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Comment · 7 years ago
I wonder what the NYT will write about when FB and Trump finally stop being newsworthy?
Comment · 7 years ago
Ah yes, more unsubstantiated claims about Chinese tech and culture on HN. Can you back up a single thing you've claimed?
Comment · 7 years ago
In an alternate universe where Apple produces babies, they'll eventually become so thin they'll snap and bend if you look at them funny.
Comment · 7 years ago
My office replaced our 2015 Macbook's with the "latest and greatest." I hate sitting next to my coworkers who use them now. They're good typists and prior to the switch I didn't even notice their keyboard noise, but the new keyboard design made keystrokes noticeably louder because the cushioning was sacrificed in the name of thinness.
It's distracting in the workplace and I would feel bad if I ever had to use one in a library or any other "quiet" environment. These were considerations I never had to make with the previous keyboard.
Comment · 7 years ago
The NYT editorial board seems to have a personal vendetta against FB/Amazon in particular. Twitter and Google get passes in mainstream media, for whatever reason.
I wish they would give the same scrutiny they gave to FB for the past year to Equifax or cellphone carriers that sell our location data.
Comment · 7 years ago
The vast majority of Americans don't know/care what the active ingredient in Tylenol is because its effects have been extensively studied and tested and there's strong evidence consuming it over long periods of time has minimal to no harmful health effects.
The same cannot be said of marijuana.
Comment · 7 years ago
This is the Nirvana fallacy. You aren't addressing the main point of the article, which is even if marijuana is legalized its use perhaps shouldn't be widely promoted because its health effects--both positive and negative--aren't fully understood yet.
Comment · 7 years ago
I wish the NYT gave Equifax half the scrutiny they give FB.
Comment · 7 years ago
Anecdotal, but I am not a heavy phone user at all. Within a year of purchasing my brand new iPhone SE, the battery capacity dropped from 100% to 82%, causing it to begin to lag considerably doing even basic tasks and shut down randomly two or three times a week. This should not happen to a product that's only a year old.
Comment · 7 years ago
Not that there's anything wrong with reporting on the same topic by multiple publications, but this article just seems like a poor copy of this WSJ article published in August:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/airplane-noise-complaints-are-s...
Out of curiosity, are there journalistic guidelines about publishing duplicate articles when there are seemingly no new pertinent developments? I haven't seen anything like this before.
Comment · 7 years ago
You're right, but the aforementioned "12/13" years ago was only 2006. I don't think many significant changes have been made in that period, but I may be wrong.
Comment · 7 years ago
I would also be interested in this. Many soft drink recipes are well-established and rarely adjusted because even small, well-intentioned changes can damage the brand and customer loyalty. Furthermore, it seems counterintuitive that producers would increase sugar content by as much as 1.57 times because that would inherently cost them significantly more money over time.
Comment · 7 years ago
That sounds like poor parenting more than anything else. Also, the "sugar -> hyperactive ADHD kids!" thing is a myth.
Comment · 7 years ago
My greatest accomplishment as a kid was beating BG2 on "Insane" difficulty as a solo character.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa8JV3z-Oeo
I must have played through the game at least two dozen times and I never got tired of it. To this day it's still my favorite game of all time. Modern RPGs just don't compare in terms of storytelling and gameplay experience, in my opinion.
Comment · 7 years ago
Nice resource, thank you for sharing. It's been a why since I've used Ocaml but this will be a good opportunity to review.