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by ilamont 1y ago
I once read somewhere that franchise or investor-backed restaurants in the U.S. were often categorized by AOV per diner, with menus tailored to hit these targets: Pre COVID it was $10 (quick service restaurant/QSR aka "fast food&q
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by ilamont 1y ago
That’s right. How many HN denizens are the de facto tech support for family members when they can’t login, can’t update, can’t get rid of some unwanted behavior, or just can’t figure stuff out? I don’t blame them one bit. The tech world has
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by ilamont 1y ago
Great post. Would love to see a similar treatment of the fonts used on Led Zeppelin covers and concert posters.
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by ilamont 1y ago
> The lowest-cost housing is not in dense slums. It's in the rural areas and smaller cities. You can buy houses in rural New York for $100k-$150k. In St. Paul, it's not hard to find a house for $300k. Yet most of the discussion
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Web Guide: An experimental AI-organized search results page(blog.google)
4 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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3 TSMC engineers detained in Taiwan for leaking 2nm process trade secrets(taiwannews.com.tw)
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Apple sues Apple Cinemas for trademark infringement(universalhub.com)
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by ilamont 1y ago
But what we can do is be the change we want. Just make my own little oasis. Find other oases and hook ‘em all up. Which then got me thinking about if there could be a special Web Classic experience we could voluntarily hook into. Webrings
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Are men being 'pushed out of publishing'?(thebookseller.com)
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Submarines and Foolkillers(chicagology.com)
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Do cells also hold memories?(theglobeandmail.com)
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Google exec: 'We're going to be combining ChromeOS and Android'(theverge.com)
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by ilamont 1y ago
It's a start. The world needs a better way to handle bookkeeping, and the existing tools sure aren't cutting it. Bookkeeping for my small business runs into the tens of thousands of dollars every year, and the amount of human erro
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by ilamont 1y ago
I had one! I bought a used IBM ThinkPad 701 in a Hong Kong computer market in 1996 while backpacking through China and Southeast Asia. I think it was $800 or $900. Although primitive by today's standards, it was a solid little laptop t
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by ilamont 1y ago
It's more expensive in America - larger houses requiring larger units and more ductwork/labor, and probably the manufacturers pricing for the world's richest market.
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by ilamont 1y ago
> For some reason Americans are slow to pick up HVAC innovations that are common elsewhere Few want to spend the money to convert older buildings. That includes homeowners, building owners, and condo/co-op boards. Someone a few week
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Rise of the Machines: Inside Hollywood's AI Civil War(hollywoodreporter.com)
4 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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The Company That Refuses to Decouple(thewirechina.com)
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Inside The Media's Traffic Apocalypse(nymag.com)
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by ilamont 1y ago
“There are no known chemical processes for the production of either ammonia or phosphine ..." After reading this, I was curious how ammonia can be produced in industrial quantities on Earth. The process does appear to be a chemical p
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Autodesk Weighs Takeover of Engineering Software Firm PTC(finance.yahoo.com)
4 points by ilamont 1y ago|2 comments
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by ilamont 1y ago
Wow. What a great story. An in translation, no less. The Greek translator must have been very talented. (Kind of curious now ... were the other translated editions in non-English languages as powerful? Do readers of science fiction in other
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The Last Run of Canada's Most Stubborn Publisher(thewalrus.ca)
6 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments
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TSMC to cease GAN foundry production in 2027 due to Chinese competition(semiconductor-today.com)
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by ilamont 1y ago
During the first few years, I was approached by dozens of potential “partners.” Several wanted an outsize equity stake to essentially just make suggestions. A warning to others starting new ventures: once you get a whiff of traction, and
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Salt Path: how a blockbuster book was spun from lies, deceit and desperation(observer.co.uk)
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What kinds of stone were American gravestones made from?(gravestonepreservation.info)
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Cool People [pdf](apa.org)
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by ilamont 1y ago
This sucks for customers, but it is not a "rug pull."
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The Midpeninsula Free University (1968)(a3mreunion.org)
1 points by ilamont 1y ago|0 comments

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