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by krrrh 9y ago
In the late nineties I had the impression that Shepard Fairey’s original Mozilla logo really set the tone for thick border design. So many influential web designers frequently spent time on the site, and it felt like a thousand thick border
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Hijacking this thread to share other approaches to YouTube without YouTube. This site takes a YouTube URL, extracts the audio and adds a link to your personal podcast feed on huffduffer. It’s great for loading a bunch of interviews, lecture
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This comparison really only works if you mean engaging autopilot with a bunch of other planes flying in close formation and if clouds were made of steel and concrete. Most of the time that autopilot is engaged on a flight there is next to z
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The Canadian anti-spam legislation goes so far as to have a specific carve-out for political emails that solicit money [1]. I joined each of the big 3 parties during their leadership campaigns and they all have a practice of ignoring unsubs
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I don’t, but please tell us more about the spillover effects based on your subjective experience. This sounds like something I would try but I’d like to hear more.
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Yes! Even in malls and airports (Tegel specifically). And the cleaner often seems to be spending 90% of their shift guarding the collection plate. There’s a lot of “customer use only” activity in the US, but people will make exceptions, whi
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On the other hand, I could never get over how many German washrooms I have see that had urinals in a corner such that they couldn’t both be used comfortably. I have never seen anything like it in the states. Far from the most extreme exampl
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And cryptocurrencies do not prohibit people from buying and selling others people’s data.
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It’s a common issue with memory foam, and especially closed cell foam. Some of the foam mattresses on the market now use a gel or gel-infused layer to take advantage of phase shifts, while others use a cooling layer with air channels above
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> Finder also has done bulk rename for a few years now. It was worth logging in to HN today just for this, which I had alway relied on third party utilities to do. For anyone else who wasn’t aware, just select multiple files, right click
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Until the recent declines they were already worth ~20% more than Ford or GM. The market cap had already baked in massive success, but the financing necessary to get them there was dependent on an every rising share value. A virtuous cycle u
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I think that the pie of attention is still increasing which offsets the crisis, but the percentage of people running adblockers is rapidly approaching “typical user” in many countries. See the most recent PageFair report, percentage of user
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In Australia the government decided this was non-competitive and regulated interchange fees down to less than half a percent. They still have credit cards, but limited rewards programs. The 3% processing charges are really just inertia in N
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It’s not perfect to still be sharing your social graph, but at least chats are e2e encrypted by default.
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Set up a site specific browser, which makes it easier to sequester all FB cookies and browsing to a separate environment. I use Fluid on macOS, but there are other approaches. http://fluidapp.com
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...and Jauguar is months away from to shipping a strong competitor to the Model S in volume.
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Apparently 25% of Tesla’s cash on hand is reservation deposits for model 3 cars.
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All true, but the fact that “hanging chad” became part of the national lexicon for a while really speaks to a poorly design ballot.
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What if it just took 3 days to count the votes? People looking over each ballot and calling out the results, seconding them, and having someone keep a tally on a big chalkboard. They could even close the markets during the counting process
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Voter lists (allowing for on-site registration with ID or proof of address), tear-away serial numbers, and checks throughout the process, including the election official initialing the back of the ballot they hand you and confirming their i
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Yes, I should have stated that more clearly. I’d also clarify that for 2009-2017 it’s still uncertain. I still wouldn’t hold my breath.
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It isn’t 100% clear because there hasn’t been an explicit ruling from the IRS but it’s very unlikely that crypto to crypto would be considered a 1031 like-kind trade. They didn’t even allow trades between precious metals or gold coins with
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This is the part of the conversation when a Canadian points out that federal elections are conducted on straightforward paper ballots where you mark an X next to the person’s name. They are hand-counted with reps from all of the parties and
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Reddit has actually been slowly lurching towards revealing a redesign for the last couple of months. To be honest they seem almost too paranoid about not messing things up to the point where it feels like progress has been at a standstill f
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Finally James Altucher can go back to doing what he does best.
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Your comment is getting downvotes for your casual absolutist statements, but you have a point. An interesting illustration is that one avenue for artists to get paid for making art that side steps their gallery arrangement is public art for
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It’s a fair argument, but of the dozens of examples I’m personally aware of, from the tiniest and newest galleries to the very biggest blue chip ones, the 50% split basically never varies. The galleries compete on other things including att
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Prop 13 tax rates can also be passed on to family members if they purchase or inherit the house. It’s a great deal for those who can take advantage of it, but it is also unfair and decreases mobility.
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Here’s the press release announcing the new control from December. > People gave us feedback that they would find it easier to manage face recognition through a simple setting, so we’re pairing these tools with a single “on/off” con
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Add that their flat rate pricing is actually a discount for moderately heavy users. If you use half or more of the 1 TB on the pro plan you’re already saving money compared to S3 pricing.[1] This is easy to do if you use something like Arq

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