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by stevage 9mo ago
Wow. This is so true. My social life has improved hugely in the last couple of years and it's almost all because of this. I host board game days. I organise a pub trivia team. I organise singalong nights. I host occasional parties. Sou
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by stevage 9mo ago
Yeah in Australia I remember seeing a lot of small electronic items on eBay that were $1 shipped from Hong Kong or China. You literally could not post a letter within Australia for that price.
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by stevage 9mo ago
Yeah, "arbitrage" is not the right term here. This is just a complicated way to get a lower quality version of a service (sending a letter by mail) at a lower price.
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by stevage 9mo ago
There are some of us going to great lengths to reduce the amount of plastic we consume, the crap we buy and then throw out, distances travelled on our behalf. And then there are these people. Sending a pregnancy test to their grandma. What
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by stevage 9mo ago
Card counting in poker?
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by stevage 9mo ago
Yeah a future where Mars is more inhabitable than earth is unbelievably depressing.
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by stevage 9mo ago
I think a lot of people liked the Windows mobile experience. Shame it didn't quite get enough market share.
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by stevage 9mo ago
I still remember Snow Leopard - I think that's when I started using Mac. Most of the upgrades since then I have resisted and not enjoyed, though I seem to recall liking Mavericks. A lot of the big features each time seem to be about ti
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by stevage 9mo ago
Around here (Melbourne) the other place is in pubs - there are organised poker tournaments. They can't legally charge you an entry fee, but they can give you a lot of extra chips if you buy a meal at the pub. Some modest prizes if you
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by stevage 9mo ago
Yep, exactly. It's very difficult currently.
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by stevage 9mo ago
Yeah there's a lot of repetition of the core tehsis and not much about the interesting part, how they switched.
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by stevage 10mo ago
Flat maps have a lot of UX advantages over globes, and you can show the whole world at once.
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by stevage 10mo ago
It's such an interesting document full of fascinating tidbits, even if the overall structure is a bit dense and confusing. >The first paragraph under Perform Main Ac�on says: >To perform the Main ac�on of an Ac�on Board, first co
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Ask HN: Freelancers, are you being out-competed by AI?
2 points by stevage 10mo ago|1 comments
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by stevage 10mo ago
To me the current design doesn't look like anything at all. I don't see a gate or a wall, just two rectangles.
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by stevage 10mo ago
I guess so. We bought one then left it. We bought lamps instead of paying an electrician to install overhead lights then uninstall them.
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by stevage 10mo ago
Interesting - Donut apparently also manufactures innovative motors.
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by stevage 10mo ago
>With Verge Motorcycles bikes now using the company’s solid state battery technology in vehicles out on the road in use in Q1 Claiming that a technology is shipping imminently doesn't fit the normal definition of vapourware.
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by stevage 10mo ago
This article seems based in a poorly defined statement. What does "joining the workforce" actually mean? There are plenty of jobs that have already been pretty much replaced by AI: certain forms of journalism, low-end photoshop wo
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by stevage 10mo ago
We just bought a new fridge yesterday. We lugged our old one around between 5 different properties - 20 years old, still going strong. The big problem is that fridges are not a standard size, and hence the spaces in kitchens are not a stand
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by stevage 10mo ago
> Unlike most of the country, or even many other cities in California, Los Angeles renters are often responsible for buying and installing their own refrigerators
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by stevage 10mo ago
Yeah it was like that in France (at least when I lived there in 2006). Having to buy an oven/stove was not something I expected. (OTOH, perhaps because of this situation, you can get some really cheap appliances.)
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by stevage 10mo ago
It's interesting to me how norms and expectations about what is provided with a rental apartment vary so widely around the world: - USA: fridge, washing machine plus the below: - Australia: oven/stove, kitchen cabinets, overhead
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by stevage 10mo ago
As a reluctant runner, I still don't see any value in a smartwatch. I just use my phone and it does everything I want, which is basically, play podcasts and record my run for Strava. I did previously have a smartwatch which did heart r
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by stevage 10mo ago
Venezuela, duh.
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by stevage 10mo ago
>Fast forward, I just got notification from the publisher that the contract has been officially terminated and all rights of the work were transferred back to me. Does this mean they get to keep the advance, and all the feedback from the
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by stevage 10mo ago
Much better, and solves the Th/Tu problem.
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by stevage 10mo ago
Agree with your last point. That's a weird choice. At least the stops either side of the border are guaranteed to have people who natively speak the other language. I seem to recall lines in Belgium that do announcements is 4 languages
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by stevage 10mo ago
Where I live the airport bus plays a prerecorded message. It's pretty obnoxious.
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by stevage 10mo ago
Are you confusing revenue and profit? Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap and Lichess are examples of successful non-profit sites. They have costs, they have revenues, but they don't exist to generate profit. >but also a guarantee to your comm

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