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I think the dynamic pricing algo is on to us - I see $13.99 at Amazon and clicked on a Google Play Books link for $1.99 that then became $13.99 magically, same for Apple Books.

Agreed. While I really value HN's commitment to not becoming Reddit, the intersection of politics and tech (and their effects on our lives) is indisputable. If we can't talk about …

An enormous part of safe driving is maintaining a mental map of the vehicles around you and what your options are if you need to make sudden changes. If you are not able to react t…

That's laughable. Any human who couldn't avoid a large, clearly-visible object in the middle of an empty, well-lit road should not be operating a vehicle. That's not to say that th…

Agreed. I work for a tiny startup where I wear multiple hats, and one of them is DevOps. I manage our cloud infra with Terraform, and anyone who's scaled cloud infrastructure out o…

> In most cities at the airport I just walk outside and get an old fashioned taxi at the rank vs dealing with all the nonsense Not the primary point of your post, but I am always e…

This is a far-right talking point that ignores the other concerns of progressives that are bundled up in the argument. Progressives (in the US at least) generally support immigrati…

They are consistently on the wrong side of Chesterton's fence. Many of them were completely blind to politics until 2016 and have suddenly entered the chat with no context or backg…

>The name is now finally NOT centered around one nation. 'Gulf of the Americas' would make more sense in that case. But that doesn't project the intended message from the new admin…

I love (read: hate) the concept that people are inherently busier in an office. When I was full-time in office, lots of people spent a good portion of their day wandering about, ha…

But if someone has access to your account information in such a way that they can make purchases in your name isn't that a you, or your bank, problem? Couldn't that same person jus…

I feel very fortunate to have been around for this part of internet culture. Chat was so different at the time; this part especially stuck out to me: >Our MC Skat Kat posted from t…

Pre-pandemic I started commuting by train and even though it was nearly the same time spent, my attitude and outlook was worlds better than when I was driving in heavy traffic ever…

> You should only use ChatGPT for things that you are able to review it's work. This keeps being my argument when people at work daydream about time and cost savings by offloading …

Agreed - the issue is the false dichotomy implied by suggesting that commuting itself is the answer. I think that it would be much more honest to opine that DESPITE the tolls on ou…

> I like sitting down and solving problems with code, getting a brief and build something cool. It's a huge problem in tech that companies traditionally try to force engineers into…

Maybe not the average, but millions of people commute to a city like Atlanta every day. From the middle of Forsyth County in GA, where there are many exurbs of Atlanta that feed wo…

I have never had cancer of any kind in my family tree, and I had a precancerous polyp found at 38yo. You should get a colonoscopy. If you are at low risk and look totally healthy a…

As someone who lives in the south but has done a lot of traveling both inside and outside of the US, rednecks (or redneck-equivalents) are absolutely everywhere. It's a lot more of…

Also I'm not convinced on the idea that it is unlikely to elicit change. My current employer takes exit interviews very seriously when they lose good people, and tries to fix the s…

I've done a lot of a relatively high-value item (motorcycles, cars) buying and selling on Facebook and Craigslist, and let me assure you: people didn't move to Facebook because Cra…

I've been upset by this myopic view since the very beginning. We are increasingly learning that viruses can have long-term effects on the body and mind, even prior to COVID. Agreed…

Well the article notes that some amount of user demographic info is revealed simply by interacting with the post, regardless of the information provided by the respondent. Secondly…

Liberal Biden voter here: Totally. Everyone is absorbing media that spends 90% of its energy encouraging them to think that they're being attacked by the other half of the country.…

Last year(?) YouTube changed TOS to state (IIRC) that if you didn't explicitly mark your own videos as 'not for children' they would be included in search results that included con…