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by textman 5y ago
Sockeye salomon returning from the Pacific via Columbia R. to the Stanley basin in Idaho dropped from over 25000 to a few dozen. That is not adapting, rather, approaching extinction. https://www.idahopress.com/news/loca
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by textman 5y ago
<<buy something you can not buy without crypto.>> Such as?
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by textman 5y ago
large ocean yacht racing boats can go much faster than the wind: https://www.kqed.org/science/8503/how-do-these-boats-sail-fa... Also this: "According to the World Ice Racing Circuit, ice boats can sail four
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by textman 5y ago
Is this surprising to anyone? It's the industrialized world: https://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/earthday/gall_earth_night....
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by textman 5y ago
they wrap my installer inside their installer which includes some sort of toolbar I am checking out before I finish installing it because I read some reports it is malware.
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by textman 5y ago
OP here. thanks for the suggested links which I will try. I hope I don]t offend any open source folks here but this is commercial software with a EULA that clearly states the software may not be redistributed without written permission so
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Ask HN: How to stop download.cnet.com from hosting my app?
152 points by textman 5y ago|57 comments
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by textman 5y ago
<has everyone just gone crazy? > Absolutely: Ford logged 100k preorders for the F150 Lightning https://www.businessinsider.com/ford-f150-lightning-electric... This truck is so software bloated.
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by textman 5y ago
does this 89.0 have the annoying update now dialog, or at least a setting to block it? In version 72.02 that I am using it pops up with every new tab and there is no setting to block it.
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by textman 5y ago
Do you mean the code is simple or the software is simple/easy to use?
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by textman 5y ago
They are not side by side, rather arranged vertically so cannot compare visually. This one is much better: https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news BTW, What screen scraping tools are you using? as I am interested in
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by textman 5y ago
I read one of the six died. Has there been a news update that all six have died?
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by textman 5y ago
"The incidence of cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) varies between studies, but it is estimated to be between 2 and 5 per million per year. A recent study in the Netherlands with comprehensive ascertainment suggested a much higher incid
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by textman 6y ago
Micron?
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by textman 6y ago
Do you think it is practical for the rapidly growing recreational vehicle/boondocking/overlanding crowd due to the hardware and installation requirements? If your camper moves every couple days or so, seems it might be problematic
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by textman 6y ago
Wasn't XML developed for documents, i.e., text that is mostly words, like technical manuals? Isn't that why an xml file is called an XML document. Seems to me anyone that uses it to store data is using the wrong tool.
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by textman 6y ago
Not really. Wayback machine has been sued for copyright infringement and according to lexisnexis: In its response to the lawsuit, the Internet Archive denies it has violated copyright laws and says its CDL program is fundamentally the same
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by textman 6y ago
They appear to be grabbing the html for a website, stripping out all graphics by removing tags, then inside every anchor href they insert textise.net and pass the original href url as a querystring so they can they fetch that url when you c
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HN has a few posts regarding textise.net, but is it legal?
2 points by textman 6y ago|4 comments
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by textman 6y ago
Is what textise.net does legal? I thought copying another website's content and putting it on your own was a copyright infringement.
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by textman 6y ago
"Sweet corn is digested, otherwise there would be little point in eating it. The inside of each kernel is almost pure starch and is digested very readily." source: https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/why-is-s
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by textman 6y ago
XML was designed for documents, not data. By document I mean large amounts of text. It came out of the publishing industry. In that context, the tags end up comprising an insignificant portion of the total document, so is not overly verbose
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by textman 6y ago
You might want to replace the image of the old style Nalgene bottle with a newer Nalgene because the old ones with the whiteish color had BPA whereas the newer ones do not. A lot of people, including myself, replaced the old ones when the m
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by textman 6y ago
Tim Bray had a recent blog article related to this: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/06/08/Anti-mono... I love his quote from The Myth of Capitalism: “The tech giants love startups,
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by textman 6y ago
Then I was not clear. The prorated cost should be added to the fees charged to the developer. Developers would likely tack that onto the price of the house, so not a tax, but a develop fee.
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by textman 6y ago
Is this the post you refer to? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21002745
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by textman 6y ago
>NestedText is a file format for holding data Then why not call it NestedData? NestedText is misleading because text and data are different. That was a distinction many users of XML failed to make when they used it to store data and end
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by textman 6y ago
Cities could procure significant funds by assessing developers for long term maintenance costs. For example, it should be possible to estimate how many new housing units would require an additional fire station and the cost to build it. The
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by textman 6y ago
Might be that I am older than most of you, but when I was in high school the term was "social studies" then later it evolved to "social science" so the university crowd could legitimize it to get more funding. there obvi
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by textman 6y ago
Another contributing factor is the rapid growth of offroad capable campers like some of the popup style truck campers and rugged trailers. They allow you to go almost anywhere a Jeep can go, sometimes providing as much solitude as backpacki

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