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mesozoic··on Ask HN: How would I send 1 dollar to everyone on Earth?
I think technically if you just burn the money the deflationary effect would be equivalent to $1 to everyone and would be the cheapest way to do it.
mesozoic··on The New York Times made a weird editorial decision with its tech coverage
I thought it was $8/month and thought that was way too low.
mesozoic··on Twitter Blue for $8/Month
I think they should charge people based on the number of followers they have. That's where value comes from and they should look to collect it.
mesozoic··on U.S. workers have gotten less productive – no one is sure why
RTO
mesozoic··on Cruz: I Never Put Java in My Resume No Matter How Much Experience I Have
Hah me too.
mesozoic··on No more Whole Foods discount unless you have the app installed while shopping?
They pay you a discount to be allowed to track you while shopping.
mesozoic··on Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI
It seems to have no memory after I explained that I was a cheese taco that can only be heard by them they can't continue the conversation contextually.
mesozoic··on 1Hz CPU made in Minecraft running Minecraft at 0.1fps [video]
Now make Minecraft in that Minecraft.
mesozoic··on 46% of ETH POS post merge is just two addresses
Web 3 is going well
mesozoic··on W4 Games raises $8.5M to support Godot Engine growth
Probably be purchased by Unity soon to avoid competition.
mesozoic··on Tweezers based on a crow's beak can outperform traditional ones
This is really cool. Project was done by an undergraduate too. From the video I think they pick up an egg yolk without breaking it. Would love to get the 3d model files to print one myself.
mesozoic··on Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices
Say someone ingests this data and clean it up make it usable, who's the customer for that service? What would they want to know from it?
mesozoic··on Tell HN: Meetup.com is offering abandoned meetups to anyone willing to pay
Good way to market I guess take over old groups and send messages, or host events at your own restaurant/brewery, or whatever else.
mesozoic··on Show HN: Doxx Me – See how doxxable your phone number is
What does your service do to stop SIM swaps exactly?
mesozoic··on You Don't Need Microservices
I don't know who these articles are written for (having read this one in a dozen variations) Sure I agree they're not always the right solution but do you think you're going to convince someone who thinks they are at some small company from trying to roll them out?
mesozoic··on Stranger Things is being edited retroactively by Netflix?
What about that coffee edited out of Game of Thrones.
mesozoic··on I'm paying your flight if you join me in the Himalaya to teach you TypeScript
Let's do it in one of those underwater caves you have to decompress for a week to leave.
mesozoic··on Stop giving code examples in TypeScript
Or do all your tutorials in TypeScript and let's move forward.
mesozoic··on Tesla remotely converts battery pack, cutting 1/3 of range
Sounds like someone found an easy revenue opportunity in the data to upcharge current owners and implemented it. Probably up for promotion for it.
mesozoic··on Ask HN: What makes users want to share a game?
only works for me in colorblind mode
mesozoic··on Immortal Game – The next generation of chess platform powered by blockchain
Another pointless blockchain app that could just use a database?
mesozoic··on Blue Zones, where people reach age 100 at 10 times greater rates
Summarized it for myself and others maybe

1 Move naturally. All these activities were not widely done up to 100 years ago. I'd expect they're not much worse so just get exercise. 2 Purpose. Sure good advice have a reason to live 3 Downshift. relax and don't be a workaholic check 4 80% Rule. effectively intermittent fasting? 5 Plant slant. already disproved by other comments. anti meat propaganda 6 Wine @ 5. but is this causal or just correlational, probably goes with downshift above 7 Belong. Really seems this is just a subpart of social (below) and purpose (above) 8 Loved ones first. Free elder care is going to add years on it's own. Can try to find that other ways but get cared for when you're old. 9 Right tribe. create peer pressure to promote positive habits

mesozoic··on Gmail users “hard pass” on plan to let political emails bypass spam filters
So you're saying all I have to do is register to run for some office if I want to send as much spam as I want. Please elect me Mr. Diet Pills for Free running for your local sewage administrator.
mesozoic··on I've been abusing HTTP Status Codes in my APIs for years
Have they never heard of codes other than 2xx and 4xx?
mesozoic··on Ask HN: Anyone ever consider bringing a coding exercise for the interviewers
Every company bigger than 500 people I expect.
mesozoic··on Ask HN: Anyone ever consider bringing a coding exercise for the interviewers
As an interviewer if it took more than 5 minutes I wouldn't be doing it for you.
mesozoic··on People in homes with handguns more likely to be killed, major study finds
"killed by handguns" must be added as the implicit when reversing.
mesozoic··on People in homes with handguns more likely to be killed, major study finds
Not exactly thorough. Did it cut down on the rate of successful robberies? Nonfatal assault outcomes? Animal attacks? There are more reasons than just stopping murders to have a handgun.
mesozoic··on Tether Withdrawals Top $10B
You're assuming they're actually receiving the dollars for the tethers they mint which they have chose not to prove.
mesozoic··on Many software companies are a joke
But I'm encouraged to take a project it would take me a day or two to do and give it to a junior engineer to take weeks on it so they learn.
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