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by frob 3y ago
I love when ads mistarget me because I am then not tempted by them. I would much rather get my current untargeted swath of ads ranging from military contractors to industrial manufacturing supply chain equipment to bras for all sorts of bod
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Black 4.0(culturehustleusa.com)
187 points by frob 3y ago|89 comments
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by frob 3y ago
This feels like a new development. I regularly attached a wiimote over Bluetooth to my Mac in the teens. It was my go-to clicker for presenting slides. I needed a dedicated program to map the controller buttons to the inputs I wanted, but t
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by frob 3y ago
Please take this as your daily reminder that you do not own many of your computing devices without going to extraordinary lengths which may make them inoperable on the actual owner's network.
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by frob 3y ago
I read your comment using X with its historical meaning of "insert option here" instead of the rebranding of Twitter and it gave me one more reason to hate this stupid, stupid rebrand even as someone who doesn't use it.
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by frob 3y ago
You can do anything at Ertdfgcvb!
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by frob 3y ago
Where you can xit x-crements
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by frob 3y ago
I feel vindicated that I still default to just cutting the end off of an old USB-A cable and directly drawing from the power and ground lines.
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Twitter suspends MN Rep. Phillips' account ahead of 2024 presidential filing(cbsnews.com)
3 points by frob 3y ago|0 comments
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by frob 3y ago
I've found kombucha also scratches the same itch for me. There's a wide variety from plain to floral to fruity to herby. It's also a nice bonus that it has the opposite effect on my gut than alcohol.
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by frob 3y ago
It's pretty akin to why anything critical of Elon Musk is fairly quickly flagged and hidden. Despite all the protestations otherwise by the denizens, hacker news is not a free-speech haven, but a PR forum for a highly influential ventu
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CEO of Web Summit tech conference resigns over Israel comments(npr.org)
64 points by frob 3y ago|61 comments
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by frob 3y ago
In the little village of 2000 near me, the 4 cops dress in all black and have a black-on-black motif for their vehicles. Literally, it is black text on a black car with some grey and gold outlining. I'm pretty sure it makes them feel l
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by frob 3y ago
"Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women—two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians—have rendered the notion of ‘capitalist democracy’ into an oxymoron.&quo
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by frob 3y ago
Holy crap! That article is full of low-level facistic quotes: > “I was approached by a couple of citizens asking if there was anything we could do about certain people walking around at night riding their bicycles,” "Certain people&
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by frob 3y ago
If I asked 100 people what "ultimate driving experience" meant, I would get 43 different answers, 58 of them being people telling me it's bullshit nothingness. If I asked 100 people what it meant for a car to be "full se
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by frob 3y ago
Ahh, so the blocker is his companny lying to the feds about environmmental damanage and assessments. And I bet it will communicate with his "piece of shit"[0] solar shingles. He is a charlatan piping away an entrancing tune to man
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by frob 3y ago
The difference between saying your car is "the ultimate driving experience" and that your car has a "full self driving" mode is the difference between puffery and straight up fraud.
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by frob 3y ago
By describing the products in detail using their official trademarked and marketing names, this article is doing just as much advertising for Shell as Fortnite is.
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by frob 3y ago
The term "climate change" was literally created by conservative activist and Bush pollster Frank Luntz to confuse people about global warming and muddy the waters. From his Wikipedia article: > Although Luntz later tried to dis
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by frob 3y ago
Having access to a gun increases your chance of successfully completing suicide by almost an order of magnitude. This may not be exact numbers, but to first order, attempting suicide with methods other than guns have about a 10% success rat
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by frob 3y ago
I know two guys who owned Volts for years and they both found them to be reliable and useful vehicles. Whose anecdotes win here?
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by frob 3y ago
I've been writing HTML since the mid-90s and have been a professional web developer for a decade. I frequently reference the flexbox[0] and grid guides[1] from CSS Tricks. I have both of the summary sheets printed out and sitting on my
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by frob 3y ago
From everything I could tell, one of the reasons Sen Feinstein was sticking around was that the GOP had indicated it would not allow Senate Democrats to replace her on the Judiciary committee. This would deadlock the committee, effectively
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by frob 3y ago
It's been very obvious for years now on hacker news that anything critical of Musk, especially something showing how his companies abuse workers, gets immediately buried if it gets close to the top. I'm not sure if it's a gro
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by frob 3y ago
If a company is charging me a service or recovery fee that is a percentage of my bill, I am taking it out of the tip. If they want to use that money to pay the expense that is their employees, they can make it part of the cost of the food,
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by frob 3y ago
Are Beanie Babies dead? Are POGs dead? Are S&Ls dead? Are tulips dead?
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by frob 3y ago
The actual number is only 6 sentences into the article.
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by frob 3y ago
Elon Musk starred a fad. The other tech leaders had to get in on the fad or seem out-of-date. The thing about fads is you don't do them because they're useful or because you thought it out; you do it because everyone else is and y
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Salesforce is hiring over 3k people, despite axing 10% of staff(businessinsider.com)
43 points by frob 3y ago|90 comments

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