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by glaucon 4y ago
People are flying across the country to buy a car which produces less carbon ... there's some things you just can't stop thinking about.
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by glaucon 4y ago
> Uber owes almost a billion in non paid social security and worker expenses in Switzerland I totally agree with your basic point, but can the amount you've mentioned be true ? I'm assuming you referring to "almost a billi
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by glaucon 4y ago
Not exactly what you're asking for but the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has recently intensified their investigation into the safety of "Autopilot". https://www.theregister.com/202
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by glaucon 4y ago
Wonder how emissions/seat/km on representative routes differs from the larger planes? Given that landing and takeoff is particularly bad for emissions if you're avoiding a change of planes I guess that might be a win ? Not as
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by glaucon 4y ago
Any chance of evidence for the text that starts "but it also extends ..." ? Just anything to support the concept that tens of thousands of individuals of myriad types and interests are acting in a concerted manner to intimidate an
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by glaucon 4y ago
Hmmmm, it turns out the archive only has the first page then, after 'continue', you get a much more contemporary page. Maybe that's true outside the archive too ?
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by glaucon 4y ago
- Amazingly, PizzaNet is still up for your viewing (but not ordering) pleasure. Only, I suspect, if you are in the USA. Here in New Zealand you get redirected to https://pizzahut.co.nz/home . Rather fittingly Internet Archi
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by glaucon 4y ago
> but most countries that have negligible mass shooting events don’t have better mental healthcare or particularly great gun ownership databases I don't know what countries you're referring to "that have negligible mass sh
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by glaucon 4y ago
Ha ! Good idea. That's the type of metric I'm after but, understandably, it only cover countries where McD'd operates and in world standards that's quite a small set. Still I think it's a pretty good idea and I will
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by glaucon 4y ago
Well I like the mechanics you've suggested but I'd rather basis it on some other metric which more closely maps how much surplus cash an "average person" has in country X.
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Ask HN: How to set prices based on a countries wealth?
4 points by glaucon 4y ago|7 comments
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by glaucon 4y ago
A book on the Wright brothers I would very much recommend is "The Bishop's Boys", fascinating story with a lot of detail I was unaware of. From my recollection it wasn't so much no-one believed in them as they just didn&
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by glaucon 4y ago
> The public sector builds the infrastructure It's a little off your point but there was an amusing book published a few years ago which went through twelve, from memory, technologies on which the iPhone was totally dependent and wh
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by glaucon 4y ago
Pretty mainstream to use Parmesan cheese rinds as part of making soups and stews of various kinds https://www.allrecipes.com/article/how-to-use-parmesan-chees...
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by glaucon 4y ago
I would like to know this too, I'd never heard the phrase "Legacy G Suite" until this issue began to be discussed and then I started wondering whether GMail + a few files + occasional use of sheets/docs was that ?
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by glaucon 4y ago
I'm interested in this idea but, as feedback to shuffle, their demo sucks. 1. There are essentially three different types of UI component you can use within the demo, everything else is disabled. This makes building anything other than
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by glaucon 4y ago
Not specific to w11, more like anything after w7, but I like this menu replacement and you might too https://www.stardock.com/products/start10/
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by glaucon 4y ago
People love to follow people.
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by glaucon 4y ago
Don't worry, at least in a Tesla the geofencing is going to be disabled in datetime.now().year + 1
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by glaucon 4y ago
Confusion in the Meta comms department. Both narratives were approved but by accident they were issued simultaneously ... it was intended that [1] go out 24 hours after [0].
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by glaucon 4y ago
Fwiw this is not my experience. To put that in context I probably average one edit a year and have never had pushback. I wouldn't suggest my changes have been substantial but for others, who've never made a change and might be put
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by glaucon 5y ago
The question implies that his Mother may have had sex with the father of Augustus. The answer suggests that it was his Father that had sex with the mother of Augustus. It's funny because there's a lot more tension associated with
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by glaucon 5y ago
I do not live in the USA so I'm woefully ignorant of US legal matters but how does a lawyer, having identified a breach of a federal law, then get a payment from the miscreant ? I mean the only way that comes to mind is to write to the
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by glaucon 5y ago
Would love to know which nation _we_ are ...
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by glaucon 5y ago
> But we also saw Kabul and Afghanistan fall to the Taliban in a day Kabul might have fallen in a day but the process of the Taliban gaining control over Afghanistan took significantly longer than a day. https://en.wikipedia.o
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by glaucon 5y ago
> that was blocked for promoting birth control I can't let this pass without commenting on it. When did promoting birth control become a problem ? Is Google run by some religious cabal who believe that we shouldn't contradict G
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by glaucon 5y ago
They didn't mess up, they're executing their business plan which might be summarised as "find minor infringments of attributions and, instead of asking for said error to be fixed, fire off demand for loot under threat of lega
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by glaucon 5y ago
OK I found this myself after another search through my many bookmarks. The answer is https://showhn-dashboard.netlify.app/ .
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Ask HN: What was the “consolidate show HN's” project ?
2 points by glaucon 5y ago|1 comments
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by glaucon 5y ago
I'm not from the USA ... could someone explain what a "Pharmacy Benefits Manager" does and who they work for ?

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