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Switzerland is probably the most densely interesting and scenic place in the entire world. Try telling this to someone in Iowa.

Mondragon gets glazed on HN frequently. Just search and you’ll find many examples.

Does anyone know how he is implementing country detection? I'm certain it's not GeoIP since my current IP address (and physical location) is different than the country it's showing…

>It also means penalties are limited to fines and can't impact your driving privilege or insurance. If this is the case, what are the consequences of not paying the fine? I interpr…

Unlike other commenters, I agree that there are some (arguably significant) things to complain about. The first one is price - tickets are quite expensive. I frequently travel Zuri…

Tell me about it. Swiss air refuses to pay out 1800€ in EC261 compensation…

I was affected. Taking off now for a 5:30pm PT flight to Seattle. Aside from clearly not having an appropriate disaster readiness plan, communication was bad even though some infor…

You think bandwidth is free? -Sent from my 1T parameter LLM

I don't agree that a bad live demo is a 3/10. The recent demo showed me conclusively that the Meta Ray Bans are not at the quality level where I would buy them, especially not for …

Tai Lopez became so famous he was immortalized in the cute rogue-like "Going Under" where he is spoofed as the "Hauntrepreneur"[0] https://going-under.fandom.com/wiki/Hauntrepreneu…

Strongly disagree with most of the consensus here to start with Player of Games and that Consider Phlebas is boring. I found Player of Games to be the much weaker book, with lots o…

Car dealers are a scourge on Americans and a hidden tax imposed via poor legislation. They employ thousands and are generally very wealthy so regrettably they have become an embedd…

Thanks yeah, you’re right these are bad.

They're not going to build a 4 mile siding, which is the length that many freight operate at. At that point it's like building a second set of tracks.

Can you provide a reference translation or at least call out the issues you see with this passage? I see "far far away in the [time period]" which I should imagine should be "a lon…

Fair criticism, but also this arguably would be preferable. For many use cases it would be strictly better, as you've built some sort of automated drone that can do lots of work bu…

Honestly very impressive, even with LLM augmentation.

I am a "savvy shopper" and have no desire to buy components on Amazon anymore. Their stock co-mingling doesn't work for speciality computer components. I've received items marked a…

foiled by the old em-dasheroo!

You're only considering braking, and for that case you're right. You're not considering acceleration, where EVs supply near maximum torque instantly when you press the accelerator …

Check out Anubis - it's not quite what you're suggesting but similar in concept: https://anubis.techaro.lol/

TN self sponsorship is not allowed. However, it's not immediately clear to me that she would meet the standard of self-sponsorship as laid out in the law: >> A professional will be…

If you watch Come and See and are excited about war afterwards, you aren't smart or introspective enough that external media has a meaningful effect on your thoughts anyway.

One other question is: how accurate are the data sheets in Shenzhen as opposed to in the US? I can't speak to China, but in the US if you publish a spec for a component and then do…

This has shades of Robin Williams’ bar rant in Good Will Hunting.