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> I can step outside, hop into my car right now, and drive literally anywhere in the US. Where can't you do this? It's possible to drive from London to Beijing if you really want t…

Is there anyway to tell if the screen will be like a mirror? I've used a 1080p HP laptop that had the same issue. If I was coding with a dark background I'm staring at my face the …

Thanks. I put marginally more info here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15493070 But essentially, if I'm mainly interested in performance and the screen it sounds like an XPS …

That's pretty much the exact T470p config I was thinking of getting. I will probably rarely use the keyboard/trackpad except when travelling (not often) as most days I plan to use …

Is this for software development (assuming yes since we're on HN)? I'm currently in the process of making this choice. Looking at Lenovo T470p/Dell XPS 13/15. If I'm doing linux de…

Growth is earned by the extra employment in the area, generating income tax and reduced reliance on benefits/public services.

Presumably you weren't reading books on music theory.

> 30 seconds Certainly if something took 30 minutes to build I would be taking drastic to reduce this time! What I should probably be doing is setting the build off in "screen" the…

I'm currently working on a program that takes around 30 seconds to build, when making changes to a single file. So far I have been switching to Chrome and checking HN/News/Facebook…

Is this quote the difference between Google and Apple? With Google, you are the product - you pay $ and have your data harvested and used for advertising. With Apple, you are the c…

Isn't 25 supposedly the magic age when more cells die than are created, i.e. when you start 'aging'.

> However, from my experience there is a cap on the 'bandwidth' at which you can sight read this. It is just too hard to mentally parse a bunch of numbers on lines and turn that in…

> Until the tax situation changes Do you mean in the country the cash is sitting in? Because in the article it says: > With over 90 percent of its cash sitting overseas, a one-time…

No one's genetically a 'night owl'. Stop drinking caffeine.

Except in Paris there are so many cars in use, causing such a huge amount of pollution, that the government had to ban half the cars in Paris from driving on certain days last year…