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by cft 3y ago
Cool kids used Instagram till 2015. Now their parents use it, while they use TikTok
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by cft 3y ago
I wonder why people from Newfoundland don't go to India?
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by cft 3y ago
Aren't discourse.org comments usually embedded into third party web sites? Also it appears they are paid.
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by cft 3y ago
Inflation loop: people are overleveraged + new loans are expensive → house prices up due to lower listings
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by cft 3y ago
When i was in Ukraine before the war an ATM ate my debit card. Being stranded in a foreign country without an ATM card is pretty difficult. I thought that as soon as I walk into that Russian-owned Alpha Bank I would get my ATM card back. It
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by cft 3y ago
Crypto has a viable micropayments for content story, see e.g. https://stacker.news . An upvote costs a minimum of 1 Satoshi (currently about 0.025¢)
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by cft 3y ago
Gab.com has been banned by PayPal, Visa and MasterCard: https://news.gab.com/2021/08/an-alternative-to-paypal-is-com... Free speech, no matter how disgusting, is constitutional in the US. This is a legal use case
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by cft 3y ago
https://stacker.news
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by cft 3y ago
Why aren't they suing Coinbase as well?
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by cft 3y ago
The linked substack also published this tweet
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by cft 3y ago
They have a very strict automod to protect their echo chamber. Post it there and you'll find out lol
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Most Bitcoin Inscriptions belong to a single person(block21m.substack.com)
159 points by cft 3y ago|215 comments
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by cft 3y ago
"In the city’s Five-Year Financial Plan released in January this year" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-year_plans_of_the_Sovie...
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by cft 3y ago
"As a former copyright startup founder " did he mean he's an aspiring patent troll?
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by cft 3y ago
For those, a world without a desktop computer, smartphone, Starlink constellation and internet search is better. The downvoting illustrates that it's a prevailing viewpoint on HN now, indeed. "What the honorable member is saying i
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by cft 3y ago
In EU it's not possible to develop a viable competitor due to overregulation. Where's EU's Google? Where's EU's Starlink? Where's EU's Microsoft? Where's EU's Samsung?
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Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes’s Request to Stay Out of Prison Denied(wsj.com)
31 points by cft 3y ago|20 comments
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by cft 3y ago
This is a dangerous path. First this, next the government just sends you the tax bill, without you needing to file (and you can dispute it), and then CBDC where every microtransaction is surveyed and sanctioned (or not).
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by cft 3y ago
Remands me of the last walking dead Brezhnev's days of the USSR. Big changes are coming. And not towards the best.
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by cft 3y ago
In the US, likely. In Sweden, not so sure. They didn't impose covid lockdowns for example.
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by cft 3y ago
Yes, it returns successfully but the x bit is not set
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by cft 3y ago
I have done that, the files are created in their normal locations where the rest of the photos are. But the files created by ffmpeg don't have the execute x permission bit set and I think because of that they're invisible in the p
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by cft 3y ago
I have been struggling with termux on Android 13 pixel 6 pro. Whenever I edit a picture with ffmpeg, it's invisible to the normal Photos app.
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by cft 3y ago
Out of curiosity why cannot you use raw Ethernet packets?
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by cft 3y ago
Probably because the industry consolidated due to regulatory capture to one manufacturer per continent (economic zone).
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Elizabeth Holmes’s Prison-Reporting Date Is Delayed(wsj.com)
9 points by cft 3y ago|1 comments
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Tell HN: Archive.ph Is Down
1 points by cft 3y ago|1 comments
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by cft 3y ago
Sergey and Larry gave him a money printing factory, that he is _very slowly_ running into the ground. Users hate it, the main product, search that was heavily censored and SEO spammed now has essentially lost to GPT. It wouldn't have
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by cft 3y ago
Bing gives you much shorter answers, often without code examples
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Next a bill prohibiting credit/income checks by landlords.

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