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by thatmf 3mo ago
All for this. Micropayments have been tried so many times before, but they all relied on user opt-in and never reached any sort of critical mass. Someone of Cloudflare's scale could actually pull it off.
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by thatmf 3mo ago
I am very curious- what state?
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by thatmf 3mo ago
Yeah, this is amazing and should be submitted here on its own if it hasn't already. I just found that one of my reps got an absurd amount of money from some shadowy group called "Think Big". Which is in turn part of a larger
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by thatmf 3mo ago
That would be "wrongly"
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by thatmf 3mo ago
> No him/her. Uh. What?
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by thatmf 3mo ago
> Unlike infrastructure projects in Britain or America, which are heavily reliant on external consultants to handle all stages of the project, this group of well-paid in-house engineers led much of the Madrid Metro expansion. The team st
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by thatmf 3mo ago
No, but what are the odds of the robust welfare state that would be required to actually enable some sort of post-work society taking shape here in America? I'd truly like to be optimistic but, politically we have been moving in the op
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by thatmf 3mo ago
> Despite all of the skepticism, a whole lot of Americans also report using AI in their daily lives on an increasingly regular basis. About a quarter of Americans say they use AI chatbots on a daily basis. Those who do are typically usin
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by thatmf 3mo ago
> Are you saying that you think the US government is unpredictable and arbitrary, but that the People’s Republic of China is not? Why not both? That seems the crux of the state we're currently in; what daylight there was between the
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by thatmf 3mo ago
> The Veritas Villages claim to have an education and health-care charity called Help Them Help Themselves. These people could not be more comically despicable if they tried. Also one of their "executives" is seemingly a teenag
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by thatmf 4mo ago
The one thing I appreciate about smart glasses is that it broadcasts the wearer's terrible personality loud and clear and I can thus avoid them.
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by thatmf 4mo ago
You're conflating two different categories of product and their targets. Copper is a fungicide, which is a category of product that both chemical ("conventional") and organic farmers often need to use for certain types of cro
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by thatmf 4mo ago
These two substances are used at entirely different times, for entirely different purposes, in entirely different manners, with different levels of persistence in both the environment and the final product.
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by thatmf 4mo ago
> Donald Trump said “I love the inflation” after new data showed that inflation jumped to an annual rate of 4.2% in May, the third consecutive monthly increase since the start of the Iran war and a three-year high. https://www
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by thatmf 4mo ago
> allowScripts defaults to off Nice that they're following pnpm's lead on this after [checks watch]... 18 months?
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by thatmf 4mo ago
I used it for the very advanced task of picking my brackets for my company's world cup pool. I was impressed with the analysis it came back with and now I actually want to follow the games.
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by thatmf 4mo ago
I vibe coded myself a simple little Home Screen-installable webapp that tells me when my first meeting is the next day (I am in a lot of meetings, and they're constantly in flux). That way, I don't need to be logged into anything
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by thatmf 4mo ago
Many 1st gen immigrants have the pull-the-ladder-up-behind-you attitude. My grandparents (also Italian) certainly did. Everyone wants to imagine they did it the "right way" and that their struggle is the most unique and deserving
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by thatmf 4mo ago
> Oh, here I am on hacker-news when I should be working. What else am I supposed to be doing while Cursor does its thing?
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by thatmf 4mo ago
> Martin Scorsese, the living embodiment of cinema as high art and a conscience for modern Hollywood That's some ChatGPT-level glazing. No one thinks this. Unless they also think that, like, Bob Dylan is the voice of Gen Z.
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by thatmf 4mo ago
another good technique is to use boomer mode- make the fonts as large as possible, which has the side effect of making instagram (for instance) practically unusable and all of it just generally unpleasant. you're welcome.
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by thatmf 4mo ago
Must be nice.
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by thatmf 4mo ago
> ...this shift advantages people who can build fast with AI tools and disadvantages people who can't. The bias to action is genuine, but it isn't neutral. The engineers who've adopted these tools effectively get heard mor
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by thatmf 4mo ago
...of property taxes on second homes valued > $1M?
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by thatmf 5mo ago
And yet again, even in these hypotheticals, New Yorkers suffer for decisions they didn't make and don't want. Why don't they sail it into Florida?
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by thatmf 5mo ago
Mortified that this guy calls himself a Portlander yet mail-orders subscription coffee from L.A.
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by thatmf 5mo ago
I'm sure this will turn out fine /s But also the type of investor who is into crypto in the first place will probably love this Crypto bros :handshake: AI bros
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by thatmf 5mo ago
Why are people so excited to put themselves out of a job? Not that these or any "skills" will do that, but just- in principle. This is like alienation from labor at scale.
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by thatmf 5mo ago
Same. A new Gabriel Knight would be fun!
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by thatmf 5mo ago
> James Giovansanti lives and works on Staten Island. ya don't say (sincerely, ex-resident)

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