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by pie42000 4y ago
"Just because a parent wants their child to be able to play the piano with great skill doesn't mean they'll take to it" And yet the beast, vast majority of kids who were forced to learn to play a musical instrument are g
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by pie42000 4y ago
Yes it does. Modern humans have so many more things to do than hunter gatherers or monkeys. Monkeys can't engage in cocaine fueled raves til 6am, work the night shift at a nuclear plant, or pull an all-nighter to pass their organic che
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by pie42000 4y ago
This figure is useless without context. What was this number for previous generations? I suspect it's always super high because a huge demographic for mac's is college students buying their first laptop, obviously it's gonna
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by pie42000 4y ago
It's actually almost identical, if not worse.
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by pie42000 4y ago
Guaranteed 15%+ ROI. Really makes you wonder why more people aren't investing in solar
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by pie42000 4y ago
"The score, made up of audience ratings on a scale of 100, is calculated by taking the percentage of people who rated it at least 60 out of 100 (or 6 out 10) and multiplying it by 100%." The critics score is calculated with a diff
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by pie42000 4y ago
"A very small minority of UX Researchers come to the correct conclusion, which is that most professional critics have to review every single movie" Could you provide your sources? This seems like it could be very incorrect, or onl
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by pie42000 4y ago
Yeah, this was my impression as well. In Chicago you have police actively pulling people over all the time. In SF i have literally not seen a single person pulled over in the year I've been here. For context, in Chicago i would see abo
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by pie42000 4y ago
Ah yes, "one time in Arkansas" is now applicable to the situation at large. You'd think the HN crowd would be intelligent enough to not do this. This is akin to saying "this website doesn't load on the Nintendo DS w
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by pie42000 4y ago
Not a bad way to go
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by pie42000 4y ago
Really surprised that a journalist like you doesn't understand the need for brevity. 98% of this "how to work with me" is actually "i like talking about myself". There is like half a sentence of semi-useful (probabl
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by pie42000 4y ago
Comes off as very silly and insecure. It seems like it's written purely for you to curate your professional persona and to give people a good impression of yourself. A corporate kool-aid drinking work-a-holics version of a Twitter bio,
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by pie42000 5y ago
Uhhh, what part of "customer-obsessed" implies anything positive to you? Drug dealers are also "customer-obsessed". Notice how Amazon is customer-obsessed and not "obsessed with providing a great, ethical, and non-a
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by pie42000 5y ago
When was the last time a sovereign, democratic, western nation invaded?
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by pie42000 5y ago
You realize there was also a massive coordinated effort by the media to defeat Nazi Germany, right? I know it's rare nowadays, but sometimes, gasp , large groups of people across organizations and industries can coordinate for a mutua
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by pie42000 5y ago
"The non mention of NATO being a pointless organization today but especially in a collapsed Russia world would be good to know." WHY ISNT MY RIDICULOUS OPINION BEING PRESENTED AS FACT BY THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA?????????????? You real
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by pie42000 5y ago
"Somehow the war hasn't ended yet, despite of the zillions of Russian tanks that have been destroyed by now." Well if we're going to be pedantic and childish, then for your information, Russia started the war with 12.3 z
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by pie42000 5y ago
Samsung phones are laggy day one though, and the UI makes your eyes bleed from disgust.
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by pie42000 5y ago
This is by design. Paper straws are meant to distract your limited focus from things that actually matter.
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by pie42000 5y ago
Not him, but I miss when search results weren't clogged up with 80 copies of the same piece of shit from the same Chinese factory branded as 80 different items, and rampantly astroturfed reviews. The website used to lead faster and was
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by pie42000 5y ago
Most will have a medical prosecute to remove it
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by pie42000 5y ago
Why are people concerned about energy and material costs? Semiconductors are probably the highest margin manufactured goods on the planet, with materials and energy being the lowest cost input to the process. The only good that can compete
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by pie42000 5y ago
I mean as a swiss person, your biggest industry (watches) exists almost entirely out of "it looks cool". Rich Militaries buy the F-35 because it's a cool toy, in the same way a rich businessman buys a Patel Phillipe. Not beca
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by pie42000 5y ago
This is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. It makes sense for something that you personally own and maintain yourself i.e. a Cesna. Do you expect Air Force 1 pilots to do walk around? Astronauts? Submarines? These are mostly war mach
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by pie42000 5y ago
If you've never used it you have no idea if it makes you a better person or not because you don't use it. In the same way, it doesn't make an old person better because they proudly proclaim how they've never used used th
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by pie42000 5y ago
This is a really silly, outdated world view. You don't need everyone to fight to defend countries now, we have autonomous fighter jets, satellites, nuclear submarines, robots that can do parkour while carrying hundreds of pounds of gea
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by pie42000 5y ago
Should be trivial to detect
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by pie42000 5y ago
White paper sounds cooler
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by pie42000 5y ago
Yeah, gimme one sec and I will draft up a white paper on drafting whitepapers
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by pie42000 5y ago
Very weird design choices. The like/dislike buttons are super small, the Names rated/names remaining counter takes up half the screen and seems like it should be at most 10-20% of the screen. Names are too small. BB complains abou

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