em-bee
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Comment · 1 hour ago
i'd prefer to see the original thumbnail though so that i can recognize the video if i have seen it on youtube already. i also expect that the kind of videos that tend to be recommended on HN are less prone to have clickbait thumbnails.
Comment · 1 hour ago
the purl.org link doesn't work anymore. it redirects me to https://tcl.tk/ which is something entirely different. a working link: https://www.tcl-lang.org/man/tcl9.1/TkCmd/palette.html
Comment · 2 hours ago
is there a wayland port yet?
Comment · 1 day ago
as these costs usually end up with the consumer, this would effectively tripple my internet bill. so it's a 66% tax
Comment · 1 day ago
the same way you make it illegal to print certain models on a 3D printer
Comment · 2 days ago
We say it because we believe it to be logical and self-evident
exactly, and it has been brought up before. not in this form, not from this perspective, but anyone who spent a modicum of time to think about this, would or already did come to the same conclusion. anyone believing otherwise is deluding themselves.
AI is a reflection of humanity, and if we want AI to become better, then we ourselves need to become better. that's the only way out of this.
Comment · 4 days ago
it's always been like that. the more we know about the technology, the more sceptical we get. there are exceptions of course, on both sides. people who are critical and educate themselves, and on the other side those who make money off it, or believe they can make money off it.
fortunately recently i also have seen a bunch of articles arguing that AI hasn't helped any company yet save money.
Comment · 5 days ago
you mean like amber smalltalk?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amber_Smalltalk
or more like https://squeak.js.org/ ?
Comment · 6 days ago
on long distance trains first class seats are wider and usually only three per row instead of four.
on regional and local trains i have to agree the difference is less apparent.
i guess the main benefit is that first class areas are going to be less packed. i am not sure but it may be the case that you are not even allowed to stand in first class if you have a second class ticket.
so if the train is crowded then that crowd won't be allowed in the first class area, and it is unlikely that you buy a first class ticket without a seat. but if the train is only lightly filled it probably makes no difference at all.
Comment · 7 days ago
not a land value tax but an empty/vacant/unused property tax for areas where that is undesirable. if you own a property that has a dedicated use but you are not using it for that, then that should be taxed/punished/force sold, ...
more on this issue in this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48566791
Comment · 8 days ago
or they factored the cost of cleaning into their price. doing the cleaning as a host myself is not a reason not to charge a cleaning fee if that is the way i make my money.
the whole thing with a cleaning fee is either to allow the advertised room price to appear lower (but doesn't airbnb now factor the cleaning fee into the price shown?) or alternatively to make longer stays cheaper because the cleaning fee is not applied for every day).
Comment · 8 days ago
i was talking about how to potentially implement a capped system on paper, not about an actual implementation. if two strips would give you free rides for the rest of the day you probably would not throw them away.
i know the but ticket system from los angeles 25 years ago. you could use each strip only once because you had to hand them in. i think you got a second strip on the next bus so you could potentially make an unlimited chain. if people would throw them away then only because they got one they didn't use. you were also not allowed to use the strip for a return trip on the same route.
Comment · 8 days ago
long distance trains too. and in germany even some local trains have (or used to have) first class compartments.
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