you could use it. The part with the song I'm talking about was a food restaurant setting (as opposed to a bar setting) Edit: The one I have i
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Two points. One, my understanding of Paul's basic premise is that it's not the class quality that matters, it's the unicorns that matter. As in, in this game, you're not chasing good classes. You want the one or two supe
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
The page won't load for me, it said, because my browser, Opera Mini 4.x, is not supported. "But I'm browsing on a Nokia feature phone," I vehemently object. "No exploits will run. Even ads don't."
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Were you watching on TV when Challenger broke up?
3 points by DavidWanjiru 10y ago|6 comments
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
It has to slide (more like roll along) before it can float, doesn't it? It doesn't take off like a chopper, you know?
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Does anyone have a link to the promo video of the original Surface, the table in a restaurant version? It's soundtrack had a song I loved, can't remember the artist, and the version was different from the studio version.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I hadn't noticed, and this image is just the gift that keeps on giving. What do you mean it's Photoshop? Oh yeah, the box files. I hadn't noticed. The dude's leg looks a bit weir...WAIT, that's photoshop too! EVEN T
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
According to the permissions request dialogue, "...We [want to collect your data even after you're dropped off] to improve pickups, drop-offs, customer service and to enhance safety..." I don't buy any of it. Here's
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
For a moment there, that headline had me thinking that school kids who happen to be weird have colorful gardens and are showing these gardens to octopuses.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
If I'm not mistaken, 1% in milk refers to the butter fat content, but if a chocolate is 60% sugar, isn't that by weight? Like if a bar is 100 grams, 60 grams is sugar? If that is how it works, you'll notice the missing sugar,
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
"Ton of source material...but I haven't looked at any of it for more than 30 seconds so I can't be any judge of it," Isn't that like saying, "There may or may not have been an earthquake. Tons of seismometers a
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
I've never been able to wrap my head around the scientific premise of hoping to observe radiation from the early universe. I studied physics in university but I was very crap at it and never graduated, so that might explain it. The rea
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
Could this working of the brain be related to how, when you're sleeping, something happening in the real world is incorporated in real time into a dream you're having? That always amazes me, how our brains do that.
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by DavidWanjiru 10y ago
The only anecdote I can give where I know for a fact Facebook ads have a real and clear ROI is people who build pages and groups to sell stuff exclusively on Facebook. The 3 or so people I've asked tell me the ads work. Of course Faceb

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