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vampirical

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    Comment #47160800

    Why do you think there's something to be gained here? There are a lot of cheap and easy checks this content fails that it represents a well formed argument based on reality.

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    Comment #47160773

    To me at least this appears to be a smoking gun for the creator not being able to function in good faith. Whether that's intentional or self delusion, who knows. From the page itse…

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    Comment #45547242

    I think there’s a simpler explanation. Apple’s always uses a type of product metric that most companies don’t use. Those competitor products don’t care about phone battery drain, s…

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    Comment #44518545

    Please re-read what you’ve written in these two comments with a critical eye. You’re speaking from a lack of knowledge without very much care and reaching incorrect conclusions tha…

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    Comment #43027437

    You can also do the reverse gesture, a small swipe up from the bottom of the screen, to return to full screen.

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    Comment #41953193

    You were demonstrably wrong three times in your comment, misrepresenting the reality of both sides of the argument and the prevailing opinion of humanity. The fact that one side do…

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    Comment #41953127

    Which doesn’t matter in the slightest. What’s our best understanding of what’s objectively true? That one side is actually stupid, insane, or evil. I at least, am out of patience f…

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    Comment #41891884

    You’re probably going to think I’m very presumptuous but I’m going to say this anyway in case it is helpful for you. If people are frequently offended when you speak on a topic you…

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    Comment #41167591

    https://archive.ph/WpOY0

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    Comment #37573497

    I think you're accidentally telling on yourself here. You're looking at somebody getting a result which is surprising to you but rather than being curious about how they might be o…

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    Comment #37566095

    I’ll second what my sibling poster said but also… From my perspective iOS already has pretty good call/text blocking. Are you sure you know all the existing features? For calling, …

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    Comment #36873128

    Just a bystander but you just quoted this: > My whole premise is that it doesn’t have better than human intelligence. Everyone glosses over how we go from ChatGPT 4 failing its own…

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    Comment #36500117

    See my reply to justrealist's sibling comment to yours.

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    Comment #36500103

    The Clean Water Act was amended in in 1977 to add the phrase "adjacent wetlands" specifically because of contention on this point. This was after the Army Corps of Engineers and th…

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    Comment #28352889

    Why wouldn’t they be able to multi-app? As far as I can tell this is double talk. “If we have to W2 them we will make a condition of employment that they can’t be clocking hours in…

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    Comment #27929437

    Here's an archive of the Medium post so you can read it without dealing with their soft paywall: https://archive.is/uKzSZ

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    Comment #27929296

    Sorry on a limited device where I can't do much formatting. You made a pretty explicit claim earlier in this thread "The mRNA vaccines are not "adequate": they are being treated by…

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    Comment #27929152

    native_samples You've been misinformed. We have pre launch studies with 40k+ participants showing no meaningful risk. And post launch when there were exceedingly rare ("This advers…

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    Comment #27929043

    Your claims are pretty extraordinary and demand extraordinary evidence. How exactly are they not adequate? How are they being treated as if they aren't working? How are they danger…

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    Ask HN: Has AWS become an SLA dodger?

    Last month the us-east-2 RDS region had a major outage which took our multi-AZ primary database cluster down for 4-5 hours. We spend the entire outage online with a support agent b…

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    Comment #24490662

    The article does mention Apple normally provides at least 3-4 days of Golden Master availability and usually a week+ before General Availability and that this is useful for various…

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    Comment #7907745

    It would be great for one or more of the founders to do a postmortem write-up once any dust has settled. I had high hopes for Ink, seems like a shame. I'd imagine this comes at the…

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    Comment #5897569

    Paywall busted: http://const.it/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014241278...

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    Comment #5075471

    Just FYI, http://qbix.com/ just shows "Error rendering this page." in Opera. Took me a second to realize it was just a browser compat issue, at first I wrote the whole service off …