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Where does the money to pay for shelf space come from if not the money we pay for food?

It's absolutely wild to me that people can have experienced any amount of the Internet and not think "word of mouth" will absolutely wholly suffice to fill the role of informing pe…

Impossible to solve I’m sure. Probably lower priority than stopping them from putting lead in bread and selling cocaine snake-oil elixirs, or forcing them to list basic nutritional…

Oh, I know how it works. You could have read my whole comment and saved yourself typing anything about the yellow pages. You sweet summer child.

If I go looking for a directory of [service, in my area] that’s hardly an ad! If those include, say, reviews and pricing info, great! Yes, please! I definitely don’t want that dire…

This is what a fucking store is for . They have catalogs. You could ask for one. If they think people will want something they will try to sell it and will tell you about it if you…

… wait, I was pretty sure the behavior used to be to paste whatever you had most recently highlighted. When did that change? Or am I crazy?

As a compulsive text highlighter, I’ve always found this feature more trouble than it’s worth, by a pretty wide margin. Plus, its inability to replace text means I have to be famil…

Terrible productivity loss vs. signing up for a hosted Wordpress site.

Seriously, I’m lucky if 10% of what I do in a week is writing code. I’m doubly lucky if, when I do, it doesn’t involve touching awful corporate horse-shit like low-code products th…

The “double checking” is a step to make sure there’s someone low-level to blame. Everyone knows the “double-checking” in most of these systems will be cursory at best, for most dou…

Have you considered that your investment firm and other peers at the time were in an information bubble? In fact outside of tech if the dotcom bubble wasn’t being discussed it’s be…

Any troll or shitposter who can't operate extremely effectively on HN isn't very good at it. The site basically has a house style for those activities, and you can go crazy insulti…

It's one of those initially unintuitive things that makes perfect sense when you consider that "burning calories" is... pretty literally burning calories. Of course CO2 is how most…

No kidding. “Reverting” to something pretty similar to Mac OS in the late ‘90s, as far as visuals and basic UI behavior (but not removing modern features) would be a big improvemen…

If I’ve understood the grandparent post correctly, they don’t need the banner. They wouldn’t need it if the only cookie they set were a functional 1st-party cookie, and since that …

I waited what I thought (and what was suggested by enthusiasts to be) long enough for the tech to be mature and approachable, and finally bought a highly-recommended beginner print…

… but does turn it into “content”.

AI Economics (of money, anyway) aren't what'll kill writing. The vast, vast majority of writing is already not done for money. Approximately nobody makes meaningful amounts of mone…

Nobody ever told me and I drove my first car for a long time, rarely drove other people’s cars, and did not have the kind of lifestyle that either supported or required rental cars…

Soaps had publications in checkout lanes that’d catch you up on anything you missed.

This is more than just trivially true for Python in a scripting context, too, because it doesn’t do things like type coercion that some other scripting languages do. If you want to…

1) Modern games are enormous and as long as services like GOG let me re-download my library it frees up literally terabytes of space on my disk array for pirated movies and other t…

The Guyana that borders Venezuela is independent, but ex-British. French Guyana is on the other end of that set of three little countries.

The generous assignment of motivation is realpolitik anti-Russia + China stuff. Less generous but probably true as at least part of the motivation, there’s the usual factor of US c…