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I've been getting around on acoustic bikes for 35 years. 7 of them have been stolen in that time, yet still I've saved tens of thousands of dollars relative to the cost of relying on public transit, and hundreds of thousands of do
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I was blessed with one of the best neighbourhood playgrounds ever and it included a white corkscrew slide nearly the same as the one pictured in the article. There were several summers spent in that playground all day every day it wasn&#x27
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Beyond basic survival quality of life is 90% about the integrity of our human relationships and 10% other stuff.
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I'm Canadian, we have an estimated 250k-300k citizens living in China. All the ones I've spoken with were pretty impressed with the place. For comparison, Canada has 73k citizens living in the UK, 90k in France, and 800k in the US
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The US stole it's IP as well when it was behind. Sam Slater was known as "The Founder of the American Factory System" in the US. In the UK he was known as "Slater the Traitor", because he stole some very important I
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Here, read it on Wikipedia: ' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_Initiative
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China is acting in accordance with US interests on this matter: >Despite the U.S.’ enduring appeal among China’s tech workers, visa hurdles and tough-on-China policies appear to be a rising occurrence, immigration lawyers and industry in
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Actually there was nothing in the article about why Apple can't.
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A couple days after that United Health CEO was assasinated they has video of the suspect from a deluge of sources and none of them were from busses or cars. Nearly every business has cameras. More and more residential homes have porch camer
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History doesn't repeat but it does rhyme... it rhymes with "Afghanistan"
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Chrome just logged me out of everything and forgot all my passwords. Like, moments ago I signed in manually to HN for the first time in over a decade. It's a miracle I was able to recall the correct password. Where did my passwords go,
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He's been flipping the same coin for 20 years and it has never come up tails. That's quite the coin. There is no data set more relevant to a person than their own experience. Meanwhile I don't have enough fingers and toes to
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The most relevant artists aren't those best regarded by popular audiences or critics, but the ones that do the most to inspire and influence other artists. Both Moebius and Lynch are huge in that regard.
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As it turns out, having just one blockbuster sci-fi franchise wherein Anya Taylor Joy fights Milk Boys in the sand is not enough for the 21st century. Villeneuve needed an Anya Taylor Joy Milk Boy sand fight sci-fi blockbuster he could call
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The main thing I learned was that Cronenberg was offered the directing job for ROTJ. Cronenberg was at one time in line to direct Totall Recall, and he wrote a draft of the screenplay. Totall Recall certainly includes a bit of the trademark
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Mentally unbalanced people tend to go for cybertrucks. It is relevant.
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We don't make statistical exemptions for vehicle fatalities just because the driver failed in a way we don't like. Drunk driving fatalities count too. If a 3 year old hit the accelerator and goes straight into a brick wall, that c
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We knew that when Tesla was ready to get serious about autonomy they would be doing something similar to Waymo. Waymo's general strategy is not particularly novel, it's similar to what Zoox and Cruise and a bunch of Chinese compa
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America is a creative class economy. We do financing, design, marketing, and of course, patent trolling. Adam Smith was all about owning the means of production but that's just a bunch of baloney. Let China have that part. We will be a
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>America and its allies, meanwhile, have failed to incentivise poor countries to resist Chinese pressure over Taiwan, partly because of a reluctance (until Mr Trump came back) to link aid to foreign-policy goals. Since taking office this
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/03/america...
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Reading is an act of guessing. I guessed that if the moon had recently been impacted that hard we would be hearing about it from more than CNN, and likely would have known about it in advance. I don't feel as though I have been mislead
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You didn't manage your own provocation very well. For as long as I've been paying attention, 3 decades now, I've observed 2 things to be so stable and predictable as to seemingly defy the forces of nature: 1. China's ris
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You can draw the images directly in Adobe illustrator. You can import a photo and trace over it, to get that airplane emergency instructions look.
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The whole way point is LLMs. The goal is AGI and beyond. It's not a short term goal. LLMs are just the latest fad and the best we can do at the moment.
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Well you do have to have a skateboard and ride it to be part of the in-group but skateboarders are well reputed for being inclusive and super supportive of anyone who wants to learn. The sport is tolerant of weirdos because many of its lege
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It is now basically impossible to talk about tech industry news without it being politcal and HNs gods and masters were instrumental in making it that way. Sticking your head in the sand and pretending it isn't political is political.
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Tools help us to put layers of abstraction between us and our goals. when things become too abstracted we lose sight of what we're really doing or why. Tools allow us to feel smart and productive while acting stupidly, and against our
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Once I was an editorial illustrator, and the mantra always was "concept is king". Stick figures are kosher so long as they communicate something. Impressionists emerged following the invention of the camera, as they had no more in
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I knew an idealistic woman who went to the 9th ward after Hurricane Katrina to help people. She joined an impromptu group that had amongst it's organizers a Black Panther. The group was infiltrated by an undercover FBI agent and broken

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