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Cups tossed in recycling bins at Starbucks tracked to incinerators and landfill(cbsnews.com)
31 points by ilamont 2y ago|22 comments
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by ilamont 2y ago
Tell it to my 70 year old stone mason who doesn't have a computer, uses his phone only for making calls, only issues paper invoices and estimates, and only takes paper checks. Or the local restaurant owner from Guatemala in the nearest
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by ilamont 2y ago
I did too. I was required to register for login.gov.
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by ilamont 2y ago
For you and I and everyone else on HN, the report is indeed trivial. For many other small businesses, it is not. There are millions of businesses which still operate largely on paper invoices and registers. Owners can't understand the
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What Happens in a Deepfake Interview(itbrew.com)
2 points by ilamont 2y ago|0 comments
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Terminal Velocity: A 300-page novel made 100% autonomously by 10 AI agents(nlr.ai)
1 points by ilamont 2y ago|1 comments
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What's the impact of artificial intelligence on energy demand?(sustainabilitybynumbers.com)
2 points by ilamont 2y ago|0 comments
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Meta Says It Is Cracking Down on Organized Crime Behind Scam Centers(about.fb.com)
2 points by ilamont 2y ago|1 comments
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Stephen King shuts down money-losing radio stations after 40 years(bangordailynews.com)
10 points by ilamont 2y ago|2 comments
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by ilamont 2y ago
This is a very deep article into the war game and war thinking of the time. The early 80s was a very tense period, not only because of the arrayed nuclear arsenals and conventional forces on either side of the Iron Curtain, but also the unc
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Most American farmers have second jobs to stay afloat(marketplace.org)
78 points by ilamont 2y ago|103 comments
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by ilamont 2y ago
I employed a basic counting system I learned from a book and tried it out on my first and only visit to Vegas about 20 years ago. This was at the Stardust. It was a miserable afternoon. I don't think the dealer cared, but the other pla
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by ilamont 2y ago
I am also a Mandarin speaker, and a very interesting thing happens when I try to read classical Chinese by dictionary or my modern understanding of the language: It's vague, lacking nuance, and basically unreadable. It requires very ta
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Another U.S. book distributor closes, standalone business "no longer viable"(publishersweekly.com)
2 points by ilamont 2y ago|0 comments
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UMass Amherst urges international students to return to campus before Jan. 20(universalhub.com)
3 points by ilamont 2y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 2y ago
My grandfather was in a US Navy salvage group in WWII. At the time, to verify an enemy vessel (especially subs) had been sunk, they would send down divers in the old fashioned "heavy gear" suits to identify the vessels. They would
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by ilamont 2y ago
Fishermen sometimes happen upon submarine accidents. This one dates from 2003: On April 25, 2003 the crew of a Chinese fishing boat noticed a strange sight—a periscope drifting listlessly above the surface of the water. The fishermen notif
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by ilamont 2y ago
This reminds me of Caillou making the top 10 most hated TV characters of all time, along with Jeffery Baratheon and Livia Soprano: https://www.reddit.com/r/caillouhate/comments/182g93j/caillo... Why all
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by ilamont 2y ago
Spectators alone contributed to $209 million in economic activity in connection with April’s race I like the Boston Marathon and have been a spectator on and off for years, but these self-serving research points are a bit much. Most local
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My NaNoWriMo Was a Train Wreck(janefriedman.com)
2 points by ilamont 2y ago|1 comments
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by ilamont 2y ago
"Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking." It should be pretty clear where employees, suppliers, a
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by ilamont 2y ago
Also used widely in Taiwan.
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Celebrity-backed indoor farming company Bowery closes(agriculturedive.com)
2 points by ilamont 2y ago|0 comments
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Inside Ridley Scott's Producing Empire: “Tell Me the Film in Two Sentences”(hollywoodreporter.com)
3 points by ilamont 2y ago|1 comments
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TSMC to stop supplying advanced AI processors for all of its China customers(tomshardware.com)
40 points by ilamont 2y ago|4 comments
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Boston mayor cites "miscalculation in formulas" for shortage of ballots(dotnews.com)
2 points by ilamont 2y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 2y ago
There's a subculture of people who clean strangers' gravestones, which often involves removing lichen. They are very particular about the tools and chemicals used during the cleaning. Some also reset broken stones. You can see som
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Walmart forces thousands to relocate to Arkansas(modernretail.co)
1 points by ilamont 2y ago|0 comments
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Temu Dropshipper Fraud Using Amazon Listings(sellercentral.amazon.com)
6 points by ilamont 2y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 2y ago
> A new product, a new market, a spinoff. Five or 10 years ago, they were doing a lot of this. Dropbox Paper ("a collaborative online workspace that allows you to create, share, and edit documents and notes with your team") for

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