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by nostromo 4y ago
I disagree. Increasing ad impressions to make up for waning user growth is what a late-stage tech company does. You can only increase impressions so much… it’s not a long term growth strategy. Ads declining in cost is another red flag about
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by nostromo 4y ago
I want DDG to succeed, but I'm worried they missed their window of opportunity. Being a thin wrapper on Bing will only get you so far... I was hoping they were busy building their own search engine the past several years, but it does
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by nostromo 4y ago
Lying and fraud aren’t ok, and founders should be held to account for that. But this doesn’t seem like that. It seems like any disappointed investors just didn’t do the bare minimum you’d expect with an investment of $100m.
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by nostromo 4y ago
That exemption exists for car collectors, who generally have a different set of safety expectations of their cars than you would buying a used car at a corner lot.
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by nostromo 4y ago
This isn't necessarily regulatory capture or protectionism. Half of all cars sold in the US are imported. Toyota, a Japanese company, is the most popular brand of car sold in the US. So, yes, you can import cars all you want, they jus
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by nostromo 4y ago
The amount of those vehicles will obviously be limited. Removing it would allow people to buy cheap cars in places like Mexico, that have loose emissions standards, and drive them around California, which has some of the most stringent emis
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by nostromo 4y ago
What would be the point of safety and emissions regulations if we let everyone bypass them by importing vehicles from abroad? The vehicles meeting the requirements wouldn't be competitive on price because they'd be playing by a di
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by nostromo 4y ago
Because the whole point was to improve the BuzzFeed brand.
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by nostromo 4y ago
A toilet on a boat is called a head because it was historically placed at the front of the boat. You’ll still hear folks say “hit the head” referring to using the restroom.
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by nostromo 4y ago
We’re on the edge of an AI boom, and our tech giants are cutting rather than investing. This seems like a bad strategy.
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by nostromo 4y ago
This has to be the biggest pivot I've seen in my life. A truly epic reworking of an entire company from successful business model A to successful business model B -- both wildly successful. And really there was a second pivot too: fr
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by nostromo 4y ago
I love it! It'd be nice if there was a way to say what is and is not changeable. For example, I noticed it usually improves the view outside of the windows to be beautiful vistas -- not something you can do without moving. Being able
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by nostromo 4y ago
Join a sports team and stick with it. You’ll have lots of friends in no time. Being part of a team and working on something together that’s not work and doing it consistently over years is key. I see the same group of fifty people two time
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by nostromo 4y ago
If you care about getting things done more than fitting in, the Cybertruck actually looks like a much better work truck than a relatively delicate F150.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Just cover the canals as cheaply as possible. And then put solar panels where it makes sense to put them. Sometimes that might be over the covered canals, but often not.
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by nostromo 4y ago
I think you're right, but for the wrong reasons. Actual evidence-based science would be fantastic. But a lot of what I've seen being touted as "science" in this field is flimsy or not science at all. The primary cause
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by nostromo 4y ago
Well, the old food pyramid hasn't been used in almost 20 years now.
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by nostromo 4y ago
If you can play basketball like a pro, you’ll get in no matter how old you are.
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by nostromo 4y ago
That header exists, but the EU decided to go in a different, and much more annoying, direction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track
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by nostromo 4y ago
Your comment borders on defending violent crime and murder. As if stabbings are part of San Francisco's quirky, artsy past, and the people that live here should think of violent crime as character-building.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Money can be easily tracked. Editorial independence cannot be. I actually think NPR has been captured by their audience in the same way MSNBC and Fox News has been. They know member donations are their biggest funding source, so they larg
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by nostromo 4y ago
If the public funding isn’t important to them, then don’t take it and become truly independent. Or keep the funding and be open about it. I suspect most of NPR's followers are fine with their public funding, it's literally in the
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by nostromo 4y ago
No. Scammed, tricked, or even bamboozled would be much more common.
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California to lend 20% down payments with 0% interest for homebuyers(kpbs.org)
38 points by nostromo 4y ago|68 comments
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by nostromo 4y ago
I have found Chat-GPT content to be superior to most human-created content I find in Google search results.
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by nostromo 4y ago
I support the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) instead of the ACLU since they’ve lose their way.
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by nostromo 4y ago
There are several states in the US where rents are cheaper than in Shenzhen.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Obviously you don’t tell people you’ve tapped their cables. You also don’t tell people that you know they’ve tapped your cable. But we do know of one because it was a high-profile case of espionage. It’s a super interesting story. https:
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by nostromo 4y ago
Interesting that he’s not listed on the top users list: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders
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by nostromo 4y ago
I love these silly FBI "teenage boy badass" images they put up after they seize a website: https://genesis.market/ The FBI agent in a hoodie, eating a cookie while hacking into the Matrix is just too good.

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