grotorea

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by grotorea 3y ago
Probably because past donors are the most likely to donate in the future?
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by grotorea 3y ago
You mean the GrubHub "fake" telephone thing or something else?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Midpoint by travel time isn't too far from how French department capitals had to be reachable in one day by horse.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Shouldn't that lead to more concentration? Netflix had the expertise and ISP agreements to deal with this, now every streaming service has to redo it.
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by grotorea 3y ago
But why remove the adfree plan?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Maybe this has something to do with the local opinion on Haskell?
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by grotorea 3y ago
It's the oldest use-case for non-human computing and one the things computers are best at compared to humans.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Yeah and with art there's at least a chance you'll make one of the classics that don't get forgotten. Or maybe people will be playing it for nostalgia in retirement homes in 80 years.
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by grotorea 3y ago
It's just the languages everyone knows are bad.
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by grotorea 3y ago
Interestingly, Egypt is precisely one of the countries most historically influenced by the politically influential Mamluk slave-soldiers.
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by grotorea 3y ago
But is China opening those coal stations to power factories that export things to the developed world or to power internal demand? Should the pollution of a product get counted in the producing or the consuming country?
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by grotorea 3y ago
It doesn't adjust for density like that. > A country’s overshoot day is the date on which Earth Overshoot Day would fall if all of humanity consumed like the people in that country.
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by grotorea 3y ago
What I find strange is that food delivery worked for at least some foods via phone before there were apps. Shouldn't the apps make things more efficient?
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by grotorea 3y ago
I feel software release announcements function as a way to "advertise" some relevant software on HN. Why should that be forbidden but Show HN be allowed?
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by grotorea 3y ago
Because people like this game and release announcements is how things get advertised on the front page.