wristmittens

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Ask HN: Disagreements with HTTP Spec 501 Not Implemented
2 points by wristmittens 7y ago|0 comments
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by wristmittens 7y ago
"According to the nonprofit Zero Waste Alliance, [zero waste] means diverting at least 90% of waste from landfills" So, the first "only 10%" waste airport?
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What’s Really Happening with the National Prison Strike?(themarshallproject.org)
1 points by wristmittens 8y ago|0 comments
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by wristmittens 8y ago
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-santa-monica-sco... "Bird and Lime deactivate scooter services in Santa Monica for a day in protest"
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by wristmittens 8y ago
But the point of the original article is that "just rent it again" is entirely dependent on the renting authority deciding they still want to rent it to you. If Kindle decided (or was pressured) to censor a book for whatever reas
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by wristmittens 8y ago
Yes, but only for my coworker's sake rather than my own. It took me a while to find the "disable video on meeting join" setting in Zoom so more than once I was shirtless and unshaven for the first few seconds of standup.
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by wristmittens 8y ago
Not exactly the same thing but this is a similar idea of using data and algorithms to ignore the disadvantaged. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/books/review/automating-i...
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by wristmittens 8y ago
Something about this rubbed me the wrong way and I realized it was because this pretends that ignoring much of the long tail of userbase is not only okay but beneficial to the majority. If, say, Quip ignored bugs in IE6 that's likely f
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by wristmittens 8y ago
One of the biggest benefits of off-site backup is stability. That's why something like a bank's safe-deposit box or my parent's firesafe are my preferred locations. A backup in your pocket is great until you lose your keys, y
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by wristmittens 8y ago
A lot of the replies either rely on third party services (albeit encrypted) or forget about the third part of the holy backup trinity of having something offsite. It sounds like you're thinking of local backup while you're traveli
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by wristmittens 8y ago
https://xkcd.com/1319/
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by wristmittens 8y ago
Sources? Copyright issues back then were a bit tricky. 28 years with mandatory registration, and so Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring (1913) is around the line of 27 years to Disney's Fantasia (1940), and if Stravinsky didn't regis
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by wristmittens 8y ago
Outside of San Francisco, a lot of the bay shoreline is not much more than acres of foot-deep mud and salt flats. http://www.charts.noaa.gov/OnLineViewer/18651.shtml Sierra Point, Coyote Point, Redwood City are the onl
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Air support for CA wildfires suspended due to flying drone(ksbw.com)
2 points by wristmittens 9y ago|0 comments
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200 Acres Burning in Santa Cruz Mountains Near Boulder Creek(mercurynews.com)
1 points by wristmittens 9y ago|0 comments
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by wristmittens 9y ago
> Over the years I have come to the conclusion that the real heroes of ideas are not the people who have them – they are the people who buy them. The power of the venture trifecta; the idea, the inventor, and the investor.
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by wristmittens 9y ago
I tied my email address to my USPS address three apartments and half a decade ago. Apparently I never updated it since I'm now receiving email from Informed Delivery with images of mail addressed to that apartment which is obviously n
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by wristmittens 9y ago
I was an engineer at Apple for a while and I never got the feeling that this was malicious behavior. New features and ever increasing codebase always makes things slow down, and speed of old devices was never the top priority; instead, new
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by wristmittens 9y ago
> In addition to perfecting the StarChip itself, the initiative will need to develop sophisticated communications systems capable of transmitting data over interstellar distances, as well as durable light sails to attach to the chips and
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by wristmittens 9y ago
His website has a good list of ways to dive into his creations. https://brandonsanderson.com/books/where-do-i-start/
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by wristmittens 9y ago
Digitally Imported has a very wide range of, well, digital music. They have some free ad supported streams but the annual cost of ad-free $70 is totally worth it in my opinion. My current favorite channels are Chillstep, Liquid DnB, Nu Disc