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staticautomatic··on Passenger Uses AirTags, Discovers Airline Donated Their Bags to Charity
The legal question seems to be whether “compensation” constitutes “purchasing the bag.”
staticautomatic··on I almost bought a scanner
That’s basically how everyone did internegatives, but with the lights on.
staticautomatic··on I almost bought a scanner
I worked in a multimedia lab that had one. Great scanner but god help you if you turned off the automatic dust removal.
staticautomatic··on “Copycat” layoffs won’t help tech companies or their employees
I recently spent a couple years interviewing hundreds of global F100 executives and all of them said exactly the same stuff about both B2B and B2C demand moving online during the pandemic.
staticautomatic··on Current and future role of Haber–Bosch ammonia in a carbon-free energy env(2020)
When I think cryptocurrency and making nitrogen compounds, I think about the FBI and ATF showing up.
staticautomatic··on Police, prosecutors used junk science to decide 911 callers were liars
Having worked on a lot of trials and prepped many witnesses to testify, my opinion is that the prosecution has no idea when defendants do this.
staticautomatic··on Large-format camera movements (2020)
Isn’t pretty much all infinity focus infinite depth?
staticautomatic··on RapidSlide Adjustable Wrench
I wonder if you could have one with a device like a rock climbing cam that tightens the more force you put on it.
staticautomatic··on SEC Charges Samuel Bankman-Fried with Defrauding Investors in FTX [pdf]
in rem cases have the best captions
staticautomatic··on Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B
That's all fine until the lawsuits start and a judge or arbitrator decides for them where their principal place of business is if they don't choose one.
staticautomatic··on A museum dedicated to mistranslated Japanese phrases
I prefer 100 Anuses of Solitude
staticautomatic··on Fantasy Jodorowsky Tron visualisations
Maybe because of what happened to Dune
staticautomatic··on Is wine fake?
I worked in the wine industry for a handful of years and wholeheartedly agree.
staticautomatic··on Do you have firebrick?
Building a groundhog is on my bucket list but firing them is such an insane amount of work that I should probably opt for something smaller.
staticautomatic··on How many publications did SBF bribe?
How does one hold a hatchet with a ham fist?
staticautomatic··on Money Creation in the Modern Economy – Its a Wonderful Lie
I had no idea that barter was taxable.
staticautomatic··on An unconfirmed tweet about Freeport LNG is upending gas markets
Is this not diminished by the buyers hedging?
staticautomatic··on Many companies aren’t prepared to replace underperforming CEOs
Technically, the board’s job is to represent the interests of common stock holders.
staticautomatic··on How I survived a year in ‘the hole’ without losing my mind
I think this gets at the most important question implicating the death penalty: what do we we do with people who can presumably never be allowed back into society?
staticautomatic··on The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education
Only so long as the teacher can’t tell the difference.
staticautomatic··on San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet
Kinda hard to do when you’re nodding out on the floor.
staticautomatic··on San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet
I’ve lived in SF for more than a decade and if I opened the door to a public toilet I’d be surprised if someone wasn’t shooting up inside.
staticautomatic··on Findings show that the Vikings' self-image was influenced by Ancient Rome
Sure. I just mean that if you didn’t know better, you might conclude from the parent comment that the Varangian guard were geographically based in Rome.
staticautomatic··on Findings show that the Vikings' self-image was influenced by Ancient Rome
The Varangian guard were in Constantinople. So kinda sorta “Roman-controlled” but not exactly Rome.
staticautomatic··on The Rise of ‘Luxury Surveillance’
…that are paid by the state.
staticautomatic··on Ask HN: What startups do you properly love and are rooting for?
HuggingFace
staticautomatic··on Quiet Electric Leaf Blower
Perhaps the tax can also scale logarithmically.
staticautomatic··on Kodak Is Hiring Film Technicians: ‘We Cannot Keep Up with Demand’
On Kodachrome you’d also get a negative you can’t develop…
staticautomatic··on A 'nano factory' that fits inside a shipping container (2021)
Is vacuum distillation a thing in food production?
staticautomatic··on Show HN: How Sketch can win looking at there Qualitative Feedback?
>Sketch ... has less than 50 employees.

Sketch's website says it has 220 employees.

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