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mightytightywty

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mightytightywty··on Hackernews.com
Shouldn't news.ycombinator.com redirect to hackernews.com instead?
mightytightywty··on Poll: Switching from WhatsApp
It'll take some setting up, but matrix may suit your needs: https://matrix.org/bridges/
mightytightywty··on Rclone – Sync files and directories to many cloud storage providers
Check out "Everything" https://www.voidtools.com/ It's blazing fast, and has tons of great features.
mightytightywty··on MIT team’s school-bus algorithm could save $5M and 1M bus miles
$120M budget to bus 30,000 children to school? Does that sound like a lot, or is it just me? That's $4,000 per child per year. At 180 school days per year, that's $22.22 per child per day!

At that rate, they could save many more millions by switching to Uber or some other ride sharing service.

mightytightywty··on Ask HN: Can I get in trouble for crawling using the Googlebot user agent?
Since when has it ever been illegal to claim you're someone or something that you're not on the Internet? This is legal without question.
mightytightywty··on Robot band plays Ace of Spades
Hasn't Chuck E Cheese been doing this since I was a kid?
mightytightywty··on Why Mozilla Persona is the right answer to the question of Identity
Tying email addresses to a user's identity is a terrible idea.

- I don't want to give my email address to every site I use. It should be available to the site only if I approve their request.

- I use a unique email address for every site that needs one.

- What if I want to start using a new email address?

mightytightywty··on So I Made A Mashup, And Then…
No And Then!!!! (dude where's my car)
mightytightywty··on The Patient Ant And The Stretchy Rubber Band
But his speed would only slow down until he hits the 50% point. After that, his speed will increase until he hits the end.
mightytightywty··on The Patient Ant And The Stretchy Rubber Band
Think of the ant's progress as a percentage. Every step he makes will increase his progress percentage across the rubber band. Therefore, if he keeps walking he will eventually make it to the other side. Am I missing something?
mightytightywty··on A New rsync-based Dropbox Alternative for Windows
Anyone get the link yet?