iamben

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by iamben 12d ago
Allbirds were just dreadfully uncool. Basically shoes manufactured for tech bros? Even with another 5 years, I'm not sure they would have taken the market Hoka and On did.
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We're living through an explainer epidemic(dazeddigital.com)
3 points by iamben 14d ago|0 comments
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El Niño set to be 'strongest in living memory', says Met Office(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by iamben 1mo ago|0 comments
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Trump Crypto Took $100M from a Businessman with Red Flags(nytimes.com)
7 points by iamben 2mo ago|1 comments
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by iamben 2mo ago
https://archive.is/MCYRC
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by iamben 2mo ago
I think that's a default for a lot of the older (and some of the younger!) generation, same goes for news and media. They grew up in a time where there was a practical barrier to publishing and (largely) laws behind you doing it. So th
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by iamben 2mo ago
Yes. I read the article. You leave your car in a close and available garage so you don't have to search for a space. The robot takes your car and finds you a parking space to leave it. What about my comment was wrong? At some point my
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by iamben 2mo ago
I think this is solving the 'airport parking' problem my dad has. He drives to the airport, parks a mile or so away in some field and the company that owns the field drops him off at the terminal. He can leave his car there for th
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by iamben 2mo ago
One of my absolute favourite things as an impressionable teen getting into music was reading through the liner notes in the CD booklets. You'd read the lyrics, see some pictures, and best you'd scour through the thank you section
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by iamben 2mo ago
UK: A dentist will see you for an emergency appointment pretty quickly. I can usually get a routine appointment within a few weeks, but if it's a routine check-up I don't mind scheduling it for a few weeks/a month out. If I&#
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Elon Musk is currently worth more than the next 5 richest people combined(forbes.com)
6 points by iamben 3mo ago|6 comments
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by iamben 4mo ago
Go to a lot of smaller shows, been using DICE for a long time - I think they dominate the smaller venues (in the UK at least). They've made tickets as easy as Amazon made ecom. Alerts when for when tickets go on sale, (almost one click
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Pornhub to become accessible again for some UK users(bbc.co.uk)
17 points by iamben 5mo ago|5 comments
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by iamben 5mo ago
Maybe just me, but two things - 1. You don't care about X until you do. Like, you can go for years without worrying cholesterol. And then you can have a reason to care about it and all of a sudden you do. The reason can come from somet
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Trump's World Liberty Financial Sues Billionaire Justin Sun for Defamation(forbes.com)
5 points by iamben 5mo ago|0 comments
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Fifth Element Star Milla Jovovich Reveals AI Memory Tool MemPalace(decrypt.co)
9 points by iamben 6mo ago|3 comments
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A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War(wired.com)
5 points by iamben 6mo ago|2 comments
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by iamben 6mo ago
https://archive.is/vIYTP See also: https://priyom.org/number-stations/other/v32
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1Password Raising Prices ~33%
85 points by iamben 7mo ago|4 comments
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eBay buys Depop for $1.2B in effort to lure younger shoppers(theguardian.com)
13 points by iamben 7mo ago|4 comments
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Trump directs US govt to release files on 'alien and extraterrestrial life'(news.sky.com)
5 points by iamben 7mo ago|1 comments
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Instagram breaks silence on mysterious password reset emails(indy100.com)
2 points by iamben 9mo ago|1 comments
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Dina Powell McCormick Joins Meta as President and Vice Chairman(about.fb.com)
10 points by iamben 9mo ago|3 comments
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An Instagram data breach reportedly exposed the personal info of 17.5M users(engadget.com)
2 points by iamben 9mo ago|0 comments
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Crypto users forced to share account details with tax officials(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by iamben 9mo ago|1 comments
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by iamben 9mo ago
I'm interested. How does it differ from using: name+service@gmail.com or service@myowndomain.com ...to figure out where the spam originated?
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by iamben 9mo ago
https://archive.is/3uWV9
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The great porn panic: Causal arguments rest on pseudo-science(unherd.com)
3 points by iamben 9mo ago|1 comments
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Letterboxd Video Store (a curated rental platform)(letterboxd.com)
3 points by iamben 10mo ago|0 comments
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by iamben 11mo ago
To be fair, I think the fractured rights thing is a big thing a well. I can subscribe to one music service - Spotify, Amazon, Apple, Tidal - and pretty much every new release is available on all of them (or risk a terrible opening week&#x2F

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