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by skeltoac 10mo ago
Nice. Conspicuously missing a link to a wordpress.com blog.
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by skeltoac 10mo ago
At its core, a case for allowing sectoral bargaining which would give creatives the massive BATNA they need to overcome the imbalance of power.
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by skeltoac 1y ago
I played this! The quadcopter with the straw hat got me. Funny and great fun. At the end I was still full of ideas for optimizing my code and the dev was making breaking changes that would require a full rewrite (a good time guaranteed) but
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by skeltoac 1y ago
You call the users lazy for not wanting to read software manuals. Maybe you should rtfm on what other people are actually like.
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by skeltoac 1y ago
The situation we have is fine. You can make hardware with features these people want, or you can make hardware with features those people want.
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by skeltoac 1y ago
> I'm totally fine with people who usually write about tech and suddenly write about baking, it makes life in my RSS reader that much more fun. :) I recently read something in my tech feed about avant-garde perfumes and it ignited a
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by skeltoac 1y ago
> When I started this blog – 17 years ago! – I installed WordPress’s analytics plugin I wrote that plugin and the backend service. That wasn’t my original idea. It started as something else: a plugin for adding your blog to a traffic ran
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by skeltoac 1y ago
I experienced holotropic breathwork recently with a trained coach who was also a very old and trusted friend. It felt perfectly safe. I won’t describe it here other than to say that it was the most emotionally stimulating experience I have
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by skeltoac 1y ago
Shamanic Breathwork Playlist https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1a7zNMgtIr36yNEkeTj4nC
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by skeltoac 1y ago
Virginia has built a reputation for tighter highway speed enforcement than most other places. There are officers out there enforcing as hard as the judges will let them. Now Virginia will put speed control devices in the cars of repeat offe
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by skeltoac 1y ago
Contracts are negotiable. Don’t like the numbers in paragraph twelve? Can’t agree to forfeit one of the rights listed in appendix G? Redline it and see what they say. EULA, TOS, and Docusign have mostly forced people to forget their right t
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by skeltoac 2y ago
I especially enjoyed the link to The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton, which I hadn't read before. Now I wonder what "discoveries" have been built into today's AI models and how they might come to be detrimental. http:&#x2F
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by skeltoac 2y ago
Wondering whether glyphosate-resistant plants will keep their resistance after glyphosate is no longer being used. Will that vestigial trait become a liability due to some extra energy costs, and eventually fall back out of the gene pool?
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by skeltoac 2y ago
We don’t like to say “we told you so” around here, but get ready…
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by skeltoac 2y ago
New ASIN. They can take a physically unbranded product and list it under a new name brand at will. They can change the quantity or bundle. They can change an irrelevant attribute. Amazon plays ignorant. I sell a product there and some of my
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by skeltoac 2y ago
- Great idea, thanks for sharing! - country-city does not work well in the US because we have many duplicated city names in different states - what harsh reputation? :)
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Boeing Starliner capsule returns without astronauts(cnn.com)
2 points by skeltoac 2y ago|0 comments
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by skeltoac 2y ago
Disclosures: I read the ruling before reading Matt Stoller’s article. I am a subscriber of his. I have written content recommendation algorithms for large audiences. I recommend doing one of these three things. Section 230 is not canceled.
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by skeltoac 3y ago
Warning: keep floor dry.
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by skeltoac 3y ago
I might be able to fly under the radar but I’ve already experienced having my products flagged as having too-high prices. It’s too risky.
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by skeltoac 3y ago
Amazon Marketplace seller and Prime member here. I make and sell my own patented product that nobody else makes or sells. Amazon says prices will go up and they are right: prices will go up on Amazon. They don’t mention that prices will als
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Amazon’s response to FTC antitrust lawsuit(aboutamazon.com)
1 points by skeltoac 3y ago|1 comments
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by skeltoac 3y ago
Amazon charges exorbitant fees to Marketplace sellers and adds to the cost of everything sold on Amazon. Are you aware of who is the seller every time you buy something? When the seller is not Amazon, do you know how much of the price is go
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by skeltoac 3y ago
FBA seller here, too. I make and sell my own patented device which nobody else makes or sells. I have competitors in the same category but my product is novel, more functional, and more expensive to make. I was doing FBM (fulfillment by mer
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by skeltoac 3y ago
See also the MIDI slide whistle by the same artist. Hilarious and very smart. https://mitxela.com/projects/slide
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by skeltoac 3y ago
The author is Phil Plait, Bad Astronomer. He is writing for an audience that is not as technically well-informed as most of HN, so it’s no surprise to see his writing called out as “pedantic” by… a bunch of pedants! He’s helping people unde
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by skeltoac 3y ago
Toward the end of the article they mention the investments LEGO are making into developing sustainable, plant-based plastics. They are doing the work. Keep buying LEGO and feel good knowing you are helping to curb the plastic waste problem.
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by skeltoac 3y ago
Other than children, the coolest thing I have made is a medical device. It’s only Class I (requiring no pre-market approvals) but I still had to register with the FDA before selling it. At first I was making software while selling my device
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by skeltoac 3y ago
Reminds me of the API that WordPress used for the Blogger-to-WordPress importer way back in the day: replace your Blogger template with a given format that the import script could parse. One of my earliest contributions to open source was a
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by skeltoac 3y ago
Off topic. Scrolled a little bit past the thread and almost got caught up in Twitter’s hate bait algorithm. Sexual imagery and I didn’t ask for. This is why I need to remember never to follow links to Twitter, no matter what, ever. One of t

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