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by rkho 3y ago
The two coolest places I've found Dagashi in Japan have been the top floor of the Super Potato retro gaming store in Akihabara and the faux alleyways inside the Shin-Yokohama Ramen Museum. The product itself isn't really exciting,
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by rkho 3y ago
My parents are in their late sixties and travel internationally quite often and the lack of a physical SIM slot in new iPhones makes them not want to upgrade devices ever, because it would mean that they'd have to learn a whole new par
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by rkho 3y ago
Thanks, that's eye opening.
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by rkho 3y ago
> I doubt you have ever subscribed to the Atlantic. > the rest of your post suggests you share some disturbing opinions on “MSM.” Is this ad hominem? If not, why? > It is possible to believe that Twitter had become a racist alt-rig
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by rkho 3y ago
I remember blue checks were being given out for free mostly to celebrities, do you have a source on him doing so for gold ones? As an aside I'm not a big fan of the lack of diligence in verifying orgs for the gold check, it's enab
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by rkho 3y ago
This is an amazing Gish gallop. Sprinkling in speculation, "read the terms and conditions", claims without sources, and ad hominem.
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by rkho 3y ago
I find it incredibly strange that The Atlantic, a publication I used to have tremendous amounts of respect for, put out an article the other day saying that Twitter has become some alt-right bastion equivalent to Truth Social and Parler[1].
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by rkho 3y ago
WSL and Powertoys (specifically Fancyzones) has gotten me over the hump of transitioning to Windows at my desk. I still love my Macbook Pro, but I no longer feel the need to plug it into an external display. The only thing I consistently mi
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by rkho 4y ago
> This isn't Reddit Sorry, I'm calling bullshit on this. Look at every single thread that discusses cryptocurrency. If you haven't noticed the Redditification of Hacker News, then I envy you.
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by rkho 4y ago
You keep posting Section 2-3 and alluding to Section 2-2, which seems to be the direct definition that you wish to use to actually refute these arguments. Given this, why isn't Section 2-2 also being posted or linked to?
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by rkho 4y ago
I have some exciting news to share with you about our traditional financial markets.
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by rkho 4y ago
How do you quantify each of: - The tech industry - Net positive benefit - Humanity ?
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by rkho 4y ago
> The Apple Watch could be the next big thing that replaces the smartphone I feel like this is a technological limitation of sorts.
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by rkho 4y ago
> If you're a criminal That's a big "if", and it's operating under the assumption that it was objectively correct for the Prime Minister of a civilized nation which claims to be a democracy to invoke emergency po
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by rkho 4y ago
And yet they did: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-17/police-be...
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by rkho 4y ago
I bought a copy of Count Zero on the Kindle Store. Halfway through reading, it refuses to open on my Kindle. Deleting the book and re-downloading it results in the same thing. I update the software, still nothing. No amount of time spent tr
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The MyTechBestfriend Fallout Continues(techcrunch.com)
1 points by rkho 4y ago|1 comments
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by rkho 4y ago
> A live chat window can be relatively ignored and checked once in a while. Some live chat implementations have taken the liberty of requiring an input from your end every X minutes, otherwise the chat terminates. Support agents have lit
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by rkho 4y ago
Get off your high horse. This is disgusting rhetoric unfit for HN.
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by rkho 4y ago
This is beyond exhausting to see on HN on every single thread related to cryptocurrency and unfortunately your comment is the straw the broke the camel's back. The heart of HN is a community which celebrates technical curiosity and exp
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by rkho 4y ago
I believe it's imperative to be conscious of the fact that any rule of thumb can become a conventional wisdom trap given the right circumstances. This very much feels like one of them.
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by rkho 4y ago
> I can't figure out why the media is doing such a terrible job covering this I've lost hope of Hanlon's Razor at this point. It's painfully transparent how purposeful this has been at the media level, and I've c
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by rkho 4y ago
> those use cases will never justify billions of dollars and this much resource, talent and energy poured to it I don't remember the source tweet anymore, but a lot of the interest in crypto from software engineers comes from the be
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by rkho 4y ago
Agree, Twitter and TikTok are two completely separate experiences.
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by rkho 4y ago
Celsius was a centralized exchange, not a cryptocurrency.
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by rkho 4y ago
I agree. The most disingenuous framing of the conventional 3% inflation adjustment (which, as CPI has demonstrated, does not remotely cover inflation) is that it is "a merit increase which is based on performance". Companies who t
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by rkho 4y ago
Should we segue into a discussion about the Nigerian Princes who flood our email inboxes on a daily basis?
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by rkho 4y ago
All the greater motivation for people to grind for independence from the rat race.
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by rkho 4y ago
> and hope it doesn't lose 20% of its value while I'm doing that USDC. DAI. It seems like there is a lot of misunderstanding between what constitutes "a cryptocurrency mature enough to currently use on a regular basis&quot
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by rkho 4y ago
Terraform Labs was based in Seoul. The name of the company was not "Terraluna". I'm uncertain what Silicon Valley has to do with Terraform Labs, WeWork, nor Gravity Payments given that neither of these companies were based in

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