KoftaBob

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by KoftaBob 2y ago
I asked ChatGPT to fact check all of this, enjoy: https://chatgpt.com/share/677297b2-6ea0-8013-a376-7c14f78d96...
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Music Torture in the War on Terror(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|0 comments
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Uniweather.js: Get weather data directly from national weather services(github.com)
3 points by KoftaBob 2y ago|0 comments
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
If you want to use that analogy, a big reason Chinese cars aren't in the US is because the Chinese government heavily subsidizes their car production, which would lead to unfair price competition with other carmakers. If you want true
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Censorship is the suppression/prohibition of speech. Therefore, removing TikTok from app stores is not censorship, because it's the platform itself that's being targeted, not particular speech that's on it. Either you kn
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
It's amusing that the Mastodon creator is German, and PeerTube French, as the user experience on Mastodon can feel strikingly similar to dealing with the labyrinthine bureaucracy of European regulations. On Mastodon, the fragmented net
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Publicity stunt
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NYC Council passes zoning reforms to create 82K homes, $5B for infrastructure(council.nyc.gov)
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Do you have some concrete examples of these reigns placed on our freedoms that most people apparently aren't intelligent enough to realize?
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
The US isn't the only NATO member that produces fighter jets. EU members of NATO make the Eurofighter Typhoon, the Dassault Rafale, and the Saab JAS 39 Gripen.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
> Only because those people can't find somewhere to live that's near work. Also because there aren't adequate transit options to use instead of driving.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
> And here again we see that cold climate doesn’t seem to have much impact on road quality, with cold places like Minneapolis and New York near the top, while warm cities like Los Angeles, San Diego and Dallas are near the bottom. This s
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
> That is a group of users. It's the majority of users. Those who "follows only few active others" are a very small subset.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
They've raised $1.9B in funding over 6 funding rounds. How? Because their founder is Marc Lore: > Lore was the CEO and co-founder of Quidsi, the parent company of a family of websites, including Diapers.com. Quidsi was sold in 2011
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70% of the US Dept of Ed budget backs the majority of student loans(usaspending.gov)
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Bridgy Fed generates Mastodon and Bluesky profiles to follow websites(fed.brid.gy)
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Just a heads up, job postings for jobs based in NYC are now legally required to list a salary range.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
https://stainless.notion.site/Stainless-Job-Board-fd2e000f1c... Just a heads up, job postings for jobs based in NYC are now legally required to list a salary range.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
Just a heads up, job postings for jobs based in NYC are now legally required to list a salary range.
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
As was Siri itself!
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Show HN: Chronicl – Decentralized Internet Archive distributed on Nostr relays(chronicl.vercel.app)
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
That's why you're seeing media companies making deals with companies like OpenAI to allow them to access their content for AI learning/parsing purposes, in exchange for the media company getting paid yearly royalties. Since a
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Most Public Engagement Is Worthless(strongtowns.org)
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Decentralized Tech Ecosystem Map(kumu.io)
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
The rocket was carrying the Amos-6 communications satellite, which was destroyed in the explosion. This satellite was owned by Israeli company Spacecom and valued at nearly $200 million.
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China's New Nuclear Submarine Sank During Mysterious Incident in Wuhan(twz.com)
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She was the CTO, how does she not have STEM credibility?
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
> I don’t know who came up with the “30% of your salary” rule for housing The "30% of your salary" rule for housing stems from U.S. federal housing policy. It was first introduced in 1969 under the Housing and Urban Development
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
From a US perspective, if Pave existed in a market where salaries weren't transparent, I would say yes, it's veering into being an anti-competitive/wage-fixing tool. However, more and more states every year are introducing la
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by KoftaBob 2y ago
"The primary use of water in semiconductor fabs is for cleaning and rinsing silicon wafers during production. This requires ultrapure water (UPW), which is thousands of times purer than drinking water" So it's not water usage

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