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by nostromo 1y ago
I worked there and would encourage you not to do that. It'd be smarter to see who they are giving money to (which is all public) and give directly to those orgs. The Gates foundation itself spends a lot of money on consultants, "
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by nostromo 1y ago
It's true, I like my Granny phone. And you can choose a hacker phone if you want! I personally do my hacking on Mac, Linux, and on my RasberryPis, in my secure home and behind a firewall. But I don't want a hacker-friendly phone
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by nostromo 1y ago
This is correct. App devs hate "paying" the 30% cut, but often aren't smart enough to realize that they make more on iOS than Android specifically because it's a high-trust environment and people trust that Apple has the
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by nostromo 1y ago
I want Apple to protect me from app developers. For me, it’s a feature not a bug. I want them to prevent social media companies from tracking my device across my other apps. I want them to integrate billing so I can easily cancel subscript
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by nostromo 1y ago
Trump is in no way a free market ideologue and has made that very clear. Or are you talking about Elon?
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by nostromo 1y ago
Three Tesla models meet the 85% threshold and three do not. If Tesla was writing these rules, surely they'd have chosen the 80% threshold instead. I doubt they see the Ford Mustang as being in their same target market, and wouldn'
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by nostromo 2y ago
In the US your weather app is effectively government run. Your iPhone skins the government data and makes it pretty. Nobody is selling your location or information. And you can always get the data directly if you want.
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by nostromo 2y ago
LLMs are also good at commenting on existing code. It’s trivial to ask Claude via Cursor to add comments to illustrate how some code works. I’ve found this helpful with uncommented code I’m trying to follow. I haven’t seen it hallucinate a
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by nostromo 2y ago
Most developed countries have stopped using fluoride. I think that’s the commenter’s point. The US and Australia are outliers here for sure.
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by nostromo 2y ago
I’d agree that Europe has solved this issue by removing fluoride from drinking water. But beyond Europe there’s still no global consensus. I do agree that the US is an outlier with fluoride being nearly universal.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Yes, they have been regulated by the FDA for a decade now.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Seattle’s climate is a joy. It’s rarely super hot or super cold like a lot of places. You get these ridiculously long summer days that last forever. It’s perfect for athletics and hiking and spending time on the water. And likewise you get
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by nostromo 2y ago
> I enthusiastically applied to various PhD programs, but was unceremoniously rejected, and upon reaching out was met with “…engaging in outdated notions of environmental determinism.” “…you’re playing with fire by suggesting evolved cog
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by nostromo 2y ago
Suddenly seeing broad support for the military industrial complex from Democrats was not on my bingo card for 2025.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Germany can barely construct an airport today and now you think they’re going to develop hundreds of nuclear warheads from the ground up? They don’t even have nuclear power anymore - they shuttered the last of their nuclear power plants. T
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by nostromo 2y ago
It's literally in their lawsuit - they are upset about changes made to WordPress and to WordPress.com - two projects they have no rights to.
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by nostromo 2y ago
> Matt used that market, the users, as leverage against WP Engine. Matt has no obligation to make some other company's customers happy. Even less so when that company has refused to work with WordPress despite basing their entire b
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by nostromo 2y ago
Thank you, I didn't know that and it does complicate things dramatically.
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by nostromo 2y ago
WPE could have forked if they wanted to as I mentioned in my comment, that'd be fine. But they didn't. And then they sued to try and tell WordPress what they could and couldn't do with their own project.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Hacker News was Product Hunt before Product Hunt was born.
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by nostromo 2y ago
The reddit app is so bad, it may actually have been designed to end addiction to reddit.
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by nostromo 2y ago
> The group reduced its annual distribution of stock options by about 10 per cent for most of its staff I thought the reduction would be much bigger given the headline.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Google News is pretty awful nowadays. I feel like Google stopped caring about it years ago.
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by nostromo 2y ago
I organize a lot of events for a rugby team, and our events are now all on Partiful. Maybe it'll go downhill like Evite and Facebook Events - but for now it's quite good.
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by nostromo 2y ago
> Capital owns AI DeepSeek is free and you can run it anywhere. The price of intelligence is quickly trending to zero.
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by nostromo 2y ago
It’s probably not worth bothering to reply. (Political arguments on the internet are dumb and I doubt you’re actually curious to learn more.) But if you actually want to know, look at what Zuckerberg has said since the election, read repor
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by nostromo 2y ago
If you read his book, he’s using an unconventional definition of “monopoly.” It’s more about being so competent as a company that you get large network effects as a moat. He specifically states that he doesn’t support anti-competitive pract
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by nostromo 2y ago
Apple has known their deal with Google was on shaky legal ground for some time. They should have been buying search engine startups and developing one internally for at least a decade now.
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by nostromo 2y ago
Most serious people living in Silicon Valley are deeply skeptical of big tech. Thiel included.
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by nostromo 2y ago
It’s literally how negotiation works.

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