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quantumsequoia··on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
I did as well. Because there are group chats I need to be in that I can only access if I have iMessage

I can't convince dozens of people in the groups to go sign up for signal just to accommodate me

quantumsequoia··on Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android
Beeper mini does not require an apple account so there's not much harm Apple can do
quantumsequoia··on Students ate less meat for 3 years after hearing talk on environmental impacts
"Propaganda" to encourage people to make other types of healthy choices like eating healthier, eating more fruits/veggies, etc are not nearly as effective, even on impressionable youth
quantumsequoia··on Up to tenth of Amazon shoppers in GB 'bribed' by sellers to offer good review
Reason being those are supposed to be reviews of the product. The same reviews will be shown if a different seller is selling the same product. Seller-specific reviews hurt completely independent sellers

Amazon has suspended big sellers like Mpow and Aukey for this practice, so they do take action on these tactics

quantumsequoia··on Google Pixel Watch 2
There's a lot of legitimate reasons to be skeptical of pixel watches. But I've never heard anyone cite aesthetics. They are some of the best looking watches in the market
quantumsequoia··on Frank Smith was locked up for 8 decades. At 98, what would it mean to be free?
Read the article linked by the post, it discusses it as well
quantumsequoia··on Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
I use the nightly firefox app so I can use the bypass paywalls extension. Looking forward to being able to use it on the stable app
quantumsequoia··on eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive
What makes you think Google won't show up in court? They do kinda neglect their free end users, but go to great lengths to appease enterprise clients (see: Google Cloud Platform)
quantumsequoia··on Microbially produced protein that is much sweeter than sugar
> I’m after the mood boost that sugar itself provide, the quickening of thinking that you get from it.

This is a myth, studies show "sugar rush" is just a placebo. Unless you are diabetic and have low blood sugar, eating sugar will not affect your mood, energy levels, or behavior any more than a placebo

quantumsequoia··on The Password Game
For a given video length, there will be some youtube video urls without roman numerals, and with low digit sum, and atomic number.

I first search this on Google

"0:00 / mm:ss" site:youtube.com

Where mm:ss is the desired length. Then I used some Javascript to scrape the results, finding only youtube urls without roman numbers, and print them out sorted by digit sum and atomic number

I've done it a few times, never had a situation where there was no suitable url

As for the color hex, if it's not suitable, you can regenerate it

quantumsequoia··on The Password Game
You forgot rule 24: Your password must include the URL of a x minute and y second long youtube video
quantumsequoia··on The Password Game
Tried Chrome on multiple OS, still not working
quantumsequoia··on The Password Game
Can you give an example? "replace the minute and seconds" is vague. Do you mean replace the words "minute" and "second"? Or just the numbers? Do you remove the brackets too?
quantumsequoia··on The Password Game
There is no bug, it only cares the correct answer is present. It's okay if other substrings are also valid chess notation, that won't prevent you from passing the rule if you include the correct one
quantumsequoia··on Reddit CEO doubles down on attack on Apollo developer in drama-filled AMA
I think he's referring to poor judgement by the CEO in immature PR handling. Even if raising the API prices is the right business decision according to the data, publicly slandering the Apollo developer seems like an unambiguously childish move
quantumsequoia··on Navigating the world when your senses conjure up phenomena others can’t perceive
I suspect you have the common misconception about how hearing loss works. Impared hearing doesn't mean the volume is turned down and needs to be increased. Often times, impared hearing means you can hear some frequencies perfectly fine, but are deaf to some frequencies (usually higher frequencies)

If you are missing hair cells in your ear for a certain frequency, hearing aids can't make you hear them no matter how much they increase the volume for those frequencies. Best they can do is pitch shift them so you hear them at a different frequency.

quantumsequoia··on There's something off about LED bulbs
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quantumsequoia··on PayPal has restricted our account after we invoiced a key containing “ALEP”
PayPal ≠ government
quantumsequoia··on Firefox Android now supports Tampermonkey
What do you expect? Firefox is open source. People in the open source community have long been supportive of seedy abusive software.

The people developing Firefox today were probably teenagers using Lunix 20 years ago

https://gwern.net/doc/cs/2001-12-02-treginaldgibbons-isyours...

quantumsequoia··on Does your office have a library?
Maybe if the books in your library aren't touched, that's a sign that the chosen books aren't the most valuable
quantumsequoia··on GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices
As opposed to what alternative explanation?
quantumsequoia··on Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass
If you want a stable bug-free phone, oneplus is not the phone for you. Ever since they merged oxygenos and color os, oneplus phones are laden with bugs.

I was planning to switch from oneplus to pixel for this reason.

quantumsequoia··on Google got caught tweeting from an iPhone while promoting Pixel
The tweet was responding to Tim Cook and throwing shade in the iPhone. It's not just that they were using an iPhone, it's that the tweet was hypocritical
quantumsequoia··on One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
> We don't trust Zuckerberg

This is a common excuse I hear in college to not use FB messenger or Whatsapp. But those same people usually have no issues using Instagram DMs. For most people, it's just a cover story to mask the real reason: Facebook messenger and whatsapp are uncool in the US

quantumsequoia··on One trick Apple uses to make you think green bubbles are “gross”
In this experiment, they created identical dating profiles, with the only difference being the brand of phone displayed in photographs. The control was no phone shown in the image.

Featuring an iPhone increased the number of likes received by 82%. Featuring a Samsung increased the number of likes by 20%. That means if you display a Samsung instead of an iPhone in your profile, you will get 34% less likes

Other phone brands did even worse. If your dating profile displays a Oneplus phone, you will get 55% less likes than an identical profile featuring an iPhone

https://www.moneysupermarket.com/mobile-phones/features/mobi...

quantumsequoia··on Why we’re pausing our Pay Later program
To be fair, even if interviews were perfect and exactly measured software development skills, that wouldn't stop enterprising entrepreneurs (/s) from offering services to help you prep for them anyways
quantumsequoia··on Only Persistent LogIn
I feel like you're imagining scenarios you experience in a developed country. This is not representative of most people Google users in the world

Plenty of people use shared computer, especially in environments with low financial resources (ie people in developing economies, low income families in developed countries, etc). This accounts for hundreds of millions of not billions of people in the world

It's unrealistic to expect all these people to have a non-shared computer to use, and unrealistic to imagine the shared computer to be set up by someone tech savvy enough to create separate profiles for people.

If I were to pick a random library or local school in South America or Asia for example, I would bet they have a shared computer where you just sit down at a logged in windows profile

quantumsequoia··on The Next Chapter for Learning on YouTube
Seems like a well argued, valid justification to me. Do you have a counter argument to his argument?
quantumsequoia··on A good memory or a bad one? One brain molecule decides
I notice AI generated artwork is very good at getting an accurate main subject of the artwork, but seems to lack having small sized details of an image be consistent with the broad message

Things like having a waterfall on the positive side seem very human to me and I doubt it was done by AI

quantumsequoia··on 'Too many employees, but few work': Pichai, Zuckerberg sound the alarm
I am very curious which company this can be, can't think of any companies in Redwood City that match that description
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