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by xp84 6mo ago
This seems pretty optimistic. If you ask 30 random people on the street if they’d rather give Google their phone number and jump through whatever dumb SMS hoops, or switch to a new email address and pay a few bucks a month for it for the re
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by xp84 6mo ago
I know this ^ seems unreasonable, but I know you’re right. Mostly because of conditioning: it’s been 25 years now that free webmail is the way Gen-X, Y, Z, and future generations do email. Boomers and the older Gen-Xers may still be hanging
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by xp84 6mo ago
I have to say, I’m finding the “New Outlook” deeply unsatisfying coming from a GSuite company the past 4 years. MS was better in 2021 than it is now. The new one reeks of Jony Ive style minimalism. I constantly can’t find anything I need, a
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by xp84 6mo ago
Can you clarify this statement please?
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by xp84 6mo ago
They used to do just that, though people could pay about $25-30 (in like, 2008 dollars! So that’s closer to $47 today) for ‘unlimited text plans’. I know you mean charge just these bulk senders, but if they didn’t charge consumers a similar
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by xp84 6mo ago
This is an underrated distinction. Sadly, the line is so much more blurred now than even when I was a kid in the 90s. There are so many businesses now which exist mainly to cheat you, operating at the very edge of what’s technically legal,
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by xp84 6mo ago
I love the hilarious output. He even coded in a special case for just a question mark without any params: https://chrismorgan.info/no-query-strings ? Never have I seen such a sassy web server
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by xp84 6mo ago
I fail to see the harm done, I explicitly called it out as not verified. I just thought someone else might want to see the list of what actual harms are somewhat proven - instead of this vague sense of dread we’re told to have about “foreve
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by xp84 6mo ago
Insightful take. What’s funny to me is your last paragraph. A lot of companies are so gung-ho about “AI ALL the things!” that I’m not sure as a manager if I’d get in trouble for “spotting the AI copy paste” junk. I’m supposed to make sure e
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by xp84 6mo ago
I remember feeling embarrassed one time that I used a very early GPT thing to help organize perf reviews for employees from the various bullet points I had written for each (I had a lot of direct reports). But in current world, I assume I’d
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by xp84 6mo ago
If I were fortunate enough to be in that position, I think I’d partner up with a buddy to build something cool (that is unlikely to be a big moneymaker) and rely on each other for that pressure.
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by xp84 6mo ago
There are a lot of things that have been up for decades. The ROI on moving a simple PHP or static website to new hosting situation hasn’t been that compelling… though that could change. Thing is, I suspect most users of shared hosting which
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by xp84 6mo ago
I had a question which most of the article just barely touched on: a lot of attention goes to how much PFAS is detected in people’s blood, but I wanted to know (A) what the harms are, and (B) how strong the evidence is for each one, since a
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by xp84 6mo ago
I really want to reply exhorting you to do the same, so someone else can do the same to me, but this isn’t Reddit…
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by xp84 6mo ago
> nuke > I don’t have to do that with any of my juniors… For some values of “nuke,” I absolutely have had to do that with juniors in the past. Perhaps you’re referring to a single rm -r or hilarious force push or something, but undert
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by xp84 6mo ago
I hope people don’t gaslight you into thinking it’s something wrong with you. That was exactly my experience this year - and that’s completely new compared to 4 years ago. It’s the market that’s changed.
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by xp84 6mo ago
Yeah Nintendo basically doesn’t even acknowledge the concept of marking things down, even many years after their release. And as the physical media window begins closing, even buying a used game will become not a thing anymore. Probably the
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by xp84 6mo ago
Personally I think anyone who believes there’s a stack of “files” sitting somewhere which culminate in a spreadsheet of “Famous politician / # of underage girls we can prove he assaulted” is fantasizing and thinking the world is just l
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by xp84 6mo ago
This reads to me almost like saying “Why are pigs not avoiding the most problematic slaughterhouses?” A. We have to work somewhere, and in 2026 honestly it’s actually the employer’s market which is kinda new to me, as someone who always jus
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by xp84 6mo ago
I thought it was hilarious when they did their layoff a couple years ago just because everyone else was. It was portrayed by their announcement as though it was a business need that they tighten their belts, as though Apple, the company tha
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by xp84 6mo ago
What are we even coming to when even internet blogs are paywalled. Verge? Next thing Gizmodo is gonna be paywalled.
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by xp84 6mo ago
This is relatable. I'm constantly baffled by the selection - half the items you find will be there in a month, the other half you will never see again, or maybe see seasonally. And then at random, they move things. Like halfway across
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by xp84 6mo ago
This is a great perspective! Somehow it makes it feel better to think of it that way, that basically this is likely as good as it can get on those two very important metrics, and that improving other things would probably cause those to dec
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by xp84 6mo ago
Super strongly agree with you on that. But unfortunately building tons of housing is quite politically unpopular as well, unless it’s wildly stupid housing, like the “affordable housing” that costs more (paid by the city) to build than mark
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by xp84 6mo ago
Nothing?? What are you talking about? Go look up how much tax money the SF government spends trying to help the unhoused in their current budget. But no amount will fix the problem because if you ask a drug addict if they want help (and it’
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by xp84 6mo ago
Idk about NYC but the people I see on fent in west coast cities’ homeless encampments couldn’t pay a $500 rent any more than they can the $5,000. They’re strung out all day long and can’t pursue any goal besides getting more drugs. On the o
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by xp84 6mo ago
You and others here have so much to say about these legal details, but you haven't explained where it establishes a right for people with no legal status here to just show up and move in, even commit crimes, and not be sent home. I&#x2
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by xp84 6mo ago
> many places with low fertility rates are currently correcting for overly explosive growth experienced in recent history Huh? Korea is "correcting" for past growth by having 0.8 children per woman? i.e. less than half the repl
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by xp84 6mo ago
Show me where it says sending them to their home country is depriving them of life, liberty, or property. If I'm overseas and overstayed my visa and broke, it's a huge favor if the authorities there pay my airfare to come home --
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by xp84 6mo ago
IDK about how you scan them, but when I scan one with my camera, I see the top domain part (e.g. it would show 'ycombinator.com' for a link to this page) and have to tap that to open the link. So, that not only satisfies the &quot

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