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by 3RTB297 6mo ago
Looking at the author's work for West Africa, when is it a travel guide and not just a diary in travel guide format? Though it's a bit frustrating to read how close he gets to some genuine understanding of how things really work i
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by 3RTB297 6mo ago
Imagine no more! An article about this seems to be written about a trend of "too expensive!" every decade. 2023: https://www.luxurydaily.com/american-couples-spending-more-m... 2015: https://www.bustle.
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by 3RTB297 6mo ago
1 million% agree - I've lived in Ghana and a number of other countries in West and Southern Africa. I've sadly attended many funerals in each place. These photos that visually drive the sense of opulence are entirely of Ghanaian f
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by 3RTB297 6mo ago
I thought the same thing - hopefully by the time Artemis III launches they'll remember the gaps and blank screens from this launch. Even the live telemetry model at the core stage separation seemed to not match what the on-board camera
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by 3RTB297 7mo ago
A week after I started doing OSINT research, I realized how much very personal data I had online. Much more than I wanted. Years ago I went down the privacy rabbit hole and realized how bad all of this was. And that was before it took off a
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by 3RTB297 7mo ago
We're at a place where browser fingerprinting is what you have to defeat in order to not be tracked online, it goes a lot further than signing up for DeleteMe. All DeleteMe does is save you the time of manually making takedown requests
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by 3RTB297 7mo ago
This is immensely counter-intuitive to many Americans. They wrongly assume that digital IDs are some Biblical apocalyptic level invasion of privacy, when every state ID database is already 1) linked to Federal ones, and 2) full of the same
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by 3RTB297 7mo ago
Even easier - egg sandwich using a basic milk bread.
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by 3RTB297 8mo ago
I use it maybe twice a week. My wife maybe every day or two, and will go through things if they make her laugh. Apparently she never got thirst trap hunky dudes non-stop when she first signed up.
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by 3RTB297 8mo ago
I'm not who you asked, but the niche for Georgian wine is orange wine, which is white wine left to sit on the grape skins for a couple days, so it pulls more tannins. It's not exclusive to them alone, but the more distinct niche i
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by 3RTB297 8mo ago
Seconding all of this. The food is truly fantastic, and the Georgian people are awesome, but the way they've let Putin slide in to just the right places is holding back the country. I've never been so invested in a puppet show as
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by 3RTB297 8mo ago
Also can confirm. From the first moment I started an IG account (at my wife's request), the default algorithm was to give me almost exclusively thirst trap posts with zero geographic or other relevance to me. I had to weed through thir
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by 3RTB297 8mo ago
>Also, you don't understand that science is a process, based on evidence, and revision is an essential part of that process? I do, and the process is exactly the point. That human emotions affect the process far more often than we l
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by 3RTB297 8mo ago
>dismissed as fringe >I mean that's how science works. So you're saying it's a good thing to dismiss potential new discoveries because of feels? Not investigate further, not look for additional data to refute the theory
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by 3RTB297 8mo ago
Imagine if those 100 scientists had gotten their way and Einstein had retracted his Relativity paper. It would have taken decades of observations of gravitational lensing before someone else proposed gravity affects light and why, and then
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by 3RTB297 8mo ago
I'm not the person you asked this of, but I've worked in museums and research settings and can lob a response your way. Ultimately, it's that scientists are humans, too. Despite some of them really making their research data-
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by 3RTB297 9mo ago
I had the opposite effect in that I'm only getting spam to my inbox. Or maybe someone really is reaching out to urgently tell me all about "legal boner tea."
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by 3RTB297 9mo ago
It's funny how 3 or 4 similar BLE systems each are slightly different, and yet no one wants to just merge all the features for an obviously superior product. Everyone seems fine squabbling about which incomplete app/system is bett
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by 3RTB297 9mo ago
The use cases stem from groups needing coordination in roughly the same area, with no internet. Disaster recovery efforts fit this exactly: Doctors Without Borders feeding centers in a famine far from anywhere, searching for people in the r
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by 3RTB297 9mo ago
My favorite slight of hand was that all the dungeons and caves were part of a single rectangular map. Designers carved out a few specific designs, then other levels were clearly what worked with the remaining map screens available so it all
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by 3RTB297 9mo ago
I've always assumed this was correct in a way. Humans do a poor job estimating extreme odds. 0% chance or 100% of a high risk/reward event. How many people in rural areas are prepping for a Carrington Event-sized solar flare or nu
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by 3RTB297 10mo ago
The hitch is that it would be more expensive, making it a "premium" product and limiting the market. Smart TV pricing typically includes subsidies based on the assumed data sales from each user over the lifetime of the device.
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by 3RTB297 10mo ago
I only use old.reddit.com when I am forced to sulk back over there and actually log in. To just look around I just use some redlib frontend. The numerous layers of attempted monetization schemes since 2016ish hilariously touted as "fea
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by 3RTB297 11mo ago
Kinda, but not really. IRL, feature phones and cheap smartphones subsidized to carry Whatsapp and Facebook apps starting 20 years ago pushed "people using the internet" and at this point Whatsapp is 90% of what people use internet
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by 3RTB297 1y ago
Yeah, it's full-on fantasy. Why would we as a species waste time terraforming a planet proven to let its atmosphere evaporate into space? Why waste energy to drag materials from Earth there instead of spending the same energy and mater
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by 3RTB297 1y ago
Exactly the same thing I thought of. I expect that by suggesting something that is quite literally what the author described, we'll both be downvoted to hell because HN has a staunch "fediverse, ew!" mentality.
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by 3RTB297 1y ago
The author invented and then dashed against the rocks a few existing fediverse platforms in the course of a couple paragraphs. These things already exist and struggle exactly because people comfortable with the walled garden approach forgot
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by 3RTB297 1y ago
WhatsApp and Signal are considered "social media" technically, though plenty of people are still on FB telling the world about their trips and what they ate for breakfast. I'm always surprised at how HN folks are either unabl
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by 3RTB297 1y ago
I think the opportunity here is getting money from a bank account to an ETH or BTC wallet using "normal" means and not setting up a new account on a crypto exchange. Unless you're getting a paycheck in crypto, someone has to
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by 3RTB297 1y ago
You know, it's possible the cure to an adversarial internet is to just have some non-profit serve as a repo for a universal clearnet index that anyone can access to build their own search engine. That way we don't have endless cap

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