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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48411190
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
My US public library doesn't offer that. I'm glad yours does, though.
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
>Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
I'd rather have a short article than a short article that was fed into an LLM to be expanded into a long one that says very little. But yeah, when I seek truly "intellectually gratifying" material I usually log off of HN and
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
Billboards are illegal in my state. Can't really avoid? More like they don't really exist (unless I travel).
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
Yes, but the description of the differences is not particularly precise.
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
The Weather Underground often warned the targets of their bombings via phone call. (I guess their goal was to attack gov't institutions and make a political statement, not to kill lots of people.) This was in the late '60s-'7
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
The first sentence of the first non-bolded paragraph of the webpage is: >Cheese Paper is a text editor specifically designed for writing, particularly fiction. I don't think the HN submitter is the author of the software, but if you
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
Drought is one of the reasons mentioned in the third paragraph of the article.
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
I rarely give credence to opinions about HIPAA from people who don't spell it correctly.
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
FWIW, the Wikipedia page on "HTML elements" says: >A description list (a.k.a. association list or definition list)[...] The "Definition list" Wikipedia article is a redirect to that paragraph. https://en.wi
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
Thank you for your interest in my emotional states, and you make a good point. However, I don't think these situations are the same. In terms of population, the biggest London is 9.1 million people and the 2nd-biggest is under 500,000.
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
I love how the current title of this post just assumes that everyone lives in California. There are other "Orange County"s in the U.S.
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
The OS is locked, no? That's why people have to jailbreak it to install software like KOreader?
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
AI Overview for forget about it : >Got it. Consider it completely forgotten! Let me know if something else comes up later on.
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
That looks really cool! I've visited scale models of the solar system in Eugene, Oregon[1] and Norwich, Vermont[2], but neither one is anywhere near that size. [1] https://eugenesciencecenter.org/exhibits/eugene-so
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
I believe in brain plasticity but I also believe in uBlock Origin.
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
Waymo uses lidar. There's lots of information about it on the web.
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
If I let my buddy copy my essay, he would be committing authorized plagiarism, right ? It still fits the dictionary definition of plagiarism, and it's also authorized (by me, anyway)
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
Why aren't they doing so?
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
We could start by stomping out the Linux kernel mailing lists; that cancer is at the root of so many other social networks' software.
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
Yes, and more burnt cash (and hopefully emotional energy) would be an acceptable outcome
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
When lawful jerks become enough of a problem a common approach is to outlaw the worst of their jerk-y behavior. The state is set up to collect and investigate complaints, issue sometimes-escalating fines, hear appeals, etc., all on behalf o
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
A screen for the back-up camera is federally required for new cars in the US, afaik. But using the screen for additional purposes is still optional... for now...
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
Which car manufacturers are not pushing this garbage?
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
>Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that". https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidel
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123090
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
HN's guidelines also prohibit complaining that HN is turning into reddit...
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
As stated elsewhere in this discussion: downvotes exist for comments on HN, but not for submissions, as far as anyone is aware, which is what makes it puzzling.
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by hoppyhoppy2 5mo ago
Users can be from anywhere in the world, but they're making a selling point of it being built in Europe, hosted on European infrastructure, and governed by European law. The linked page shows this pretty clearly, I think.

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