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by hackuser 9y ago
> Lots of people hate tipping I wonder if that's true. The only place I've encountered that opinion is on HN. It's a practice used across nations and generations; it's not a problem at all for most.
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by hackuser 9y ago
Uber rejects 80% of its applicants? That seems hard to believe. Could you post an short excerpt from the paywalled article?
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by hackuser 9y ago
> the future of work is in the hands of those who can hustle Instead of the Gig Economy, the Hustle Economy? Hustling is not a desirable state of employment. I don't want scrambling for money here and there to replace steady, produc
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by hackuser 9y ago
How was the number arrived at, do you know? I don't see anything about it in the CNBC article, and the article in The Information is paywalled.
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by hackuser 9y ago
Not only are security bugs an issue, as mentioned, but what about maintaining compatibility with changing platforms? Who will fix the bugs when future versions of Windows, MacOS, and Linux introduce growing numbers of 'minor' inco
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by hackuser 9y ago
On one hand, people complain about government spending. On the other, they complain about government's old equipment.
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by hackuser 9y ago
I understand that who gets the blame depends on PR fu, but that doesn't affect who is really responsible.
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by hackuser 9y ago
I don't mean that Cassini will shift a moon from its orbit, but the introduction of foreign materials, for example, could change things. Perhaps I'm putting too much emphasis on the naturally pristine state of things around Saturn
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by hackuser 9y ago
> faulty parking brakes from supplier When the parts in its cars work well, does Tesla give the suppliers the credit? Tesla is very good at PR, if not parking brakes. The faulty parking break is from Tesla, not the supplier; Tesla is res
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by hackuser 9y ago
The meaning of "Quantum" is a bit confusing. I thought it was only Servo ports, but after I read your post I looked around and found this. I guess it's any improvement to Gecko? "Quantum has a number of components, inclu
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by hackuser 9y ago
Is it possible that there is a rock big and fast enough to divert Cassini someplace undesirable, such as leaving a streak through a ring, crashing into a moon, or perturbing something else from its natural state?
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by hackuser 9y ago
Thunderbird also seems to be facing a massive rewrite.[0] Are there any good FLOSS, local (with a local mail store, if desired), cross-platform, secure (with security protocols implemented) email clients that support standard features and h
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by hackuser 9y ago
Thanks; I don't know how I missed that. Google is a member, FWIW, among very many.
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by hackuser 9y ago
What about it is outdated?
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by hackuser 9y ago
I've heard that too, but how did the draft, Lend-Lease, and the build-up get passed through Congress before Pearl Harbor if there wasn't sufficient support? Maybe the first and third were seen as necessary to protect a neutral cou
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by hackuser 9y ago
Who is the Coalition for Better Ads? Their About page gives no names. Is Google a member? How influential is Google? Whose interests does the Coalition serve? https://www.betterads.org/about/ "Leading internationa
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by hackuser 9y ago
Yes, but there are probably other standards that Google's ads don't meet, and Google isn't using those.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> It seems to me that it could be considered to be monopoly abuse and it also seems to be pro-consumer. The move only is pro-consumer where it benefits Google's bottom line: Blocking competitors ads, using a standard that Google ea
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by hackuser 9y ago
It's the same name as the Servo porting project. I could see that creating the separate process is a first step and involves no Servo code as of yet, but how do you know either way?
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by hackuser 9y ago
Sorry, my mistake. Message deleted.
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Even WWII there was no indication the US would actually enter the War directly until the Japanese forced the choice. That seems like conventional wisdom, but the U.S. started a large military build-up before Pearl Harbor. The military
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by hackuser 9y ago
> I can't wait until Servo gets more stable and feature complete Parts of Servo are being migrated to Firefox. IIRC, Quantum Compositor, mentioned in the blog post, is one of them - you can start using it today! http://je
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by hackuser 9y ago
Plenty of add-ons seem to do what you want. Here's a few I found with a quick search: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/profilist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Something my 36 year old wife knows to be common, was not the case just a short time ago. What are we doing so the next generation can say the same?
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by hackuser 9y ago
Thanks. > It's generally accepted that the value of money is roughly logarithmic as it increases I assume that is economic theory; do you remember whose or have any pointers to where I can read more?
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by hackuser 9y ago
> software programmers, that is positive as they are - on whole - more likely to bear a sense of reason and popular morality than those writing legislation right now Any time we think some group of people is going to be naturally above h
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by hackuser 9y ago
> As commentary on someone who just took $10M of their own money and created availability of data that didn't exist before? Not as useful. Hmmm ... the comment doesn't criticize or even mention Ballmer at all; it was only about
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by hackuser 9y ago
> Let's just be happy that you can get some of this information today ... When else have HN users adopted that approach?: 'Let's just be happy with what we have, and not criticize.' These are constructive, very inform
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by hackuser 9y ago
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14136081
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by hackuser 9y ago
Yes. Look up 'Starve the Beast'.

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