teh_infallible

I don’t think there’s any common ground with people who want to normalize masking in public.

Surely everything in the NYT is true? What incentive would they have to promote an agenda? /s

This is a bribe masquerading as a fine.

I heard a story like that where someone had a vanity license plate “NONE” and kept getting cited for not having a plate.

So, Blackrock and Fidelity?

Maybe we can just get rid of Greece and keep bitcoin?

I always thought the “war on drugs” was a big pharma turf war.

Nearly every school shooter was on an antidepressant, but somehow that never makes headlines.

I love this quote from the article:

“The testing process involves removing links to California news websites, potentially covered by CJPA, to measure the impact of the legislation on our product experience.”

If that’s not a veiled threat, I don’t know what is. I read that as, “The testing will demonstrate how screwed your media outlets will be when we delink them.”

There was a sketchy looking file sharing website where someone had posted some incredibly hard to find audio tracks that I really wanted, but the website required a subscription. Paying with a cc meant automatically-recurring payments, but I paid with bitcoin, got my files, and knew the website couldn’t get any money from me after that.

Your comment makes me think of my 3d printing journey. A lot of printers require maintenance and tinkering just to keep them functional. To an extent, since they are targeted towards “makers” who like to play with these things, that’s fine.

But sometimes the thing you’re trying to build is of central importance, and you want the machine to stay out of your way.Tinkering with the machine takes away time you could be exploring your ideas with a machine that’s already fully functional.

I wish community meshnets were more popular

So.. Embrace, Extend, Extinguish?

That’s hilarious :) The first time I worked on a project that used git, I got called out by a coworker for naming my branches after characters from Avatar, the Last Airbender.

There’s a big difference between quitting a side project and giving up on a startup. With the startup, you have other people depending on you.

IMO, this is the real power you can leverage with a side project, the power to change your mind and bounce between completely different ideas. Those famous side projects that become companies? I’d bet that a lot of them were not the first or even third iteration.

Except most of the article is not about crypto, but speculation in general. And the location is relevant because y combinator is about launching startups like Coinbase and Kraken, which have been extremely successful.

Can someone explain to me why, despite Coinbase and Kraken being headquartered in the Bay Area, HN hates cryptocurrency so much? It is literally just a neutral technology.

Ars used to have interesting articles about novel intersections between technology and the law. Now it’s like a Sharper Image catalogue.

An inventor named Royal Rife experimented with destroying tumors by finding the resonant frequencies of the cancer cells.

Impressive, isn’t it? They bootstrapped a stablecoin!

Edit: spelling

Isn’t everyone on HN a capitalist? Startups, venture funding, etc?

If retractions are exceedingly rare, it could imply that, once published, fraudulent papers have a tendency to persist.

I had a job working on an ecommerce site for a company that sold wine direct to consumers. On my first day, a coworker asked me, “What will you do when the website is finished?”

It was interesting to reflect on the misconceptions inherent in her question. The website is never finished. She didn’t understand that maintenance and upgrades are ongoing, and this is the nature of software.

That said, I do wonder if AI will make OP’s friend’s request seem reasonable. “Hey, ChatGPT, I just need an ecommerce site for a winery that sells to consumers. Can you walk me through how to build that?”

Maybe in the future, personal computers will have more than one GPU, one for graphics and one for AI?

Until we are allowed to look at adverse reactions critically and without being censored, this problem will only get worse.

One reason to seek funding early would be if you are in a competitive space and want to grow faster than your competitors.

Isn’t this the exact problem that cryptocurrencies solve? With stablecoins, you can send any amount of money anywhere in the world for almost no cost.

I’m not saying it’s the only cause, but it may well aggravate it.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250886390

I’m surprised no one has suggested noise canceling headphones as a possible cause. There was an HN post about this awhile back

But make sure you have your 2fa backup codes! I replaced two phones in a short period of time, and overlooked the 2fa backups the second time. It’s easy to do if you’re not expecting a replacement.

We could create a race of strongmen, based on genetic mutation and evolution!