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by simplotek 3y ago
> No where else can you "get away with" saying something that you couldn't elsewhere, and suffer absolutely 0 consequences for voicing actually controversial opinions. I'm not sure you fully understand the issue. 4cha
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> I've had to set up someone's mail server last year. All mails sent to gmail were silently dropped until we set up all the current buzzwords for the domain/email server. (...) Possibly we were lucky that "just"
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by simplotek 3y ago
> I don't buy it. If a potential customer contacts a business first, and the business sends unsolicited messages to the customer, that reply shouldn't get dropped as spam. And yet it does.
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Would a service provider like YouTube have an incentive to shut down every single spam post? It's plausible that spam can drive up engagement in some cases.
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> Spam is killing tons of services beyond just Email. Google Drive is infamous for its spam problem.
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What a superb post. Thank you for this gem.
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A while ago I had one of those Ikea Flintan chairs, and after reading this post I recalled that from time to time I had a monitor+laptop flinch hard for no reason at all. I was concerned one of them was experiencing problems but other than
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by simplotek 3y ago
> The four motherboard makers that have issued public press releases about revised firmware that is designed specifically to limit the SoC voltage to prevent failures would disagree with you here. What I'm seeing is four motherboard
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> I disagree. Ok, thanks for your contribution.
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> The fact that the vendors are acting so quickly about this suggests to me that they have other non-public examples of the problem (...) That's quite the extrapolation. It's far more likely that AMD sees the exposure that a ha
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> If you want to introduce continuous distributions like the Gaussian one, you can just say "area under the curve" if you need to connect the density to a numerical probability. What name do you give to this "area under th
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> I’d guess he’s referring to the most common use of the phrase and means market share. That makes no sense at all. Are you actually trying to argue that your perceived popularity of an email provider is proof that email is dead? While a
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> High schools often teach physics and without calculus as a prerequisite. Does it though? For example, you simply cannot teach Newton's laws of motion without knowing what a derivative is.
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> Sure, but calculus is about memorizing ways to answer problems. It really isn't. That might be how some people managed to get a passing grade, but clearly they learned nothing and squandered a once in a lifetime opportunity to get
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> They continue to recommend statistics. They removed data science from a sentence that also included calculus and statistics. I knew a professor from a math department from a top European university who taught data science courses who s
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by simplotek 3y ago
> A high school "data science" course, if designed properly, will be far more useful to students and beneficial to society than calculus. How do you expect students to understand what they are doing with "data science&quot
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> Lots of things integrate with email at a protocol level but Gmail won because (...) What are you talking about? I spend all day every day sending and receiving emails from all sorts of services, and Gmail is not it. What exactly is you
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by simplotek 3y ago
> Bold of them to move forward with this clickbait Not clickbait. It documents Twitter's modus operandi, and the irresponsible way it grants it's "verified" status, in some cases even against the user's request.
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> The point still stands: By no reasonable definition is Lego the largest manufacturer of tires. This is clearly not true. All it takes is to acknowledge that Lego produces tires (which it does), check how many they produce per time peri
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> Let me repeat: some people cannot learn faster than this, You missed the whole point: people do not learn with this approach, regardless of speed. The only benefit is keeping people engaged in a skinner box while watching ads, and sell
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> Better to evaluate the merits of each product than to make a blanket judgment about the company and force your opinions of each product to confirm. I think that the point is that Cloudflare's business model lies largely on its abi
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> I think what you're missing here is that some people do not have the discipline to stick to a daily exercise regimen except when it's gamified like this. It sounds like you're the one missing the whole point. The goal of
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>I'm a native English speaker, but I live in a country where the native language isn't English. Emigration is not an option on most people's plate, specially when discussing topics such as learning a new language. Also, so
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> Duolingo has brief explanations of the grammar for each unit. Last time I checked, those were only available through their website, not on mobile.
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> Yet on HN people talk about Duolingo as if people would be spending their Duolingo time chatting to Spanish speakers if Duolingo didn't exist. Nah, they'd be doom scrolling. This observation might be good for Duolingo's
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> Give Duolingo a try. Even if it doesn't work out in the end, it will at least get you started. I don't think this is good advice. There are myriads of ways to get you started, so Duolingo doesn't provide additional value
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> Why should it be a website as opposed to an app? Is this a serious question at all? For starters, websites provide the lowest barriers to entry, and don't expect users to grant intrusive access to their personal systems.
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> Crockford's persistence in evangelizing it even after the company he worked at when it was created went bankrupt led to its eventual adoption. I don't think this is true at all. The reason that JSON won is stated quite clearl
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> You appear to have a bias (...) Nutritionists everywhere point out the fact that diets which exclude whole food groups don't guarantee an adequate supply of some key nutrients, and in some cases require taking supplements to avoi
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> Milk was heavily subsidized (...) The whole agricultural industry in Europe is heavily subsidized through Europe's common agriculture policy. It's a strategic and national interest policy so that Europe's access to food

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