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by blhack 6y ago
Love gimp, but what has come to drive me nuts about using it is that the icons are now all flat and colorless. It seriously slows down my workflow having to hover over each tool for a few seconds to find out what it actually does. And this
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by blhack 6y ago
I know there are a lot of people here who are self employed. Just curious: how much do you pay per month for health insurance?
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by blhack 6y ago
Reddit also has a pretty short amount of time that threads have before they're archived. Lots of times I'll come across an old discussion from a few years ago (or longer) and want to ask a question, or thank somebody for somee in
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by blhack 6y ago
Are you saying the mods of the subreddit are themselves purchasing votes from bot farms to influence the posts? Or am I not understanding you?
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by blhack 6y ago
Where are you? Here in Phoenix, AZ, things are basically normal. People have masks on when they're indoors, but businesses (including restaurants and bars) are all open. A rough metric I've been using since march is how far back
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by blhack 6y ago
As somebody who hadn't heard of this DB before, my thought pattern was basically: "cockroachDB? Oh is this a joke project...? Why would they leave IBM for a...oh, cockroach like can survive a nuclear explosion. Huh."
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by blhack 6y ago
1) We require food manufacturers to list on the side of their products the ingredients, as well as the nutrition facts so people can make an informed decision about what they are putting in their body. There is a growing pressure to require
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by blhack 6y ago
Let me give a preview for anybody who can’t tune in: Democrats all say that disinformation is a threat to democracy. Republicans say that freedom of speech is essential to our democracy. Jack and Mark preface every answer with “senator than
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by blhack 6y ago
Almost all of that stuff is public data which can already be scraped.
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by blhack 6y ago
Make a secondary market for algorithms and split part of the revenue with twitter. I'd love that.
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by blhack 6y ago
The change is TSMC, and they specifically cited the existing size of the semiconductor industry in Phoenix as a reason.
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by blhack 6y ago
I'm actually shocked that pulse oximeters have not become a standard piece of a home diagnostic kit. Everybody has a thermometer, and everybody should have a pulseox as well.
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by blhack 6y ago
The vaccine isn't owned by the federal government. It's owned by these private companies. The Trump administration cannot prevent the vaccine from being disseminated to the public neither here in the US, or in the rest of the wo
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by blhack 6y ago
What does this have to do with the news that this vaccine was developed so quickly? Regardless of if the program evaporates in January, the vaccine won’t.
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by blhack 6y ago
Silicon Valley is called that because it’s where all of the chip fabs were. They’ve not anymore, and with TSMC coming to Phoenix, I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that Phoenix is becoming the center of the microprocessor manufacturing i
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by blhack 6y ago
The thing is: I’m not even giving trump credit here. There are hundred or maybe even thousands of people working in the federal government on warp speed.
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by blhack 6y ago
A major reason that this happened so fast is due the US government’s operation warp speed program. Moderna worked with NIAID on this vaccine closely, and the us gov funded it without regard for if it actually worked or not. So it’s funding.
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by blhack 6y ago
The semiconductor industry has an huge presence here. Here's a new (major) fab going in: https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2020/10/20/semicond... Intel also has fabs here. Semiconductor
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by blhack 6y ago
The "new silicon valley" is already Phoenix, AZ.
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by blhack 6y ago
I'm surprised at how many HNers seem to be into ableton. Very cool! Just curious: do you guys buy the full version? It's so expensive that I've never been able to justify it. I actually have been using the free version tha
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by blhack 6y ago
I think what those people were trying to hedge against was a short term loss of basic infrastructure like water or power. It wasn't meant to last for 2 months, it was meant to last for a few days.
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by blhack 6y ago
Edit: I was wrong. This ships with raspian. Very cool :) (I ended up on this page: https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-400-unit/?... , which didn’t list the SD card).
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by blhack 6y ago
>Or maybe it's the lizard people trying to suppress the truth of q? What purpose does mocking this person's question serve? Do you think you're going to convince them of something by making fun of them?
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by blhack 6y ago
>Are they quoting a fringe YouTube video (which may have been fact-checked and debunked) We have got to get away from this idea that you can "debunk" something with some authoritative source of truth. That is just not how
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by blhack 6y ago
It’s twitter. I genuinely believe in the next 10 years or less, twitter will be looked at the way we look at cigarettes. There was a point when cigarettes were looked at as a mere nuisance, but eventually we as a society realized how terri
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by blhack 6y ago
In my nieces school (public school in Phoenix) they had to watch “the social dilemma” and write about it. I was trying to explain to her how tik tok, Instagram etc. will try to influence her thinking, and she was basically like “Uncle Ryan
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by blhack 6y ago
>Not even Fox News or the WSJ would touch this one. Fox New's most popular show, and as far as I know the most popular cable news show there is, dedicated their entire hour to an interview with one of the people involved in this sto
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by blhack 6y ago
Every single journalist? What about Glenn Greenwald? How about Matt Taibi?
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by blhack 6y ago
The source is the Director of National Intelligence: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/fbi-hunter-...
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by blhack 6y ago
What do you mean this story hasn't been vetted? One of the major players in the story has gone on record, giving an approximately 45 minute long interview verifying the claims. The FBI and DNI have also both confirmed the validity of

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