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My understanding is that they use up a lot of water and electricity, driving costs up for local residents.

Datacenters are asking for tax breaks because they "contribute back to the local economy". In most cases however, the added jobs are mostly temporary (construction)

In short, they're asking residents to pay for some short-term jobs and long-term utility price increases. A bad deal if you ask me

Re:Relive the 90s: Weather Channel Simulator on Thursday May 29, 2025 @02:29PM (#44128801)
Nice! Which screen is that? All of the screens I've found are widescreen and I'd like to do a similar project
Maybe it would be valuable to have an anonymous "onboarding" experience where people choose the genres they like or dislike, and then the people choosing the book can be informed a summary of the groups preferences.

Also an anonymous thumbs up/down after the book is read could help the group choose a better next book

Re:TOTP tokens on my wrist with the smartest dumb watch on Friday July 26, 2024 @09:14PM (#41083782)
This is awesome. I've always wished someone made something like this for one of Casio's calculator watches
Re:Pimp Your Board Games on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:07PM (#39423361)
Re:Pimp Your Board Games on Sunday February 18, 2024 @04:07PM (#39423354)
No, I sell domed stickers that stick onto both sides of a penny. Though I also have a number of other products including deckboxes and specialty dice
Re:Pimp Your Board Games on Sunday February 18, 2024 @10:05AM (#39419614)
For the past 5 years, I've been running a board game accessory business out of my house: https://burgertokens.com

There's a surprising number of people who love to upgrade their board games! It's a great community.

Re:Pinball isn't as random as it seems [video] on Sunday October 29, 2023 @09:28AM (#38058424)
Pinball doesn't have any internal systems that force you to lose like a claw machine or other arcade games would.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? on Thursday December 10, 2020 @08:05PM (#25381048)
I run an ecommerce business selling board games accessories. It's been way more successful than I thought it was going to end up being.

https://www.burgertokens.com

Re:Show HN: I made a platform for free-to-play games on Monday June 01, 2020 @01:51PM (#23381436)
I would like to be able to filter out games with in app purchases. Or more specifically, in app purchases that impact gameplay.

I don't mind cosmetics but whenever someone spending money has an advantage, I don't want to touch that game.

Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses? on Monday April 13, 2020 @02:20PM (#22858422)
I run an aftermarket board game accessory business.

https://burgertokens.com/

Last year, I shipped nearly 4000 packages. My customers love our products, and most of our growth comes from word of mouth.

Re:YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:59PM (#20437565)
There's a subreddit dedicated to this sort of thing, check it out:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IMGXXXX

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Thursday July 04, 2019 @08:54PM (#20359099)
I've been spending time working on my board game accessories business https://burgertokens.com/

It's been an awesome experience so far. I have enough customers now that I can go to pretty much any board game event and find people who are fans of my business.

I'm working on editing a video for an upcoming kickstarter that we're about to run. Super excited :)

Re:Intermediate Vim on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @08:22AM (#19796406)
@@ repeats the last macro
Re:I miss Windows Phone on Saturday April 07, 2018 @10:36AM (#16780868)
How come? My understanding is that the thing people loved the most was the "cards", but ios and android both have something similar with their app switcher now.
Re:Super Smash Bros. Melee: An “Untouchable” Agent on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:17PM (#15929648)
Holy crap after digging deeper this is actually just a meme I thought was an actual thing for like the last 7 or 8 years. Whoops
Re:Super Smash Bros. Melee: An “Untouchable” Agent on Thursday December 14, 2017 @11:13PM (#15929633)
Sure, look at this video. This is the latest game in the series.

https://youtu.be/SFBnhaXql24

Re:Super Smash Bros. Melee: An “Untouchable” Agent on Thursday December 14, 2017 @12:01AM (#15920054)
This is not an example of dumb AI. cpus will lose to a non moving Luigi in more than one smash game. It's intentional behavior.
How is the order of transactions finalized in a block before the block has been mined?
Re:Introducing Surface Laptop on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @12:35PM (#14247888)
Not detachable, but it is compatible with the pen.
Re:The best board games of 2016 on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @10:58AM (#13271287)
That's not necessarily true actually. Monopoly isn't a terribly complex game, but if you play it correctly you must either buy or auction every property landed on. It's mostly an auction and money management game, and there are decisions to be made
Re:Homebrew 1.1.0 on Monday November 07, 2016 @12:07PM (#12892654)
I switched to Windows last year for work after having worked primarily on Debian and OSX.

Chocolatey is the best that I've found. I have run into issues though, so I can't say it's perfect or even close. It's not bad though.

https://chocolatey.org/

Also depending on the type of development you do, you may be able to use Bash On Windows and use ubuntu's apt for everything.

Re:Google Comes Down on the Wrong Side of the TPP on Monday June 13, 2016 @10:17AM (#11894067)
It's not necessarily google itself, but Eric Schmidt has a company called The Groundwork that has been working for her campaign.

http://qz.com/520652/groundwork-eric-schmidt-startup-working...

Re:Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10 on Monday August 24, 2015 @04:55PM (#10112871)
No, that's actually 0.8 Mb/s
I read that some cities are converting their streetlights into charging posts. It seems like a very clever solution to this problem to me.
The title seems to be a play on the title of a book "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"
My understanding is that since he told major stakeholders what was about to happen, he gave them inside information to trade on and went to jail for that instead of making trades himself.
Re:The Apple Watch on Tuesday September 09, 2014 @03:32PM (#8292167)
The watch looks very nice indeed but starting at $350 is ominously steep especially since it requires an iPhone
Re:A URL shortener service in 45 lines of Scala on Thursday August 21, 2014 @10:03AM (#8207359)
Where does this handle getting the same random shortened url twice?

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