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by snowwrestler 2mo ago
> Natural splendor includes forest fires and suffering animals. Correct
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by snowwrestler 2mo ago
They are; the whole idea of a national park is to have a minimum of roads so that natural splendor is preserved.
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by snowwrestler 2mo ago
Craigslist the corporation was not even a party to this suit, and it continued operating the same way after this decision as before it. eBay’s only recourse to that was to sell its equity, which it ultimately did in 2015. I don’t think any
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by snowwrestler 2mo ago
> The only real practical difference is that they give directors a little more leeway in their fiduciary duties to say "no" to doing evil things. I’d like to provide maybe a clarification here that there is zero existing fiduci
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by snowwrestler 2mo ago
You can’t make it expensive enough to stop scammers, while not too expensive to impede legitimate calls like businesses, family overseas, or tourists calling home. There is a very high volume of legitimate calls from Africa, and scammers ac
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by snowwrestler 2mo ago
This is true, but it’s also true of many other OS X and MacOS releases over the years. You’ve definitely hit on the core of the issue with the Snow Leopard myth, though: comparing the final battle-hardened bug-patched version of an OS, to a
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
The DC area used to have two IMAX theaters with film projectors: one at the Natural History museum, and one at the Air & Space museum. The one at Natural History lost tons of money. They eventually took it out, sold it for parts, and re
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
Em dashes—if properly used—are really useful. They help convey that I am so smart—and I think so fast—that I have to constantly interrupt myself. But—and I think this is important—it’s really easy to overuse them.
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
I remember when this happened. Apple’s corporate staff screwed up and didn’t have the contract done in time to have the music in by the keynote. And of course they are not going to move the keynote. So Jobs had to spin it: the small number
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
From the HN guidelines: > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting. Tons and tons of sites have annoying p
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
The atmosphere is the lowest possible value for your inhaled CO2. So it might be useful to think of this more in terms of impaired recovery rather than direct harm. Imagine a healthy person with a healthy lifestyle and 8 hours of sleep ever
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
It’s a bit silly to be so sensitive to “AI tells” in phrasing. If you go look for them in original human writing, you are guaranteed to find them—just like the AI training did! That’s how they became “tells” in the first place.
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
I know of people who bought property in western North Carolina with this mindset. It’s higher elevation, far from coasts, near fertile farm land, with lots of surface water to drink and use. And far from other geo hazards like volcanoes, ea
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
What does this have to do with their insurance business? As far as I can tell this is just a random complaint about USAA. And it doesn’t even make sense financially. The “brand” of your mortgage provider adds absolutely nothing to the utili
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
It’s not in Endgame , it’s actually in Infinity War , but everyone knows The Snap. It’s a generationally iconic movie moment that seeped into the entire U.S. culture. I had 65 year old lawyers referencing it in work meetings, and these we
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
If anyone is still following this, it is July 10 and my GizmoHub app is still connected to my kid’s watch, and the map and messages still work fine.
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
And the bank of pay phones is one of the coolest little scenes in the book. Put me on team “don’t update the text.” Books are written in their contemporary cultural contexts. LeGuin said speculative fiction is about today even if the story
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
Here’s another fun nitpick from Neuromancer . The opening line says the sky was the color of a TV tuned to a dead channel, which in Gibson’s day would have been analog static that looks like a messy grey from across the room. But later, wi
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
At the beginning of William Gibson’s Neuromancer , the protagonist is trying to sell 3 MB of RAM in underground markets. This is often cited as one of the ways the book has not aged well. But, looking at the direction of the memory market
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
You can tie the same knots without cutting the string. Just grab the two sides, pull them snug, then tie the knot. The fact that the “free ends” are connected at a distance doesn’t prevent the knot from holding like usual. The advantage of
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by snowwrestler 3mo ago
Nah, this is not correct. The Gizmo watches work fine with the GizmoHub app, but not the new Verizon Family app. You have to authenticate in both apps. I have Verizon service and use a Google Voice number as my MFA and it has worked fine fo
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by snowwrestler 4mo ago
A vector against a standardized XML+ZIP document format?
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by snowwrestler 4mo ago
Not sure if joking, but if this product is not republishing the text of your contributions (to which you hold copyright), you’re probably not going to convince a court to do anything here. Generally speaking it is not a violation to scrape,
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by snowwrestler 4mo ago
I think you’ll be sad if you look up Hayden Kennedy. No serious legal consequences to them from this climb, though, and the route remains clean. There was a wonderful film in this year’s Mountains On Stage film tour called Patagonian Chime
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by snowwrestler 4mo ago
Birth rates auto-recover because the denominator is the entire population, and old people die off first. As long as some people are still having kids, the birth rate will eventually reach replacement rate.
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by snowwrestler 4mo ago
But Simon is not trying to get good at CSS debugging, Simon is trying to learn about AI systems and produce content about them. So giving the AI agent a trivial task to go crazy on is a feature, not a bug. For $12 implied cost, he got a fro
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by snowwrestler 4mo ago
Tariffs would not stop the screw worm, which lives half of its life as a winged fly.
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by snowwrestler 4mo ago
Nah, this is the same self-congratulatory dismissive mindset humans have been having about each other for years. “Wake up, sheeple,” “NPC,” etc. We’re not lacking for opportunities to believe the worst of each other. It’s not something TikT
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by snowwrestler 4mo ago
The legal and political theory was that the Congressional vote count was a moment of power that could be interrupted and seized with relatively few people. No need for tanks in that case. Most people attacking the Capitol were unorganized p
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by snowwrestler 4mo ago
In the U.S., birth rates fell pretty much continuously for at least 150 years until WWII and the Baby Boom. Now they are slightly declining again. Many industrialized nations have a similar graph. So that pretty much kills any explanation t

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