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by tablespoon 4y ago
> Libraries used to keep archives of old newspapers and publications on microfilm, and anyone who needed to research something could go and look through those archives. The IA holds a similar function today - but it's the only one w
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> Website hosted on a 24 year old Linux server Isn't that kind of mundane? The web was well-established by 1999, and the hardware of that era was literally designed and built to serve websites like this.
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by tablespoon 4y ago
Because they were mostly scams and people (and regulators) got wise?
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> But this gratified my intellectual curiosity. How so, exactly? Also, what's your definition of "intellectual curiosity"?
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> It's not weird or a subculture unless you think those labels apply to researchers. And there are a lot of researchers out there, across academics, non-fiction authors, and journalists. I do think the label applies to researchers.
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by tablespoon 4y ago
I'm not saying it's not valuable, I'm saying not that many people would even notice, let alone care, if it disappeared. You may personally be one of the people who cares about the IA, or know a lot of people who care, but if
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> I'd extend this to say, if we don't abolish (c)opywrong, we're screwed. Then consider us "screwed," because what you propose has a snowball's chance in hell of actually happening. Also, too many software
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by tablespoon 4y ago
What people need to be working on is to create a peer/successor organization that can take a copy of its archive and carry on its core functions, not just a static archive on a server somewhere.
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by tablespoon 4y ago
>> You can wonder all you like, and call me a cynic, but the US runs on money not culture. The American identity is built on money and wealth and excess, not on anything you might describe as "culture". > The USA's b
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> I know the government has viewed certain companies as "too big to fail," because of the negative financial impact we would experience if they were to do so. > I wonder if there needs to be a cultural equivalent, where a re
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> His wife was messaging the chief of staff trying to pressure him to overthrow the election. Exactly! Husbands are responsible for the actions of their wives, so he should be impeached for them; especially since it will help us flip the
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> People do this every day without ChatGPT Commit libel and defamation? Sure, but that doesn't excuse this in the slightest. It also speaks to the reliability of ChatGPT.
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by tablespoon 4y ago
>> But suppose the government dropped the hammer and banned any AI. Is it even possible to enforce? It kind of seems like the genie is out of the bottle here. > We enforce copyright law, even though the actual act of copying is tec
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by tablespoon 4y ago
I can't reply to your other comment because it's dead. However, I wanted to respond to this: > And FWIW, every single small city I checked around 2 hours outside of Chicago has property crime rates worse than Chicago! Isn&#x27
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> Using what they had on hand vs buying a 2nd thermometer for a one time use. Hacker News of all places should embrace option 1. Why? Time is valuable too. If I had to do the same thing and was more interested in getting the job done tha
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by tablespoon 4y ago
This is an odd approach. Very Rube Goldberg. I suppose they might have just wanted to whip something up using the equipment they had at hand, but you could easily solve the same problem with and off-the shelf device: https://www
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> It's pretty new, but AFAIK only works for Show HNs. Seems like it would be a great feature for too-long titles, too.
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> Do you really believe that this public discourse occurred on a public train after a theft? Do you think they had a lively debate in the commons about how to solve crime? > I'm a bit surprised people are seriously believing this
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by tablespoon 4y ago
>> We need to be way tougher on crime. Immediate life sentences without parole for murder, ending catch+release for property theft. > If you want there to be less crime you have to treat it as the social class problem it is and fin
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> Capital punishment for murder. You take a life, yours is gone. On top of justice, you don’t stick the taxpayer with lifelong care of a murderer. One problem with that idea is that even murder convictions are not even close to 100% accu
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by tablespoon 4y ago
I had no idea you could submit a post with a link and body-text. Is that new, or did I just never notice?
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> Or... maybe it's not about you! Maybe it's about the fact that people in the US and Canada who do want a suburban lifestyle already have a continent full of car-centric developments to choose from, whereas people who would pr
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> Zoning requirements are why so many businesses are "a box in a parking lot". When you see a sign in a restaurant that says "Maximum Occupancy X" - that occupancy limit is set by how many parking spaces they have. Th
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> I guess if I lived in NY or London I might get rid of the car. But to be honest that's never entered my head here. I need the car to get to work. And yeah, there's parking there. But if there was no parking there, I'd st
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> If the owners of dpreview and Book Depository wouldn't have sold their business to amazon, then maybe both would be still around for a long time. Don't blame Amazon, blame the former owners. That's a bizarre and kinda aw
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by tablespoon 4y ago
Amazon continuing to operate Abebooks lets them keep substantial control over the online used book market in the US. I'm not familiar with Book Depository, but if they close Abebooks I think it would open up space for a new competitor
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> Garages that have 20% empty spaces pretty much all the time ,give me the confidence to rely on them. I plan around it being available (and am happy to pay for it). By contrast if it's full 20% of the time then that feeds me with d
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> Violent crime went down during Boudin’s tenure. Don’t base opinions on media propaganda. So are SF residents propagandized sheeple and recalled him for no good reason, or is there more to the story than your first sentence?
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by tablespoon 4y ago
>> SF has become so unsafe. Why aren't the democrats in charge voted out of office for other people who will do something about it? Do people just not vote in that city? > If you’re outside of a situation looking in and wonde
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by tablespoon 4y ago
> So. Much. Ads. And this is despite the 1/4th at the end is ads only. They sucked at the time, but they're great now. Old ads are the best.

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