createunderrate

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by createunderrate 5y ago
Don't forget, there are hundreds of thousands of people employed by China to manipulate public opinion about China online. Looking at the comment history of the person you responded to, they post pro-China stuff a lot . This is probab
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by createunderrate 5y ago
TV was viewed in the same light, and a large chunk of the population remains addicted to their TVs to this day.
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by createunderrate 5y ago
I haven't seen much mention of the fact that Chess.com looks good, and Lichess looks bad. The graphics are prettier on Chess.com, and the sounds are better. Fortunately, this should be a very easy problem for Lichess to fix. Lichess ju
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by createunderrate 5y ago
> Rattle off what I need, semantically, and then by default it will be styled and presented in a sensible way. Then later, if our company stylist want our apps to look a particular kind of fancy, he can configure some styling that will a
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by createunderrate 5y ago
The most frustrating part of all this is that they could afford to hire people to manually do all of this work, they just choose not to, because it saves them money. If we pressured companies like Google to hire people to do customer suppor
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by createunderrate 5y ago
Emoji were created in Japan.
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by createunderrate 5y ago
I assume you are short selling Tesla then?
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by createunderrate 5y ago
The ratio of neuron count to body size is the important measurement. An orca might have twice the neurons, but those extra neurons go toward motor control, not experiencing suffering and contemplating mortality.
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by createunderrate 5y ago
Never. While helpful, this is not a cure.
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by createunderrate 5y ago
What happens when two people want to watch the TV?
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by createunderrate 5y ago
Likely, the site was set up before all browsers supported automatic hyphenation (fairly recently), and the soft hyphens were added to assist with hyphenation.
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by createunderrate 5y ago
`command which` just executes `which`
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by createunderrate 5y ago
Shout out to Vivaldi browser. Great for customizability and features like vertical tabs and stuff. A browser designed for power users.
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by createunderrate 5y ago
Epictetus said something similar almost 2000 years ago: "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be s
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by createunderrate 5y ago
I've tried using this form several times. They send me an email afterward telling me they won't delete my account. (This is despite me living in a jurisdiction where deleting my account is legally non-optional.) NY Times needs to
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by createunderrate 5y ago
> 'But those are different' is usually the argument here. But why though? Because we already agree they're different, so they form a Schelling point. We don't have to argue about them, and so there's no slippery
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by createunderrate 5y ago
Obfuscation is like locking your front door. It won't stop anyone who is dedicated, but it might stop someone who isn't.
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by createunderrate 5y ago
I have always thought politicians should take a vow of average wealth. You don't get more money unless we do, too.
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by createunderrate 5y ago
> it's not clear what specifically within social media constitutes harm Honestly, I think it's just the fact that it's a website that allows you to constantly be exposed to different things that are interesting and stimula
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by createunderrate 5y ago
Hyperbole. This is a thread about a web framework, not truth and justice. The negative tone used is totally inappropriate to a conversation about web frameworks. On HN, people generally try to be civil to people they disagree with, and this
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by createunderrate 5y ago
A fun fact: Tuvalu's government gets like 10% of its total revenue from the .tv domain.
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by createunderrate 5y ago
Quietly reporting a security breach to the company you breached will not make other companies think twice about mishandling the data of their users.
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by createunderrate 5y ago
And hence, not a letter.
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by createunderrate 5y ago
Maybe not in a quantum universe: > Similarly, cloning would violate the no-teleportation theorem, which says that it is impossible to convert a quantum state into a sequence of classical bits (even an infinite sequence of bits), copy tho
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by createunderrate 5y ago
> Comparing Amazon's fulfillment center's condition to actual slavery on a thread about them offering free tuition to their worker might be the most out of touch HN reply I have seen in a while. https://imgur.com&#x2
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by createunderrate 5y ago
Melatonin helped me with my sleep a bit, but never a lot. What did help is much brighter light during the day (on a timer, so the lighting would become dark in the evening) and adding to the basically-useless blue-light filters on my device
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by createunderrate 5y ago
it's literally killing the metaphorical golden goose