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Ask HN: Has DuckDuckGo suddenly gotten worse?
1 points by floren 4y ago|3 comments
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by floren 4y ago
Reminds me of an Arthur C Clarke story, Patent Pending : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Pending_(short_story)
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by floren 4y ago
With Sunny 16, wouldn't you only need a 1/8000 shutter speed if you're trying to shoot at 8000 ISO? Which would be an odd choice on a sunny day...
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by floren 4y ago
> I was re-watching the first season of The X-Files and every episode I was trying to pick out where in the Vancouver the scene was shot. I was laughing when I immediately noticed they were in White Rock, BC, which was supposed to be a s
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by floren 4y ago
I think it's the same company and presumably they can prescribe all sorts of stuff, it's just that they advertise penis pills & hair loss treatments to men, and depression meds to women. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by floren 4y ago
Well, good news, when you're in hour 5 of your Hulu binge-watch and feeling like maybe this is kind of pointless, you'll soon see an advertisement for "Hers", the Doctor Feelgood website that'll send you pills as lo
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by floren 4y ago
Over a million families took advantage of the Homestead Acts, which granted 160 acres to settlers. That much land was certainly enough to make a living on. When I looked up my grandparents in the 1950 census, every house on the page was mar
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by floren 4y ago
If you're a ProtonMail user, you could run the Proton Bridge on a Linux system in your network, then use PuTTY on Win XP to forward the ports from there to Windows. Then Thunderbird is only sending bridge-specific passwords unencrypted
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by floren 4y ago
You have to click through to the "About" page to really make it clear, but yes, this proposition would make it illegal to farm livestock for meat. Full stop. Their FAQ says: > Could a rancher still raise cattle? > IP3 does n
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by floren 4y ago
> Also, the game doesn't autoplay; it is shown on screen requiring effort from the player I don't have the clip handy but at one point a character points out to Wesley something along the lines of "want to know the trick t
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by floren 4y ago
> So once suburban homes were sold, why didnt the roads collapse into a state of disrepair which no one was willing to pay for? This is currently playing out in older subdivisions all across America.
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by floren 4y ago
The problem is that you're still marked as having entered the system, but never exited. So the turnstiles won't let you in next time you try to enter a station, as I understand it. The proper SF solution, based on my observations,
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by floren 4y ago
Now imagine being a child today, when it doesn't cost anything to take a picture and you have your camera on you at all times. Five year olds now have practiced photo poses and a ready-to-go fake smile, because every goddamn day is a
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by floren 4y ago
Bill Gates' clumsy attempts at lowballing were humorous, but Jobs was the true star of the story with his thinly-veiled threat of a lawsuit if Andy didn't sell it for the price Jobs demanded.
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by floren 4y ago
The other day I saw somebody go past on a cargo bike, with a big box on the front that in this case had 3 child seats in it. It looked pretty damn usable, and if I could get something like that with an e-bike, even Costco trips (with the
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by floren 4y ago
The Grant County Public Utility District in eastern Washington (and presumably PUDs elsewhere in the nation) did exactly that. They built a fiber network throughout the county (physically large but pretty sparsely-populated), although they
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by floren 4y ago
Your car is much less likely to be stolen while you're shopping?
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by floren 4y ago
Cables are all well and good, but the quest for perfect audio will continue until somebody invents a gadget which makes you 15 years old again, hanging out in your friend's basement, having just tried pot for the first time and hearing
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by floren 4y ago
I'm fascinated by the note about older versions MGR working on the Macintosh. I may have to poke at the TUHS mailing list to see if anyone knows more.
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The MGR Window System(hack.org)
64 points by floren 4y ago|30 comments
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by floren 4y ago
If I still worked in such a place, I'd be willing to try the experiment with $100. On the other hand I'd speculate that in a workplace, people are more likely to pick up $3 than they are to pick up $100. "It's just a cou
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by floren 4y ago
> At work in the secure area when locking up I found a 10 inside the door. I didn't know what to do with it so I tacked it on the bulletin board by the door. Really obvious. Nobody took it for 2 weeks (which is kind of remarkable),
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by floren 4y ago
Have you done a Synapse -> Dendrite migration? I'd like to check it out, but there's a strong temptation to just leave things alone now that I have a working Synapse installation.
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by floren 4y ago
He meant carfentanil
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by floren 4y ago
> But in the early ’80s, the reality reversed: Air travel worsened (fares skyrocketed, carriers abandoned marginal routes, competition intensified), and some Americans turned again to their network of trains. As all of my friends and co-
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by floren 4y ago
I think online reservations are kind of a problem by being so low-friction and often free. I'm seeing more and more restaurants requiring a significant deposit with a reservation, because apparently there are a lot of no-shows. I kind
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by floren 4y ago
Your camping trips are getting cheaper, at least. Last time it was $50 worth of beer, plus $15 worth of cigarettes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31658919
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by floren 4y ago
"I'll really be able to buckle down and write GOOD stuff, just as soon as I get that new [pen/laptop/$600 digital typewriter]" is not an uncommon line of thought among wannabe writers. Compare with amateur photograp
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by floren 4y ago
Congratulations on a truly neat project! I'm particularly impressed by the revision control system. Since acquiring a Mac Plus and an SE/30 I've wanted to try a bit of programming, but have not really known where to start. It
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by floren 4y ago
I propagated this across half a dozen classroom computers back in middle school, armed with a single floppy disk. It made the span between the end of cross country practice and the time the sports bus took us home a lot more fun.

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