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Re:The Secret Behind Qualcomm's Margins? Patents on Monday December 11, 2023 @09:09PM (#38608407)
Drug discovery has already mostly ground to a halt, so I don't think we'd be breaking much of a system.
Re:SVB Hall of Shame on Friday March 17, 2023 @12:23AM (#35193098)
This is incorrect. Fractional reserve lending means that they can keep a fraction of deposits as reserve and loan out the rest. This necessarily means they are not fully covered in times of large withdrawals.
Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @07:30AM (#32577920)
The exam is the same, but the scores required vary by a large margin based on if you are in a reserved category or open category.

I'm not saying that someone with a lower exam score cannot be a better doctor than someone with a higher score, but I would assume there would be a strong correlation

Re:Labor shortage or terrible jobs? on Friday April 30, 2021 @11:39PM (#27002835)
To avail the benefit of writing off taxes, the ex-business owner requires future income. Who's to say that he/she won't be unemployed for a long while after devastating their life savings?
Re:Gmail having issues on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @09:44AM (#25443064)
My company has paid apps, and we have been facing issues same as everyone else.
Re:Personal information and ads on Twitter on Tuesday October 08, 2019 @10:12PM (#21199347)
I assume everyone does have a pen. You don’t even need to write down all the provided recovery codes; just one will do.
Re:Silicon Valley is terrified of California’s privacy law on Friday September 20, 2019 @02:59AM (#21023894)
Yeah, but that's averaged across their global users. Stands to reason that most people in developing nations will not pay $25/mo to access Facebook; nor is their data worth that much.

Ergo, Facebook will charge a different rate per nation; per state; ideally per user (they already have all the data they need to calculate exact revenue per user based on their data).

Re:Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:32AM (#21003104)
I understand that you have to focus your resources onto Chromium; but don't count Firefox out yet. The way Google is behaving nowadays coupled with the progress that Firefox keeps making, there will be a sizable group of us Firefox users for the foreseeable future. And, we're a vocal bunch, too!
Re:Inkscape 1.0 Beta 1 on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @03:29AM (#21003091)
I'm sad to say that I judged it purely on the fact that it wasn't open source.

Then I went ahead and tried it out... mind blown. It's that good. Feels like a native app in it's UI quality and speed. And $9/month is a very good price point, especially for those that regularly create vector art.

I'm amazed at the quality of your app. It'll be especially incredible once you're at Inkscape parity. How large is the team you got working full time?

Re:Stop Infinite Scrolling on Friday September 13, 2019 @07:10AM (#20961010)
That's absurd! Everyone knows you're supposed to open up Developer Tools, then throttle network to 2G and then scroll, if you want to see the footer.

I thought this was common knowledge, guys. /s

Re:If you must run Windows 10 on Wednesday August 28, 2019 @04:45AM (#20817997)
Agree a hundred percent! If I could get sleep/hibernate to work reliably, I would switch over to Lubuntu in an instant.
Are you really comparing an object which holds a threat of blood loss, loss of organs and possible death as requiring similar safeguards as a phone?
Re:Show HN: YouTube-DL GUI Powered by Electron on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @11:19AM (#20335960)
I'd love to replicate what you've set up. The web server and from job doesn't sound too difficult, but I'm confused about the browser extension and Android share option. I'd be very grateful if you could elaborate further on that.

Thanks.

Re:If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home? on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @11:03AM (#20105131)
Most households have two cars, so I don't understand what you find funny about that.
I tried using it. I'm in India, and while Cloudflare and Google DNS consistently resolve in 60-70ms, nextdns takes between 400-700ms for the first resolution and consistently 250ms for the same query repeated (I presume it caches the results?)

Should I assume you've gotten a huge spike in traffic because of this HN post? If yes, I don't mind trying again in a few days, but unless things improve, I wouldn't be able to use it despite loving it in concept (the UI of your implementation is great too). I don't want to discourage you folks, since you've done a great job with the rest of it.

Thanks for your efforts.

8 days later, it’s unbanned again. I wonder why!
Re:Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job on Friday April 05, 2019 @10:03AM (#19582574)
In that case, you pay for it with a lower salary.

If that's not an acceptable tradeoff, you can always make your dream indie game on weekends.

The mobile operator Jio does the same thing here in India. Any content that offends their conservative interests, is routinely blocked without any legal repurcussions.

If ISPs want to act as curators to content they just provide access to, then they should be held legally liable for illegal content. Else, just act as a dumb pipe and give up all responsibility.

Yours is a very well reasoned argument.
Re:React Native 0.59.0-rc.0 released on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @10:51PM (#19159480)
Below 1.0.0, a minor release counts as a major one. So technically, 0.59 is a major upgrade from 0.58.
I loved their UI, but the incredibly horrible export to pdf or print drove me off it. I really needed pdf exports to release versioned documents.
Yes! I would love to help out if someone starts with the basic structure of such a project.

I've been searching for something like this for years.

Re:Tech Unicorns Are Going Public at Near-Record Pace on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:40AM (#18722946)
I remember reading the same sometime ago, and on reading this headline, I was glad for a little while until I started reading the comments.
Re:International System of Units overhauled in historic vote on Friday November 16, 2018 @09:08PM (#18473493)
Your second example is disingenuous. Mm to inch is going to be a weird conversion because they are between different unit systems. Feet to miles is unacceptable considering they're both imperial units.
Re:End intellectual property on Monday November 12, 2018 @11:43PM (#18438653)
Post the copyright sunset, if his software is already available for free, then why would someone pay money for it?

To answer your second question, most individual users of Linux use it for the openness, not the zero cost. I'd imagine businesses do not care so much about openness, though mine is extremely paranoid against using closed source.

Does anyone have any good recommendations for industrial electronics design? Like a PLC digital/analog input/output module, protecting industrial inputs, etc? I've searched quite a bit, but I've never found enough good advice in one blog or book.
Yeah, same here. Though I was becoming increasingly uneasy over the years, this was the final straw. Thanks, Chrome for making this an easy decision.
This thread is fantastic for someone like me who never completely understood the point of smart contracts. Thanks for laying it out so well.
Re:A browser extension to make Medium more readable on Thursday July 12, 2018 @12:03AM (#17512100)
Shh. Lest they fix that bug.
Re:A newcomer’s (angry) guide to R on Thursday June 14, 2018 @03:09AM (#17309928)
Could you please elaborate on that?

My company has tons of python code producing reports with reportlab, making UIs with PyQt5, as well as a multitude of small scripts to interact with MySQL.

We’ve been nothing but happy with Python in the years of using it.

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