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Cars are large, depreciating assets that spend the vast majority of their product lifecycle doing nothing. Conversely, metropolitan areas have to dedicate up to half their available space to empty blacktop storing these unused assets that
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>You’re the one who said they were mostly illegal immigrants. Please point out where I said this.
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This is prejudicial. Help me understand - how exactly do you know all the people at WalMart on Fridays are illegal immigrants? I grew up in rural america and worked part-time alongside illegal immigrants, so yeah, it is true even if we&#x2
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MySQL is typically the "M" in LAMP stacks, which was a large portion of the web 2.0 CMS takeover (long, long ago it feels like). I think SQLite came close to challenging it in the early 2010s with it's mobile app adoption.
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That's the history, but you're missing the context of today. Many "unbanked" americans are immigrants voluntarily trying to avoid reporting and stay off the grid. The solution lay in busting bias and fixing immigration
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Most banks/CUs/payment processors automatically have insurance for these types of bad actors, even if it takes months to claw back your identity. Credit reporting typically takes much longer to fix but GP was referring to their b
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That's assuming there aren't click bait false-positives based on page title.
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I don't understand this degree of wealth apologism. If you had just read the article or looked at the report, you'd see that the time frame involved includes the March 2020 crash, which in fact did not cause a massive cut for bi
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It's no small secret that the world's billionaires saw >50% increase in wealth during the pandemic. https://www.reuters.com/business/pandemic-boosts-super-rich-...
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I dunno. I didn't think consumer-common machine vision was achievable in our lifetimes either, yet everyone has a phone that can do it. It's like all major tech breakthroughs - it seems impossible despite all the pieces being the
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>Amid the recent chip shortage, triggered by the pandemic’s economic shock waves, ASML’s products have become central to a geopolitical struggle between the US and China, with Washington making it a high priority to block China's ac
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You could say the same thing about Disney, Netflix, HBO, Apple TV, Amazon prime, etc. The thing about subscriptions is that consumers tend to buy multiple.
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Paying to own is already a thing of the past for music and movie content. How is this different?
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They get away with that because it's a two-sided market and they have all the consumers. Microsoft tried to woo devs on Windows phone and it didn't work, because consumers didn't follow.
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Yeah, there's already a quality- and cost-leader for the mobile market. MS would need to push their business office lock-in, but both they and Blackberry tried that. Without the consumer market it's not viable.
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Nah, the author is royalty and is referring to the use of the laptop by themselves and by their sovereign station.
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Did your GF or friend ever consider using foot pedals at all? I knew a programmer once who used various foot pedal combinations for different punctuation marks and tabs.
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I think their point was that facebook doesn't care if it's good or bad so long as it's free to them and engaging. You can have an ocean of free blogposts but if it's not engaging then it's not easy to monetize.
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The slightly gross, slightly enraging content they're talking about also made me think of internet chum buckets too.
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The thing is, this is possible to automate this today but it would likely require a level of surveillance that I'm sure most on HN are not comfortable with.
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VCs are also like lemmings in that they need to have startups with trending tech in their portfolio, even if it's overhyped garbage. If a few jump then the others get FOMO.
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Doesn't that include YouTube Music which gives you the same live music videos and let you store them offline? e.g. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=YQfkm4Vp-1o&list=PLZGh95p3...
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How does it compare to a Yeti?
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I've heard nicotine addiction described the same way by more than one person. It's not about the cigarettes, it's about the smoke break, which gets you away from your desk, outdoors, and socializing with strangers.
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No, I don't agree, because other developed nations have anti-satellite capabilities as well. You've either missed the point or are intentionally ignoring the context, because "China did something" is actually "China
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It's just tongue-in-cheek banter, don't take it too literally. Besides, Apple devices make a sizeable portion of the market and have 'ecosystem' buy-in features that many other phones (w or w/o h jacks) don't
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Sure, but we're not talking about Super Heroes, but existing entities like China, who only just six months ago shut down all Bitcoin mining inside it's borders in less than a month's time (and who also has anti-satellite capa
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Just need to take out 7 non-critical geo sync'd satellites. It's magnitudes more expensive to keep putting them up than to take them down.
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Yep, basically the nebulous, unknown minds of Control predicted the main character would win, and set up as many conditions as possible to push him to do so. Including bluffing about help from the AI. It was part of an even bigger game but
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Definitely for his later books, but Player of Games came out three years before the first Sid Meier's Civ game. What cool is that Paradox's Stellaris , a civ-in-space game, definitely takes pages from Ian's Culture series.

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