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boomboomsubban··on NBA announces partnership with prediction markets Kalshi, Polymarket
I swear about twenty years ago there was a minor controversy as a commentator said something like "you'll need to drop him from your fantasy team after that," as it was seen as promoting gambling.

It's crazy how dramatic the shift has been.

boomboomsubban··on Reading’s Bayeux Tapestry
It's on loan to the British Museum, so is on Britain for the first time in nearly a millennium.
boomboomsubban··on Uber arbitration award over Emily Normandin-Parker’s death
Dropping them off at a gore is basically throwing them in the middle of the highway, many of them don't have easy access to a safe location without crossing the highway.

The court itself said taking the nearby exit would have allowed him to drop them off at a safe location. Yes, they could have injured themselves after that, but it's not the same.

boomboomsubban··on Texas judge rules TikTok misled users on child safety feature
There are multiple Olympic events that use firearms and weapons. Or history tiktok is a thing.
boomboomsubban··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
What reason could there be that they can't share details?
boomboomsubban··on The UN challenges five centuries of cartography
I assume the UN is a major publisher of maps, often featuring them on all sorts of pamphlets, websites, and if television is to be believed that backdrop for smoke filled meetings.

It makes sense they'd have a default and this would switch it.

boomboomsubban··on Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
3000 fifteen minute clips is 750 hours, or 31 days. A lot, but not five years.
boomboomsubban··on GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet
The trackers are part of CCSO’s pretrial house arrest program, so presumably a number of them are attached to people who did no crimes.
boomboomsubban··on A Second-Grade Teacher Revived a Beloved Video Game
They're probably pricing for a long time sales centered strategy, the old games seem to constantly get recommended to me during steam sales. And I doubt they were going to have a massive release at any price, it's too niche of a thing.
boomboomsubban··on Guerrilla London bus ads mock Kylie Jenner’s Meta glasses campaign
I doubt it's that pricy. I believe you print a regular poster with a special image then apply the textured layer on top.
boomboomsubban··on Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt
Plus the main point of this code is to have people look at it, the function is secondary to being an easter egg.
boomboomsubban··on Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights
Cynically, to make a documentary and get articles written. None of the rules they mention seem that extreme, they're just wording it in an unusual way.
boomboomsubban··on How to earn a billion dollars
Aren't shoe companies notoriously scummy in regards to human rights? Nike has quite a lengthy controversies section on Wikipedia, and they're where a lot of his money came from.
boomboomsubban··on OpenBSD 7.9
>We can't really export anything to those "rogue states" anyway

Sure, but there are additional laws regarding cryptography, even in publicly available software.

"Rogue states" is a legal designation, we can both dislike it as much as we want but I doubt the US will change it's view

boomboomsubban··on OpenBSD 7.9
If I remember, it's still illegal to export to "rogue states," Iran and North Korea being the major two, and terrorist organizations. But I don't think anybody has been charged for it and there's reason to suspect it wouldn't hold up given the pgp ruling.
boomboomsubban··on Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland
That was not clear to me. Dunno why people are making such a big deal out of "if you want more info, go here."
boomboomsubban··on Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland
There's a picture of a box with a bunch of playing cards on top of it, then a picture of a building that has one. I found it insufficient and thought others might too.
boomboomsubban··on Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland
As I found the article did a poor job of demonstrating what a swift brick is, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_brick
boomboomsubban··on Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
Huh? IA not doing what they claim seems fairly important to their point.
boomboomsubban··on Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine
>about the paywall workarounds that are frequent on HN—I was genuinely shocked to learn they hadn’t heard about it.

Is the Internet Archive regularly used as a paywall workaround? Generally it's archive.is, which has no connection to the IA.

boomboomsubban··on I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot
HN search is fantastic, it doesn't look like it. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
boomboomsubban··on The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew
It also makes them appear larger, there's so much in there the bun can't contain it all.
boomboomsubban··on The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason
The router ban affects routers made in foreign countries, Netgear's headquarters should be irrelevant. The author's previous article spells this out better https://www.theverge.com/tech/899906/fcc-router-ban-march-20...
boomboomsubban··on Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive
IA makes torrents for basically everything on it's site.
boomboomsubban··on We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees
Does "report not spam" do anything? A local business will send me a receipt from a gmail address, and every time it's marked as spam despite it telling me future mail from this address will not be tagged as spam.
boomboomsubban··on Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y
If you found a dog on the street then you probably don't have any actual dog food. A hot dog seems like one of the best options in an average fridge.
boomboomsubban··on The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'
So something like getting Phil Spector to produce their record?
boomboomsubban··on Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?
>What am I supposed to do? Spend a few hours to try each one and find the best for my 13 years old i5 with a Nvidia gt440 that's used 3 hours per month?

The performance difference will be minimal. It's an aesthetic choice, pick the one you like the look of or give a few of them a try.

It's like cars. Some people have extreme opinions on matters, some would be fine picking almost any car, and most test drive a few before picking their favorite.

boomboomsubban··on Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan
Minnesota did have home ice cream and other frozen food delivery until Schwan's finally shut down a few years ago. Usually men, but they did tend to be chatty from my experience.

So there is a US equivalent, but it would have been interesting to read about them too.

boomboomsubban··on Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)
We're these only used in Sweden? I know I've seen some of them before, but I'm not sure if it's from decades on the internet or my school having a specific thirty year old edition of The Hobbit.

I seem to recall thinking Gollum was big, but honestly could be remembering the Shelov scene. It was long time ago.

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