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forgotpasswd3xon Tesla Model 3 Announced

It appears that the entire dashboard has been relocated to the center panel area (see @1:58). Seems to be a strange choice.

forgotpasswd3xon Why do we work so hard?

I don't know you, but you get my respect for that statement.

forgotpasswd3xon I made my own clear plastic tooth aligners and they worked

This is really amazing, man. It's honestly the first 3D printing application I've seen that I can see quickly improving thousands of lives. Just to think of all the people who right now can't afford this procedure, that soon will be able to... it's just really wonderful.

forgotpasswd3xon If you're alive in 30 years you might be in 1000 years too

Right, but that's different than saying he doesn't like old people because he disagrees with them.

forgotpasswd3xon If you're alive in 30 years you might be in 1000 years too

If you re-read the post, that's actually not his argument.

forgotpasswd3xon Bill Gates calls for terror data debate

Regarding B), Can OS updates even be pushed to a locked phone?

forgotpasswd3xon Too many people have peed in the pool

If I recall correctly, there was a noticeable difference in the HN front page on Christmas day. More unusual articles were upvoted than what usually gets posted. It could be due to the difference in visitors, but it might also be just that fewer people were voting, and there was less people to upvote what might normally be a popular post and that caused less generic posts to stay visible.

forgotpasswd3xon Why use www?

Well I think people did, once, but then immediately discovered it wasn't worth the effort.

forgotpasswd3xon Why use www?

People still use QR codes?

forgotpasswd3xon Why use www?

I think that www vs. no-www, as a matter of "putting the customer first" is so INCREDIBLY insignificant, compared to the thousands of other decisions that go into a product, that it's ridiculous we're even having this conversation. This is looking for optimization in the wrong places at its finest.

forgotpasswd3xon Etsy stock has lost 76% of its value in 9 months

Your simple explanation still fails to prove that's why Etsy is losing so much value.

forgotpasswd3xon The CIA-backed startup that's taking over Palo Alto

With everything revealed in the Snowden leaks, it doesn't seem like the good people are having much of an impact.

forgotpasswd3xon The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car

Just because it hasn't happened yet, doesn't mean it won't happen in the future.

forgotpasswd3xon The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-driving car

Is this less impressive to you because he didn't 'create jobs'?

forgotpasswd3xon Ask HN: Worth pursing web development if you have a criminal history?

What kind of context does that provide?

forgotpasswd3xon What The New York Times Didn’t Say About Amazon

> Their stories tend to be very agenda driven and the facts tend to be subservient to the narrative, a policy which is deemed acceptable because it "starts a conversation" or the story is "probably true for someone". This is typical of the left wing.

This is hardly an issue isolated to "left wing" media.

forgotpasswd3xon Ask HN: How can we use technology to prevent domestic mass murder?

I'd like to think we can progress as a society to a point where a person doesn't have to carry a weapon at all times to protect themselves.

forgotpasswd3xon What people in 1900 thought the year 2000 would look like

Well, in the sense that a biologist would have a better understanding of biology than the general population, I don't see why someone working in tech wouldn't have a better understanding of technology than the general population.

I don't think the parent poster was bragging or anything.

forgotpasswd3xon Ask HN: Looking to purchase a software-defined radio, any advice?

There is a SDR subreddit that has a wiki with some info. I had it bookmarked from a while back when I was looking into purchasing one, however that's something I've put on the back-burner for now.

https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/wiki/index

forgotpasswd3xon Newly found TrueCrypt flaws

From the title, I assumed it allowed disk decryption.

forgotpasswd3xon New Campaign to Help Surveillance Agents Quit NSA or GCHQ

You're probably already on the list.

forgotpasswd3xon HP to cut 25-30k jobs

Bringing out the "you're too young to understand" argument. Awesome.

forgotpasswd3xon Rant: I hate how login buttons are hidden

While I agree with your reasoning, it's still best to make it easy for users to find what they need to locate.

On your site, changing the login and forgot password links to white helps them stand out better against the background.

Example: https://imgur.com/ATcpp8k

forgotpasswd3xon Ask HN: What would you want in an ideal web browser?

What problem do you have with Hello? It doesn't do anything unless you use it anyway.

forgotpasswd3xon Chimpanzees and monkeys use stone tools

Are you under the impression that you can't understand something is bad while still being part of the problem?

forgotpasswd3xon [dead]

No. I don't know who that is. I probably wouldn't either way.

forgotpasswd3xon Ask HN: Recommend a good antivirus for Windows

Avira always seems to be at the top of the charts on http://www.av-comparatives.org/. I have used it for years without issue.

forgotpasswd3xon GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'

This always seems to happen in situations like this. People jump to defend the actions of the company with statements like "It's their website, they can do what they want". Which is true, except nobody is arguing that fact.

forgotpasswd3xon GitHub threatens to shut down a repository for using the word 'retard'

> Who decides what is and is not appropriate?

Or when. This is certainly not the only repository using that word. Nobody else is getting takedown notices.