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earth-tattoo

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About earth-tattoo

https://earth.tattoo/

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    Comment #49231067

    My lower back pain resolved automatically after I lost 15 kgs (100 to 85).

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    Comment #49178567

    [flagged]

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    Comment #49030151

    No dicks?

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    Comment #48974405

    earth.tattoo is an interactive art project where anyone can claim a patch of Earth and paint it, for free. Your artwork becomes visible to the entire world in a shared, live globe.…

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    Comment #48960673

    Or perpetually store it in an "open warehouse" where it rots over time.

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    Comment #48954332

    So, stage set to ban GrapheneOS website internationally?

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    Comment #48954324

    You are misreading. Basically the white paint is "fighting the sun's heat".

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    Comment #48922616

    Can we have a separate anti-Trump, Elon, etc. section on hacker news? So I can separate this noise from the real news. I'm no pro Elon, but this stock went from 150 to 200, and the…

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    Comment #48867407

    I'm amused that hacker news crowd finds this front page worthy.

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    Comment #48867349

    Why is this on the front page of hacker news?

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    Comment #48827632

    Especially by voting in a party that says it will do it. That's democracy, right?

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    Comment #48825818

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48825787

    There are in betweens of an iphone and analog camera. You can use a digital camera with an SD card that you plug into a laptop that never connects to internet.

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    Comment #48819626

    If I was signal CEO I would have self hosted years ago! There's many reasons for signal to be not on AWS.

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    Comment #48819287

    It sucks that Google is probably using OSM data to check what they are missing and adding it to their maps, but we can't do vice versa. OSM should change their license to something…

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    Comment #48809183

    The site has a "report" feature. Maybe at some point I'll integrated openrouter to automatically flag problematic tiles.

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    Comment #48809137

    Thanks. Will look into it.

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    Comment #48809131

    Thank you. It's already on the roadmap. Will bump it up.

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    Show HN: Paint the Earth on a live, interactive globe (collaborative art.)

    Earth.tattoo divides the earth into 510 million 16x16 pixel "tiles" that you can own and paint as you like. You can claim one free tile per hour.

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    Comment #48797121

    India having a wage of 50 cent is somehow America's fault? They failed to develop their infrastructure, and as a result their economy. That's their fault, nobody else's.

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    Comment #48795914

    Oh and by the way, each tile is 16x16 pixels

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    Comment #48795663

    Yes, so basically the earth is divided into almost 510 million "blocks" or "tiles". You can "claim" one block every hour. Or you can pay to buy one block for $1.