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by lazyjones 5y ago
I would love to have pre-spam Usenet back, or threaded forums like they used to make them before everyone used the BB-style flat forums. But I can understand companies not wanting to bother with this kind of software, moderation, data reten
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by lazyjones 5y ago
Geizhals had a rough stance in Germany. Despite being very early on the market, it used the .at TLD (and later geizhals.cc and geizhals.net) because it was impossible to acquire the .de domain. It was later bought by a competitor who turned
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by lazyjones 5y ago
Austria has had both male and female world champions a few years ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world_table_football_c... There's 3 different popular table "systems" I have seen: Garlando, Leo
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by lazyjones 5y ago
The .eu domain was never really pushed, it's been using NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW for many years to avoid duplicated content penalties from Google and double crawling. The .at/.de domains should still be very visible in Google, at least t
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by lazyjones 5y ago
I don't remember all 8, but NRE, Krob, Plug, Birg, Actron, Academia were among them AFAIR. The earliest archive.org has proof for can be seen in the dropdown here: https://web.archive.org/web/19990508145612/ht
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by lazyjones 5y ago
Geizhals is much older, was mostly focused on IT/electronics for many years and is thus strongest in these categories. Idealo is broader (due to its much larger team/company) but sometimes lacking detail where Geizhals is good, an
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by lazyjones 5y ago
Funny that this is trending for the first time on HN after all these years. FWIW, I was the original founder and developer. This started as a Perl script crawling 8 local merchants' price lists and writing a single HTML file (some time
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by lazyjones 5y ago
pricewatch.com was the original inspiration for this website and pricegrabber.com was (apparently until some years ago) a close equivalent for many years. Both have changed dramatically though.
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by lazyjones 5y ago
The title and article are wrong. They raided his ex's apartment (a household with 2 small kids; he was still registered as living there but had moved out) even after the offender presented himself to police and admitted sending that Tw
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by lazyjones 5y ago
I've done a few MRI scans around the head (both 3T and 1.5T machines) and I tasted this metallic taste every time, despite staying still as much as possible (I'm not so bad at it).
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by lazyjones 5y ago
From my observations, the most plausible explanation is that it's an organized campaign, augmented by many people unaware of the fact. Not cultural conquest, but sabotage.
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by lazyjones 5y ago
Unfortunately, large parts of the IT industry thrive on excess complexity in software and languages. Which is probably why Wirth's languages went out of fashion at some point in the early 1990's. As far as Go is concerned, it real
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by lazyjones 5y ago
Only if they are carefully chosen to support a particular narrative.
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by lazyjones 5y ago
Europe has many broken laws that serve only to erode society. If you lose your rights to your own property because someone breaks into it, what's the point of owning real estate? Similarly, illegal migrants from some countries can just
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by lazyjones 5y ago
> European doctors will never prescribe this officially) as I reach 50-60. In Austria you can get HGH from several normal doctors easily (even against "stress" or sleeplessness). E.g. https://antiaging-wien.at/w
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by lazyjones 5y ago
So what was the state (pH value) of the oceans when we evolved there millions of years ago? My question was very specific and not about protecting the environment in general.
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by lazyjones 5y ago
As a long-time customer (since the late 90's) I am also frustrated with Amazon these days because it's now impossible to judge the quality of the products as the website is swamped with cheap asian knock-off products, fake brands
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by lazyjones 5y ago
The ocean's "natural state"? What is their natural state, when we look at the past 4 billion years or so? We know of several extinction events in the oceans tens of millions of years ago, the oceans always recovered without a
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by lazyjones 5y ago
Plenty of people got it from blood transfers, among other things.
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by lazyjones 5y ago
And what is the average mileage with SUV or trucks vs. other cars? What is the average age of truck drivers vs. other cars? There are many other interesting factors here that were completely ignored.
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by lazyjones 5y ago
In general, protecting pedestrians is not the main goal of car design. They are built to protect the passengers of the car. As long as there are very heavy, dangerous (in case of an accident) vehicles on the road (samis/trucks, buses),
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by lazyjones 5y ago
I am not sure what parts of my post you have issues with. https://www.scb.se/en/About-us/news-and-press-releases/exces...
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by lazyjones 5y ago
Covid deaths aren't the same as "excess deaths". It's just one of many causes of deaths over a year. Excess deaths is the difference between expected (typically an average of the past 5 years) and actual number of deaths
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by lazyjones 5y ago
What "excess 10k dead"? Sweden basically only reported excess mortality in early 2020 and since then it has a mortality deficit.
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by lazyjones 5y ago
It's ramping up and in high demand, but you will find reviews from buyers all over Youtube.
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by lazyjones 5y ago
> But as the owner of a Model 3, with a deposit in for a Cybertruck, all I’ve seen materialize in the last year are “cold weather improvements”. So, you missed the Model S Plaid release?
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by lazyjones 5y ago
Italy still has a similar programme, anyone remember the "$1 house" articles? https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... If there are no strings attached, which I doubt (in Italy i
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by lazyjones 5y ago
The battery will have to be 93-100 kWh for this, which is not far-fetched.
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by lazyjones 5y ago
>> Electric cars, Mr. Toyoda pointed out, are only as clean as the electricity that powers them and the factories where they are built The total disregard for the impact of ICE on their direct surroundings, people who breathe in the e
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by lazyjones 5y ago
I presume robots.txt is still ignored in this case?

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