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by ecf 3y ago
A Chinese machinist is already selling these on Alibaba while the American machinist attempts to repatent something invented a century ago. One wants to produce a tool that helps others make cool stuff, one wants to rip off an inventors des
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by ecf 3y ago
> who have to be protected from themselves. Taking a look at how much they receive in government subsidies quickly proves that, yes, they need protecting from themselves.
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by ecf 3y ago
Well let me know when another county is in a position to stop America from doing anything.
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by ecf 3y ago
Looking at this conversation makes me believe the US won’t exist as we know it in 50 or 100 years. We’re too far gone as a country, and there is no going back.
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by ecf 3y ago
After debugging an issue with a customer using using App router I decided to never touch NextJS and learn Remix instead. Their official documentation for early loading scripts simply doesn’t work. https://github.com/vercel&#
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by ecf 3y ago
> Unreviewed content > This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue. Reddit is trying so hard to keep this under control.
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by ecf 3y ago
> Refusing to renew It seems they’re trying to make it so insurers simply can’t cancel your policy out from under you. Note how it specifies “renew”. These were people already paying for wildfire insurance and the law prevented them from
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by ecf 3y ago
This is all fun and games until insurers just stop insuring Midwest homes in tornado zones, flood planes, etc. Not sure why this idea is being upvoted simply because it’s about California.
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by ecf 3y ago
I’d love to see the deal going through anyway and Microsoft pulling COD out of Britain. Just once I want to see this bluff get called.
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by ecf 4y ago
Say it is a new financial crisis. What can we do to actually make a profit from it like all the established players are doing?
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by ecf 4y ago
Hype driven developers/marketers believe the only type of websites that exists are those which need indexable content for SEO purposes. More news at 11
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by ecf 4y ago
> We're almost back! You can find us hanging out in /r/downtimebananas, join us! Who comes up with this, and who is it for?
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by ecf 4y ago
I don’t ever want to be asked to do a system design interview for a YC startup when HN is crushed this much by just few high traffic posts.
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by ecf 4y ago
Maybe a bit off topic but I dislike the recent change that makes searching within a repo the default if you’re in one and you click on the search bar. I’ll hit “T” if I need to search a repo. The search bar is 100% only used for navigating
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by ecf 4y ago
> I also still think that Sony is being incredibly hypocritical here with how they are responding considering their love of making exclusive contracts. Final Fantasy being a big example right now but it seems to be a trend that Square an
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by ecf 4y ago
Can’t wait for the day there isn’t this hive mind surrounding VCs and the tech elite at large. Bank runs, mass layoffs, etc. All of them are just copying what others are doing.
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by ecf 4y ago
With so many banks dropping 20%+ I don’t see how this doesn’t result in an economic catastrophe.
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by ecf 4y ago
So is this going to be a “privatized profits, socialized losses” type scenario? Are taxpayers going to be bailing out this bank and the companies that use them?
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by ecf 4y ago
The wealthy already have so many ways to get out of paying their taxes that a flat tax might result in them paying more. Our legal system was also created during an age where there weren’t so damn many billionaires with a net worth greater
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by ecf 4y ago
America desperately needs percentage based fines for everything.
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by ecf 4y ago
Threads talking about the original exchange have comments numbering in the hundreds yet the revelation Musk was unequivocally an asshole in this exchange results in barely a peep. Great look HN Musk-apologists.
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by ecf 4y ago
> The other comments in this thread are doing nothing if the sort. > It's like engineers are demonstrably more immature and childish than the petulant children they seek to deride.
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by ecf 4y ago
Half of adults in the US read at or below an 8th grade level so I don’t see why this is surprising.
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by ecf 4y ago
I looked at a couple different subreddits and their threads for the latest episode. /r/television has a few dozen hits for “boring”. It really was a slow episode, and combined with the previous episode it’s starting to become a sl
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by ecf 4y ago
By their very nature OKRs are terrible. It’s purely for the benefit of management/executives because they’re asking rank and file employees to go above and beyond their job duty all in the name of squeezing out more performance with th
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by ecf 4y ago
Wish I was starting my career in tech 30 years ago when new ideas were this easy to come up with.
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by ecf 4y ago
Simply providing a counter example to a statement. Take a moment to reflect on your behavior and ask yourself why you’re taking it personal.
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by ecf 4y ago
> unlike California they actually build things in Texas Except reliable power infrastructure, apparently.
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by ecf 4y ago
OneNote users have been asking for full-featured code blocks for decades at this point and MS can’t or won’t do it. Not surprising to see it suck so bad in Teams.
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by ecf 4y ago
A whole generation is going to start relying on AI and never do any actual writing or critical thinking for themselves. This is a problem when the average reading level for half of American adults is already below that of an 8th grader.

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