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by vwcx 3y ago
And it's been the threat for 20 years. Wayback Machine (May 23, 2003): https://web.archive.org/web/20030523125359/http://paypalsuck...
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by vwcx 3y ago
Amen. It's disappointing to think that the general consensus on tech/automation is that it's only there to drive an economy rather than what it could do for the baseline of "being human".
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Ask HN: What modern sites are masterpieces of design?
8 points by vwcx 3y ago|3 comments
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by vwcx 3y ago
+1. Those girls don't need to deal with old Uncle Al failing to manage the basic day to day logistics of their school. Might as well dedicate your waning days to living out a Robinhood fantasy stealing for the poor until you're ki
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by vwcx 4y ago
I remember the moment I switched from phpbb to vbulletin...the licensed nature of the latter did cut down on the constant exploits.
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by vwcx 4y ago
Agreed. Every time my kid naps, I find myself with an hour of "free time", but right around the time the existential questioning would begin, he's screaming for a diaper change.
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by vwcx 4y ago
The National Geographic journalist left a few interesting comments on HN a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326913
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by vwcx 4y ago
In the US, the major airlines prohibit use of e-cigarettes onboard. Do not vape on a commercial airliner.
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by vwcx 4y ago
It's amazing to look at the AmazonSmile form 990. It's a 2000 page pdf with a list of every charity that received a donation along with the amount: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/4
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by vwcx 4y ago
If anyone's interested in learning how to wing walk, Mason in Sequim, WA, will teach you: https://masonwingwalking.com/
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by vwcx 4y ago
Beautiful...and up to date.
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by vwcx 4y ago
15 years ago, can you imagine how weird it would have been to know there's a future where 'GoDaddy is retiring the Media Temple brand"?
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by vwcx 4y ago
Your opinion on the barbarism of the auto industry will be considered heresy by many, but I applaud your ability to think outside the century of precedent that makes us feel that there are no options beyond what Henry Ford pushed on us.
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by vwcx 4y ago
And how has that shell set-up been for your international team members? In my experience, it added just enough of a layer of obscuration to perpetuate a caste system, similar to how full time temps and vendors are currently treated in tech.
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by vwcx 4y ago
This is great advice. So many dads told me what it was going to feel like to be a dad. By the time I arrived there myself, I found the experience to be completely different and that I had spent lots of mental energy preparing for an experie
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Noise signatures of crypto mines in rural North Carolina(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by vwcx 4y ago|0 comments
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by vwcx 4y ago
One could argue that the EGT and other secondary engine items could be hidden on secondary tabs on something like a G3X. Unless they own their own aircraft, I don't think most GA pilots can do much with their eyes closed.
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by vwcx 4y ago
> Don't think of car enthusiast, think people who like the car because of the shade of its color and feel of the leather - which is most people. Precisely. Millions of people (intelligent, rational, highly-educated) still buy cars w
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by vwcx 4y ago
> When I look at the world unfold in the 2020's, it seems very few people accounted for how much corruption, economics, social media, propaganda, etc. would factor into geopolitics. While I agree that propaganda has never quite been
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by vwcx 4y ago
I'd love to see similar testing conducted on "consumer" avionics boxes used in general aviation. Garmin has moved many of their units from fully-tactile buttons and knobs to touchscreens. This puts the onus on the pilot to fu
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by vwcx 4y ago
Also worth seeing: two photographers followed the route of the old Milwaukee Road on a diesel speeder in the 1980s. The photos are neat: https://newwww.weedroute.com/ Abandoned Rails is also a great resource: https:/&
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by vwcx 4y ago
> Cabs are terrible. Driver's are mean. I'm sorry they hurt you, but I assure you this is not a universal trait of taxi drivers everywhere in 2022.
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by vwcx 4y ago
Similar to the level of healthcare one receives in the US as a function of wealth, so is the level of mobility. Litmus test: if cost was not a factor, wouldn't you prefer to travel via private jet? Tells me that we're still hurtin
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by vwcx 4y ago
Also applies to the small mountain towns of the American West. Having all that billionaire money buying ranches does inject a small bump into the local construction/food/services economy at the cost of affordability for the worker
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by vwcx 4y ago
Good point. It's interesting to think about this outsourcing as a relief valve Congress uses. Feels like a function of the monetary stakes for any decision are too high. Even freshmen congressional reps are too soaked in the financial
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by vwcx 4y ago
To piggyback your comment: I'm a new parent - 15 days in with my first! As I watch public school education in the US get squeezed (first from pandemic, then politicization), we naturally start to think about homeschooling in general. I
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by vwcx 4y ago
That quote parallels something that sticks with me from Umair Haque about how "the point of capitalism is to escape capitalism": https://kottke.org/18/10/if-the-point-of-capitalism-is-to-es...
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by vwcx 4y ago
Yes, presuming the credit card company's "monkey behind the curtain" actually finds Dell culpable in this scenario. Despite ample documentation, I just had Chase side with a hotel that accidentally charged me when they couldn
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by vwcx 4y ago
I see your point, but I also raise you: if a test was available for any asymptomatic illness, and you could take it easily before engaging with a population whom would suffer if they contracted it from you, would you? It's like an Intr
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by vwcx 4y ago
Northern Virginia has seen this with food trucks. Since late 2020, I'm starting to see food trucks posting up in the evenings in various residential neighborhoods (almost like how ice cream trucks trawl the streets in summer). This wou

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