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by null_object 5y ago
> If the Apple Car actually materializes, I fear this will become the new standard. All cars come with all bells and whistles, but you have to pay monthly fees in order for them to function Wow I have NO IDEA how anyone managed the jump
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by null_object 5y ago
This was such a brilliant and nuanced piece of reporting: looking not only at the underlying facts, but closely examining the subtleties and suggestiveness of the language used in reports about the lab-leak theory from the very beginning. I
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How the murder of a Swedish rapper shocked a nation(theguardian.com)
3 points by null_object 5y ago|4 comments
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by null_object 5y ago
The image used to illustrate the article shows something that looks like it could be one a dozen different Android GPS trackers for sale on Alibaba. Totally gratuitous clickbait finger-pointing at Apple.
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by null_object 5y ago
I’ve got into the habit of clicking the 3-dot icon next to the search entry (often number 1 in Googles’s results) and reporting these sites as scrapers, stealing content from SO. Maybe if we all did this, google might eventually take notice
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Non-fungible tokens take No 1 spot in influential art world power list(theguardian.com)
3 points by null_object 5y ago|0 comments
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Scientists Square Off over Covid, Wuhan, and Peter Daszak(undark.org)
2 points by null_object 5y ago|1 comments
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by null_object 5y ago
> In Sweden it's common to do this by using your blinkers. I wouldn’t say it’s common here in Sweden, at all. I’ve driven all over Europe and the US, and nowhere is as uncommunicative as Sweden on the roads. People barely use their
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by null_object 5y ago
Ironically this attempt to blame the Covid vaccines missed the fact the study pre-dates them by 20 years. > Hmm I wonder what could be causing this. What have we done in the last few years that is different? > It's a mystery for
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by null_object 5y ago
I’m getting the feeling that you don’t live somewhere like Scandinavia, where we are barely exposed to sunlight for 6 months of the year.
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by null_object 5y ago
Indeed - grew-up in the middle of the Kentish countryside during the 70s and witnessed the wholesale removal of thousands of hedges to create the prairie landscape so beloved of "big-farma" (see what I did there). The wildlife los
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by null_object 5y ago
For some reason I'm unable to reply to maccard - apologies for this misplaced response > I had never heard of loewe, but after 10 minutes of searching, I still know nothing more about them - there is no pricing available, no idea
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by null_object 5y ago
> This is gonna be some hefty GDPR fines in Europe. I keep hoping this is gonna be the case, but the years roll on, I'm still clicking some stupid consent-popup on every single website I ever visit , and in the meantime TV manufact
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by null_object 5y ago
> There are no good high-end “dumb” tv options. Loewe[0] make really nice, simple, high-end TVs with great picture and sound, which really don't have intrusive 'smart' features. I use mine purely as a 'monitor' f
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by null_object 5y ago
Wow you have to be on HN to see Pegasus portrayed by some people as ‘the little guy’ fighting ‘evil’ Apple.
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by null_object 5y ago
This is possibly a generational difference, but I HATE the shuffle play, and find it horribly grating when I start playing an album from the first track, and find that Spotify has decided to toggle shuffle on again, despite me always turnin
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by null_object 5y ago
Just ban cryptocurrency
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by null_object 5y ago
> It’s hardly sexism, it’s a pervasive fact of societal interest distribution. I'm not denying the possible 'societal interest distribution', I simply felt it was an irrelevant strawman that's virtually impossible to
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by null_object 5y ago
It's a mildly interesting topic, but the 'myth' (if it is one) is hardly killed by the accumulated trivia in the article (some of which seems to favor neither side), and the tone is somewhat off-putting - dragging-in sexism a
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by null_object 5y ago
> MacOS Monterey added an option to disable automatic updates. It's been the biggest annoyance for years, now it's just a checkbox in settings The ability to disable automatic updates goes back far more years than I can remembe
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by null_object 5y ago
> removing Mail, Maps, Contacts, Pages, Photos, Calendar, Facetime, Reminders, AppleTV, Music, Keynote, and more and then removing the bloat widgets like News, Stocks, etc All of the things in your list are just apps that can be removed
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by null_object 5y ago
> Why do employees at big tech names (FAANG et al.) are so often so cautious as to include this as a foreword everywhere? This isn’t just ‘big tech’ - I work at a relatively small tech company, but I’d never want anything I say about the
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by null_object 5y ago
> In the 90s there was a massive hushed up scandal where the programmers developing the early Barclaycard made the pseudo random number generator for pin codes just issue three distinct pins. This meant that a stolen card could be easily
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Borrowing money to making $4m in a day’: how NFTs are shaking up the art world(theguardian.com)
2 points by null_object 5y ago|0 comments
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by null_object 5y ago
>It would not really have been possible to build all this shopping in the city center, so there is the physical limitations. I think this is the main problem, that the cities outgrow themselves, and it is just so much cheaper and economi
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by null_object 5y ago
Walkability isn't uniform across Europe, Scandinavia or even within a single country: other people have mentioned Stockholm - which is still a walkable town, even though car-traffic is prioritized over cycles and pedestrians[0] - but o
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by null_object 5y ago
> When BTC goes up to $20,000, the junior guy spent $0 and made $10,000. Senior guy still has $10,000. When BTC goes up to $50,000, junior guy now has $40,000 and senior guy has $10,000. You used a lot of words to describe a Ponzi scheme
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by null_object 5y ago
> An example is the gallery in Ios. It used to have an album called "camera roll" which would contain all the photos and videos taken by you. Now that is gone. You have absolutely no way to restrict your view to items that you
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by null_object 5y ago
> I hope people understand that the argument the article presents is largely a romanticization of poverty I think the opposite is the interesting factor here: late-stage capitalism has demonized the ‘grinding poverty’ and ‘unremitting
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Was NIH-funded work on MERS virus in China too risky?(science.org)
5 points by null_object 5y ago|0 comments

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