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by lysace 1y ago
I was curious so I looked into it: It looks like about 10x the average UK suicide rate (assuming "the worst case": all male, 40+ over about a decade. In reality some percentage of the about 1000 wrongfully accused will be female,
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by lysace 1y ago
;) There was a similarly named program originally known in the UK as Timeworks Publisher. GEM-based though, hmm.
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by lysace 1y ago
PFS:First Publisher was my fav for a while in the 80s on a clone 8086 PC with CGA (running in mono 640x200). Very impressive performance for the time. It supported loading MacPaint bitmaps (.mac on the PC) and with the “cheap” PC compatibl
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by lysace 1y ago
Icons + labels is usually better than just icons or just labels. This also applies here (1986 vs 1984).
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by lysace 1y ago
It's all fucked up. What's even more fucked up is that your national media (ABC, CBS, NBC, NYT, WP) are all acting like this isn't fucked up. I consider myself a European conservative and I think the US is indeed dramatically
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Trump says will impose 25% tariffs on Japan, South Korea(reuters.com)
15 points by lysace 1y ago|14 comments
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by lysace 1y ago
You are missing the point. Spotify had permission from the copyright holders and/or their national proxies to use those songs in a limited beta in Sweden. They didn't have access to clean audio data directly from the record compan
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by lysace 1y ago
Got any data on that?
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by lysace 1y ago
This is marketing.
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by lysace 1y ago
Making it a competition between EU nations is in HN title speech ”unreasonably effective”. (I mean, Denmark, come on, show your northern neighbors that our assumptions about you are wrong! Etc.)
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by lysace 1y ago
That fire was in 1911.
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by lysace 1y ago
Why do I feel like I’m in an infomercial?
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by lysace 1y ago
It’s great for the very wealthy. See also: Singapore. When I first visited I was amazed at how little traffic there was. Turns out they had imposed so severe costs on car ownership that the vast majority can’t afford to own one. Why Drivin
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by lysace 1y ago
That’s like speed chess vs chess by mail. They are nothing like each other.
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by lysace 1y ago
Do a Show HN post when it’s live. And a few more :). Care about it. Be a good host.
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I would enjoy an HN chat. Is there one?
12 points by lysace 1y ago|21 comments
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by lysace 1y ago
This is how you maintain/nurture a mature service/product. It also works when building something new with a captive audience (banking, insurance, etc.) Everything doesn’t need to be world-class. Sometimes long term development s
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by lysace 1y ago
To pick one sport: https://www.si.com/nba/whats-average-nba-salary-for-2024-25-... > Given the contracts signed so far, the average annual salary for NBA players during the 2024-25 season will be $11,910,649, accord
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by lysace 1y ago
I find some kind of solace in the 100% acceptance of some global standards. We can all agree on at at least some things.
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by lysace 1y ago
That's what IRC is for. (Its Finnish inventor is incidentally working for Google in Stockholm, as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarkko_Oikarinen )
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by lysace 1y ago
On the other hand - you do have amazing fast food!
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by lysace 1y ago
Kind of a missed opportunity for Ookla - who's running both downdetector.com and speedtest.net. The have software running in most ISPs around the world: https://help.speedtest.net/hc/en-us/articles/360039
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by lysace 1y ago
Rush to get things out before the summer vacations? (Is that rush a thing in the US? It kinda is in the EU.)
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by lysace 1y ago
Sometimes a lack of solid product photos/specs/etc is a feature. (To the seller.)
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by lysace 1y ago
Thanks for the correction. I see now that this is also covered here: https://www.icann.org/grant-program-en/#faqs
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Barnier slams 'authoritarian drift' in Brussels under Ursula von der Leyen(politico.eu)
3 points by lysace 1y ago|0 comments
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by lysace 1y ago
> Jesse Armstrong’s rushed Succession follow-up might be heavy on of-the-moment buzzwords, but it’s too smug to make any real point This is unfortunately spot-on. Here's the house, btw: https://www.deervalleyskiestate.com
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by lysace 1y ago
Quite relevant to this question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons Akerlof's paper uses the market for used cars as an example of the problem of quality uncertainty. It concludes that owners of
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by lysace 1y ago
(Use Gemini 2.5 pro in Google AI Studio instead. 25 free requests per day using up to 1M tokens each. I honestly keep being amazed about what it's capable of.)
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by lysace 1y ago
> Today I'm glad I don't have to use Opera Mini anymore, and as a programmer, I hope that my software will at some point have such a strong positive impact on somebody's live as Opera Mini had on mine. That was so nice to

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