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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Minecraft has arguably evolved into its own "platform" with people building and sharing their own worlds (some on Minecraft's own managed Realms, many not) and tons of third-party games built on top of Minecraft accessible to
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Why would even a NIMBY not be in favor of burying power lines? Power lines & poles don't exactly add to property values, and you'd think that underground you would get less electromagnetic 5G corona cancer rays implanting m
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
> I think HN just has a large pro-google crowd Really? Google seems to get torn to shreds here quite regularly.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Yup, the actual wording of the bill uses the awkward term "registered news business corporation" specifically for this reason, since ABC/SBS are not "business corporations".
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission's response: https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/response-to-google-ope... HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24185374
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Hong Kong has an imperfect but subsistence-level dole system (CSSA), coffin house style bad but cheap housing (notably absent in SF), less of a drug problem, and a more functional system for taking care of the mentally ill.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Property is extremely expensive in HK, so it's long been a hell-hole for the poor: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2017/05/the-coffin-homes-o... That said, the city does not have visible homeless or cr
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
This is called vowel harmony and it's a fairly common linguistic feature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vowel_harmony ...but it's notably absent from the Indo-European languages.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
But what if your business is ransomware or selling narcotics, and it's hard to find a trusted intermediary?
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
One thing I rarely see mentioned is that it's pretty common to have situations in Minesweeper where you need to guess, but the probability of each square being a mine is not the same. While each individual square has the same probab
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Give me a break. Lots of teams in Google have restrictive travel policies and never see the pointy end of a plane. Massages cost money. Holiday gifts ceased to exist years ago. I'm also quite surprised by your wage comment: a common a
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
I think you mean Datastore, not Bigtable?
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Better unreliable wiring than stolen wiring?
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
While that juices the numbers conveniently, aren't the vast majority of India's roads still two-lane? And as the article notes, building 4 lanes costs more than twice the price building two lanes.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
So much ranting, yet not a single example of a GCP product that Google has actually killed. Got examples? I mean, there's stuff like Python 2 support being sunset on managed services, but as Yegge himself points out that's on Gui
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Thailand's Elite Visa program aims to lure expats seeking virus haven(executivetraveller.com)
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
But rendaku rules are extremely complicated and often unpredictable , eg 中島 can be Nakashima or Nakajima depending in how the person chooses to pronounce it.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Imma need a citation for that. Yes, Amazon could do that, but the cloud providers are usually very clear about drawing a clear dividing line between their hosting businesses and consumer businesses, because enterprise customers are extre
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
It's not, but perhaps it makes an even deeper point: that it is genuinely impossible to use the Internet without Amazon, Google and Microsoft, because so much of the web relies on the three giants, and every click you make adds a fract
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Except that it's literally impossible to distinguish between a "lost" bitcoin (no private key) and one sitting in a cold wallet (private key exists offline).
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
No HN thread on car sales would be complete without a mention of this classic: http://www.dougsrepublic.com/PDF/carsalesman.pdf (I'd link to the original on Edmunds.com, but it seems to be hopelessly borked with 4
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
...and in case you were wondering just how bad an idea this was, it's been conclusively linked to Parkinson's: https://parkinsonsnewstoday.com/2020/05/14/parkinsons-linked...
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
This is anecdotal, but during Singapore's lockdown, one of the many services cut for about two months was curb maintenance. Being deep in the tropics, all green spaces immediately turned into jungles of flowers and weeds, and the butt
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
If built, it would compete directly with Etihad Rail, which is building a regular rail network throughout the entire UAE and already has its first phase operational: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etihad_Rail This focus
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
http://archive.is/oy1hF
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
So altruistic Good Guy Underdog Uber fighting in good faith to stick it to Big Bad Government is not delusional? Also, the legal wrangling over this started long before Covid.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Or maybe the state is acting in good faith on behalf of gig workers, and it's the gig companies tying themselves into knots trying to avoid legislation who are acting in bad faith?
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Wait what? I had no idea this was a thing, can you explain?
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
If they move to China, they'll have access to more modern finance than the US, all of it well beyond the reach of US sanctions.
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by 9nGQluzmnq3M 6y ago
Working for a foreign company that's paying you in a different country is a grey area. Many countries have business visas that allow "business" but prohibit "work", with the main (but not sole) determinant being wh

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