wdr1

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by wdr1 9d ago
I've lived on the westside of LA for ~20 years, so one secret I like to let people in on: there's no water shortage. There's a literal ocean of it. I can see it right out my window. And all that it takes to turn seawater i
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by wdr1 1mo ago
> In the US at least, we've been brainwashed to think that government, by definition, must be bloated, corrupt and inefficient. I don't know that I've been brainwashed, but living most of my life in Chicago & Los Angel
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by wdr1 4mo ago
If Kevin Mitnick were still with us, I feel like he would be proud of these guys.
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by wdr1 4mo ago
It's paywalled. Could you recap for us?
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by wdr1 4mo ago
> It’s a stupendous amount of walking, with no shade, a moop stick and a bucket That does sound taxing. Is it volunteer or do people get paid?
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by wdr1 5mo ago
> Shouldn’t UAE be upset their entire economy has absolutely rammed by the war started by Israel? It's pretty convoluted logic to blame Israel for Iran attacking the UAE.
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by wdr1 5mo ago
> The fact that this question needs asking tells a lot about how other countries see the current administration. Not really. You just weren't paying attention before. To wit, countries (including Germany!) have been questioning th
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by wdr1 8mo ago
We live very close to Grant. We go through this intersection to walk our kids to their schools & know the crossing guards pretty well. This matches exactly what they said. That kid is lucky it was a Waymo & not a human driven car.
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by wdr1 8mo ago
> 2. EU is the easiest second market, and another step change of hundreds of millions of customers in a somewhat unified market What about China? India?
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by wdr1 9mo ago
I remember it too! But not everyone was on dial-up. A lot were in dorms w/ (for the time) high speed connections or workplaces with it. Remember at the time it wasn't clear that search was going to be the dominate pattern for how
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by wdr1 9mo ago
> I wonder why Google UX always sucked so much It depends on how you define "suck." When Google first launched it's homepage, its emptiness (just a logo & search box) was a stark contrast to the portal pages popular, w
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by wdr1 9mo ago
> I consider this abuse of the visitor. Why can't anything simply be "disliked" anymore? I get you don't like it. But abused? Because there's a slide-in? On a site run by volunteers? For open source software you
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by wdr1 9mo ago
Does this apply to political lists too? I know political calls/text are excluded from Do Not Call and hence I get a crap ton of political spam texts (most recently from "Adam Miller for Congress OH-15", despite never living
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by wdr1 9mo ago
> I think we should start separating discussion of “The Economy” from “human prosperity and wellbeing.” * Extreme poverty is at its lowest level in human history, down by over a billion people since 1990. * More humans can read, write, a
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by wdr1 9mo ago
Merry Christmas!
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by wdr1 9mo ago
Thanks. I was making a joke about Powell's original location. A lot of people think it was in Portland, but it's actually Chicago (Hyde Park area).
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by wdr1 9mo ago
https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/alienware-55-oled-gaming-monit...
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by wdr1 9mo ago
Despite spending most of youth playing the NES, I don't think I ever read a manual. "Reliance on documentation is the hallmark of a novice & a coward."
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by wdr1 9mo ago
No. And having worked in digital advertising for 20+ years, I'd be shocked if they are anywhere as effective as often claimed. It's mostly clickbait/outrage for the sake of headlines & clicks.
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by wdr1 9mo ago
Can't you already just get an HDMI monitor, speakers & a raspberry pi?
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by wdr1 9mo ago
Which one? The original one in Chicago or that other one in Portland?
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by wdr1 9mo ago
I'm not sure how to express this, but you're not entitled to only see things in life that you find pleasing. You might as well complain you sometimes see ugly people. > These and other types of "unskippable ads" viol
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by wdr1 9mo ago
> Freedom from ads seems like a fundamental human right, and necessary for freedom of thought. This doesn't make any sense to me. > Given that people currently are not able to choose to be free from advertisements in any practica
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by wdr1 9mo ago
> Time to ban all adverts everywhere. I'm not the only one who is fed up with ads. This is a terrible idea. Users should have choice & control. I'll say something that on the surface level seems controversial, at least to
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by wdr1 10mo ago
> All bookings in popular places or on popular dates are NON REFUNDABLE. As in "click and you will never see any of this money again" non-refundable. Very non-refundable. If I have to cancel, I lose all my money. The Atlantic r
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by wdr1 10mo ago
One nice thing about Starlink is it gives an alternative to what used to be monopoly ISPs.
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by wdr1 10mo ago
> TP-Link's Headquarters are in California, they have a branch in Singapore and they manufacture in Vietnam "TP-Link is a Chinese company that manufactures network equipment and smart home products. The company was established
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by wdr1 11mo ago
> Democrat governments don't seem to purge information. This flies in the face of what we all lived through during the Biden administration. All the major tech outlets[1, 2, 3] have come forward to say that Biden administration pres
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by wdr1 11mo ago
> Paying is necessary Donald Trump would like a word.
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by wdr1 1y ago
Indeed. The U of C is affiliated 101 Nobel Laureates (amongst the highest in the world) -- not to mention 10 Fields Medalists, 4 Turing Award winners, 58 MacArthur Fellows, 30 Marshall Scholars, & 55 Rhodes Scholars.

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