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My hunch is dumpster diving works well when food is plentiful and people are throwing perfectly edible items away willy-nilly. Get a depression-style food shortage and suddenly what you find in the dumpster won’t be as appetizing as the don
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I agree. I actually switched to the new Chromium version of Edge with uBlock. I still have Brave on both my iPhone and desktop which is permanently set to block all scripts. I use that for sites with paywall pop ups.
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I figured they must be planting a tree for that $5 and it seems I wasn't far off: https://klmtakescare.com/en/content/be-a-hero-fly-co2zero
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I called for Microsoft to fork Chromium in their next browser over 5.5 years ago. I'm not surprised Google is worried. My HN comment from over 5.5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7909383
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Archive of full story: http://archive.is/WuPf8
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Comes down to what was the value of Facebook’s intellectual property when it was sold to its Irish affiliate. The IRS is saying they valued it much too low to their benefit.
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If you don't already, you should browse HN with ShowDead turned on. There are people who have been banned for years and blissfully post comments several times per week completely unaware that almost nobody is seeing their comments. Of
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They actually fixed that problem around 2001! It's been over 15 years since I've done anything with Usenet binaries so I'm shocked I was able to recall the PAR file technology. Essentially, if you posted 50 parts of your en
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With a minimum level of karma, you can vouch for a dead comment which will resurrect it. You click on the time the comment was posted and then click vouch.
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Yeah I got my first modem in 1985 (hence the username). Anyone outside of academia was all BBS, not Internet back then. I’m shocked to hear Usenet even had 140k active users in 1988.
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HN is kinda dying as a community As someone who’s been on HN for about 9 years, it’s funny to read this. I don’t see how it’s gotten any worse during my time here. I think HN’s community is fantastic but you either get it or you don’t.
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There are many factors and others have pointed out some of them. Here's another one: The dollar's relative value to goods and services isn't rising... and it's because of countries like China that make goods and service
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I use two browsers for this scenario both on iPhone and desktop. The first browser is my regular one (take your pick) and the second one is Brave with scripts Disabled (one click option in settings). I use Brave when going to sites like t
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Tesla is not just a car manufacturer though right? They are a solar company and battery company too. They could conceivably have astronomical growth in both of those segments.
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The author is a partner at Ycombinator. https://www.linkedin.com/in/anuhariharan I disagree with her argument but I don’t think her argument is sleazy or slimeball.
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And the first page of results isn’t mostly ads.
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Of tap water samples taken by EWG from 44 sites in 31 states and Washington D.C., only one location, Meridian, Mississippi, which relies on 700 foot (215 m) deep wells, had no detectable PFAS. Only Seattle and Tuscaloosa, Alabama had level
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I agree that this is a good thing. I also called for it to happen over 5.5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7909383
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often you won't get hired if you've had more then 8-10 months of unemployment without reasonable explanation. I do a lot of hiring. You are correct and further - literally any gap at all is viewed as suspicious. And there aren
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Could we treat it like the lottery? Put $x into a fund each year that grows to ridiculous levels for unambiguous cures for cancer(s) along the lines of the recent cure for Hepatitis C. On March 27, 2019 the Powerball prize was up to $750 mi
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My neighborhood probabbly isn't going to be reconfigured anytime soon The problem is new neighborhoods are being put up literally every day across the country and we are cookie-cutting them out the same way we've done since the
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Nature is just starting to tell us that our way of life isn't sustainable. There are more sustainable ways to live, we just have to be open to discussing them. You want a lawn - how often do your children play on it? An hour per day?
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One tactic I've learned is to set aside time to focus on relaxation. I got the exact opposite advice from "The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1319.The_War_of_
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I’ve said for years that one of the 20th century’s large problems was humans having to learn to live in a world of unlimited sugar, fat and salt. One of the 21st century’s large problems is humans having to learn to live in a world of unlim
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Except for defense projects, it doesn't matter where the code is made, US or India. Actually, yes it does.
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How was your diet before you started intermittent fasting? When I read anecdotal accounts like this, I often wonder if your previous diet was so poor that doing anything to change it would've made it better. In other words, without a
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Not fully on topic but one commuting behavior I changed about eighteen months ago has been resoundingly helpful. I stopped driving like a jackass. I used to accelerate rapidly at every green light and decelerate rapidly at every red light.
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The book is not for everyone. By that I mean that there are people in the world that think everything they do will fail. That obsess on every interaction with friends and significant others trying to look for signs that they don’t like th
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About three years ago I read someone on here recommend the book, “Learned Optimism”. They said it was life changing. I read it, did the work, and it is life changing. People with a pessimistic outlook are much less happy than people with
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In every example given people died People died writing Unix and JavaScript?

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