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by ythn 8y ago
I think Japan did something similar to eradicate the Yakuza. To quote Hamilton (the play): "Make it impossible to justify the cause of the fight"
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by ythn 8y ago
But can we get scheduled SMS yet? Samsung has had this feature for ages...
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by ythn 8y ago
Payday Peanut Brittle Popcorn Popsicle
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by ythn 8y ago
Ugh, I want to be optimistic, but I think this feature is going to suck and here's why: I use snapchat, but I actually hate the app. It's a bloated memory and battery hog in my opinion. Is Adaptive Battery going to think I love Sn
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by ythn 8y ago
> people are bad at evaluating risks People are easily emotionally manipulated. Show some pictures of cancer or disfigured babies and you can get everyone to rail against nuclear. Media does it all the time to skew our priorities. Think
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by ythn 8y ago
And that's a darn shame. As a result we have markets saturated with snake oil while the good stuff (medicine) rots away in obscurity.
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by ythn 8y ago
> It's always amusing to find out what Americans think is old. It's not that we "think" those buildings are old. They are the oldest. There are no older buildings. Age is relative. If you colonize a pacific island, th
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by ythn 8y ago
Woah, I thought the PICO-8 was a fictional game console within the Celeste universe!
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by ythn 8y ago
Plus, programming is extremely broad. You could spend 10 years mastering embedded linux programming yet know little to nothing about data science programming, game programming, GPU/VFX/shader programming, HDL programming, etc. The
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by ythn 8y ago
It's always hilarious to see a 1 rep StackOverflow question about a "compiler bug" when the problem is very obviously a user error.
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by ythn 8y ago
Now if only we could do this in America...
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by ythn 8y ago
> France is a country where failure is a taboo. People see it as unwise to start anything and will try to discourage you. Maybe part of the reason there is no "Silicon Valley" of Europe is cultural? This attitude will have a ch
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by ythn 8y ago
From my perspective, any company that goes public will eventually turn to crap (or go through decades-long crap/good cycles). It's not MBAs that drive for growth at all costs - I would argue it's shareholders. Shareholders ar
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by ythn 8y ago
One nice thing about 3 month summer is the ability to get a temporary job. When I was in high school I worked every summer as a landscaper/food service/lifeguard/etc. and gained lots of experience/money I otherwise would
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by ythn 8y ago
I thought the glass sphere was pretty sweet
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by ythn 8y ago
> Yet Americans falsely believe they are overtaxed. Perhaps the observation of government wastefulness is conflated with feeling overtaxed. There are two ways the government can raise more money: 1) Raise taxes 2) Use existing taxes more
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by ythn 8y ago
Ah, it was showing up as a box in my browser
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by ythn 8y ago
With a touch of honey
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by ythn 8y ago
> They might have a good viral marketing department, but that's none of my business. Unsure if you are a part of the viral campaign yourself or if it was just a subtle joke...
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by ythn 8y ago
How do you insert spaces with that layout?
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by ythn 8y ago
> The ideal Italian pizza, be it Neapolitan or Roman, has a crisp crust flecked with dark spots That might be true of Naples, but definitely not Rome. The perfect Roman pizza is rectangular focaccia style.
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by ythn 8y ago
For speaking, sure, but if you are writing then Spanish will take longer because you have to physically type out more characters.
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by ythn 8y ago
Every language has tradeoffs. Sure, Spanish might be easier to pronounce since the rules are more rigid, but on the other hand the information density is way lower. It takes 2-3 syllables of Spanish to communicate the same information as 1
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by ythn 8y ago
Define "discrimination" Is is discrimination to require a fitness test be taken for certain jobs/insurance?
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by ythn 8y ago
That's why people who attack trust (mainly social engineers, but other types as well) annoy me so much. Not if they are doing it because someone asked them to, but when they abuse trust and then act like it's a bug of the system a
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by ythn 8y ago
You have that problem with any theory, not just religious ones. You could argue that God was created the same way we were - by another God. Which eventually leads to "Gods have always existed", which is similar to Big Bang's
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by ythn 8y ago
Yeah, and my point was that your use case is the minority compared to the average user, and when you scale up my use case to billions of people, like the article says, it's not a viable.
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by ythn 8y ago
Well, before my Android phone I owned a Nokia Windows Phone which was also 1/10th the price of an iPhone. Not sure how that point of data fits into your narrative...
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by ythn 8y ago
This seems like common sense. I bought a Macbook Pro in 2010. Eventually I realized I only used my laptop for internet-related tasks, mainly when I was traveling or in my living room (instead of my office). After my MBP's battery degra
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by ythn 8y ago
It depends. If Uber was truly marketing itself as something you should stake your livelihood on (i.e. a viable career), then it's understandable that people would do that. People are only idiots if they take something that is only obvi

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