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by jdminhbg 3y ago
This is no longer the case in Oregon: https://katu.com/news/politics/ballots-mailed-by-election-da...
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Musk Twitter has not done any better than Old Twitter at containing spam, but it has managed to at least monetize it, which you have to admit is a small step up.
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I'd be pretty upset if I found out someone was using up my freezer space with bags of cooked cabbage.
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There may be a reason there's no social media network that does this.
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Yeah, it's interesting that the way Ethereum works make it possible to see exactly how the trade worked and how much it made, but "traders with huge resources made a leveraged bet and won" is something that happens constantly
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> People sold ads profitably for hundreds of years without any sort of surveillance, and many people continue to do so today. If it were impossible to make money just selling ads (I wish it were) then billboards and bus stop posters Bill
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> If the point of twitter is to make money, then it doesn't matter whether someone is logged in or not: ads in front of eyeballs is what's important. To serve you ads that have any hope of making money, they need to know which
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> I have the feeling Apple is betting on Google not caring enough about the PWA platform to try to compete. I don't think it's about Google, I think they assume consumers won't care, and they're probably right.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
So are PWAs really popular on Android?
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> Why do you think “you can install a third party browser, but if you do, you can’t add PWAs to the Home Screen” doesn’t hinder competition? Because you can't add PWAs to the Home Screen if you use the first-party browser, either. T
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
The two aren't independent, though. When you have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for humans to operate an airplane, you might as well get the most out of the fixed cost of the airplane to begin with. If you don't have to
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> A more stringent MEL means tougher maintenance requirements, which means more mechanic hours per flight hour (in aggregate, on average). Probably true, but I wonder if it just becomes easier to hire/train mechanics than it is to d
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Only the broken headlines that would otherwise have been good are noticeable. The vast sea of bad headlines that are fixed or buried or discouraged from posting in the first place aren't visible.
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This is the perfect example of a middlebrow dismissal. Something fails in one instance, and it results in a confident dismissal of the entire system.
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The problem isn't the amount of funding, the problem is competence administering the funding. California's HSR has tens of billions invested and no track laid. I'd love to import European or Japanese rail administrators so th
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Here is the link to their "master plan" to read all of the excavated scrolls: https://scrollprize.org/master_plan It looks like there are two main bottlenecks to reading more: the need for manual intervention in s
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> the guy who ended up taking advantage of those incentives the most ended up being a complete nitwit Wow, what terrible luck for that to keep happening!
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
The url for this page is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39230513 so the id is 39230513
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He's probably hoping to get more than 20 purchases.
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> It’s a radical idea, but we could make meaningful progress if we clawed journalism from the hands of affluent, out of touch brunchlords, and put it back under the control of diverse, hungry journalists and editors who actually understa
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
So nice to see a YouTube client that makes sense on the platform it’s on. Compare to the official YT client for iPad, for example, which bizarrely uses the same tiny Material touch targets as on phones.
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Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded?
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And in the markets it did exist, the carrier options were limited, usually to the worst carriers, because those were the carriers who were desperate enough to accept Apple's terms.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
Anything. Bistec a la Mexicana is “Mexican-style steak.” Replace with any nationality or style or whatever.
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> Rivian’s cheaper competition model which they will reveal in March You'd be lucky to get a currently-available Rivian in 2025 if you ordered now, how many years until you realistically could take delivery of this new Rivian model?
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Starlink test of direct-to-cell texts successful [pdf](api.starlink.com)
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That's not really what people mean by immutable though. What they mean is something halfway between the casual definitions of "immutable" and "persistent," in that your copy of the data at point X will always be val
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> I think they do that on purpose to discourage people from quitting icloud. I think they just haven't updated the CPU/bandwidth-saving provisions that have been in the products for years. The same issues happen if you are stay
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by jdminhbg 3y ago
> I have a kitchen, a full bathroom with a shower, two beds, and even a whole office space inside the trailer. With all that plus the extra drag, I'm not too surprised.
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> I’d be surprised if those bananas didn’t arrive on some freight ship. Talk about inefficiency! Freight ships are extremely efficient.

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