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by afavour 8mo ago
I don't think they're mutually exclusive. You could just as easily describe someone with bootstrapping experience as being like an FAA crash investigator who investigates take offs. You get to know exactly what works when moving f
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by afavour 8mo ago
I really don’t think 404 Media having a login gate is a red flag. They’re a business that needs to make money and the alternative to subscriptions is ads, which would be exponentially worse for user safety than what exists today.
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by afavour 8mo ago
It should be more complicated but the way the Trump admin did this isn't complicated. Tariffs were used to punish countries that didn't bend the knee. When they did, the tariffs were removed. So no-one was ever going to build a fa
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by afavour 8mo ago
Feels related to the idea of "exonerative tense", a way of phrasing things to subtly absolute yourself of responsibility for your own actions. Puts me in mind of Trump being asked about the lack of evacuation plans around the Iran
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by afavour 8mo ago
IMO the biggest sell for Chromebooks in the education market (which is where they shine) is the software. It's a locked down OS with a cloud login that means when you encounter the slightest hardware issue you can swap out for another
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by afavour 8mo ago
But a lot of Chromebooks are bought by school districts so the end user doesn't have a choice
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by afavour 8mo ago
IMO it’s not that big of a feature. People touch type.
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by afavour 8mo ago
$599 and available in a range of colors. My bet is this is going to be a hit with high schoolers and college students everywhere. Reminds me of the Technicolor iPod mini of my college days. The 2000s are back, baby
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by afavour 8mo ago
The level of insecurity is something to behold. It's unfathomable that one of the major networks was ever going to run "Here's why America is Bad" as part of a 250th anniversary celebration. This entire pledge is nonsens
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by afavour 8mo ago
It's a downward spiral. As views start to decline there's more pressure to make money from the views that remain.
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by afavour 8mo ago
Sadly this is a reality of the money disappearing from the journalism industry. You're right, there absolutely should be fact checkers. A reporter absolutely shouldn't be filing while sick. And the big news orgs still do that. But
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by afavour 8mo ago
Increasing component prices perhaps? Get some sales in before you have to jack up the sale price.
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by afavour 8mo ago
An illustrative lesson to anyone who joins a startup with the promise of a ton of stock: the company can make it worthless whenever they feel like it. Always remember that. As for Brewdog itself, there’s a lesson in VC mindset there as well
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by afavour 8mo ago
At the time neither WhatsApp nor Signal had iPad apps. Looking at it now it seems Signal added that in 2020, WhatsApp in 2025. But I switched years before both.
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by afavour 8mo ago
> I continue to be surprised that so many developers and other tech nerds - the type who post on HN - chose and continue to choose the iPhone over Android when Apple dictates what apps they can install and locks third-party accessories o
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by afavour 8mo ago
That’s fair but I think it’s kind of orthogonal to the original point. As is already the case in cities with robust public transit systems you’d need to make sure you’re applying the right incentives (i.e. taxes and charges) to make sure pe
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by afavour 8mo ago
What does “statistics of the environment” mean in this context? How can fewer deaths on the road not be a win?
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by afavour 8mo ago
Human driven cars cost people their lives multiple times every day, though. So I don't think the calculation can be quite as simple as that. As self driving cars are rolled out I think each incident like this needs to be studied to see
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by afavour 8mo ago
…? Did I find the low effort troll? (FWIW buying the bike had nothing to do with environmental concerns, I got it for financial and practicality reasons)
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by afavour 8mo ago
They were forced in some counties but (IIRC) only in apps that function as web browsers. Embedded webviews are still Webkit only. (I might be wrong about that, I haven’t investigated in depth since I’m in the US and can’t make use of it any
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by afavour 8mo ago
I think there are many more factors to it than that. I own a Radwagon, a cargo e-bike and I take my kids to school on it. It’s both pedal assist and has a throttle and maxes out at 20mph. I find the throttle very useful because the bike is
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by afavour 8mo ago
It’s really great to see Servo working on newer features (like preload and blocking) rather than spending all its time backfilling decades of API minutiae. I dream of being able to embed Servo in an app instead of the extremely bulky Chromi
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by afavour 8mo ago
Investors want to see growth. If there’s no growth or even a loss in users the next round of funding will be more difficult to secure.
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by afavour 8mo ago
Old enough to remember when the likes of A16Z said they had to support Trump because the Biden admin was being too meddlesome in the tech industry. Sometimes it pays to think even two steps ahead of your most immediate thought…
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by afavour 8mo ago
And they don’t think anything through. If they do this then Amazon, Google and the rest will need to terminate their involvement with Anthropic. Trump will be getting a call from some Wall Street bigwigs imminently and it’ll get rolled back
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by afavour 8mo ago
I just don’t think it makes sense having Kochanski as a regular character. Lister’s yearning for a (largely imagined) version of her works so much better.
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by afavour 8mo ago
I’ve read both. It’s been years but Grant’s, Backwards, was notably better than Naylor’s, Last Human. Backwards spent the first section of the book in the backwards universe, over years. It’s has an interesting exploration of the implicatio
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by afavour 8mo ago
Very on topic: Rob Grant left the show after the sixth series. I think the lack of his influence was immediately apparent, a lot of the depth was lost. Like how the transition from series 2 to series 3 got a lot more action-y, 6 to 7 starte
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by afavour 8mo ago
Browsers are now able to stream files from disk so you can create a high performance tool that'll read locally, do [x] with it and present the results, all without any network overhead.
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by afavour 8mo ago
It has an excellent balance sheet that it’s actively chewing through, though.

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