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by alphakappa 26d ago
That is OP's point. The underlying technology has gotten faster but the computer you use feels the same as 20 years ago because the software that utilizes it does a lot more too.
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by alphakappa 26d ago
Thank you. The original website is a uniquely awful ad-infested page.
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by alphakappa 2mo ago
tangent: ridiculous that a site called designbloom has such an atrocious user experience. popovers, things that take over your reading space, and just general shiftiness all over the page that's unrelated to the content you are reading
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by alphakappa 5mo ago
It is stunning, particularly so if you read up on the history beforehand and then see all the elements in the painting. It’s the first time I was able to appreciate a Picasso for all the complexity he put into his paintings. I was similarly
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by alphakappa 1y ago
Just look at the size of Kinect and compare it with faceid embedded in a phone. The word “just” is doing a lot of work in the parent comment.
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by alphakappa 2y ago
If a country enters and leaves accords and organizations on a whim, at what point does it become a liability to have that country be at the table at all?
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by alphakappa 2y ago
That’s an odd comparison to make. The ‘school system’ isn’t a monolithic system that is actively refusing to acknowledge or take action against sexual predators. Is there an example of a school district that has been shielding predators on
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by alphakappa 2y ago
It's also crazy that people are buying into the idea of 'Founder Mode' when Airbnb is one of the companies that is very much riding on the moat it created a while back while not doing anything much that can even remotely be c
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by alphakappa 2y ago
This is great. You are missing True Nutrition. Also if you could add a simple way to reset the filters, that would be great.
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by alphakappa 2y ago
Any product that uses this is more than just the chip, so you cannot get a proportional change in battery life.
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A History of the DAKS Waistband(keikari.com)
1 points by alphakappa 3y ago|0 comments
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by alphakappa 3y ago
Worth mentioning the depaving efforts in Mexico City, particularly in Pedregal in an effort to replenish the ground water. In this case, for the lava bed, not earth and plants. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/dep
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by alphakappa 3y ago
Curious to know where in SF you lived. Generally there’s bodegas all over the place and you can find fresh produce there. Not to mention, the city has good bakeries everywhere. Fast food (the well known chains) are quite hard to find in mos
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High-speed AI drone beats world-champion racers for the first time(arstechnica.com)
2 points by alphakappa 3y ago|0 comments
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by alphakappa 3y ago
Sorry to be pedantic, but not up until, but from the 15th century or so (Babur) until some time in the 18th century (Battle of Plassey). And not all of India but a northern region. Indian history and geography are just too vast to be contai
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by alphakappa 3y ago
Article gift link (if you cannot get past the paywall): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/health/coolsculpting-side...
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by alphakappa 3y ago
Having read many of his books, that’s absolutely not the case. His book ‘The Anarchy’ (and the podcast) goes into great detail about the excesses of colonialism.
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by alphakappa 3y ago
So interesting to see William Dalyrumple pop up on HN. He has been writing fascinating history books for decades, particularly about India. He’s currently hosting a podcast called Empire[1] (season 1: British Empire, season 2: Ottoman Empir
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by alphakappa 4y ago
Tangential to the article itself - the page is fairly unreadable, at least on mobile due to the silly number of ads, an overlaid video ad that doesn’t seem to have a close button and so on. I understand that this is a business that needs ad
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by alphakappa 4y ago
It doesn’t always work that way. We sometimes have friends we might not stay actively in touch with, but are able to pick up where we left off when we are back in contact. Friendships are complex.
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A Sikh Temple Combats Loneliness with Chai and Laughter(nytimes.com)
1 points by alphakappa 4y ago|0 comments
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by alphakappa 4y ago
>California has the same age-adjusted excess mortality as Florida, so the destruction was wrought for naught. Seems arbitrary to compare with Florida when the linked data shows California ranked 38, and nearly half the excess mortality o
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by alphakappa 4y ago
>San Francisco has replaced its DA and now re-funded police When was SF police de-funded? Budgets have only increased [1] each year, any rhetoric notwithstanding 1. https://abc7news.com/sfpd-budget-defund-the-police-depar
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Ask HN: Why isn’t there a high quality self guided audio tour app?
2 points by alphakappa 4y ago|1 comments
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by alphakappa 4y ago
The 87,000 additional auditors is a misleading interpretation [1] Summary: - IRS used to have over 100,000 employees a decade back. This number has fallen due to funding cuts etc to less than 78,000 today. - The employees are not just audit
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by alphakappa 4y ago
Unrelated to the product itself, please make pricing/licensing clear upfront. “Try for free” leads to a page that says “signing up is free”. Great, but what comes after that? Please don’t leave your users guessing.
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by alphakappa 4y ago
EVs have plenty of mechanical parts that are not brakes and wheels. It will need servicing, just of a different sort.
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by alphakappa 4y ago
Correct. The smart inbox puts in ads. As in the YouTube example here, it's fairly unpredictable if they appear, and when they do - how they appear.
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by alphakappa 4y ago
Google products have been incorporating a frustrating amount of dark patterns. In gmail for example, if you load one of the smart inbox tabs, it shows the rows of unread emails at the top. Right when you attempt to click on the top row, it
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by alphakappa 4y ago
You are mixing in random headlines that were not the results of my scientific consensus (cellphones and cancer?) and headlines that warned of the bad possibilities if nothing was done. The fact that scientific and other advancements have

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