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by looeee 7y ago
1% is a pretty bad rounding error, you might want to look into some better accounting software.
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by looeee 7y ago
What it will take is for the US to start prioritizing human rights, at all? I mean, they're currently running concentration camps for children at the Mexican border, in their own country. It would be a bit rich if they start telling o
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by looeee 7y ago
Do you have some statistics to back that up? Without statistics it's pretty just s much meaningless about how kids these days are lazy... A complaint which every generation has made since long before smartphones existed.
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by looeee 7y ago
Betteridge's law: for any headline ending in a question, the answer is 'no'. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
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by looeee 7y ago
> In fact, that’s how the world was before the advent of nation-state AKA the Golden Age fallacy
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by looeee 7y ago
> 1 sat/byte What's a sat?
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by looeee 7y ago
> I'm sure it needs plenty of energy So much that it has its own power plant, as far as I know. Environmental issues aside, pretty cool to stand there in swimming trunks when it's -10 outside and there's half a metre of sn
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by looeee 7y ago
How did you get involved with that? Did you just phone up and offer your services?
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by looeee 7y ago
I'm gonna guess that they have very little to do with inches in the real world, and will in fact display at different lengths on different screens.
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by looeee 7y ago
Or if it's to do with curing aging, cancer, HIV, or heart disease.
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by looeee 7y ago
> even in the United States The United States has become an oligarchy over the last few decades. It's basically the worst Western country that you could use as an example of freedom right now.
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by looeee 7y ago
This is called the Roman Room technique: https://m.wikihow.com/Remember-Lists-of-Words-With-the-Roman...
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by looeee 7y ago
The Egg is the most famous story based on that idea, I think. http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html
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by looeee 7y ago
It's simple. Avoid them, just as you should avoid processed meat. Easy less processed food, and lots of fruit, veg, fiber, and protein from whatever source you like. That's the key to a healthy diet.
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by looeee 7y ago
> While I have no urge to eat food for its ability to imitate meat (so I’m not the target audience anyway) That's a very short sighted view. This isn't about vegetarianism. It's about the environmental crisis, and the over
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by looeee 7y ago
That's a pretty obscure reason to say that smartphones suck though. If you need more computing power, buy a tablet or a big battery pack, or use a laptop. Hell, log into a remote server and run your apps there. 95% of people who use ph
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by looeee 7y ago
> Modern phones have big enough screens Not all phones have big screens. Not all people want phones with big screens, and even though it's the current fashion that may change in a few years.
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by looeee 7y ago
This argument doesn't work, especially on a societal level. Tech companies are spending millions on researching how to make people addicted to their apps, and it's working. If you can overcome that, good for you. But for society
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by looeee 7y ago
You can also do this with a single email address and the + symbol: jimmy+facebook@gmail.com jimmy+twitter@gmail.com jimmy+hackernews@gmail.com all go to jimmy@gmail.com
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by looeee 7y ago
> Even here on HN which is so user friendly. Except on mobile. The UI elements are tiny, try closing ten comments without clicking the timestamp by mistake at least once.
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by looeee 7y ago
Personally, I'm totally fine with that lost investment. Especially since it's likely to be temporary.
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by looeee 7y ago
> even though we are not any kind of data collection company Are you collecting data on your customers? If you are, then one of the things your company does is data collection, even if that's not what's in your business plan.
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by looeee 7y ago
If you look for evidence to prove yourself right, then you will find it. Even if you're wrong.
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by looeee 7y ago
I mean, that's great and all. But I actually want people to use my website.
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by looeee 7y ago
> expressed as a percent of the population, and rounded to a whole number, is zero.” That just means 'less than one in two hundred'. Which is not that rare.
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by looeee 7y ago
This is quite the straw man argument. Most of those people either support this already or just have no opinion on it
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by looeee 7y ago
> I feel like society is very much in uncharted territory here Society has been in uncharted territory since humans existed. It's not 'more uncharted' because the dangers we face are social media and climate change rather
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by looeee 7y ago
There's quite a few countries where you need to show a passport to register a sim card. Not sure if Austria is one.
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by looeee 7y ago
Bitcoin.org is not likely to be an unbiased source when it comes to the negative aspects of Bitcoin.
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by looeee 7y ago
You need to approach this as an exercise in habit building. Build up a healthy approach to food in steps, not all at once. Saying 'I'm going to eat healthy from today' is unlikely to work. Saying 'in 6 months I will have

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