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Most every road death is the outcome of a poor decision made by a human. It's too much responsibility for many people, given the propensity to make choices that increase the chance…

Every car safety post on HN has "guy who thinks 12k deaths is maybe not too bad." Thanks, guy! You really put things in perspective there.

Etsy seems to operate in the same way as google. I had a DMCA against a listing of mine that should have been protected as parody. Etsy immediately complied with the takedown, and …

> - Clicking an iPhone notification opens the app, but never brings me to the actual email I've been using fastmail on iOS for years and have never experienced this issue. Clicking…

The argument is that the sweet deal we're getting now, which involves Anthropic practically giving away a product while they lose lots of money, might not be sustainable for them.

> deny the fact that it's useful tech Is this denial in the room with us now?

Now we’re talking. So much misinformation in this thread. There’s a reason that the saying, “if you want to kill someone, do it with a car” exists. Fortunately, it seems like judge…

Replying to myself. I just read the article. The gray/blue/green H2 fuel costs in the article do not reflect current U.S. fuel costs. Gray is $8-10 for liquid delivery. This equate…

Read their comment and yours? What great advice. I would suggest you do the same, but I think you'll continue to misread it. > No one is going to pay you to take your waste away an…

Yeah. Vehicle costs are pretty much the same (for battery electric and fuel cell electric buses, at least) and are about 2-3x more than ICE. On-site hydrogen infra for fueling/stor…

You appear to be agreeing with the person you’re replying to.

This is my experience, too. Heroku didn’t stay competitive price-wise with alternatives. And scaling even slightly from the basic dynos quadrupled (or whatever) the price. Feature …

It doesn’t need to be said.

I had a city college teacher who knew I liked sci-fi, so she printed me out the short story Equinoctial. Great little story, and from there I devoured everything by him. The relati…

I think the counterargument is that a while ago ads became super annoying. They move, they grow in size, they feature nsfw things, they have weird js that annoys you when you try t…

Sure, but the article is about a bot that expressly identifies itself in the user agent and its user agent name contains a sentence suggesting you block its ip if you don’t like it…

This one was funny because I checked a day’s log and it was using at least 15 different IPs. Much easier to just ban or rate limit “Thinkbot”

Related to the supposed inevitability of war AND nazi Germany, I recommend Nicholson Baker’s Human Smoke. It’s a good catalog of the choices, both economic and philosophical, on al…

I did this last year and checked on it after the first day to find a drowned baby opossum.

In many cases the people responsible are not in fact punished. This is about enforcing laws that are intended for save lives in the face of the breakdown of the social contract. I …

People in the US drive with their phones in their faces. Is that an issue in Portugal?

Maybe! We mostly just discuss things like, “Do you want more food? Take more food!”

Not arguing your point. Just thought I’d share that of the emigres I know (big families that left starting in the late 60s) all are either Christian or Zoorastrian (to some degree)…

I, like Houston Wade, have for years been like, "why don't I see any ships or activity" each time I pass by the ports of LA/LB. But I, unlike Houston Wade, wouldn't be so arrogant …