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781.
by labster 3y ago
For comparison, newcomers like Gmail have only been in the market for 19 years.
782.
by labster 3y ago
I thought that red didn’t touch black in the German flag, it touches sable, which is a fur. And furs can be placed on metal or color. … yeah, rules lawyering.
783.
by labster 3y ago
Heraldic rules should apply to flags, insofar as it is centuries of graphic design knowledge about what can be distinguished from a distance, and in low-light. Politics aside, the white-blue-white flag is simply a better design than the cur
784.
by labster 3y ago
Debugging is twice as hard as writing new code. So if you write code as cleverly as you can, you are by definition not smart enough to debug it.
785.
by labster 3y ago
This is why I will never pay for YouTube Premium. Imagine having a recurring charge that you can’t terminate because your account was deleted for some unrelated service, and you have no phone number or office to contact. Limit your interact
786.
by labster 3y ago
Make 90%+ of your neighbors get vaccinated, then bask in your glorious herd immunity.
787.
by labster 3y ago
A real automotive neighsayer
788.
by labster 3y ago
Toyota took a big bet on hydrogen power, so we’re not going to see an electric Corolla until they finally give in. As for the price point, electric production is still scaling out. And consumers don’t think they want vehicles with shorter r
789.
by labster 3y ago
The Mozilla Foundation should really sever all ties with the Mozilla Corporation. There’s no way that they should want to be associated with such a scummy company as a public charity.
790.
by labster 3y ago
The man who typed those artisanal words of inspiration to Firefox Connect deserves our most authentic kudos for bringing that insightful vision of change to the world. Mozilla brand managers should be the first jobs replaced by AI.
791.
by labster 3y ago
We on the left realized that John Brown got it right. Sometimes you have to march to the sea to get basic human rights.
792.
by labster 3y ago
Do they follow the Berne Convention on Snarfright?
793.
by labster 3y ago
So that was the answer to the halting problem.
794.
by labster 3y ago
Whoosh
795.
by labster 3y ago
What a stupid section to start on. They should have done LA-Anaheim-San Diego or SF-San José or Sac-Stockton and started making money on shorter routes. Instead, they’re building a longer stretch between less populated and less wealthy citi
796.
by labster 3y ago
I voted for California High Speed Rail when I was in university. I’m middle-aged now. I hope that one day, my grandchildren will be able to take that train.
797.
by labster 3y ago
Headline is wrong. He didn’t graduate from college, he earned associate’s degrees which makes him still an undergraduate.
798.
by labster 3y ago
That should depend on population size. I can’t think of any geniuses 100 years after Imhotep. Galen is roughly a century after Heron. And in the 20th century, we had Einstein, Heisenberg, Curie, Lorenz, Planck, Schrödinger, and Feynman in p
799.
by labster 3y ago
Volumes should be given in units of cubic acres.
800.
by labster 3y ago
A moment of silence for all of the nines we lost today.
801.
by labster 3y ago
Bing is a good Bing. Now repeat after me: Klaatu nicto…
802.
by labster 3y ago
I got “microprinter” which has a Wikipedia page.
803.
by labster 3y ago
Anyone offering free legal advice on HN today?
804.
by labster 3y ago
How is that different from any other century? It doesn’t seem unique to the 21st century. Bad leaders who value power above virtue is part of the human condition. Back in the 90s we all thought the internet would be the killer app to solve
805.
by labster 3y ago
Technically you own shares of a mutual fund, and the mutual fund owns the stock. Unless the mutual fund only owns its shares via ownership share in a bank, which owns a derivative which owns the 0.0015 shares. Which is generally why respons
806.
by labster 3y ago
If you need a detox from Twitter, maybe your account getting repossessed is a good thing for your health. Elon is doing this for public health.
807.
by labster 3y ago
Some discussion on the same topic which mods will hopefully merge into this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35910310
808.
by labster 3y ago
I also tried to install WSL that day, but that’s just a package with no customization. Seems unlikely.
809.
by labster 3y ago
I disabled OneDrive syncing on Edge, and the next time Windows refused to boot. I had to reinstall the OS from the recovery partition. Tracking: it’s mandatory!
810.
by labster 3y ago
No one cares about a factor of two in astronomy.

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