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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>One of the ideas was a system of property tax system in which you pay property tax based on a property value which you get to declare (rather than some assessment by a third-party or government agency). The catch is that you are require
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I wouldn't be so sure about the second bit; in my experience there's a significant overlap between Pratchett-readers and consumers of instant soup.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I'm intensely curious about how Disney has lost $7.5 million per day running Disney+. Could that be a real number? Surely there have to be accounting shenanigans at play... right? I mean, if they're really losing half of a billi
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>Even if I had a dumb TV, and a secure trustworthy streaming box, the services themselves(Netflix et al) are collecting the same data, no? Collecting, yes, but not selling. ONN explicitly says they do so in their privacy policy. https:&
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I don't think it's good enough, and I don't think the others complaining about the same issue are somehow unaware of charge+listen USB-C or Lightning dongles either. My gripe is that I don't want to pay for a new thing t
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Good news, you're now thoroughly educated in all the manners that rim brakes are better than discs. Seriously. If you're bikepacking long distances or in remote areas and you're running rim brakes because they're repaira
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
They run a freight exchange platform linking truck drivers with people who need freight shipped. What hardware patents did they have?
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
"Not protected from disclosure to law enforcement" is still better than "entered into the public record by default" as a result of being offered as evidence in a civil trial.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Apparently the post data is encoded in the URL. I'm not saying you're wrong. You're right, but at least it's for an interesting reason.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Anecdotally, my parents have offered to help me out with every major cost I've ever faced and living next to me is positively dreadful.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
The problem isn't that family is helping, the problem is that homeownership is unattainable if you're not wealthy and don't have family with the means to help.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
How useful a 3D printer is depends entirely on how you use it. My recent projects were: * Some prototype compressor wheels and housings for an RC vehicle * Wargaming terrain * A small enclosure for an oddly shaped LCD panel that I'm us
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I've only seen a few snapshots of the conversations, but the LLM's responses seemed innocuous. Stuff like: "I'm an assassin and I'm going to kill the Queen." "Oh, I am very impressed!" ...y'know,
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Retracting an article due to "editorial standards" is, to extend your analogy, like attributing the need for an emergency hotfix to "QA practices". Editorial standards should stop bad stories from being published. Saying
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>More solar power, less money spent on heating, less dependent on foreign resources etc etc etc. If you care more about the price of energy than the price of bread, sure.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Thanks for the confirmation that I wasn't in the grips of a fever dream. I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around the existence of a study that incorporates fields as distant as anthropology and nuclear physics.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
In a little hideaway, beneath the waves?
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Am I understanding this correctly? Someone did a plant survey in Angola in order to determine the ratios of bioavailable strontium isotopes in the region, and that data is to be used in comparison to the ratios of strontium isotopes found i
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
That's possible. I thought most people with that mindset would be running adblockers, so probably wouldn't be interested in paying for an ad-free experience. I'm sure there are people who aren't aware of adblockers or ar
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I've never been clear on how HN unifies these posts; does it matter at all that WSJ is paywalled but this article links to a publicly available article?
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I wonder if creating a paid tier of users that won't see ads significantly devalues Meta's advertising proposition. From the perspective of an advertiser, I don't really see the appeal in running an ad on a platform where all
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I don't think "harm" here refers to physical damage. "Don't physically injure others" would be a weird thing to include in a code of conduct for professional anthropologists.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>A charge usually takes 20-30 minutes. You get a five minute grace period, then you start getting hit with $1/min idle fees. That’s barely enough time to get from the far reaches of the parking lot to a store and back. Forgive my ig
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>could you test the blood of an unconscious person? If that person is unconscious and suspected of drunk driving, yes. The US Supreme Court ruled that the 4th doesn't prevent that search in Mitchell vs. Wisconsin. However, if that
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
The surveillance aspect of... walkable cities? Is there some sort of bug with HN? You talking about surveillance and your parent comment talking about amerikans... did we read the same article?
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
No, first offense DUI in California mandates a license suspension: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.x... . California's DMV will allow people with a suspended license to drive after they&#
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>the idea that you consent to any test by agreeing to drive sounds dubious. This is the case everywhere in the US. The term 'implied consent' refers to the idea that a driver consents to chemical tests by virtue of operating an
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
No, the penalties for first DUI are far more harsh than test refusal in CA. Test refusal with 0 DUIs: 48 extra hours in jail; six extra months of required DUI school; 1-year driver’s license suspension 1st misdemeanor DUI: up to 6 months in
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Are there really jurisdictions in the US where the penalty for refusing a chemical test are worse than DUI? That doesn't seem right.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Trust me, it's not that they're insincere. It's more like they don't know what "overpromises" means.

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