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They're phoning it in, coasting on old IP and goodwill earned decades ago. Animal Crossing had less dialogue options than the Gamecube version that preceded it by two decades. Smas…

Nintendo really has no incentive to improve. They make money hand over fist selling half-baked titles to their combined market of actual undiscerning children, and rabid fanboy man…

I’m assuming the author was thinking Minecraft with the kid’s friends would be Peer2Peer or something. I doubt Switch has the power to host a Minecraft server, but I might be wrong…

Rhode Island is trying this. The gantries have been up for years, but it was challenged in court by the trucking lobby. The state prevailed with some concessions, and is planning t…

Stuff like this is common in states with no income tax. If public services in two states are equivalent and one has income tax but one doesn’t, the latter state residents pay the s…

In the northeast I regularly see idiots slowing down for the high speed toll lanes that have explicit signage not to slow down. People going 65-70MPH, then as the toll approaches o…

Walkable cities are a luxury good. Care to share what multiple of the median annual household income a home costs wherever you live? 10x? 20x?

>a bunch of internet pages containing things that are blatantly wrong So Reddit? I’d imagine the AI companies have all the “pre AI internet” data they scraped very carefully catalo…

Apple’s most interesting value proposition was ignoring all this AI junk and letting users click “not interested” on Apple Intelligence and never see it again. From a business pers…

Because topics like these always attract some Very Smart People to comment and engage in order to share their Very Correct Opinions on macroeconomics and politics.

Laughing aloud at the thought of the average paycheck to paycheck consumerist blowing a gasket when they see a $24k tax bill for their $80k pickup truck.

The quality of discourse on HN has been nearing the bottom of the barrel (read: mostly indistinguishable from Reddit) since the pandemic. It’s very rare these days to see citations…

Just turn it upside down then. At best some “Good Samaritan” turns it right side up at some point but the food arrives late, cold, and spilled all over the inside of the robot.

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If these "greedy utility companies" were such good monopolists or duopolists wouldn't it reflect in some pretty insane stock performance? Eversource (NYSE: ES) is my local electric…

Either cargo pants, or their waist size is much larger than average.

Average German lifespan is about 80 years. What if it was 70 years for an 80th percentile drinker and 90 years for a 20th percentile drinker, I assume that changes your conclusion?…

Of course there is no "hard evidence" unless someone leaves evidence of the prompt or AI response in their blog post. There are certain clues and syntax. Your comment seems like it…

Genuinely, why? More people than ever are using LLMs to flood the internet with textual slop far faster than humans who have respect for the craft of writing can generate their own…

I didn’t know who this author was previously (Jared Hecht) but I looked up pictures of him and he definitely does not look like he exercises regularly. He’s skinny (e.g. not overwe…

“Alcoholism” is outdated and has been widely replaced by AUD (Alcohol Use Disorder). I looked at Germany, according to Wikipedia the average consumption of pure ethanol per person …

It absolutely does, do you even use Google Search Console? For just one of my websites, I have 223 pages of queries I can look through from the past 28 days to see what users typed…

No. Pro rata is Latin for “in proportion.” It’s one dollar for one dollar. If you add $7k to your tIRA to do the backdoor Roth, you also must convert $7k of existing funds which be…

Sheesh, are you a Redditor?

I'm still setting up my own home server, adding one functionality at a time. I wanted to like Nextcloud but it's just too bloated. Radicale is a good calendar replacement. I'd rath…