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by johnea 1y ago
Nice article! So much great tech has been lost to aggressive business practices of entrenched companies it would have disrupted. The theme has been repeated... repeatedly: VHS vs Beta being maybe the typically cited archetype of business mo
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Since you've commented, I reply instead of a comment directly to the article: This is seriously mental illness. You are WAY too psychologically invested in your job. Work is not life! Seriously, go outside more! There's a HUGE wor
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Just another reason not to use goggle products 8-/
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They need to require consumption of a pint of ale prior to each round (and two on each penalty), to bring the game back to it's Canadian roots!
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Politically charged opinions aren't necessarily associated with culture war identity. People can have individually reached conclusions. My individually reached conclusion is that the big 3 are obsolete manufacturers of last centuries t
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I actually received the source flash for this game from Lego when they discontinued it online. I was able to run the flash, but there also seems to be some scripts or other functionality that allows the internationalization of the text bubb
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I've always felt a person empowered to enforce the law (especially someone who's empowered to use physical force), should be held MORE stringently to the law, not less. Otherwise, it's just begging for abuse. Not just constit
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What about Mata Nui?
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AI's Second Biggest Threat: Old People Who Can't Think
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War is murder. This is the #1 indication of just how primitive our violent ape species still is...
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Nice one! I've actually used this is meat space conversation while traveling the southeast US. When I'm in public conversation, say in a coffee shop, restaurant, or crowded park, and I know I'm in a place with a lot of "
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by johnea 1y ago
Thank you for your thoughtful reply! (I mean that, I'm not being snarky 8-) I really appreciate it when someone makes the effort to think about a comment and make an earnest reply, in either agreement or dissent. Your reply contains so
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Is this you: No, actually, not at all. I didn't feel that any of those bullet points was descriptive of me. > Don't worry... I'm not worried, at least, not about me. I am worried about just how many people _do_ think this
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by johnea 1y ago
Please see this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44339924
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by johnea 1y ago
Please see this reply: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44339924
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I want to start by saying: I'm in general agreement with what you say here. Now, the But: But, it's very important to acknowledge who's responsible for the decline in US manufacturing. BYD isn't "wiping out", t
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Original article: https://news.mit.edu/2025/window-sized-device-taps-air-safe-...
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So you don't actually believe in competition?
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You say that like its a bad thing...
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The resistance to electrification in the US is one of the country's biggest self inflicted wounds. In the long run, I really don't think we can tariff our way around technical innovation. 900 miles of range in 12 mins of charging.
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Do you recall when Colorado first legalized? NYTimes sent a journalist to Denver, who bought a chocolate bar at a dispensary, went back to their hotel room and ate it. Then, started seeing kaleidoscopes and curled up into the fetal position
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"Cannabis scientists"? Who needs 'em... Grow a plant, Smoke it, Enjoy... All of the extracts, derivatives, and edibles ARE the problem. Stop concentrating the "active ingredients", and use a minimally selected varie
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I'm not sure where you live, maybe that could help in your area. But here in California every state law deregulating real estate development has been abused by developers to build more $2M-$3M houses. This does NOTHING to help homeless
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City of San Diego added over 9000 units last year, homelessness increased 8-/ When a shiny new 2 bedroom apartment is priced at $4200/month, it isn't going to do ANYTHING to resolve homelessness. Outlaw AirBnB! Outlaw empty &
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+1 I do love a good js rant! For a stark comparison, consider the site where these comments are entered. HN Rulz! No js, no problem! Fast and functional... And regarding the comment: > it loads 754kB of JS across 13 requests It didn&#x27
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This is an ever growing problem. The model of the web host paying for all bandwidth was somewhat aligned with traditional usage models, but the wave of scrapping for training data is disrupting this logic. I remember reading, about 10 years
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Thanks for your reply tom! When I re-read my comment, I realize it's not completely clear: its definitely not my impression that moderation, or HN platform administration, are flagging these articles. My impression is that a portion of
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I live in California, the largest state in the continental US. I know people that routinely travel in EVs between Mendocino county and San Diego county. Roughly the distance between NY and Georgia. As far as the cold goes, somehow Norway is
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So, drone strike bombings are totally on topic, but US wing nut assassins shooting politicians, DHS tackling senators and arresting mayors, and the marines deployed to US cities, is all flagged out of existence. It's been made quite cl
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Original article: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2025/06/11/california-dairy-tr... Please try not to use phys.org... On the content of this article, they fail to point out a major problem in California dr

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