dskloet

12 ms·

91.
by dskloet 5y ago
The assumption is that if you wouldn't be reading, you could do something else that you would want to do. But if you are reading you can't. If you have more time than you know what to do with, then the argument doesn't hold.
92.
by dskloet 5y ago
Aircon needs to get rid of its heat to work well. Trying to capture the energy from the temperature difference makes it cool less well.
93.
by dskloet 5y ago
Imagine you could spend 16 hours enjoying reading without any time having passed in the real world. Then you would still have those 16 to enjoy something else as well. But instead you are actually 16 hours closer to your death. That's
94.
by dskloet 5y ago
The option should be in your OS or browser settings.
95.
by dskloet 5y ago
I believe Google (used to?) ignores it if it's set to only English because that's too often the default. If that's the case, the work around is to set a second preferred language.
96.
by dskloet 5y ago
I guess this is sarcasm but if not: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ac...
97.
by dskloet 5y ago
That's a terrible way to implement UBI. It causes the dreaded welfare trap where people are incentivized to do nothing. UBI should be unconditional. This makes it much easier to implement, removes the stigma, and most importantly avoid
98.
by dskloet 5y ago
I see something blueish.
99.
by dskloet 5y ago
Cool. I was mostly curious if you're related to John?
100.
by dskloet 5y ago
I was using Datastore and other GAE specific stuff.
101.
by dskloet 5y ago
Who is Danielle Conway? Google links me to some lawyer.
102.
by dskloet 5y ago
If they had a contract, they wouldn't need your password.
103.
by dskloet 5y ago
I found this confusing too. But I assume they mean you're not taking it because they're giving it up voluntarily.
104.
by dskloet 5y ago
Slow change is good for small projects that you want to build once and use for decades without much maintenance.
105.
by dskloet 5y ago
In the past I built a few things on Google App Engine. Honestly one of my greatest regrets in life. I ported a few to PHP so I won't get screwed again when I need to change hosting provider. Still need to port some and am dreading doin
106.
by dskloet 5y ago
I'm not sure what you are saying. A credit card transaction is also virtual, but you can use it to buy real world coffee. It's the same with crypto.
107.
by dskloet 5y ago
If it's an online service they don't need your address.
108.
by dskloet 5y ago
No, because you don't sent your wallet to the merchant.
109.
by dskloet 5y ago
> the only thing I've seen crypto being used for seriously that isn't speculation When paying for domain names or VPS (or anything online, but those are the cases where it's easy), I prefer paying with crypto because I don
110.
by dskloet 5y ago
Being able to transfer value across the internet without the permission of a middle man, is valuable in the real world.
111.
by dskloet 5y ago
If you create a bookmark with the following URL, you can click it while on a recipe site to go to the OnlyRecipe version: javascript:window.location.href='https://onlyrecipe.app/?url=' + (window.location.href)
112.
by dskloet 5y ago
If an image fails to load, there is an animation which is still quite distracting. Can that just be a static broken imagine icon? For example here: https://onlyrecipe.app/?url=https://www.allrecipes.com/recip.
113.
by dskloet 5y ago
Goods that weren't scarce before still can't be scarce. Only a new type of good can be scarce. Do you have a problem with that?
114.
by dskloet 5y ago
Or you avoid the topic, keep your fingers crossed that they won't get sick, and can at least have a normal conversation about the weather without hating each other.
115.
by dskloet 5y ago
Genitrust is another such ponzi scheme.
116.
by dskloet 5y ago
Did it not accept "contour"?
117.
by dskloet 5y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29367405
118.
by dskloet 5y ago
In real life puzzles you can often see the correct orientation from the grain of the paper so it's not completely unrealistic.
119.
by dskloet 5y ago
They could and should have communicated more honestly about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28427996
120.
by dskloet 5y ago
I assume that's why they wrote "excluding framework".

More ›