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by cyclecount 3y ago
Whenever there's coverage of this in US/western media (a relatively rare phenomenon considering the hundreds of cases like this in just the past decade), the reaction is usually minimal. At best, a few outraged centre-left will s
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by cyclecount 3y ago
There are certainly similarities. Google has built quite a moat in most of their businesses that operate like monopolies. They don't seem to be able to make a cohesive strategy for devices or services that connect these devices, but
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Why do posts like this get flagged? Are Americans not allowed to talk about their violent culture on HN?
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Russian oil floods global markets via major Asian intermediaries(thecradle.co)
4 points by cyclecount 3y ago|0 comments
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Siri will listen when music is playing; this is quite handy actually because you can say things like "make it louder" or "stop playing music".
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Nobody is upset because nobody is aware (this is hyperbole; obviously some people are aware and upset). But from my time in the states, it is very clear how effective US propaganda is. Working Americans don't realise they are paying
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by cyclecount 3y ago
"Massively funded by billionaires" in this case means that the spoils of this research will be privately owned, yes. But the taxpayer is still paying for about 80% of each rocket that explodes. SpaceX's true innovation is i
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Unionized Apple Store Workers Request 10% Raise and Option to Accept Tips(macrumors.com)
1 points by cyclecount 3y ago|1 comments
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by cyclecount 3y ago
It's kind of funny that Jack Dorsey sold Twitter to someone who he probably knew might tank the site, only to turn around and rebuild the same thing :)
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by cyclecount 3y ago
It's been said a hundred times already, but putting unenforceable laws on the books still serves to oppress because these can be used to intimidate or convict "criminals" that have otherwise done nothing wrong. Unequal enfor
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by cyclecount 3y ago
I'm skeptical that these stores weren't failing already. Media did the same thing with Walgreens in SF a few years ago: https://thecolumn.substack.com/p/4-major-plot-holes-in-the-o...
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns were non-FDIC insured investment banks.
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Savings and loan crisis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savings_and_loan_crisis
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Maybe this will end in a more peaceful world order where the US no longer bombs and burns anyone who won't "open up" to their corporations, but they won't go down without a fight. The US will start WWIII before relinqui
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by cyclecount 3y ago
All of the rules put in place after 2008 are being ignored; the number of banks in the US pre-2008 financial crisis was about 31k. Now there are close to 3000. After this wave of mergers, there might be around 1000! And a few will be so l
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by cyclecount 3y ago
It's really not that hard of a line to draw. Can you enjoy all of the opportunities of city life without a car? Do most people not own a car? There's one city in the US where those answers are "yes".
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by cyclecount 3y ago
NY built this bike system in about 10 years: https://www.nyc.gov/html/dot/downloads/pdf/nyc-bike-map-2022... . It's pretty impressive and works well. But yes, the Subway is criminally underfunded (i
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Some accommodation is nice. It's not enough to not own a car entirely.
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Living without a car in those cities is severely limiting; I tried to do that in two of those and felt it was very difficult to buy groceries and get to work quickly and do easy recreation things on the weekend. It's not even practica
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Bergen's population is just over 200k. European cities or even large towns have prioritised public transportation and liveable infrastructure like this in a way that only New York really has in the US. I don't think there is a s
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Elon continually seems to not get that the real value of Twitter is the users. If he continues to annoy the people who are making the actual content, that content will go away (or get so bad it might as well go away)! Verifying users is n
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by cyclecount 3y ago
The thing is, yes it sucks for that developer, but many of these apps should have been features of the OS and work better with that deep integration. NightShift is significantly nicer than F.lux. Spotlight search and Notifications (Sherlo
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by cyclecount 3y ago
This has been true for many. many iOS releases. The good apps that become essential eventually get built into the operating system. This happened with sleep trackers, menstruation trackers, numerous other HealthKit apps, SwiftKey/Sky
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by cyclecount 3y ago
>> Congress defined the borders of Colorado as a geospherical rectangle, stretching from 37°N to 41°N latitude, and from 25°W to 32°W longitude. I was confused by these longitudes (which a quick check puts the state somewhere over the
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Crypto AG wasn't a fake crypto company; it was a real crypto company selling a product with a CIA/BND backdoor. Proton makes open-source alternatives to big tech spyware and provides the service with a freemium model. Not sure wh
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Almost certainly he's speaking without thinking about what this means.
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Doesn't the United States run effectively the same sort of operations to enforce their laws on citizens and non-citizens around the world? I'm just wondering what is illegal about this, especially when the article says that these
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by cyclecount 3y ago
Still relevant, but this was published on 1 Mar 2023.
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by cyclecount 3y ago
This is a pretty stunning revelation for someone like me who only heard about this news on HN, and saw this community go full-fash last week discussing why homeless people are causing a wave of violence.
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by cyclecount 3y ago
US liberals also warn of creeping fascism; they also don't seem to understand what it is. In fact, in US political discourse, liberal and "left" are used interchangeably. It's no wonder a country with two right-wing pa

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