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by johnea 2y ago
The banks making money off of the shakedown is certainly a part of the problem. But I bank at a local credit union, and I've mentioned FedNow to about 5 different branch managers. So far, no one has even heard of it 8-/ They just
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by johnea 2y ago
> “People feel that science is this powerful source that is jerking them around and telling them what to do and making them feel stupid.” > More than half of Americans get their health information from social media, with Facebook espe
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by johnea 2y ago
I complain about this at the other end of the cash flow cycle all the time: having to pay to pay. When a service, often my local municipality, charges a fee to pay a fee. VISA is arguably the biggest mafia organization in the world... 3% of
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by johnea 2y ago
The comments before mine certainly point out that many dislike the hype topics. I think these hype topics are inherent to HN though, given that the org is fundamentally a venture capital financial institution. By nature, VC is always riding
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by johnea 2y ago
Having been on linux laptops for ~20 years, I've found this to be really h/w dependent. I've mostly run thinkpads, and they've mostly worked. My current T16 not only suspendds/resumes well, I also successfully use f
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by johnea 2y ago
Excelent call to action. The distictions between made "deleting the accout" and "just stop using it" are really mute. The main point is to disengage from such platforms. Of course, almost no will. In spite of the clear c
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by johnea 2y ago
So, it's a mistake to wish things aren't as fucked up as they are?
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by johnea 2y ago
A lot of informative historical detail in this article, but the title is pretty much completely disconnected from the content of the text. There is almost no discussion of why, or how, letting natural fire processes go unchecked would help
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by johnea 2y ago
So, Microsoft is the basis for a "new worker uprising"? That's... a pretty funny statement 8-) Just another example of people thinking a database entry on a corporate software platform is their "real life"...
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by johnea 2y ago
This was my experience also. While I have generally practiced ~12miles/week of beach running, in the last year I've basically been almost sedentary. Being physically active is a huge advantage for life in general, I just have had
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by johnea 2y ago
So, they reduced homelessness by giving people a permanent place to live? Inconceivable! Who would have ever thought of that? Those commonist Scandinavians, they just don't understand the "power of the market"... Why would an
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by johnea 2y ago
Maybe they should make porn an olympic event? It wouldn't be the stupedist, and some forms are probably pretty physically demanding (can't really comment based on first person experience since I don't view it). Personally, I
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by johnea 2y ago
I'm amazed that any technically proficiet user would EVER buy/connect such a device. Really, it's baffling. I do have a fairly large Samsung TV, but I would NEVER EVER connect it to the internet. HDMI only is the way to go, w
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by johnea 2y ago
That wasn't nearly as bad as the ongoing IQ reduction due to the murderous enforcement of christianity... Long before euros started crushing the culture of people around the world, "the church" was crushing culture across nor
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by johnea 2y ago
The best HN news client is ##hntop on Libera IRC network!
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by johnea 2y ago
Have your bot hug my bot...
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by johnea 2y ago
Another perfect example of wasted disk space and bandwidth on the internet 8-/ Not to mention a waste of the one truely nonrenewable resource, our time...
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by johnea 2y ago
I've been self hosting a .net email domain for decades. I don't really have the problem you're describing. Depending on the recipient, I do sometimes reitterate the .net TLD, but that's it. I would say a more significant
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by johnea 2y ago
The title is incorrect, and makes the mistake of applying a statistical result with each individual result. The average improvements across miles driven by waymo are impressive, and definitely indicate that they are, on average, significant
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by johnea 2y ago
Amazing poster child for HN comments having nothing to due with original post. Almost everything in here at the moment is about changing oil in a car 8-) Which avoids the obvious issue that modern tech users are just another new exploited c
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by johnea 2y ago
The subject seems pretty interesting, but the article itself had a few disappointments. Decades ago I thought for sure by now we would be harnessing the DNA to express chitin and strands of cellulose into structural forms to start replacing
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by johnea 2y ago
> On the contrary, the only thing a consumer can do to improve their laptop’s ecological and economic sustainability is to use it for as long as possible. This is true for everything, not just laptops. Any purchasing that occurrs on a fa
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by johnea 2y ago
I have no idea WTF these articles continue to be about. Is this just trolling? I've been using a linux desktop for well over 20 years...
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by johnea 2y ago
LLMs are writing code for the coming of the lil' baby jesus?
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by johnea 2y ago
Another millennial lost in make believe 8-/ Those are very nice numbers! It's so neat and tidy! It's also a complete divergence from physical reality. You know, that boomer land where old people yell at the cloud? For starter
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by johnea 2y ago
Xscreensaver still has a 3D pipes. Just stop running that archaic corporate OS...
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by johnea 2y ago
https://archive.ph/qOFrr I highly support requirements to identify benefitial owners of corporations, but this law only requires that discloser for small companies: Larger companies that employ more than 20 people, have rev
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by johnea 2y ago
Oh yea, that big gubmint is the one to blame! Never mind that it's a for-profit company that does the surveiling, and wrote the faulty IT structure. Neoliberal religion runs deep...
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by johnea 2y ago
I just bought a used 2023 Nissan Leaf. Fully EV, real buttons and knobs, and of course the model is cancelled. The original tracking was 2G cellular, later updated to 3G cellular. 2G is long depricated, and 3G is already shutdown in many pl
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by johnea 2y ago
They should just solve the problem in the traditional way that international disputes have been settled, and have the most heavily armed member of the committee kill everyone that disagrees with them.

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