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by notatoad 3y ago
as the article touches on here, there's two things that Lance Armstrong deserves criticism for: one is being a cheater. the other is being a raging asshole who was outspoken against doping, published multiple books professing how clean
812.
by notatoad 3y ago
I'd guess that they probably do see the consequences, but we don't. The one thing that a company in this situation really doesn't want is more attention. So they make the problem go away as quietly as possible, and if the
813.
by notatoad 3y ago
this article seems to have some actual pictures: https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/04/californians-will-get-used-us... the previous configuration as shown on the satellite image looks a lot like the intersection To
814.
by notatoad 3y ago
>This breaking news story has been updated. lol yes, the months-long process of constructing a roundbaout definitely qualifies as "breaking news"
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by notatoad 3y ago
if the big gaping hole is only a problem because it causes a "depressurization event", then categorizing it as a depressurization event make sense?
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by notatoad 3y ago
"no reported cases" is a lot less of a weasel-phrase in an industry that has mandatory reporting of these things.
817.
by notatoad 3y ago
typo pretty blatantly ripped off the unique shape of the blackberry keys that makes them easier to hit than normal mini keyboards. i'm not a fan of the patent system, but that seems like an actual novel thing that blackberry legitimat
818.
by notatoad 3y ago
this doesn't eliminate parking spots. they're eliminating parking minimums , which in most cases are not backed by any sort of science or study - parking minimums get set mostly randomly, as a roadblock for development that peop
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by notatoad 3y ago
people don't like paying money for things. if you're willing to pay, the chatGPT app is going to be a better experience. the only reason to use the copilot app is to get gpt4 for free. and that means ads.
820.
by notatoad 3y ago
i doubt it's less actual cost, but they definitely make more money overall by being able to rotate the ads more frequently.
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by notatoad 3y ago
> I get like 3-5 spams per week in my inbox I'm more curious about the opposite metric: how many non-spam emails a week arent getting delivered to you? Because that seems to be the real flaw in spamassassin: the false positive rate
822.
by notatoad 3y ago
You're holding it wrong.
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by notatoad 3y ago
You don't file a dmca takedown against a video, you file against a URL. All you're claiming is that your copyrighted content is somewhere in that url. But even if you were filing against a video directly, it doesn't mean you
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by notatoad 3y ago
there's two independent statements: - i am authorized by the owner of this piece of copyrighted work - this copyrighted work appears at this url. the first needs to be true under penalty of perjury. the second can be as false as you w
825.
by notatoad 3y ago
"porn" is poorly defined and has definitely been used to censor things before that aren't necessarily pornography. whether or not you agree with the blocking of that sort of content, supporting these sort of restrictions on p
826.
by notatoad 3y ago
maybe i just bought cheap tape, but i've definitely found gaffers tape to leave a residue if left in place for a couple years. especially on electronics that are generating some heat.
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by notatoad 3y ago
pre-emptive mirror, because the site seems like maybe it's not going to handle much more of HN's traffic: https://imgur.com/c7uQbFr
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by notatoad 3y ago
>Resolution: 1366x768 glad to see there's not even an attempt to defend this.
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by notatoad 3y ago
given the position of "sex" and "xxx" on the list, it seems like it's either misclicks, or just the worldwide population of teenage boys searching for things and ending up on wikipedia, probably because the site the
830.
by notatoad 3y ago
"paying the water bill" is a pretty normal thing for a large portion of the world. certainly for most of america. paying for water is not a dystopia. and taking a totally normal part of life and calling it "dystopian"
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by notatoad 3y ago
There's tons of simple, reliable EVs on the market for under $5000 and they're selling at rates that vastly outpace all these premium EVs. It's just that they have two wheels and no climate control.
832.
by notatoad 3y ago
you can also just screenshot the QR code they give you to register your TOTP authenticator, and share it with the other maintainers. sites implementing 2fa don't make it easy to share the keys (because they shouldn't, that's
833.
by notatoad 3y ago
it's not going to eradicate them, but if you just want your patio clear for an evening thermocell (and the knock-off refills from aliexpress) work great. removing standing water on your property is a good start, but mosquitoes are a l
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by notatoad 3y ago
>Hacker News allows people to use the old front page ranking algorithm, which only counts votes from early users. Early users are defined as being created before Feb 13, 2008. anybody remember the significance of that date? i apparently
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by notatoad 3y ago
The prime video experience is just incredibly bad. To the point where even though I pay for prime, I pirate the shows I want to watch instead of watching them in the prime app on my tv.
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by notatoad 3y ago
here's the patents in question: - "Multiple wavelength sensor substrate" https://patents.google.com/patent/US7761127B2/en - "Physiological monitoring devices, systems, and methods" https:
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by notatoad 3y ago
>very few people i know it's relatively few people compared to the number of people with state charges, but the reporting on this says it's thousands of people. which, in absolute terms, is a lot of people.
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by notatoad 3y ago
people love to say this like it's some sort of "gotcha" claim, and waymo is cheating at safety by only rolling out their service in places where they're certain they can operate safely. how about no, let's not send
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by notatoad 3y ago
Yes, because most greyhound stops have been undignified places for a long time
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by notatoad 3y ago
they really do need terminals at interchanges. not so much at the stops that are just stops. i used to take greyhound pretty frequently on one of these gas-station milk runs, and it worked okay. but when you've got a place where mult

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