yakito

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by yakito 2y ago
I wish Kobo would accept my Kindle as partial payment for one of their units. Can't wait to switch away from Bezos.
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by yakito 2y ago
Reminder: don’t trust third parties with your digital belongings. Not because they’re evil, but because they’re third parties. And third parties, by definition, are people who today are on your side and tomorrow will sell you to the highest
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Hollywood actor launches spy satellite in Sudan(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by yakito 2y ago|0 comments
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Why China wins every Paralympic Games(lemonde.fr)
4 points by yakito 2y ago|0 comments
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by yakito 2y ago
The vast majority of people still today directly associate any stomach pain with stress as their first thought. I would even venture to say that many doctors still inquire about stress during a consultation. Even though it is not the cause
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by yakito 2y ago
While I agree that this is often used by dictators to exercise their will and justify it by any means they can find, I don’t see the connection between a totalitarian regime and Argentina.
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GPS jammed on commercial flight over Atlantic(telegraph.co.uk)
15 points by yakito 2y ago|4 comments
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Warren Buffett's breakup with the Gates Foundation will hurt the world(vox.com)
4 points by yakito 2y ago|2 comments
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Prince of Persia rotoscoping 1986 [video](youtube.com)
5 points by yakito 2y ago|0 comments
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by yakito 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240722131245/https://www.forbe...
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Sam Altman Gave People Free Money. Here's What Happened(forbes.com)
12 points by yakito 2y ago|7 comments
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by yakito 2y ago
I agree that this would be a great addition.
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by yakito 2y ago
For anyone interested in the origins of jazz I recommend the book Early Jazz: Its Roots and Musical Development by Schuller. It covers mostly 1920-1930 and a bit of its origins is west Africa.
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A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trial(npr.org)
40 points by yakito 2y ago|4 comments
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by yakito 2y ago
We should have something similar to Apple's hide my email for phone numbers
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by yakito 2y ago
In one way or another, we are all being supervised, even without having committed a crime. It is true that there is a thin line between supervision and the violation of rights, but I believe this requires deeper analysis. However, the fact
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by yakito 2y ago
I totally agree. What are they doing over there? It's funny because some of these companies are just jumping into trends, in this case, AI, probably to lure investors and users. They might be achieving the complete opposite result by d
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Enhanced Games, the Olympics where everyone dopes(theguardian.com)
3 points by yakito 2y ago|2 comments
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by yakito 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240331183608/https://www.nytim...
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Widespread Mail Monitoring in the U.S. (2014 Report)(nytimes.com)
4 points by yakito 2y ago|1 comments
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by yakito 2y ago
At the moment of writing this I have no clue what my wallpaper is. I can't remember when was the last time I actually saw my desktop or interacted with it. I am not sure if this ball will also bounce on top of opened windows, but the w
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by yakito 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240625205309/https://www.washi...
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Astronaut' return from space delayed indefinitely(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by yakito 2y ago|1 comments
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by yakito 2y ago
luck is getting to the first page of HN with such a basic and empty "Article"
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by yakito 2y ago
It's not hard work, nor luck. It's who you know. Then one could argue that "who you know" might be the product of either luck or hard work, which would be a valid answer. In any case, I believe knowing the right people w
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Your brain might not be private for much longer(sciencefocus.com)
3 points by yakito 2y ago|0 comments
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Barred Morgan Stanley Banker Joins Firm That Got His Trading Leaks(bloomberg.com)
2 points by yakito 2y ago|0 comments
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by yakito 2y ago
finally, I was waiting for this comment.
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by yakito 2y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20240329125152/https://www.chica...
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by yakito 3y ago
I've previously used PianoVision, and it worked quite well. The concept seems similar, now augmented with VR. I anticipate that VR pianos will evolve to such an extent that they'll replace traditional pianos in many scenarios (lik

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