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by wand3r 3y ago
> yeah, misleading people on the internet is big business So what? In America, unless you violate FDA or SEC (or similar) agencies, or are slandering or libelling, its not illegal. Also, who is the arbiter of what is "true" in
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by wand3r 3y ago
Traffic fatalities would fall nearly to 0 if we made all speed limits 25mph. Obviously, as it has been for decades, child safety is the cloak that tyranny is dressed in. Not to mention CP is a common thing to pin on inconvenient people in s
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by wand3r 3y ago
I picked up an iPod, the first generation that had the buttons integrated into the scroll wheel, and replaced the battery. I could probably get by loading this up with podcasts, TED talks & audiobooks. My downfall is being insanely bad
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by wand3r 3y ago
Well, Netflix was licensing a lot of the content that HBO and Disney were making. Of course more content is now being made but between covid and the writers strike as indicated in the article, there certainly isn't 4X as much content b
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by wand3r 3y ago
Basically there was a finite amount of content and a lot of it appeared on Netflix. Then 4+ services launched and a near fixed amount of content was divided by 4. Then they doubled the price. So now for a worse discovery experience you are
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by wand3r 3y ago
Exactly. I am a casual gamer at best. I am an Apple power user. I lucked into a gaming PC a couple weeks ago for $50 at a thrift store. So I have a PC just for gaming. I think non MS users who game probably have the same. Likely a dual boot
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by wand3r 3y ago
I learned, from HN actually, that the reason for this is actually because taxes must be included and enumerated so that the public know the rate and thus can be cognizant of taxes levied against them. Probably goes back to the founding of A
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by wand3r 3y ago
> Not sure if enough people have Rimac on the radar. I've been aware of them for a while but they are largely irrelevant for most people. The technology is interesting and styling is cool but they were something like 1.9m euro.
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Heckler's Veto(en.wikipedia.org)
36 points by wand3r 3y ago|9 comments
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by wand3r 3y ago
This is the 2nd time this week that I am posting about Google doing something like this. After totally destroying developer trust they are also rapidly eroding consumer trust. Can someone from Google (or anyone) steelman how killing off so
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by wand3r 3y ago
Adjacent/Off Topic: It's really time we disband or seriously curtail the TSA. Plane travel in the US is absurd. I understand that it is s jobs scheme/work program welfare, but this makes air travel extremely difficult. At a m
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by wand3r 3y ago
Honestly curious what Google's plan is. With 0 developer confidence and increasingly user hostile actions like killing stadia, removing adblock and now this; to name a few, what is there plan? Their moat is being eroded. There search s
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by wand3r 3y ago
Are you fluent in Japanese? I always find it odd when people prefer a sub to a dub. Only in edge cases where the dub is absolutely terrible would I ever consider this for an animated work. In movies, sometimes the mouth moving is distractin
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by wand3r 3y ago
I totally disagree in this context. CBD is probably beyond the pale here, but positions of extreme authority should certainly be held to higher levels of scrutiny. Judges and Police are entrusted with an huge amount of power in our society
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by wand3r 3y ago
Top 2 comments from people who live in the region. This is extremely unlikely This is not really suspisvious
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by wand3r 3y ago
I have begun to wonder if these are PR pieces for AI detection companies.
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by wand3r 3y ago
Point ceded on the analogy. The point I was trying to make is that the only solution was a flippant suggestion that we just "ask social media companies to change their business model". Leaving aside how difficult of a proposition
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by wand3r 3y ago
Right? Frankly this is barely an exaggerated tl;dr: My Godson was randomly obsessed with Elvis for one summer so years later I forced him to go to Graceland but he wanted to be on snapchat and also watches porn. I needed to understand why t
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by wand3r 3y ago
This article was a tough read because of the meandering prose and weird personalization narrative they shoe-horned in. > We could, for example, force social media companies to abandon their current business model Cool that the Guardian f
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by wand3r 3y ago
Off topic, but what is SLoPWit? You're comment is the top hit for this on Google with no other helpful results
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by wand3r 3y ago
This sounds a lot like the Search Fund model except at scale. Typically in a search fund an entrepreneur raises a small pool of capital for operations and search for a traditional low tech company to acquire where they can optimize operatio
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by wand3r 3y ago
Marketplaces are very keenly positioned for advertising as there is deep buyer intent. Amazon[0] looks to have a pretty sizable ad business. I have anecdotally observed that this is a recent trend related to the downturn. Of course, ads hav
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by wand3r 3y ago
There was a pretty interesting discussion on e141 of the All In Podcast regarding the IPO climate. I'm not an expert on this so worth consulting the podcast, but essentially they made some interesting points. Basically an IPO will fix
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by wand3r 3y ago
This is crazy. If it wasn't HP I wouldn't believe this. If you just consider this as a pure cold market strategy, I still don't think this makes sense. Sometimes it makes sense to trade in goodwill for cash, or otherwise use
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by wand3r 3y ago
They have huge illiquid manufacturing in China. The government has a lot of leverage over them. Its impossible for them to gamble on this. It's not even comparable to the UK situation at all.
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by wand3r 3y ago
Reminds me of an interesting article about the dynamics of a subculture from birth to death: https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
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by wand3r 3y ago
Allegedly they basically did that with facebook. The CIA venture arm in-q-tel[1] invested. Presumably they could do some loophole where a contractor runs a site that way but it would probably be a huge headache. Iirc there is a clause that
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by wand3r 3y ago
Lena Khan wouldn't let Microsoft acquire a paperclip manufacturing plant right now, do you think this merger would ever be allowed?
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by wand3r 3y ago
Thanks, makes sense. Ideally like: somecompany.co somecompanyco.com This might be acheiveable and is only going to add roughly 2 char to the length
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Ask HN: Do you still “need” the .com in 2023?
42 points by wand3r 3y ago|44 comments

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