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by pibaker 5mo ago
> In the long term In case anyone is wondering how Tesla’s stock price remain wildly detached from its business reality, keep these four words in mind. If you can convince people that anything about you and your business has to be evalua
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I don't miss the loading bar. The progress in the bar never seems to correlate well with the actual time taken. It's not uncommon to have a progress bar breeze through the first half in seconds and spend minutes on the later half
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by pibaker 5mo ago
A physical store stocked with what? EBay’s strength in today's world is its enormous base of third party sellers all over the world carrying the most niche odds and ends you can think of. Just to be able to show these seller's mer
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by pibaker 5mo ago
K mart is at the very minimum a viable business. GameStop is a meme stock attached to the brand of a moribund business model. I just don't see a world where GameStop's core business ever gains relevance again when gamers have show
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Seatbelt laws have very limited impact outside vehicle safety. Nor does it open a slippery slope that leads to buses and trains and elevators and dining chairs and beds getting their own seatbelts. Regulation on speech threatens the basis o
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by pibaker 5mo ago
It becomes even more wild when you put it next to the response to cloudflare getting blocked in certain European countries during sports matches. People love to ask the big government daddy to step on them and when it actually happens they
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by pibaker 5mo ago
And how do you think any other website decides what to recommend you, if not other users' actions? Remember the Netflix prize? The data set they gave you is how other people rated movies. You can absolutely build a recommendation syste
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by pibaker 5mo ago
HN is better than a lot of places such as most of Reddit but saying HN prevents mass hysteria is laughable. When xz was backdoored I saw people were asking open source projects to require government IDs to prevent future attacks. When LK99
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by pibaker 5mo ago
How many people do you think use HN's "new" and "comments" pages? These are exactly what you asked for, a feed of the website you are currently on without the recommendation system's influence. I personally fin
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by pibaker 5mo ago
You cannot just switch an entire country's energy source on a finger snap nor do we have a viable alternative for making nitrogen based fertilizer. East Asia, which is heavily dependent on Middle East gas, is already bracing for energy
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by pibaker 5mo ago
By stopping integer counts do you mean not collecting upvotes and downvotes at all or just not displaying them? If it is the later, I think it can be an interesting experiment, although I doubt it matters that much because you can still gau
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I think by having a roof GP meant lives in a house instead of an apartment. If you don't have your own roof you probably don't have land either.
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by pibaker 5mo ago
"The trouble with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money."
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by pibaker 5mo ago
And yet juvenile crime rate is down. Bullying is down. Teenage pregnancy is way down. Even underage smoking and drinking is down. Maybe porn and violence is making today's teenager behave better than those 30 years ago after all!
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Lol I haven't seen anyone call Belarus white Russia in what, the past two decades? Some people do be like that Japanese solider fighting a already lost war decades after. I have never said turkiye before nor do I care about the country
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by pibaker 5mo ago
I wish people stop using generic hero images that do not relate to the article, AI or not. It's not that I have trouble scrolling past yet another stock photo of Scandinavian forests on a tech blog. It's that they make the entire
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by pibaker 5mo ago
There are also life and death scenarios where being able to show a broken page saves lives. Imagine there is a storm coming in your area and the government website listing addresses of emergency shelters is barely loading because it is over
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by pibaker 5mo ago
Do you think DVDs were manufactured in mom and pop workshops untainted by corporate influence? Quite the opposite actually. Every DVD and DVD drive legally sold had to pay licensing fees! So is blueray! https://www.cnet.com/
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> they are displayed instead of erroring out. I think what is lost on many people, ironically even the ones who want to retvrn the web to its former glory, is that the browser tries to display broken, half transmitted content because it
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by pibaker 5mo ago
> Adding scripting capabilities was a mistake, so we can avoid it now. > Instead, you can provide a Geo link to open the location in any client that supports the protocol. Sorry but as someone old enough to remember when the web was m
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by pibaker 6mo ago
People still see HN as a valuable place for promoting their businesses. Usually some poorly thought out SaaS. If you look at what people outside HN talk about HN, it's not uncommon to see wannabe tech entrepreneurs talking about how to
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by pibaker 6mo ago
In the case of Reddit and HN a lot of it is done by businesses either blatantly advertising themselves or building up the karma they need to effectively do so. I recall reading obviously AI generated replies to news articles written by acco
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by pibaker 6mo ago
Ageism comes for everyone unless they die early. Racism usually only happens to some.
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by pibaker 6mo ago
Forget about other people. Let anyone who hasn't ever let food expire under his own watch open the first thermos.
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by pibaker 6mo ago
Everyone who knows what a microwave is knows microwaving a dog kills it. How many people do you think realize that pressure can build up in a thermos if leftover food or drink ferments in it? And even if you know the danger, how do you know
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by pibaker 6mo ago
As far as I know Canada uses paper ballots and count the votes in front of witnesses at polling places. I doubt you can sabotage the system by just meddling electronic records.
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by pibaker 6mo ago
Agreed. I keep seeing "high priority" "vulns" that require so much system access to actually exploit that they become pointless. If an untrusted process can read your memory or run as an administrator you have already lo
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by pibaker 6mo ago
Good lord, why are users of free software always act so entitled towards developers they have paid not a single cent to? Just "simply" port your native GUI application to a completely different platform and make sure everything wo
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by pibaker 6mo ago
People keep asking airlines to raise price for better service and then every time they travel they hop on a price comparison website to find the ticket with the lowest sticker price, punishing companies for actually raising prices.
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by pibaker 6mo ago
But you don't need to open a menu to navigate to another page on an old school web page. Web pages in the 00s just showed you links to other parts of the website on a navbar that is always there. I agree this website is optimized for p

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