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by Qub3d 6y ago
From the FBI.gov website: "Domestic terrorism: Violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial,
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Something unhealthy going on at Uber? That's never happened before... https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/02/50000... https://www.wsj.com/articles/uber-to-pay-148-mil
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I imagine part of it is reducing the incentive for nation state actors to engage in counterfeiting.[1] [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdollar
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I see it less of complaining about long form writing and more assuaging concerned readers about a somewhat clickbait-y title.
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Busybox or Toybox should cover that :D
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This is so interesting. What I think we're seeing here in these two comments is the divide between micro- and macroeconomics. I absolutely believe that supply-chain disruptions in steel due to tariffs pushed U.S. plants to re-open in s
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Roblox is the reason I'm a developer today. To be fair, I got in on it pretty early (late '07 I think), but its been around since 2004. There are high school students current applying to college that never knew a world without it.
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by Qub3d 6y ago
Possibly because Bitchute may have not been "deplatformed"[0]. Bitchute themselves clarified in follow-up tweets that they don't know for certain why things went offline [1]. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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That's not how anti-adblocker banners work, generally. Brave is likely just using the anti-anti-adblocker lists, which uBlock and many others now use, as well. [0]: https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-annoyance.txt?a=0
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At the end of the day, all work* is just the production of heat with interesting side effects. Entropy is a cruel mistress. *in the physics sense
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I would argue this happened in spite of their efforts. The music industry was dragged kicking and screaming into the streaming world for a variety of reasons, among them the fact that with centralized platforms, artists have no reason to
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I actually tried that with NYTimes (I cancelled during the SlateStarCodex debacle) and it didn't work. Ultimately, I had setup payment via paypal and canceled the automatic payments.
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A separation here is that these facilities are inherently unequal due to the existence of gendered signs declaring one restroom "Men" and the other "Women". In this existing framework, it doesn't make as much sense
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It was concerns over this very thing happening in Windows 8/10 that spurred Steam to develop SteamOS and the Steam Linux compatibility tool Proton.
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The tool that can do it in 6 minutes is massscan, the original repo of which is the link of the post: https://github.com/robertdavidgraham/masscan Note that "scan the internet in 6 minutes" only means this to
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For now https://twitter.com/oculus/status/1295769342034849792 https://www.oculus.com/blog/a-single-way-to-log-into-oculus-... > After January 1, 2023, we will end support for Oculus acco
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+1 for tt-rss. I like a lot of the other options (I used feedly for quite some time) but at the end of the day, self-hosting is the only guaranteed way I will have a feed reading service as long as I want it.
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FYI for others, ISA in this context means "Income-Sharing Agreement", not "International Study Abroad", which is what springs to mind when I read ISA in an educational context.
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JWZ dislikes HN and redirects incoming links from here to a meme image (use an archive.today link or similar: https://archive.vn/L2uAs ). Additionally, the article he is discussing was posted directly earlier: https:/&
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Mitch McConnell in 2016: “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president." I'm curious what his argument wou
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The University of Michigan made an instructional video showing how you can easily make an air purifier out of a box fan and a HEPA-rated furnace filter for $25: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH5APw_SLUU It won't be a
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I suspect, as does Hindenburg research, that GM saw the Nikola partnership as more of a PR spend than a partnership. Its about the optics.
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Yes, "Hindenburg" is a bit on the nose, and they own up to it on their "About" page[0]: >We view the Hindenburg as the epitome of a totally man-made, totally avoidable disaster. Almost 100 people were loaded onto a ba
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Hey feedoxy, you should add "Show HN" to the title: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
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To get a sense of the community consensus, it is worth browsing the General Comments section: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Universal_Code_of_Condu... Additionally, the overall project page (not just the draft r
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I think you are in agreement with the parent on the overarching problem, but just bikeshedding the metaphor used to explain the problem here.
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Just FYI, I ran a random Washington Post article through it and it chopped off the first paragraph: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/36991
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According to the comparison page from SoftMaker[0], Spell-checking is a feature reserved for the paid version. I'm not against reserving features for a paid version, but spell-checking? The thing that is implemented in all modern bro
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This was mentioned in the context of Linux desktop/mobile UI, but applies to Libreoffice quite well: > Open source development can't do good user interfaces for the same reason wikipedia can't write a novel with a coherent
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> it’s ribbon based Ehhh, kind-of. I'd put a HUGE asterisk on that, as you need to A) dig through the settings and tick a vague scary "ENABLE EXPERIMENTAL FEATURES" checkbox, then B) apply a random style called "Noteb

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