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Number 1 falsehood I’ve seen is: Language = Locale
Not surprised by this, but very surprised to learn that MacDonald’s is very popular in France. I expected the opposite.
Do you like Huey Lewis and The News?
Try getting a reservation at Dorsia…
Would love to see the new Snapdragon in the next Oculus Quest.
I test drove a 2024 Tesla Model 3. It was a perfect car except for one thing: No turn signal stalk. That's basically a no-go for me.
The strategy that has worked for me so far is to delete all any addicting app (entertainment, social media, etc) that has a web version. I still can access them with browser, but the experience is not the same, so after a while, I get bored, and close them.
I think 50B tons is a huge underestimation.
Are resources really scarce? Other than stars and planets, there are plenty of resources in the astroids and gas giants, and interstellar space. We can argue that the most scarce resource is organic matter. In universal scale, wood is exponentially more scarce than gold.
It's almost paradoxical, but it seems like as the quality of life increases, the reproduction rate decreases.
How about Africa? Any projections?
Not only Americans, I’m seeing this pattern everywhere in my age group peers. I’m mid-40 and in almost every gathering with friends and family, there are about 5 adults to each child. Most of the children have no siblings and no cousins.
I love their design language.
I’m dealing with this in almost daily basis. People are afraid of not having an opinion and appearing stupid.
So much for “don’t be evil”
If you have background in Rails, maybe doing a project using Django would be a good start.
What a beautiful website!
I think the full potential of BitTorrent hasn't been realized yet. It works great for content distribution.
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wintorez on Monday October 23, 2023 @10:45AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm looking for application that allow online collaboration without having to register/authenticate first. One example I can think of is https://www.kittysplit.com/. The whole application is created based on trust between collaborators, and the fact that you don't need to register or login first makes it easy to get into and collaborate quickly. Anybody knows any more examples of this type of...
“Grim Reapers” is also good.