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I find it interesting that the context of this comments page apparently overrides the normal definition of “PG” on HN.

Ctrl-k focuses the Search bar unless a website hijacks it, which became regrettably common after the Search bar got hidden by default. But Firefox allows one to reënable it, and so…

The analogy is location. file : directory :: person : geocoordinates. I thought it was a straight-forward analogy, but clearly I was mistaken.

Hardly. That would be analogous to two people having the same name _and_ the same spacetime coordinates; they would indeed be the same person.

If the elevator was invented today, use of it would require an app which demands access to one’s contacts and microphone, and has a rating of 1.4 stars.

Did they also struggle to understand that some people have the same name yet are not the same person?

The underlying problem here is that a click or tap should always refer to whatever _was_ on the screen a few (100?) milliseconds ago. It’s a long-standing bug on all platforms.

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I've come to rely on a robust method of adblocking YouTube which I believe to be perfectly reliable and impossible for YouTube to circumvent: avoid watching YouTube. Incidentally t…

But folders are now stuffed into a small dropdown, leaving All Items as an unorganized mess. That change alone is pushing me to switch password managers.

Certainly true. Gold is difficult to transport and expensive to protect, whereas Bitcoin is neither.

I've long wished hyperlinks would permit multiple hrefs. Hypertext could be more sophisticated. Multi-link QR codes could be practically useful, provided an interstice appears with…

It may well be considered a security flaw for any country to allow foreign nationals to purchase any real estate. Incidentally, the practice also drives up prices for citizens, lea…

Funny how the desire to attract new users seems genuine up until someone mentions the glaring elephant in the room, and then you're downvoted to oblivion. I, like many others, woul…

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Why is this comment downvoted? I also saw no ads, using Firefox Mobile with uBlock Origin and NextDNS.

How do we solve that?

Yes, but there's still so much supporting software waiting to be built.

So what you're saying is it makes things up.

It's a system that was never introduced in the US, and in fact I've never even heard of it until now. So surely one option is to remove the system altogether. That written, I'm als…

What are its prime directives?

I too do this, yet I occasionally receive evidence that my address was sold or stolen. I've confronted one company about the problem, and they outright denied that they had any par…

I'm not the person you asked, but it's trivial to host your own git repos on a server.