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c22··on I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband
This is just the obviously sort of thing you gotta do to make sure your writing isn't mistaken for ai these days.
c22··on Ideas on modernizing the open-source desktop
100%. The other day I needed to record a small snippet of audio so I installed some random audio recorder app from the app marketplace. It worked fine, but I could only see and replay my audio clip from inside the app, so the first thing I did was "share" it to my email which thankfully arrived as an attached .m4a file I could actually work with.
c22··on Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death
This sounds about right. When Uber's driverless car killed someone they got off pretty easy:

*"In March 2019, Arizona prosecutors ruled that Uber was not criminally responsible for the crash. The back-up driver of the vehicle was charged with negligent homicide, pled guilty to endangerment, and was sentenced to three years' probation." [0]

0:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Elaine_Herzberg

c22··on ChatGPT now knows what you do on other websites via ad collector
No ad has ever converted me yet the ad networks keep showing me ads.
c22··on The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
You can allow the liquid to evaporate off in an evaporation pond, or combine it with an absorbent gel. Then the solids can be put in trash.
c22··on The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities
Cashflow from renting to a franchisee must be fantastic. You pick the locations and the decor. If the business does well you prosper, but if the business does poorly you're insulated from the downside, the rent is due either way! If the franchisee can't hack it you repossess the building and rent it to some other suc^H^H^Hfranchisee.
c22··on All grown-ups were once children, but only few of them remember it
Have you tried setting up a tub of water at home and gluing some magnets to some rubber ducks? When my son was 7 I would pay him his weekly allowance and he would get distracted and leave it on some random table and walk away. It's likely the act of fishing for ducks is more appealing in this instance than any potential ROI calculation.
c22··on What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks
Serial number scanning is a common feature of electronic cash counters (also networking!) I'm pretty sure all incoming serial numbers are scanned and checked against a database to find stolen banknotes. I don't know if any banks are tracking outgoing serial numbers, but it would be pretty trivial to implement. I've noticed when I go in and withdraw cash from a human teller that the cash no longer comes from a drawer, but rather is dispensed by an automatic cash handling machine and then handed to me.
c22··on “Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain
You can just add this to your contract if you think there's a good shot at success.
c22··on AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200
The last paragraph is the punchline.
c22··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
Give it a network, but don't allow that network to access the internet.
c22··on Don't Use a gmail.com Address
I like to use yourname@myname.tld and people often are certain I'm confused. I have to promise them it will work.
c22··on RotaryCell: Making an unmodified rotary phone work over LTE with an ESP32-S3
> ...like the single cell drone featured...

Featured where?

c22··on Google Maps changed to show Lake Ontario as Lake America
Who gets to name them?
c22··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
The comment you're replying to is saying that it's not actually about protecting kids, but rather controlling large businesses.
c22··on I co-founded Burning Man. The festival has lost its soul
It might be true technically, but I've been about a dozen times and in my memories of the place it can often be hard for me to determine which ones happened on which year.
c22··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
I'm sure what I bought does better than some others. I'm also sure some others have done better than me. Statistically speaking this has to be true of almost everyone. Probabilistically speaking I'm likely somewhere near the middle of the bell.
c22··on Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco
When I invest I don't really care if I end up better off than others. I'm just hoping to catch some slice of the ongoing economic growth so my at-rest wealth doesn't become devalued by inflation.
c22··on Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit
Like back-up planes at every airport?
c22··on Olo (Color)
They also make the orangiest orange paint, the yellowest yellow, the pinkest pink, etc. At a certain point I have to wonder how much these are accurate descriptors of the paint colors vs arbitrary made up marketing nonsense.
c22··on Octopuses could help us conceptualize a different form of intelligence
They just mean that if you look chronologically at the fossil record you can find things that look like cephalopods before you can find things that look like mammals.
c22··on Zapping Rocks Unlocks Stimulated Geologic Hydrogen
The article acknowledges:

> Hydrogen ... currently takes more energy to make than it yields, and the cheapest and most common way is by reacting steam with methane, a potent greenhouse gas.

> It’s possible to make zero-carbon hydrogen by splitting water with electrolyzers powered by renewable energy. But in most cases, the process is too expensive to be economical...

and also says,

> A back-of-the-envelope calculation convinced him that the cost of stimulated geologic hydrogen could easily compete with hydrogen made from methane. “If we get the technology right,” he concludes, “this could be huge.”

It's pretty clear from reading the article that actual yields will be highly dependent on discovering ideal mining sites, but the fact that people are building startups to research and develop this kind of implies someone ran some numbers and thought it was worthwhile enough to be "newsworthy".

c22··on Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
I think the number is spelled googol.
c22··on Show HN: Scroll through all 43252003274489856000 Rubik's Cube states
It's funny to think that if bitcoin was backed by jpegs it would've failed already.
c22··on Woman pulled over twice after Flock-linked software connected her to homicide
This would probably be both expected and preferable. The way they currently act often puts the public at huge risk in exchange for officer safety. Given the police are trained professionals who chose their own occupation any added risk should fall on them.
c22··on Saying No
We don't really know what the concern was, because our sole narrator wasn't paying attention when it was voiced. However, if the "solution" was to keep one AC unit off while running the other one I could see there being a concern overtaxing the single running unit.
c22··on Saying No
The building's caretaker appeared to discuss the situation 5 minutes after OP disregarded the sign. I don't know that a phone number on the note would have changed anything.
c22··on Morioka Shoten
I think sometimes commercial landlords will offer a below-market deal on a small space for an interesting concept with the idea that it will bring more foot traffic to the area and increase the value of their other holdings. Being off the main street adds some support for this motive.
c22··on Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
I think at the end of each year that an officer didn't deploy their taser all year, they should get a bonus equal to $100 x [consecutive years of non-deployment]. The same incentive should be in place for discharging their firearm, except maybe x$1000.
c22··on Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
It's called an "Inventory Search": https://www.fletc.gov/sites/default/files/imported_files/tra...
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