JohnFen

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by JohnFen 3d ago
Yeah, there is the question of how bad does it have to be to report. Certainly, they don't want people calling about a single cup stuck in a bush somewhere, but do want people calling about a pile of domestic garbage. My personal rule
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by JohnFen 3d ago
I live in the west. I also have an excellent driving record and drive a small econobox. Here's an interesting story that gave me greater understanding of how insurance is priced. Years ago, I worked at a place where I lived 5 miles awa
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by JohnFen 3d ago
I asked everyone I knew who they used, paid attention to which ones people had stuck with the longest, then tried those ones out by getting oil changes from them. Then out of the ones that I had good vibes from, I chose the one that was phy
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by JohnFen 3d ago
If they welcome reporting, I'd be surprised if they care about (or check) whether or not the reporter is a tourist. They just want to know about the litter.
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by JohnFen 4d ago
How? I never allowed Javascript or anything.
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by JohnFen 4d ago
I also have no interest in their side projects. It doesn't bother me that they have them, though. As you say, as long as the search engine works and the price is acceptable, I'm happy.
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by JohnFen 4d ago
I can do the basics like oil changes. I don't, though, because it's worth it to me to pay my mechanic to do all the maintenance. I'd do the same if the car were new.
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by JohnFen 5d ago
Kagi is what I settled on a couple of years ago. I do think sometimes the fawning is over the top, but it is a solid search engine and tended to give me a bit better results than Google out of the box. The real win, though, is that you can
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by JohnFen 5d ago
Because I wouldn't want Google to know what links I click on. When I used to use Google, and they added such redirects that included the destination URL as a parameter, I'd edit the link to make it just that URL before resolving i
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by JohnFen 5d ago
I just carry liability. There's no point in comprehensive coverage on such a car. My car insurance costs about $500/yr.
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by JohnFen 5d ago
Interesting. I'm far from poor, but that's pretty much exactly how I buy cars, and I have never regretted it. The couple of times that I bought more expensive cars, I've regretted it. The only time I'd take out a loan to
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by JohnFen 5d ago
If I hadn't already ditched Google long ago, this would be more than enough to chase me away.
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by JohnFen 5d ago
A good start is to vote in the midterms to reduce the amount of power that these antihuman criminals have. The US is currently in the midst of a serious political disaster and there will be no quick fix to any of this. But if we take every
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by JohnFen 5d ago
That's in line with the EPA's new mission of ensuring environmental degradation.
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by JohnFen 5d ago
> The agricultural machine manufacturer has a subscription service that lets owners repair their own equipment. Why is barely anybody using it? Because it doesn't address the actual problem.
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by JohnFen 5d ago
Star Trek became, essentially, Star Wars. Which is a shame because we already have Star Wars, but there's nothing like what Star Trek was.
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by JohnFen 5d ago
That would be awesome, but it's not going to happen without some sort of huge cultural shift. It's because actual science rarely directly results in something that can be monetized. That's what engineering does. Science is ab
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by JohnFen 5d ago
> after X billions of dollars of funding, there's a point where a startup's success is pretty much guaranteed I don't agree that this is how it works. Abundant funding is very far from a guarantee of success. There may be
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by JohnFen 5d ago
The only people who can answer your questions are the mods, so you should ask them. hn@ycombinator.com
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by JohnFen 5d ago
For actual notes, yes, but a paper notepad can't cover all my needs. It's pretty hard to copy/paste to a paper notepad.
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by JohnFen 6d ago
Damn, that site is very hard (and painful) to follow.
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by JohnFen 6d ago
Yes, it's absolutely a cult. I'd even go so far as to say it's a death cult. I don't fear genAI even a little. I am terrified and angered by genAI companies and their most hardcore supporters, though. I think they presen
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by JohnFen 6d ago
The Windows 11 notepad is so bad in so many ways that I reverted to using the older notepad instead.
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by JohnFen 6d ago
I don't. Once there are more than a certain number of comments, there's a diminishing value to additional ones because they start restating what's already been said in other comments.
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by JohnFen 6d ago
> according to researchers who emphasize that their study does not prove the pain medicine is to blame and does not indicate any effect on future fertility. Just wanted to surface this for people who may just read the headline and think
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by JohnFen 6d ago
That's one of the reasons that I won't do streaming. The streaming industry as a whole has brought back every single one of the bad things about cable that they promised to save us from (and introduced a few new bad things on top
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by JohnFen 6d ago
> Everything is probabilities and risk, but can we really accept any risk when it comes to something as important as the future of the human species? That's the part of the Dark Forest that gets me - the game theory of uncertainty.
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by JohnFen 6d ago
I write code every day.
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by JohnFen 6d ago
Yes, I miss them a lot. On-screen keyboards are awful.
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by JohnFen 7d ago
> You see, many for many people, a nice phone, usually an iPhone, is as a luxury good that is used to signal one's class and status. Ah, well, in that case I won't feel bad about thinking a bit less of those people, same as I d

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