oliv__

21 ms·

211.
by oliv__ 5y ago
"Mr. Hall secured funding from the Internet Society to set up NYC Mesh’s first “supernode” on top of the former Verizon building in downtown Manhattan" Isn't that a "secret" government agency location now?
212.
by oliv__ 5y ago
How are they related? I don't really get it
213.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Copying someone's comment on WSJ: "Cooking with nat gas is ~ 3% of gas use which is about 0.001% of US fossil fuel use which is about 0.001% of global fossil fuel emissions. Banning gas cooking is farcical virtue signaling if you
214.
by oliv__ 5y ago
As if gas stoves were a primary reason for carbon emissions. This is just ridiculous regulations overreach. EDIT: anyone who downvotes is welcome to provide a stat and make a fool of themselves
215.
by oliv__ 5y ago
And who will act as the judge to decide which other rights to balance it with and the relative power of rights over each other? Let me take a wild guess... the government???
216.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Queue private agency testing, evaluating and rating products on the market
217.
by oliv__ 5y ago
How did this land on the front page?
218.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Sorry to be a downer, I like the concept but the renderings on your website look so cold and impersonal to me, like tired clichés of their styles. I personally wouldn't want to live in a WeWork
219.
by oliv__ 5y ago
"If we had less time to waste we would waste less time." Citation needed here. I personally wouldn't be so sure about that
220.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Well, great maybe the AI can create and run a few more successful SaaS businesses for me
221.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Man that is an ugly plane. I sure hope this shape doesn't come to replace the more classic shape we currently have for passenger aircraft
222.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Refine your mind
223.
by oliv__ 5y ago
No snark implied but what a great ad for the author! This was very fun to read, and an interesting window into the processes and inner workings of a startup that size.
224.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Seeing the current state of freedom and rights across the world, I'd much rather have to deal with my own national crooks than a worldwide organization purporting to fight for my rights
225.
Ask HN: Why is there not a good platform for browsing all events near me?
2 points by oliv__ 5y ago|3 comments
226.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Make it Vaccine Internet Passports
227.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Talk about a revolving door...
228.
by oliv__ 5y ago
This looks awesome and I hope it succeeds, but I have a tiny nitpick: it's too bad that when they came up with the name they didn't think of a name that sounded good when you say "Just X it": "google it" is bas
229.
by oliv__ 5y ago
I clicked the link expecting to agree with the author but to be honest, I don't think those are dark patterns. Pushy? Yes. Annoying? Sure. But still not what I would call dark patterns. Try booking a cheap airline ticket on RyanAir or
230.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Damn, this could be like the Peloton of Chess: an actual physical board that lets you play with people online. Would be pretty amazing. I'm visualizing a board with magnetized pieces and your opponent's pieces would move on their
231.
Why I switched from Google Places to Mapbox for our Autocomplete API(niceboard.co)
3 points by oliv__ 5y ago|0 comments
232.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Lol. Advertising is the least of my concerns when it comes to surveillance
233.
by oliv__ 5y ago
"and no nanny-state A pillars mean you arent doing 80 in a 65 quite as often." Hmmm.. that certainly doesn't apply to me, and I drive a '96.
234.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Since you mention it only started about three weeks ago, I would try to look at what's changed in your environment (if you haven't already).
235.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Call me crazy but my personal experience has been that whenever I am in a "high" (at least for me) electro-magnetic field environment, I have trouble falling asleep, my sleep becomes terrible, chopped up and I wake up feeling like
236.
by oliv__ 5y ago
What a sick country
237.
by oliv__ 5y ago
> In fact, with vue, you can even put the template in the HTML directly, and just hook the logic on to it, angularjs v1 style. That's what I do, I love the simplicity of it and how it lets you render html pages server side, with
238.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Isn't Javascript terrible for dealing with numerics (floats in particular)?
239.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Looks like there are a few of us out here, but I had the exact same idea years ago as well :)
240.
by oliv__ 5y ago
Maybe near Nation?

More ›