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Comment #49218868
Good point. IMHO we're thinking of too much in single entities doing everything. Right now it's kinda the world we live in, with Apple or Google doing the total vertical integratio…
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Comment #49218485
> They don't want 100 apps that do the exact same thing. I read it as the "insane" part parent is pointing at. It's nothing new, has been going on basically since the existence of …
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Comment #49204056
Slightly besides your point, but it's interesting how many here naturally ponder about how the current winner could or "should" keep winning, instead of how another company could b…
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Comment #49178135
You're right on the principle, and this camera is purposefully aimed at a subpar viewfinder experience. As a comparison point, many people shoot street photography "from the hip", …
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Comment #49174781
Absolutely not defending anything the US gov is doing now or for the past years, and in general agreement (Iran is targeted for totally stupid reasons), just to point out: > With t…
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Comment #49166526
> He didn’t get the job because even though the technical attributes were all good, he should have pressured the customer. I'd say he didn't get the job because they would have ask…
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Comment #49133154
For most foreign dishes you can't just compare the total price to local food. I'm saying that having ordered pizza in Japan, and an actually good one with Buffala for instance will…
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Comment #49116690
If the tooling allows rollbacking X, Y and Z as a set, it could make sense ? I'm also on the "compare to the main branch" camp in general, but will sometimes end up with a set of X…
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Comment #49083040
> high ranking Apple employee Jony Ive basically works for Open AI (it's more complicated, but it's a good approximation), and has more or less rebuilt a designing team over there.…
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Comment #49081769
Yes, but the situation got a lot better and a lot worse... Sadly there has been a bunch of pretty devastating earthquakes in recent years. In particular in Kumamoto the one in 2016…
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Comment #49081719
On top of that, one of the toughest part could be the extent of the power outage. It's reported at around 46000 homes, the region has many elders and the outage will impact air con…
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Comment #49077111
Can you think of anything open-source that has to go through mandatory tests to be distributed and still survived ? There is a reason to it, that's as good as any angle to find why…
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Comment #49064095
> strong decisions that WILL alienate people, but will better target your intended audience. That, IMHO, is a great thing That's supposing you have a well defined intended audience…
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Comment #49031141
You're not really addressing parent's point IMHO. They could totally be taking well summarized notes on their computer, and free more time to properly listen instead of scribing it…
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Comment #49031105
I'm curious how many times you end up in the similar situations as an exam after you graduate from college. I share your experience of remembering written notes while a student, bu…
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Comment #49030083
To parent's point, A24 is expressing respect for the community, but with no further commitment to do anything about it. We use to point the finger at youtube channels uploading who…
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Comment #48987767
On (1), models are an aggregation of large volumes of data sources, whatever the culture producing them, you'll get the average bias of that culture. We see that on what minorities…
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Comment #48975023
> Arguing against it when that's how it's being used is, in my opinion, essentially arguing against the very concept of eminent domain You're giving a blank check to use it as long…
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Comment #48972109
I read "resolution" as pixel count more than DPI. As it becomes cheaper to capture and process higher res content, we're bound to push it to bigger displays (VR included). I guess …
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Comment #48962864
On "just partying", while I get what you're saying, I have a hard time to believe they ever cared about what HN thought about them or that our opinions had meaningful impact. TBH I…
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Comment #48941983
Yes, backing up is the most obvious reason to have it live on a server from the user POV. And of course the app vendor will want more lockin and be able to keep the data hostage. P…
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Comment #48923990
It might not be for everyone, but sticking ones active phone on a qi2/magsafe stand is great IMHO. Time and notifications are on one place, so they're only noticed when you're tryi…
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Comment #48923817
"Number field" felt like the best spacial representation of a numeric clock (would need to be 24h to be perfect but that's a small tweak) There are plenty of them in a more linear …
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Comment #48916039
If you're waist deep in China White, you may as well teach your kids about it, get them as much knowledge as possible, and how to stay clear of it. Letting choose a different path …
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Comment #48915331
> make a phone call Kids don't want to call, and parents don't want to receive calls except for critical situations. Only elders and scammers are actually phoning. > AI slop Same d…