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by brudgers 1mo ago
Or both.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
I am a bit puzzled on the trying to receive without giving though. How can a question give something? If you don’t believe it can, don’t ask it. Again, HN is a community. It is already built.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
I did not interpret it at all. I expect it was quite motivating at the most basic of levels.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
and didn't get lunch until our school work was done I am not surprised this is a salient childhood memory.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
Launching something that implements your idea a good way to get meaningful feedback on something you have made. ShowHN is a means of showing something you have implemented. Read the ShowHN guidelines. Keep in mind tha HN is a community. Com
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by brudgers 1mo ago
It does not block any of my mobile browsers and never has. Maybe it is your carrier? Because you know “hacker.”
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by brudgers 1mo ago
some previous discussions, https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
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by brudgers 1mo ago
I blame the corrupting influence of YC, personally. [For the record, I don’t question your personal belief.] Did you know Conde’ Nast bought Reddit twenty years ago? And as a publicly traded company since 2024, it is driven by Wall Street
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by brudgers 1mo ago
The Spanish army defeated the Aztecs in a few years but couldn’t defeat the Apaches in 200 years. The Spanish defeated the Aztecs in part because the Aztec territory was highly valuable. And in part because the Spanish Empire was still mi
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by brudgers 1mo ago
The original ShowHN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295
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by brudgers 1mo ago
The official Libre Office site, https://www.libreoffice.org/
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by brudgers 1mo ago
Excel is not as good at accounting as accounting software, but it is sometimes good enough. Likewise LibreOffice is sometimes good enough.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
1. Founder mode can’t last forever, and 18 years on is close enough to forever to do until forever shows up. 2. To the degree the market is efficient the peak IPO era price must have been dumb money. 3. AirBnB is an attractive alternative t
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by brudgers 1mo ago
The original purpose of the internet was to support the US military. Expansion of the internet via commercial investment and civilian use does not imply that the original purpose was abandoned. Increases in internet scale, bandwidth, and c
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by brudgers 1mo ago
related Xkcd: https://xkcd.com/626/
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by brudgers 1mo ago
I mean Linux because M silicon has no public documentation. And by Linux, I mean there’s no distribution that runs on a Mac better than a 1990’s consumer HP laptop did in the 1990’s. And that’s only for M1 and M2 silicon. Linux doesn’t run
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by brudgers 1mo ago
I just opened my Thinkpad lid. I was back to where I left when I had counted to eleven. It’s about six years old, running W11, and was <$600 new. It has a touchscreen I never use.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
Should have 2007 in title.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
it’s easy to forget that the whole point is to build a profitable business If the founders and investors walk away with piles of money, the business is profitable in a very important way even if it loses money until it dies. Of course, t
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by brudgers 1mo ago
On Windows, Hibernate works a treat.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
Luckily these days with anything released since 2020- it's a lot better. Unless it’s a post-Intel Mac, and that’s all of them these days.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
Printers are hard. They require high precision mechanical and materials engineering. Their supply chain requires multiple bespoke manufacturing facilities. That is why there are no successful open platform printers. It is why Ali Express is
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by brudgers 1mo ago
A good printer for what? Owning a printer is a bit of a lifestyle choice. Laser, inkjet, dye sublimation, thermal, and even impact printers are each good for some workloads and each is terrible for other workloads. Budgets for money, space,
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by brudgers 1mo ago
Brazil has 9 Copa America titles. Fewer than Argentina. Fewer than Uruguay. And yes, I acknowledge your cherry-picking was Libradores. Brazil has the richest league in South America and thus like England its teams can buy better players.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
On the internet, everything is arguable. On the field, Brazil doesn’t appear to be most important these days.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
That makes more sense since in the US, corporations (and actual persons) cannot file criminal actions. Only governments (state, local, federal) can bring about criminal proceedings.
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South America’s federation has been supporting Infantno and supported the plan.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
UEFA is making the allegations in Florida. It’s a MAGA state. And MAGA’s business deal, isn’t going to go through. UEFA has powerful allies in Florida.
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by brudgers 1mo ago
UEFA is an international federation. UEFA is upset about FIFA’s finances because it cuts into UEFA’s finances. I mean UEFA hasn’t put forward ethically superior plans to finance Futbol development in the poorest parts of Africa, remote Ocea
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Uefa pursuing criminal legal action against Infantino(bbc.com)
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