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Maxamillion96on No Easy Fix for Bogus Respondents in Online Opt-In Polls

Could be a combination of messianic Jews and some Jewish people assuming that the question is about the historical yeshua

Maxamillion96on First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOLIMAN

https://toliman.space/

They’re building one for stars within 10 parsecs of the sun ( and more specifically for Alpha Centauri) which should launch in the next year

Maxamillion96on Ask HN: What is the job market like?

Go to a good fire and brimstone preacher and sit in the pews for a while and whatever comes out of his mouth is far less hellish than the job market today.

Maxamillion96on Show HN: In a single HTML file, an app to encourage my children to invest

the story is about Joe Kennedy and his shoeshine boy

Maxamillion96on Cursor hits $9B valuation

It’s vibes investing to match the vibes coding

Maxamillion96on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen

if the truck becomes popular enough post-market modifications will probably be sold as an extra.

Maxamillion96on Apple Computers Used to Be Built in the U.S. It Was a Mess (2018)

>“We don’t have a manufacturing culture,” Mr. Gassée said of the nation’s high-technology heartland, “meaning the substrate, the schooling, the apprentices, the subcontractors.”

Silicon Valley still doesnt have any of those.

Maxamillion96on News Is Blocked on Meta's Feeds in Canada. Here's What Fills the Void

news is a social good while social media in its current form is a social ill.

Maxamillion96on I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype

He’s 100 percent correct and if you disagree you underestimate the effects of the Fax Machine on the economy and over-estimate the effects of the internet of 2005.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-24/paul-krug...

Maxamillion96on Crypto attorney sues US authorities to reveal Satoshi Nakamoto's identity

if you believe the conspircy theory that Satoshi was created by an intelligence agency, then having it discovered would make a some people wary of using it.

Maxamillion96on Danes launch bid to 'buy California' after Trump's Greenland threats

Puerto Rico would be a better American analogue for Greenland, California would be more like Syddanmark.

Maxamillion96on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'

>Things besides money also matter.

To people, not politicians

Maxamillion96on Is DeepSeek China's Sputnik Moment?

The thing about sputnik is that everyone knew that the soviets would launch a satellite before America did but people freaked out when they actually saw or heard that bleeping ball hovering over there head.

Maxamillion96on Sweden eyes sending inmates abroad as prisons full due to gang crime wave

depends on the gang. the older gangs refuse to accept non-natives, so the newer gangs enroaching on their turf do.

Maxamillion96on Sweden eyes sending inmates abroad as prisons full due to gang crime wave

majority of the scandanavian crime wave isnt due to immigration but drug dealing native biker gangs

Maxamillion96on Migrate TikTok posts to RedNote AI agent

reels suck. American apps like instagram and twitter focus on selling users information to advertisers while chinese apps like tiktok and Rednote focus on selling advertisements to users, and the later produces higher quality FYPs and less slop.

In five or six years you will have american consumer apps pretending to be chinese, like Haagen Daez or Matsui

Maxamillion96on Instagram and YouTube Prepare to Benefit from a TikTok Ban

Silicon Valley's obsession with high-margin SaaS is kinda similar to Detroit's fixation on high-margin gas-guzzlers – both overlooked the disruptive potential of foreign competitors focused on what consumers actually want

Maxamillion96on Walgreens says locking up products to prevent shoplifting hurts sales

more that execs are looking for an excuse to tell their board of directors why sales are falling that doesnt include online ordering. the movement to E-Commerce is a double hit to stores because not only do they directly lose sales but when something is ordered from their stores (on e.g -doordash) they have to put people on packaging those goods- which they see no income from and makes the brick-and-mortar store less staffed.

Maxamillion96on Walgreens says locking up products to prevent shoplifting hurts sales

Even if shoppifting tripled it would be minuscule in the overall scheme of things. Groceries pay 2 dollars per dozen eggs to farmers and have to toss out them out every few days, wastage-wise it’s basically a blip

Maxamillion96on In praise of the hundred page idea

if im reading a big sci-fi anthrology, i just search for key-terms that interest me and read the stories that contain them (eg, robot, colony,planet etc)

Maxamillion96on Sorry, Mad Men. The Ad Revolution Is Here

>barely growing global disposable income.

It feels like global disposable income isn’t growing but that’s not true because the list of necessities increase the more income increases, if you lived like a person in the 90’s did you could save a huge amount of money,

Maxamillion96on Ask HN: Ideas for spending $8k in Anthropic credits?

gift it to me. it is the season after all.

Maxamillion96on Atmospheric analysis shows Venus never had Earth-like life, scientists say

or you could just direct an asteroid of the right size into that location.

Maxamillion96on Murderbot, she wrote

I was the opposite, when reading the novels I always felt a female vibe from murderbot so when the news came out about the tv series and the actor that was chosen to portray them it kinda shocked me and forced me to wonder why i assumed that.

Maxamillion96on Did Claude's quality drop recently?

It explicitly said so to me a few days ago when i queried it.

Maxamillion96on The Ancients Had Ops

i thought this was the slang version of ops (opposition) for a minute and that was a very confusing 60 seconds.

Maxamillion96on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2024)

This sounds interesting! are you guys hiring for any soft skill role like business or Human Resources?

Maxamillion96on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

Morning and Afternoon are used for AM and PM, or if you want to be really specific you can use the name of the hour, for example 10 am is called barqo, and 18 hours is called himhimmow

https://digitalcommons.macalester.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...

Maxamillion96on Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone

Same with Somali. The first hour of daylight is hal saac (Hour 1)

7 AM is 1 Saac ( Hour 1)

6 PM is 12 Saac ( Hour 12)

7 PM is 1 Saac

6 AM is 12 Saac

Maxamillion96on Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users

Unfortunately Twitter Matts (Matt Yglesias, Matt Bruenig etc) are an invasive species to blue sky, and the native species don’t know that annoyance and anger is what they feed on.