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by aardvarkr 3y ago
No, it’s purely economics. Manufacturing is really tough to get right and producing at scale is a monstrous problem. There is no hobby that teaches you the exact process for creating a stinger missile using 247 custom parts assembled in 36
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
it’s far more likely it was just a reskin of Pokémon go but you’re trying to collect players instead, and to recruit them you’d have to shoot virtual baskets or something by flicking a basketball instead of a pokeball
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
It’s really easy to forget that their target market isn’t us the adults who love Pokémon. In reality, they have hooked a generation of children that spend >$1B on the game each year so I think they’re doing just fine
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
How does SpaceX pollute?
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Subs use Xbox controllers to control the periscope because they found that the controllers were far more intuitive to learn and operate.
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
It’s now a felony to send api calls? Give me a break
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
In what world do you live in? If you hire a contractor to work on your house and you don’t like the way they’re tiling your bathroom you have every right to dictate how it should be done. You can’t dictate their schedule but you can certain
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Lmao agreed. Some people are grossed out by the thought of an object being used by other people and not because of any scientific concern about disease. It’s a psychosomatic condition
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Wow, finally someone with the real story here. Thanks for explaining the connection to Apple Corp
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Out of curiosity, what makes this notable?
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
> Does anyone actually build new desktop software for main stream consumers these days? You’re in a thread about some people that built a new piece of desktop software…
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
That and millennials greatly prefer cans while the older generation prefers glass. Guess who is buying more craft beer?
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
For the tool conundrum, I’ve found that the best course of action is to buy the cheapest option (within reason) to start with. If you don’t use it, no sweat, it was cheap. On the other hand, if you use it soo much that it breaks it you outg
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Wyze for the win. Their early stuff was super hackable with open source operating systems. I’m glad they’re challenging the big players with a genuinely good and cheap product. Now I sound like a paid shill but it’s truly one service that I
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Where? I haven’t seen a single ad in any of their apps, and guaranteed none to the level described above. Citation needed.
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Have they been able to figure out how to continue being effective with the new chrome manifest junk?
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
The Ukrainians pay spacex for their internet just like every else in the world. They have an internet bill for each terminal that costs the same as it does in the USA. It wasn’t some charitable donation from Musk. Musk was threatening to pu
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Ask HN: What are you using AI for?
2 points by aardvarkr 3y ago|1 comments
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
That’s like saying the Renaissance was nothing special because they were just building on the work of other people. Congratulations, you just described the entirety of human invention. Someone had to be first and there is a reason it was CE
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
I agree that an innovation of this magnitude would have a huge impact on naval propulsion if it were publicly available though I’d imagine the tech would be locked down to a ridiculous level. It’s likely destined to only appear in nuclear s
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Remote driving would likely result in worse safety with very little gained by a commercial transportation company. They still have to pay for a driver but now that driver is staring at a screen 12 hours a day. Humans are already mediocre dr
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
I think they’re accepting the fact that it’s crazy tough to gain market share and requires MILLIONS in ad spending. Sometimes it’s better to have a small piece of a large pie, especially when trying to bootstrap its brand, instead of taking
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
I’m fully onboard with this. Silicon manufacturing is one example that consumes an insane amount of water (100’s of thousands of gallons each day) but has to ultra purify it for their processes and then returns it back to the city water sup
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
I agree. All I could think while reading this was how this is considered an aspirational goal for some people in the current generation. It made me shudder to think that our ambitions have shrunk so low. Affordable housing is certainly a ma
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
That’s incredibly cool, thanks for sharing it!
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Nope but that is something that can be monitored and investigated, pretty easily I might add.
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
This has been posted before but it’s incredibly well written and easy to follow. I had a blast with it last time it made the front page. Great post to reshare!
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Imagine that a state actor would seek to flip a foreign National to their cause. You can do so with either a carrot or a stick or both. The carrot can be fancy dinners, free vacations, or access to what they want. The carrot can be threat o
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Hosting with oracle doesn’t change a thing. Just because the data would be on US servers don’t stop the data from being accessible from outside of the region. And is it really that hard to imagine a world where a hostile and ambitious natio
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by aardvarkr 3y ago
Here’s a better analogy - imagine the atm manufacturer wanted to save money so they built a machine with a lock that could be pried off with a screwdriver instead of integrating security features inside the machine. This ATM would be about

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