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by leot 20d ago
Reddit has started putting up a paywall of sorts to block mobile web users, saying that instead, users should install the app. old.reddit.com remains as an ugly workaround. The whole thing is nuts: 1. All of reddit's content is UGC. Th
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by leot 4mo ago
We can't control what the telcos do with text messages, but we exclusively use SOC 2 Type II compliant providers.
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by leot 4mo ago
Quell (textquell.com) Broken relationships can be difficult and nerve-wracking. Quell gives you an SMS number that enables you to put boundaries around your communication with someone who is blowing up your phone and making your life hard.
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TheySeeYourPhotos(theyseeyourphotos.com)
1 points by leot 5mo ago|1 comments
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by leot 1y ago
The dozens of "contributors" being presented in random order is, one would suppose, an anti-poaching tactic?
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Gödel's Loophole (in the US Constitution)(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by leot 2y ago|0 comments
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by leot 2y ago
If I were the CCP this is perhaps the cleverest talking point I could have possibly come up with, propping up TikTok while simultaneously condemning democracy. But to substantively respond: NO. This is exceptionally naive. Democracy assumes
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Dogs may be able to communicate by pressing buttons, research suggests(washingtonpost.com)
8 points by leot 2y ago|0 comments
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Controllable Launcher (Of Human Payloads)(patents.google.com)
1 points by leot 2y ago|0 comments
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How do soundboard-trained dogs respond to human button presses?(journals.plos.org)
2 points by leot 2y ago|1 comments
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by leot 3y ago
It's unclear why the researchers believe that when a dog doesn't learn the names of a bunch of toys it means that they can't. There are lots of things people are able to learn today that they "couldn't" a few y
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by leot 3y ago
(According to GPT4) Using the hydrostatic pressure formula: Pressure = Density of water × Acceleration due to gravity × Depth Assuming the same density of water (1,000 kg/m³) and acceleration due to gravity (9.8 m/s²): Pressure =
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by leot 3y ago
SF is rich and unequal. So are dozens of places. Yet I don't know of any other major urban area in a developed country that has the kind of crime we see here. Yes, let's create great safety nets. As a city with a $9 billion budg
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by leot 4y ago
If you've been privy at all to the conversations founders etc. have been having for the last 48 hours, I don't think they're going to come away from this feeling like "don't worry". There was never a guarantee
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by leot 4y ago
No one knows that taxpayers will have to pay anything for any of this. It's possible they'll end up ahead. The assets were/are there to cover depositors. The timing of the asset liquidation/redemption is the problem, and
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by leot 4y ago
Feel as though it's worth mentioning here that using LTE Direct ( https://www.qualcomm.com/news/onq/2014/11/true-or-false-gett... ) every phone could become a node in a long-range mesh network in an e
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by leot 4y ago
Cars fail and need to pull over regularly. It's hard to understand why this particular incident is all that notable.
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by leot 4y ago
I think you're confusing hydroxychloroquine with ivermectin.
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by leot 4y ago
I don't know why this hasn't come up yet, but watts per bit has fallen precipitously over the last 150 years, which means it's pretty unlikely we'd see any stray radio signals from other planets unless we managed to catc
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by leot 4y ago
By your logic, any documentary that interviews prison inmates would be unethical. Smaker asked ~150 inmates to participate, and only a tiny handful agreed.
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by leot 5y ago
Real estate is one of the few markets where non-experts can make money, where it’s not a hyper-liquid winner-take-all game. Coupled with this is the fact that housing is a necessity and owning a home leads people to invest in their communit
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by leot 5y ago
This was the top link on HN an hour ago and now it’s not even on the front page.
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by leot 5y ago
Could this be used instead of chlorine in swimming pools?
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by leot 5y ago
Here: https://journals.lww.com/americantherapeutics/Abstract/9000/...
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by leot 5y ago
This and more: ground all flights in and out until the journalist is released.
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by leot 5y ago
Sometimes. But I can’t say that I have a “security first” mindset, which seems analogous to “trust no one”.
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by leot 5y ago
> to help keep their customers safe The elimination of a distinction between “safety” and “security” is unhealthy imo, as it leads to a failure to distinguish between unintentional harm caused by nature, and intentional harm caused by ot
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by leot 6y ago
I’m a Canadian who came to the US for grad school in 2005. The lack of a (British) sense of Duty in the US is one of the most striking differences I noticed when arriving here. I suspect it’s in part a result of the frontier mentality: “I g
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by leot 6y ago
Selling lets the PE firm be “the bad guys”. ISOC gets to dodge responsibility while retaining nearly all the profits of being culpable.
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by leot 6y ago
When will Twitter provide all users with the ability to easily verify their identity? One of its biggest issues is troll armies — this would quickly vanish if we could filter by whether someone had validated who they were and where they wer

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