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by crusty 10mo ago
Don't the told exist to divest of one's 'ecosystem investment' in Amazon by way of Kindle. You've been able to strip DRM from the Amazon-purchased books and jailbreak the Kindle. At that point, Amazon holds nothing
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by crusty 10mo ago
While I'm not seeing the "other island" in the background on the picture, I'll add that Maui is often visible from the northern shores of Hawaii specifically, on clear days.
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by crusty 10mo ago
I mean, as Americans would consider it (and not the red scare "socialism" of Fox-types), what is often the colloquial military industrial complex is already socialism, without incoming the privatized profits and socialized losses
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by crusty 10mo ago
I thought Google was moving stuff out of the open source stock android branch and into their proprietary pixel development branch, such that the functionality of stock android has been diminishing to the point that a phone running stock and
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by crusty 1y ago
If you don't want to put some people off, you might consider not using restaurants as destinations - grills specifically - or an Asian ef'ing buffet. Maybe Java coffee cafe instead. No one is going to wonder if you're making
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by crusty 1y ago
Was just thinking this would be extra great if you could specify an intermediate page that paths has to traverse through (say... Kevin Bacon's) - essentially comparing two people's Bacon index value.
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by crusty 1y ago
I'm guessing you meant Bhutan — Tibet is/occupied/governed by China.
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by crusty 1y ago
"If Waymo's plan is to have to map the entire US to be capable of driving in it, that's going to cost a lot of money and take a lot of time" So Waymo doesn't have access to Google Maps/Street View vehicles&#x27
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by crusty 1y ago
Counter offer... the turnaround time is locked in, cargo unloading and refueling, but fewer tasks mean fewer crew members needed to perform those tasks in the given time. So rather than 5 cleaners descending on an arriving plane, they can p
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by crusty 1y ago
Passing would only be a temporary solution since the new front bus will now have the delayed position, and the more crowded bus that was passed will have the expedited position and will shortly overtake the front one. They will essentially
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by crusty 1y ago
>"They've been doing the exact right thing for the shareholders" Clearly not as they've ended up suspending dividend payments altogether.
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by crusty 1y ago
On topic / off topic: This has me thinking about the current state of user replaceable internals. I wonder to what extent the structure of corporate laptop fleet management ( ie. Lease and return less the ssd because... security) dicta
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by crusty 1y ago
I'll have to hunt down a link to the piece but I swear I saw a video about a few people in NYC who muddy go around finding idling vehicles and piece together the fine bounties into full time equivalent work. This could really disrupt t
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by crusty 1y ago
I thought those millimeter wave sensors that are used in newer home automation devices to detect when people are in an observable area have enough resolution to detect the displacement of the chest during breathing, which would suggest that
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by crusty 1y ago
Edit: "The function of DOGE was to allow AN AI company to extract..." Trump would have been told to stuff DOGE into some other agency if the digital service wasn't there. Did they offer any special access or just provide some
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by crusty 1y ago
"They run a non-sleeper passenger also car on both of the above for those getting off at the smaller stations on the way..." ...Or for people who just don't but the sleeper ticket but go any distance. I went coast to coast wi
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by crusty 1y ago
Maybe they will, but this seems to be separate in that if it resolves the physical address from the code during the checkout process like a DNS call, it isn't reliant on actually shipping with Japan post and even if it does, it now has
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by crusty 1y ago
>>> I'm curious, do other larger cities where commercial is concentrated into one area not have a private mini-bus(es)? Hong Kong has public and private mini busses. They are distinguished by the color of their roofs, green or
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by crusty 1y ago
If the current policymakers are operating on vibes and simplistic reasoning, then it seems reasonable that this business merely refutes those vibes and misguided reasoning with simplistic evidence. They aren't presenting the post as a
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by crusty 2y ago
It appears that it was published on medium and subsequently added to the standfordmag site, hence the 2 links to it they're and the notice that new articles are published there. It probably just remains because they have no control ove
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by crusty 2y ago
This is interesting but seems price independent. I get that since nothing is final, they're all just more nodes, artificial restrictions based on price might limit the pathways to a match that might fit the users price parameters. But
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by crusty 2y ago
Is there even a Kasia, or did the author print out that note to establish her invented character just for the benefit of her blog's narrative? Does it really matter?
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by crusty 2y ago
Welcome to the $h*t show, pull up a chair. From niche, siloed public data, to a firehose of naievly supportable X feed of... all the data with a self- inflicted governmental face-mauling in the middle. That'll be more useful and so wor
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by crusty 2y ago
The original post does not clearly specify the source of the infringement judgments. Was it a regulatory body contacting a housing provider? Was it the housing provider proactively policing content on their servers? Not clear to me. Commen
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by crusty 2y ago
A Jacobin article scrollable from the top of HN's Top Stories? Does not compute. Brain reset required.
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by crusty 2y ago
Also, I've noticed that during the transition, when people have a mix of incandescent and LED, they internalize the potential efficiency of the LED, and then use the incandescent bulbs in a similar way. So the incandescent light on the
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by crusty 2y ago
If you are a person who thinks diversity, equity, and inclusion are by definition determinants or waste, fraud, and abuse, then sure, you aren't going to see this as something totally different. So when Trump threatens to disrupt and d
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by crusty 2y ago
Are you extrapolating experiences from a small area or at of municipalities, because I've never been ticketed for parking at a broken meter in the US.
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by crusty 2y ago
I realize this might not be a kosher comment for HN, and i aphid for that. But you seem to have imagined some inherent divide between the mechanics of urban and rural (and apparently foreign and domestic) lives or at least governance. With
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by crusty 2y ago
I don't think it's a natural urban/rural division. I suspect that that division is more an artifice of capitalism. These new services want to grow, so they target places with the most potential customers. If the pitch to the

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