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someguy101010on The West Coast is beating the East Coast on transportation?

What's funny is that they mention that NYC is reluctant to use scooters but don't mention how dangerous those things are in the snow. NYC has wayyy different weather than LA, Austin etc.

someguy101010on Show HN: Strength News – An HN-inspired website for sport and gym enthusiasts

Why wouldn't you use a convenient tool at your disposal?

someguy101010on Absolute Beginner's Guide to Emacs (2012)

That's much more recent than I expected

someguy101010on What are you waiting for?

You don't even have to go that far, it's usually done between you and the router.

someguy101010on Amazon FBA Experiment

Yeah everything that I've ever seen related to this stinks of a scam and that it's too good to be true. Also, a lot of survivorship bias as well.

someguy101010on What are you waiting for?

If you are on a public internet connection you should. I could theoretically replace the content of that page with whatever I want. A crypto currency miner, some zero day JavaScript exploit that will download a key logger on your computer etc. Https helps to mitigate these sort of man in the middle attacks, even on static content.

someguy101010on Heavy multitaskers have reduced memory

You pretty much described my day today

someguy101010on Incarcerated Pennsylvanians now have to pay $150 to read. We should be outraged

Why shouldn't you?

someguy101010on Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

I have the handbook on my desk rn, awesome read, and easy to digest

someguy101010on Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

ipfs?

someguy101010on How and Why Silicon Valley Gets High

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF01965761

Roland Fischer did an experiment in the 70s and found that students on lsd were able to identify parallel lines more accurately.

Iirc in gwerns experiment he dosed every day, and lsd tolerance builds pretty fast.

someguy101010on How to start an e-commerce store that doesn’t dropship

One of the most annoying things about these kinds of posts is they always show revenue and never profits. I can buy something at $1m and sell it for $1m everyday and generate $1m in daily revenue but with no profits. Operating cost on these kind of businesses seem like they can add up quickly not to mention the time and effort.

That being said OP doesn't seem to be selling some sort of course on how to get a lambo in just three months, so I don't think he is being malicious. In fact the article seemed to be very well written from my skimming. Its just something I think people should keep in mind.

someguy101010on GitHub Classroom report predicts positive student learning outcomes

Host your own git server! It's not super hard on a vps, you could also maybe look into gitlab, iirc it's open source and can be self hosted

someguy101010on GitHub Classroom report predicts positive student learning outcomes

I am a self taught developer who never went to college, is git normally not taught in school?

someguy101010on Show HN: Markdown New Tab – A new tab replacement to jot down notes in Markdown

They do it because they don't know about org mode

someguy101010on Show HN: Clothes shopping app UI built in React Native

Excellent resource!

someguy101010on 'Unique' cannabis compound reverses brain aging in mice

Sounds horrible to live forever in a glass box

someguy101010on Ask HN: What is your online privacy toolkit?

Pi-hole DNS with openvpn on a VPS, private email server on separate VPS, I should disable JavaScript but I develop in React. I want to roll my own private built server to host those servers in case the VPS provider has some ability to look at the data on my VPS

someguy101010on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?

One of first scripts I ever wrote in python scraped a radio station for songs and added them to a spotify playlist.

https://github.com/ReedRichards/python/blob/master/edge/html...

someguy101010on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?

link that thing dude or pm it to me

someguy101010on Ask HN: What non-work task have you automated?

I'm also wondering if you could post that script, that sounds very interesting

someguy101010on Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

I commented this somewhere else, but I figured I would drop this link here for you too, https://www.doleta.gov/business/incentives/opptax/. You can get a pretty decent tax break if you hire a felon.

someguy101010on Launch HN: 70MillionJobs (YC S17) – Job board for people with criminal records

"As an employer, I want to hire the best people so my company can be successful. Why would I hire anyone from your site when there are plenty of other candidates elsewhere?"

Not associated with that company but one reason to hire a convict is that you get a pretty decent tax break[0] out of it

[0]https://www.doleta.gov/business/incentives/opptax/

someguy101010on Facebook is building brain-computer interfaces for typing and skin-hearing

Nasa had an article[0] back in 2004 where they could detect what you were saying with sub vocalization on the skin and were already working on technology to read it through cloths back then, so not to get too tinfoil hat but that might not be all that bad of an idea.

[0]https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2004/mar/HQ_04093_subvocal_...

someguy101010on Ask HN: What laptop do you use?

I will never use a better keyboard than the thinkpad keyboard, I've even thought about getting one of these.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41M2TlFPoWL...

someguy101010on Ask HN: What laptop do you use?

You're right! Mine does run pretty hot and was having overheating issues last summer, but once I replaced the thermal paste on it it hasn't had an issue since. Considering that it was a 9 year old laptop then I was very pleased that was the only issue that I've had with it thusfar

someguy101010on Ask HN: What laptop do you use?

I use a thinkpad t61p. I've had it since 2011 and it still runs just a good as it did when I bought it. Its extremely modular, rugged, and has fantastic linux support. The only thing that I don't like about it is that it's battery life is pretty sub-par but most places that I use it have power outlets so it hasn't been an issue yet. It also has the best keyboard that I have ever used in my life by far.

someguy101010on Reddit’s April Fools’ experiment

I was surprised at the lack of swastikas, curse words, and nsfw content on the canvas, but that may say more about me than anything else.

someguy101010on Animista: a collection of ready to use CSS animations

That is true, but if the website is meant to be used as a resource then it should be designed to be easy to use and implement instead of having to look at the website's actual source html to get a feature working

someguy101010on Animista: a collection of ready to use CSS animations

It would be nice if we had the html for some of the flip content, especially for the a/b content