nebabyte

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by nebabyte 9y ago
> It is interesting to note that new technology products are never launched in the poor segment of the market and then gradually adapted to higher-level markets Inclined to disagree. Plenty of wealthy people see the "market potentia
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Devil's advocate regarding cronyism is that they "just need someone good enough" for the job, and on average wealthy people tend to be far better qualified (or have the free time to learn) than trying to filter through the GP
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Anyone know what engine civ 6 uses? guessing it's some in-house one but am curious if it has an internal name or something.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> So are the Clinton voters who reportedly stayed home You mean nonvoter. Someone who stayed home is by definition someone who did not care enough to go vote, so there's no evidence they supported clinton over any other candidate. &
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Law has more to do with liability than practicality. Imagine trying to settle a dispute or lawsuit involving a volunteer traffic director, for instance. People can be incredibly cordial when there aren't any problems or one big common
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> They should! Why aren’t they!?!?! Somebody needs to make that a markdown extension. Every time you want to insert an indexed footnote, you type [^#] Probably because there's no elegant way to support all the potential edge cases o
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by nebabyte 9y ago
okay? Some people aren't like that. This should not be news. And it's "lose".
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by nebabyte 9y ago
https://xkcd.com/1095/ This isn't limited to wine drinking preference, people can pontificate about anything. I'm sure a sea of articles in the same vein wouldn't begin to compare to the number of person
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by nebabyte 9y ago
And why not. Rebasing should be much more straightforward/common. I remember at one point I had a 'magic' command that just did a rebase the way I expected and allowed me to merge changes in easily; it quickly made its way th
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> I've got a much nicer branching model- try not to have one Ah, like my much nicer version control system ;)
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> “By his own admissions, Mr. Prince’s decision to terminate certain users’ accounts was ‘arbitrary,’ the result of him waking up ‘in a bad mood,’ and a decision he made unilaterally as ‘CEO of a major Internet infrastructure corporation
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> Let’s face it, its annoying when plugins get in the way of your personal design touch Frankly I run into the converse problem far more; people's attempts to inflict "their personal design touch" trying to disrupt my brow
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> opendime [...] it's new So everyone pays tithe to a single organization that creates 'trustable' units of physical currency. So new! At least with cash you're not destroying the physical currency every time you use
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by nebabyte 9y ago
None of this was political until the mayor turned around and said to the US/USG "We are dying and you are killing us". Pointing out that she and local authorities were responsible for coordinating on-the-ground infrastructure
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Her job is to coordinate her people, not to be some ambassador between PR and the world. Most of the issues centered around lack of coordination/response infrastructure; this does not roll in from the USG every time there's a disa
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> FEMA in fact is the branch of government designated to handle these type of situations. "The agency's primary purpose is to coordinate the response to a disaster that has occurred in the United States and that overwhelms the
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by nebabyte 9y ago
To some equally secure alternative not bloated down by useless cruft, I'd imagine
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by nebabyte 9y ago
What do you imagine is the point of proselytizing the use of secure apps to people for whom this is a concern that would override security? They aren't likely to adhere to secure practices anyways, so it's moot.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Not necessarily, depending on their OS
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> I just feel that rather than a browser, Firefox is becoming something like a service platform Isn't it? Wasn't this the crux of the whole dev team controversy/split years ago? (This is all sounding like rehashed news to
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> I feel like I'm being ActiveX'd into using Chrome now which is very non-Googly Um Define "googly" (If you're saying it's atypical of the behavior you'd expect of them: based on what ?) Considering th
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> Why is that not good enough? I don't think "why isn't what we have good enough" has ever been the mantra of pioneers in their field, but ok I don't get why you seem to take such exception to the stance that &qu
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by nebabyte 9y ago
It's absolutely "just a perception". Companies are not people. Never trust companies to always be "the company you knew". Leadership changes, and sooner or later someone purely motivated by profit takes the reins, a
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by nebabyte 9y ago
The word "bias" probably should have tipped you off
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> As far as legality goes, it's difficulty to say. Didn't the SEC publish a report declaring their stance as ICOs = securities? Doesn't seem that difficult to go from there.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Hackneyed phrases are as old as time, kid; doesn't mean you have a point.
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> We hit Hitler comparisons fast on this thread, eh god forbid people bring up hitler in a thread about history/world politics In fact, let's just scrub history of any references to Germany so we can make internet threads margi
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by nebabyte 9y ago
Correct, with the exception of a few diehards who decided beating the 'blind adherence to contracts' drum was worth trying to stay on the initial fork and buy up the useless 'original' fork. It's* also worth noting
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by nebabyte 9y ago
the marketing idea?
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by nebabyte 9y ago
> I've been dreading the day HN gets the "Web 2.0" makeover and turns into yet another information sparse automatic scrolling back button hating javascript nightmare speaking of reddit's new redesign... > Like Slas

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