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by krrrh 5y ago
You say “train companies” as if every major subway/metro outside of Japan wasn’t nationalized in the early 20th century.
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by krrrh 5y ago
I know a lot of people love their Garmin watches. Even though I have an Apple Watch I considered also getting a Garmin just for tracking outdoor workouts. Other than battery life, the excellent app WorkoutOutDoors roughly replicates the wor
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by krrrh 5y ago
He’s back. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26535224
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by krrrh 5y ago
This speaks to the disingenuity of a lot of the decentralization talk in the crypto space. The Beaker browser and the hyperdrive protocol (formerly DAT) is an interesting case study. It has a level of maturity and delivers on many of the id
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by krrrh 5y ago
It’s like the people who seriously touted Bitcoin as a cheaper payment mechanism in than credit cards 2013. Few of them explored how ~3% fees are a balance between customer rewards, regulatory priorities, and merchant convenience. In places
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by krrrh 5y ago
My parents got an M1 mba a few days ago. When they asked my advice about getting a new laptop they got an earful, and then the favour was returned when I listened to my flabbergasted dad explain to me how his bank website now renders instan
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by krrrh 5y ago
The decade of hand wringing about Tim Cook’s deficiencies as CEO compared to Steve Jobs have got to be put to rest by even the biggest skeptics. The timing, execution, and scale of this transition has been so well done.
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by krrrh 5y ago
It’s the only browser engine, but do all of the privacy protections carry over to iOS versions of Chrome, Brave, Firefox, or Firefox Focus? They all seem to have really different approaches to advertising and tracking and cloud syncing of u
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by krrrh 5y ago
The thing is that I could actually see this working, because advertisers and publishers would have to incentivize people for turning the feature on. If it became widespread known that turning targeting on resulted in seeing relevant 10% dis
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by krrrh 6y ago
Trezors work the same way and I have one that I set up as a backup factor (I still find Authy desktop/mobile the most convenient). It’s very nice to have a paper backup.
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In the nineties I was targeted by a direct mail campaign they ran on Canadians with the eye-catching title "Un-American", in which then made the pitch that it was a reliable source of world news that wasn't overly dominated b
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by krrrh 6y ago
It’s almost certainly just the phone number. Recently Instagram told me that a former business partner of mine had joined and I was surprised to learn that his account was an hair braiding service in Atlanta for women with African lineage (
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by krrrh 6y ago
Using the distinction of paste as copy vs paste as move, instead of overloading the cut metaphor is a better choice semantically. When you cut text or images from a document with ctrl/cmd-x the content is deleted immediately. It’s weir
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by krrrh 6y ago
It’s promoted by the Long Now Foundation, as a way of encouraging thinking on 10,000 year time scales. https://longnow.org/
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by krrrh 6y ago
I've tried it a few times when I've been in periods of relative depression, either with the paper 5 minute journal or with the app of the same name. The habit lasts for a week and then fades away as I start to get engaged in life
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by krrrh 6y ago
If you go back through every major media development, from cheap novels to television, you can find moral panics and calls for formal education to help kids deal with it. It takes time, and it happens unevenly, but culture, social norms, an
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by krrrh 6y ago
Citizens United was explicitly about whether the state could categorize a documentary produced by one company (Citizens United’s Hillary the Movie ) as regulated speech, vs documentaries produced by another company (Dog Eat Dog Film’s Far
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by krrrh 6y ago
A framing on this that Friedman made, which many would find more charitable is that executives of a corporation should not be engaged in social policy within a democracy. Corporations are bound by the laws and regulations established by dem
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by krrrh 6y ago
One thing that stuck with me from that book was the notion that the fine motor control gained through the rote learning of handwriting might carry over into verbal fluency. iirc it was a speculative point in the book, and I wonder if that h
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by krrrh 6y ago
In university I used to take notes with lots of arrows between concepts, while constantly switching between coloured pens, sometimes with an explicit system in mind and sometimes more intuitively. I noticed that this also greatly aided my s
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There was also the transitionary period where teachers and profs would print slides onto transparencies and project those onto a screen. The overhead projectors sometimes had a roll of plastic that they could write on with a felt marker eit
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by krrrh 6y ago
The big surprise in this article is that she was also the founder of Smartfood which she sold to Frito-Lay for $15m. This afforded her the space to develop the mac and cheese business, which she partly sold to Solera capital who developed i
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by krrrh 6y ago
The basic fact that it was a "reader" presumed that people would read the article before commenting, which made it so different from Twitter (and hacker news for that matter) where it seems the majority of people repost and commen
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by krrrh 6y ago
> puts you in one of two firm categories, and any sort of crossing over or breach between categories is impossible I find this debate interesting so I try to read a lot of different perspectives. I think the /r/gendercritical p
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by krrrh 6y ago
An important example of where debate and information can be foreclosed upon is that /r/detrans, a vital support community for detransitioners, has been temporarily banned in the past by overzealous admins, and the mods had to appe
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by krrrh 6y ago
After I watched Solaris I decided to space out the other Tarkovsky films over a period of years. They each hit me so hard that I wanted to always know there was one waiting for me that I could look forward to seeing, ideally as a restored p
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An interesting note here is that the edition most people have read was translated into English from a French edition. Lem wasn't happy with the translation, and there was a direct Polish to English translation done in 2011 which was bl
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Bison have never roamed outside of North America, so let’s look at local cattle numbers instead of worldwide populations if we want to compare. There are 94.4 million cattle in the United States and around 4.5 million in Canada according to
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> I'd like to say that I'm sure we have actually increased biomass density. If we had not, our farms wouldn't be doing their jobs very well. As you stated, this doesn’t need to be the case since a lot productivity gains co
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Some cultural evolution is quite random and idiosyncratic. The US had a way big photocopied zine subculture in the 90s, and reading these comments I can see a lot of similar patterns of young people mailing and sharing their creations amd e

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