rationalist

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   by rationalist 4mo ago

   > eSIMs ... design[ed] to increase lock-in. Probably because you're assuming facts not in evidence. I'm not doubting you, but please provide a source for such an assertion.
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   by rationalist 4mo ago

   > is a … app > you just don't use apps. An app isn't an "app" if I don't install it? I have banking "apps" and others which obviously do require internet access to function properly, but the hundreds
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   by rationalist 4mo ago

   I got the covid vaccine (Pfizer) and I still get other vaccines, but it was 100% "inflicted" on everyone (especially with the Federal government requiring civil servants to get it). To believe otherwise is to succumb to the polit
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   by rationalist 4mo ago

   > outside of the UK > I don't know why My guess is because it has a negative connotation (the pre-2020 definition of jabbing someone was to hit someone, not inject someone).
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   by rationalist 4mo ago

   I have friends and coworkers that want to have rental properties, and I advise them it's not worth it. I don't want to be in a position where I have to pay more to fix damages than I collectected in rent if I accidentally rent to
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   by rationalist 4mo ago

   It was introduced in the HDMI 1.4 specification. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI#Version_1.4
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   by rationalist 4mo ago

   This would be quite the scandal if you can substantiate/document it. People always say, "jUsT dO nOt CoNnEcT your TV to you WiFi" which is asinine. People say that theoretically TVs can get an internet connection through HDMI
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   by rationalist 4mo ago

   At the OS level, Android gives me the option to open links in the corresponding app.
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   by rationalist 4mo ago

   Android gives me that option at the OS level.
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    You are right, it is BS. Non-multiplayer games, clock, camera, contacts, phone, text message, file explorer, keyboard, launcher, notes, document viewer/editor, image viewer, audio recorder... Most of the apps on my phone do not need in
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    It's interesting.
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    66k for me, but I didn't get that word, instead I got ones like Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, Flibbertigibbet, and Brobdingnagian... which the latter two interestingly do show up in my keyboard's word completion suggestion
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    First result of many after a quick internet search: https://www.pcmag.com/news/fbi-recommends-installing-an-ad-b...
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    > 24. Download and install Google Chrome. (Yeah, nah, ~6 minutes) > 1. Make default browser Install Chrome sure, but also install Firefox with the uBlock Origin addon and make Firefox the default browser. Seriously, having an adbloc
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    Always look both ways on a one-way street. I've seen other drivers drive the wrong way down one-way streets. I've also accidentally done it when the signage was non-existent where I got on the street.
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48579650
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    I saw this article just after I received an email from Slate saying that their ~$30k electric truck will be available for order next week. And interestingly, Ford actually released these pictures and videos themselves rather than someone ha
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    Ford's New $30k Electric Truck(carbuzz.com)

    4 points by rationalist 4mo ago|1 comments
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    > if you have an asset that can be sold, that's part of your worth I guess the difference between you and I; I don't judge someone's worth that way. I also don't presume to tell others what to do with their own stuff.
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    > he is worth No, he has ownership in stuff valued at X amount. > should not be physically possible And it isn't. It's all imaginary. He doesn't have 4 billion apples compared to my 1 apple. > it's a failure
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    To be fair, it was in clearance.
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashforward_(novel)
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    There's always the wrong-time-wrong-place situation, as well as running into an officer who is having a bad day or behind on his quota - lots of stories of police pulling over people who blow 0.0 on the breathalyzer and arrest them any
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    Please do not use GoDaddy.
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    I sent my sibling who has a child, a link to TryPixie, hopefully they use it.
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    It's not cash sitting in an account. It's completely meaningless and just used as a political lever IMO. He didn't steal $120+ from every person on earth, he created a trillion in "value". We aren't poorer for
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    You might have to create some accounts and fake activity like reddit did when they first started. The trust referral system is like an idea I have had, but never tried to execute, so good idea! :-)
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    I barely use it as much as I once did, but once old.reddit is gone, so am I.
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    Who is flagging all of the comments? Someone who works for Facebook?
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    by rationalist 4mo ago

    I clicked "hide" on your thread, then visited https://news.ycombinator.com/hidden?id=rationalist and did not see anything. I then clicked the back button and then un-hide. (I have never "hidden" anythin