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by NavinF 2y ago
Title is misleading. Also has been discussed before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41716198
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by NavinF 2y ago
>It's so wild that scrabble gets balance updates just by people saying words... I can see why "uwu" would be added, but "regex" is really surprising. I've never heard a non-dev use that word
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Anime Just Changed Scrabble Forever [video](youtube.com)
2 points by NavinF 2y ago|2 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
Why is that first line relevant? Is the insurance company suing Uber? That would be a more interesting lawsuit. And no, this is not a "simple rort", whatever that means. In general you can only sue for actual damages. Eg the 20k d
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by NavinF 2y ago
Sure, if nobody involved has health insurance. In the US 92% do. Hell, in my state half the residents get health insurance for free with medicaid. In the normal case, the car insurance company just has to pay your 20k health insurance deduc
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by NavinF 2y ago
What I mean is that car crash insurance claims almost never go to court. Suing for more than the $1M coverage could be one reason, but the article doesn't say why. Anyway judges almost always honor arbitration clauses because it gets t
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by NavinF 2y ago
Dude, the title is incorrect. >Republicans as well as Democrats in the California Legislature voted for Mr. Ting’s latest proposal, which will punish institutions that flout the law by publishing their names on a California Department of
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by NavinF 2y ago
> 3+ hours early As you admitted, that is very much a "you" problem. As noble prize winner George Stigler said, "If you never miss the plane, you're spending too much time in airports". FYI if you miss the plane
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by NavinF 2y ago
There were a lotta posts about this feature on twitter 6 months ago back when it was being A/B tested. Usually along the lines of "Would you like this 2 hour flight or this 45 hour train? Hmmm..." https://x.com&#x2
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by NavinF 2y ago
> Uber driver ran a red light and collided with another car couple says: >the couple does not recall seeing the “click box” on the date in question, 8 January, however – and surmise their daughter, who was a minor at the time, must ha
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Just Pay Them Off(cremieux.xyz)
25 points by NavinF 2y ago|5 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
What exactly do you sue for? Being poorer isn't a protected class
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Crystal Ball Challenge(elmwealth.com)
1 points by NavinF 2y ago|0 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
No, we should always criticize decisions that lead to more people dying. People who claim "we should have been more cautious" should also be criticized. Both for being spineless, and for leading to more deaths over time.
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by NavinF 2y ago
Yeah that seems totally fair. How many users really intend to give full access to an app made by someone that can't afford $500/year? Most non-devs would be sketched out
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by NavinF 2y ago
Only if you absolutely insist on creating your own special snowflake file picker UI instead of using the OS file picker
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by NavinF 2y ago
Yeah tbh it's not as bad as he claimed. I doubt this is actually rated 9.9: >A remote unauthenticated attacker can silently replace existing printers’ (or install new ones) IPP urls with a malicious one, resulting in arbitrary comma
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What America Lost by Delaying the Vaccine Rollout(theatlantic.com)
10 points by NavinF 2y ago|10 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
it's a joke
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by NavinF 2y ago
No, you just happen to live in a country that censors the internet. When I travel to countries like that, I use a VPN to read the news
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SpaceX: Every statement made by FAA Administrator Whitaker today was incorrect(twitter.com)
4 points by NavinF 2y ago|1 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
> Wait for a sale at Nebula.org. Get your whole genome sequenced. ~$200 Does anyone track these sales and send notifications? How exactly would someone wait for a sale?
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by NavinF 2y ago
unpaywalled: https://archive.ph/bateK
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With Bluesky, the social media echo chamber is back in vogue(ft.com)
19 points by NavinF 2y ago|23 comments
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by NavinF 2y ago
Use a good password and a 2fa token. Not rocket science
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by NavinF 2y ago
Holes where? I'm pretty sure cutting into the display area will break all the rows or columns that hit each hole
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by NavinF 2y ago
Why not? The major player in this space (icloud) can do end to end encryption and it's easy to do local backups on your NAS
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by NavinF 2y ago
It's called "underfill" and it's common for BGAs since the chip doesn't have the same thermal expansion as the PCB
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by NavinF 2y ago
LCD panels are already dirt cheap. Eg look at prices from wholesalers on panelook
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by NavinF 2y ago
LCDs are still widely available and dirt cheap thanks to cutthroat competition, but the only reason why you'd buy one these days is if you can't afford OLED. (That includes everyone that's worried about burn-in)

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