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EastOfTruthon Trading cards are cool again

trading cards have always been cool as far as I know... I just sold one of my kid's pokemon card for ~$100... he has better plans for that money

EastOfTruthon What does a guy have to do to get a jaywalking ticket in this town? (2017)

that one does, thanks

EastOfTruthon What does a guy have to do to get a jaywalking ticket in this town? (2017)

https://i.imgur.com/9pNtm2O.png

EastOfTruthon Ask HN: Why crypto is rising so fast when its not creating value?

I like crypto a lot to transfer money on my own terms

edit: in reply to rhizome below: yeah, I bought drugs, money, goods, etc... But I also lost money when the US Gov messed with BTC-e [1]... I hope that Biden doesn't get too stupid with his regulations.

(Hacker News didn't allow me to reply to a reply to my own comment: https://i.imgur.com/rd8qH08.png)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTC-e

EastOfTruthon The tomato was feared in Europe for more than 200 years (2013)

Raw potatoes might be mildly toxic from my personal experience ... or maybe I'm allergic.

EastOfTruthon DirectX 12 applications no longer working on 4th gen Intel processor graphics

Why is that reported by Intel? isn't that a Microsoft decision paid by Intel?

EastOfTruthon AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives

I don't see them posted on Reddit or HN... (at least not in the top posts)

EastOfTruthon After months of delay, the House passes infrastructure bill

Everything Biden does is very short sighted....

EastOfTruthon After months of delay, the House passes infrastructure bill

They were loosing the grip on things?

EastOfTruthon AMP Has Irreparably Damaged Publishers’ Trust in Google-Led Initiatives

I've been seeing a lot less AMP URLs but I still see about 1 per week...

EastOfTruthon Ask HN: How were video games from the 90s so efficient?

There was no frameworks or high level languages to add a bunch of bloat, maybe?

EastOfTruthon Widespread security risk identified in phones and Bluetooth devices

I thought Apple was all about privacy. /s

EastOfTruthon Crypto Addiction: A Hidden Epidemic?

I hold, does that mean I'm addicted?

EastOfTruthon Ask HN: Is it better to specialize or generalize?

it is less boring to generalize...

EastOfTruthon The planet isn’t going anywhere

that was probably the greatest comedy that I ever witness

EastOfTruthon The biggest whales can eat the equivalent of 80k Big Macs in one day

Whale meat must be really toxic ... i.e. filled with heavy metals.

EastOfTruthon New Colorways for Firefox 94

Limited time color themes... wtf is wrong with Mozilla nowadays... Just bring back extensions in Firefox Mobile if you have nothing else better to do.

EastOfTruthon ‘Nine Eyes’? Bill Would Look at Adding Four Countries to Intel-Sharing Pact

I thought that they could already get all data from their own citizens through other countries without breaking any laws (no warrants required).

EastOfTruthon Truck driver leads NJ Senate president after spending $153 on campaign

Probably has something to do with how Biden is doing.

EastOfTruthon Ban Pay to View Content on Hacker News?

This is usually for the soft-paywalls (archival sites are not blocked from viewing the content, sometimes).

EastOfTruthon Waymo will start testing self-driving cars in New York City

Maybe you could eliminate most parking spaces and reduce the total number of cars if everyone would share a number of real-self-driving cars.

EastOfTruthon New 5D Storage to Offer 10,000x the Density of Blu-ray

Scihub, libgen, datasets, etc... as much data as possible.

My personal data is probably less than 1TB at this point, but a way to store it long term would be nice.

EastOfTruthon New 5D Storage to Offer 10,000x the Density of Blu-ray

I don't care about seek times if we can have media with orders of magnitude more storage capacity and life expectancy. (of course if you can also have good seek times, it would be icing on the cake)

EastOfTruthon Thank you, GitHub

> how do you correlate likes and comments?

That doesn't make it good or bad, but HN itself changes the ranking of an article based on the upvotes/comments ratio...

EastOfTruthon Backblaze IPO

Does that mean no more HDD reports?

EastOfTruthon Ask HN: Best Keyboard for Programming in 2021?

A keyboard layout that you are familiar with that has a numeric keypad... I like my IBM KU-0225... it looks like this: https://i5.walmartimages.com/asr/3038865f-6e35-4e01-9dd7-392... .... it has almost the same layout as IBM model M but with Windows keys and context menu key (I strictly use Linux and I use the Windows keys a lot)

EastOfTruthon The metaverse is already here – it's Minecraft

It is a current form of the metaverse... and I think that you underestimate how it could evolve... but I sure hope that WebAssembly never takes over.

EastOfTruthon Zillow to stop flipping homes, loses more than $550M, lays off 25% of staff

They are about 1/10th of a percent of the US market... hope that is enough

EastOfTruthon Is Elon Musk one of the bigger winners from inflation?

Shouldn't stocks go up with inflation in most cases?

EastOfTruthon Former Navy SEALs are using robot submarines to build Google Earth of the ocean

Looks like the Navy could use that map: "A U.S. submarine struck an underwater mountain last month, the Navy says" [1]

1. https://www.npr.org/2021/11/02/1051422572/navy-submarine-nuc...