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This list somehow doesn't have "converter" (to refer to a television remote), which was the first word to unexpectedly baffle my American coworkers the first time I said it, to my …

No one here wants to admit that personal safety is a major factor in avoiding some forms of public transit in many cities in America. This model has the chance to succeed based on …

IIRC in the USA there are features allowed to be installed aftermarket that aren't legal to be installed as a dealer option (like front side-window tinting)

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Doesn't the same concern apply to your passport?

I guess the term would be "conspicuous consumption". As to why Koenigsegg doesn't get the rep, I'll take the outside opinion that it's because their name is too inaccessible wherea…

What would you call "corp dev type wages"?

Exactly. I feel constant ascendancy and the opportunity to do so would be a fortunate thing. For OP, I feel there might be qualifiers that preclude such opportunities, like total c…

This is the main reason why I have skepticism towards any claims of imminent AGI.

HN's title character limit is 80 (and the title is exactly 80 characters), so it was abbreviated to fit.

Tiktok is popular on a global level. They'll just block access to US users with a link to the details of the ban, and let things stew up the heat until the US budges.

It's not being thrown away, it will work as normal in every other country except the United States.

To quote directly from the linked article: "The law’s supporters have, at times, minimized the ban’s impact on the First Amendment, citing the mistaken belief that TikTok users can…

But they're not asking ByteDance to just divest a portion for US operations, are they? It's successful in many countries, so it seems kind of radical to force them to sell everythi…

Really? From my reading of it, it seems to focus how such a ban would inhibit the speech of US citizens who use the application, not TikTok as an entity.

I will say: Tiktok is very popular in many countries other than America. Forcing a company to sell its entire business just to continue operations in one country seems flawed, even…

In a strange way, if it was a blanket China ban, it would almost feel less arbitrary than this, which was crafted to target ByteDance. The fact they packaged it inside a funding bi…

The article title implies an opinion the direct opposite of his feelings and the blog content

Not in their traditional form now that the zeitgeist of the ZIRP tech boom is over. The waves of media stories about tech layoffs have probably dampened the hopes of those that wou…

Was this Insight Software? I usually wouldn't ask since you didn't volunteer the name, but seeing as throwaway is in your username I'd figured I'd ask.

"because you want to work for Google" /s

I agree. Click here also provides better context if the CSS doesn't clearly indicate a hyperlink or if the user is unfamiliar with html link styling, and in cases where the web bro…

The past decade and ventures like WeWork and Theranos have shown me that profitability doesn't necessarily have bearing over a certain timescale. You can keep the bus rolling for a…

My natural instinct to return to the "default" view (as in, how the page looked the very first time before I interacted with anything) was to click the header text at the top (that…