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by alexb_ 4y ago
It's honestly a shame that a company so dedicated to making private chats universal is going to completely kill their entire reason for existing and all potential growth by removing SMS.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
The best case scenario is that Elon runs out of money to fund the money losing machine that is Twitter, and we can all finally stop using the damn site.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>Housing investment, though, plunged at a 26% annual pace, hammered by surging mortgage rates as the Federal Reserve aggressively raises borrowing costs to combat chronic inflation. It was the sixth straight quarterly drop in residential
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by alexb_ 4y ago
The design is super opinionated but I LOVE IT! Especially the colored dark - I really do hate how dark modes really muddy out a lot of colors (I often find myself using the Windows High Contrast mode, especially in VSCode). Love the amount
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Do you not check the eggs before you buy them?
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by alexb_ 4y ago
We have flying cars. They're called helicopters.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Email works fine for that case - that's already been solved. It's "transfer the file now" that's annoying. I would love for third party software like Croc to just be included in Windows (like Curl is now) so this is
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Why the hell is it so hard to just send a file to someone? Why must I go through a central service to host my content before I let someone else view it? Why do I have to tell someone else that they must download third party software in orde
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by alexb_ 4y ago
This article states a ton of things that are very clearly opinions as if they are hard facts. For example: >His evidence-backed view that school lockdowns were being driven by teacher unions, not data, and would do long-term harm to chil
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Related is not ever, ever, ever telling someone if you've automated your own job away.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Tags are extremely useful for people who want to ignore arguments based solely on who is making them. I really am not a fan of how popular they are getting.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I think you misread - they are talking about the non-crypto companies here.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Well if you've been warning someone for 14 years and literally nothing has happened, why is it unreasonable to be surprised?
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by alexb_ 4y ago
It's very easy to say that "cash can be used outside of the law" is a strictly bad thing when you agree with most of the laws. But assuming that we will always be in a happy democracy is a grave mistake. We've lived in m
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Are you positive about Michigan? My most recent interaction with a cashless store was during a trip to Detroit, where a convenience store attached to a very large bank building made a very public point about not accepting cash. To include a
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I wonder if this means I can use treasury bonds as payment at a restaurant (of course practically they would refuse, and I don't suggest trying this, but an interesting thought)
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Is it monopolizing transportation, or is it monopolizing driver/rider incentives?
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Something important to understand about gambling is that the entertaining part is not actually the prize, but the uncertainty between pulling the arm and getting the result. Buying a 20 dollar ticket to dream about a billion dollars for a d
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by alexb_ 4y ago
You can track where a bill was distributed, what bank it came from, who withdrew that cash, but past that you can't track any of the transactions that happen. The transactions being tracked is the important part here.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
As it turns out, if you ignore all of the ways it loses money, Uber makes money
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I have refused to shop at numerous stores because they make a point of not accepting cash. Cash is incredibly important for modern society due to actually being untraceable and allowing for private transactions. Plus, a society without ca
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I don't think you actually understand the problem
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I normally would agree with you - I'm very pro free speech - but what Alex Jones did was not just "the wrong words", it was blatant slander that permanently ruined the lives of these people. I understand why you're conce
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I hope that the signal devs are looking at this thread and seriously considering reversing this horrendous decision. Just announcing this was a horrible idea, but you can at least salvage it by formally retracting it. Getting rid of SMS sup
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by alexb_ 4y ago
I saw someone on Twitter say that this isn't drawing, it's sculpting with Ink. Insane that he's able to do this.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>If nobody who came from those links bought anything then the ad spenders would stop buying ads from them Who has the ability to find out if those paid links are the reason customers bought things? Google will tell you that every single
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by alexb_ 4y ago
Your trolling lacks subtlety.
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by alexb_ 4y ago
>Companies have marketing budgets and the people making those decisions are not universally incompetent What are the people making those decisions incentivized to do? They could either "believe" the totally-legit-no-bots-here n
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Ask HN: If web ad spend decreases a lot, how does the tech ecosystem change?
3 points by alexb_ 4y ago|6 comments
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by alexb_ 4y ago
If you live in a country with strong free speech rights such as the US, not really.

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