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    Comment #45839276

    Interesting! The scroll wheel on the mouse doesn't seem to be working. Opening cybercafe.space in a browser sends it into an infinite loop

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    Comment #45812808

    William Gibson described it as "High tech, low life." It's also described as a Genre that explores the connection and impacts between technology and the human experience.

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    Comment #45618941

    There's a site somewhere that has various ASCII art renditions of that code. It's on my project list to print some of those on some shirts :P

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    Comment #45505904

    It might also have something to do with Project 2025. There's a plan to return the US to the gold standard.

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    Comment #45467321

    I was very excited when this project first came about, but it has been pretty dead for a while. It seems like the creators made a TED talk about it, got some financing, and moved o…

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    Comment #45351254

    I've been using it most of this year, it's been really handy. I do wish there was a better way to manage attachments. Right now if you attach an image or document to a note, there'…

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    Comment #45280551

    You might find Cambridge union to be refreshing. https://www.youtube.com/@cambridgeunionsoc1815

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    Comment #44916790

    Wasn't this only possible because Trump enacted "Operation Warp Speed?"

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    Comment #44724329

    That sounds like it would lead to Corpo-feudalism, aka techno-feudalism. Some billionaires are working to accomplish this. https://thebaffler.com/latest/mouthbreathing-machiavellis…

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    Comment #43915564

    They look great! Double-headed nails make great mini swords. I use them to show that I can make a sword in one heat. Smash it flat, file some small tapers and you're set. Plus, it …

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    Comment #43908847

    >The novel's protagonist is inspired by Warren Buffett. On August 14, 2011, Warren Buffett wrote an influential op-ed entitled, "Stop Coddling the Super-rich" This wiki page implie…

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    Comment #43908225

    Great video. It's pretty inspirational to see a kid pulling off some awesome hacker projects!

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    Comment #42952587

    How many computers nowadays can connect to a phone line?

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    Ask HN: What tech knowledge to back up?

    Everything going on in the US right now is really concerning, including a theory that the US will implement a "great firewall" similar to what's used by countries like China and Ru…

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    Comment #42614090

    This sounds like an interesting project. Can it extract text from scanned books? In those types of pdfs, each page is stored as an image file. If you could pair this project with t…

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    Comment #42434390

    Did you have those challenges after the 1.0 update? I heard that update fixed a lot of those issues.

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    Comment #41907926

    This sounds like a task that could be taken care of by public libraries. That, and supporting Tor. I just don't see it happening anytime soon, at least in the US.

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    Comment #41869850

    Chicken chicken chicken

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    Comment #41579829

    Ok I'm really glad you mentioned that. It didn't fully occur to me, and now I appreciate the book a lot more. Except of course for the oversexualization of a 15 year old, and the a…

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    Comment #41103293

    More often then not, this boils down to the greatest common denominator. There's something you do or the way you look at things that is generating hostility. Just looking at your r…

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    Comment #40739442

    Why share a link to another link? The twitter post is sharing a link to this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByiwvWN4_NA

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    Comment #40161565

    Thanks! I'll give it a shot.

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    Comment #40161517

    Manually. There's a dial to turn it on, from low to high. One option I considered was a IoT motor of some kind to turn the knob for me.

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    Comment #40148187

    Is this a good time to ask about a project I would like to do? I have two 220v heaters in my garage, one on each floor. I'd like to turn one or both of them on from my phone. I'd a…