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by earth-tattoo 3mo ago
You are misreading. Basically the white paint is "fighting the sun's heat".
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by earth-tattoo 3mo ago
Can we have a separate anti-Trump, Elon, etc. section on hacker news? So I can separate this noise from the real news. I'm no pro Elon, but this stock went from 150 to 200, and there was no news on HN. Now it dipped from 150 to 136 and
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by earth-tattoo 3mo ago
I'm amused that hacker news crowd finds this front page worthy.
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by earth-tattoo 3mo ago
Why is this on the front page of hacker news?
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by earth-tattoo 3mo ago
Especially by voting in a party that says it will do it. That's democracy, right?
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by earth-tattoo 3mo ago
There are in betweens of an iphone and analog camera. You can use a digital camera with an SD card that you plug into a laptop that never connects to internet.
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by earth-tattoo 3mo ago
If I was signal CEO I would have self hosted years ago! There's many reasons for signal to be not on AWS.
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by earth-tattoo 3mo ago
It sucks that Google is probably using OSM data to check what they are missing and adding it to their maps, but we can't do vice versa. OSM should change their license to something like if you use our data, you have to make yours open
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by earth-tattoo 3mo ago
The site has a "report" feature. Maybe at some point I'll integrated openrouter to automatically flag problematic tiles.
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by earth-tattoo 3mo ago
Thanks. Will look into it.
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by earth-tattoo 3mo ago
Thank you. It's already on the roadmap. Will bump it up.
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Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.)(earth.tattoo)
20 points by earth-tattoo 4mo ago|14 comments
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by earth-tattoo 4mo ago
India having a wage of 50 cent is somehow America's fault? They failed to develop their infrastructure, and as a result their economy. That's their fault, nobody else's.
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Paint the Earth on a live interactive globe(earth.tattoo)
4 points by earth-tattoo 4mo ago|0 comments
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by earth-tattoo 4mo ago
Oh and by the way, each tile is 16x16 pixels
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by earth-tattoo 4mo ago
Yes, so basically the earth is divided into almost 510 million "blocks" or "tiles". You can "claim" one block every hour. Or you can pay to buy one block for $1.
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I built a website where people can "tattoo" the Earth, one pixel at a time(earth.tattoo)
4 points by earth-tattoo 4mo ago|3 comments
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by earth-tattoo 4mo ago
A limit that India and China are totally going to ignore?
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by earth-tattoo 4mo ago
Craigslist used to have a Rants & Raves section for exactly these kind of things. I think they still have, but in old times it used to be so happening! Maybe hacker news needs to have one.
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by earth-tattoo 4mo ago
I have disabled all animations on my Android, and it feels so much nice. I particularly HATE that one animation where the whole screen stretches if you try to overscroll.
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by earth-tattoo 4mo ago
That's exactly what I want: immortal mice!
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by earth-tattoo 4mo ago
They just want more content. They don't care about quality - the algorithm does a good job of sifting through all the content to find the good quality content. The definition of good quality being something that generates more money an
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by earth-tattoo 4mo ago
Slightly off topic. Is it just me, or do others also feel it's horrendously difficult to read these AI written articles?
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by earth-tattoo 4mo ago
How do you explain the top comment at this time (about Spectrum in NYC)? It can't get denser than NYC. So I guess it's not the density that's the problem.