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I feel your pain. My all-time favorite phone was the Moto E2 (4.5-inch screen), and would still be using it if I hadn't dropped it in water. I don't think I'll ever get a budget or…

Is that a genuine question or a rhetorical one?

Another oft-cited reason is because vinyls can't have a "brick-walled" dynamic range, as it often happens with new digital music thanks to the loudness war [1]. So audiophiles tend…

> who cares if a VP at Google and VP at Xiami moved to Facebook? Xiaomi's global vice president Hugo Barra is leaving the company [1] - 124 points, 87 comments Hugo Barra is joinin…

Touche.

> Just think - the time you spent writing that snarky response could just as easily have been spent writing... Is it better to feed fish to a person, or teach them to catch one? I …

I'm on this site a lot, I know who it is and I understand why it made to the front page. It would help everyone (you included) if you try Google first whenever someone (or somethin…

Civil (and informative) comments like yours are why I come to HN.

Can you help me see how the title is clickbait?

Extremely fascinating. Seeing the alien-ness of the creatures, I wonder if any fiction writers have written well-researched stories set in this portion of the ocean? Seems like it …

Yup, that's what I meant too - I just mangled the sentence badly, sorry.

Ah. The post is using the correct 'its'. I started doubting my grasp of grammar after I saw your comment, and after reading through Merriam-Webster's article on the usage of 'its v…

This news item is an eye-opener for me. As a Wodehouse fan I'd always assumed the Nazi broadcast incident was a small blip in his life. Did not realize it had such a major impact o…

FYI a lot of it was staged/planned [1][2]. 'Pumping Iron' was almost like a proto-reality show. Arnold "played" the role of a villain. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumping_Iro…

Agreed, humanrebar explained it well!

I stand corrected.

Doesn't mean it is not marketing.

I do not agree with the death penalty either, but your logic seems flawed to me. I don't have to share ALL the morals/ethics/worldviews that my heroes have. Now if he came out agai…

The "dark" part of it is if the dialog doesn't explicitly tell me that it will take me to the App store once I click on one of the buttons. Otherwise I don't mind such dialog boxes…

While I agree that its an extremely complicated problem to solve, I would be more inclined to believe they are trying to solve it if they took responsibility for (at least some of)…

> Now to anybody who thinks he can control the internet and what people read/think/discuss I say good luck with that. Well Facebook _is_ doing that as we speak, but they don't cons…

I see a lot of commenters bring up privacy viz. tracking transactions and tax avoidance. Now I'm all for respecting people's privacy; but I also don't see why the govt. shouldn't b…