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tcmb··on Trump’s social media app will reportedly go live on Presidents’ Day
I admit that this is what I came here for to read about.
tcmb··on Ask HN: Why is there no small Android phone?
Really useful site, thanks! The Pixel 4a seems to be in there twice, once with screen size 5.8" and once with 5.81".
tcmb··on Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?
He used to be an anglican priest, so no wonder he's coming off as preachy. :) By abandoning the anglican church and incorporating eastern religion and philosophy, he was able to teach much broader and also more suitable for his audience in the 1960s (and onward).

Much of what he says is very inspiring but he also tends to over-generalize in order to make his point salient. It should be reflected upon and taken with a healthy grain of salt.

My experience was similar to yours, I think. The book opened my perspective on how to think about myself and the world around me, and it was a stepping stone towards the original sources of Hinduism and Buddhism.

tcmb··on Ask HN: What is one book you would recommend everyone to read?
'The Book' by Alan Watts
tcmb··on VW fired senior employee after they raised cyber security concerns
https://archive.is/WMRDD
tcmb··on Ask HN: What is your home networking setup?
FRITZ!Box 7530 on a 100/50 MBit/s DSL line. 5GHz Wifi. Fritz!Phone app on iPhone for landline calls instead of a DECT handset.

I'm the only user, with 6-8 WiFi devices, so bandwidth is not an issue.

There's also a QNAP NAS and a gaming PC connected via LAN, everything else is WiFi only.

I used to have a FRITZ! repeater as well, but in the new flat it's not necessary anymore.

tcmb··on Basic income would not reduce people’s willingness to work
These studies don't tell us much, because participants always know they will get the basic income for a limited time only. So any behavior changes that occur or don't occur are not representative.
tcmb··on Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
I already commented elsewhere, but just wanted to add that this is amazingly useful, especially via your 'Movie of the night' service. I've bookmarked it and foresee to use it often! Best of luck to you, I sincerely hope you get rewarded in some shape or form for building this!
tcmb··on Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
Oh ok, I misunderstood that. Thanks.
tcmb··on Show HN: API to query catalogs of 20 streaming services across 60 countries
Also 'Succession' is available in Germany on Apple TV+, the search says otherwise (not available at all in Germany).
tcmb··on Apple to Apple Comparison: M1 Max vs. Intel
The price given in the article is not correct though, the 16" M1 Max 64GB is actually 3.900 USD (and I presume this is before sales tax, I'm from a country where advertised prices include VAT).
tcmb··on Ask HN: Alternative to PayPal Moneypools?
Thanks, I'll check it out!
tcmb··on New German government wants to allow sale of cannabis
Original document of the 'coalition contract': https://cms.gruene.de/uploads/documents/Koalitionsvertrag-SP...
tcmb··on How Metro Agencies Design the Letter 'M'
Germans don't get to play because here it's called U-Bahn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid_transit_in_Germany#/medi...
tcmb··on Love seems like a high priority
Parentisophilia.
tcmb··on Fuck.com (1997)
His email address is justin@cyberorgasmic, without a TLD. Could someone please explain how this worked back then?
tcmb··on The Supply-Chain Mystery
When there is a demand for empty containers, and people who have them, why isn't it profitable to ship them somewhere? When shipping costs are rising overall, it should be worth it to pay for a delivery of empty containers, rather than continue paying the higher prices.

> I have no idea how christmas is going to work.

Maybe shipping things is not the important part of christmas. SCNR.

tcmb··on What it's like to spend 40-50 hours in VR every week
I have only 40% acuity in one of my eyes, is a typical VR headset still a good experience?
tcmb··on Fallacies I have encountered when disccusing 100% renewable energy
I hope you're right. Is this true also if we were to replace all current nuclear and fossil energy?

There is also the effect (the name of which I currently can't remember) that consumption increases when people think it does no harm. Like when LED lights were introduced, energy usage allegedly actually increased. Because people were using LED lights for all kinds of things that were NOT using incandescent lights before, as the energy used was thought to be negligible.

tcmb··on Fallacies I have encountered when disccusing 100% renewable energy
Agreed for solar, but I don't see how a reduction of wind energy would contribute to the goal of keeping the temperature increase below a certain level. Kinetic energy is not driving temperature increase, is it?
tcmb··on Fallacies I have encountered when disccusing 100% renewable energy
Has anyone ever considered the effects of wind and solar power on the climate? If wind drives turbines, the energy is not available anymore to circulate air in the atmosphere. And if solar energy is absorbed to a high degree by solar panels, it won't heat up the earth as it used to do before.

So, it seems like a fallacy to think that increasing wind and solar power will have not influence the climate.

Is this line of thinking present in the current discussion, or is it not valid?

tcmb··on Apple Exploring RISC-V, Hiring RISC-V ‘High Performance’ Programmers
Must be super hard to stay motivated on this team, if it exists.
tcmb··on Amiga 500 replica is coming in 2022 for $140
> The keyboard on the device? It doesn’t work. Instead, you can use an on-screen virtual keyboard or plug in a USB keyboard for games or other activities that require typing.

That's disappointing... maybe understandable because it's a miniature model that would be hard to type on anyway. But without a functional keyboard it's all too obvious that it's really just an emulator packaged in a shape resembling the Amiga 500.

tcmb··on Ants Eating Timelapse #3: McDonald's Baked Apple Pie
Fascinating... the content of the videos as well as the channel itself.

Why do the ants cover this stuff in 'dirt' while devouring it/carrying it away? To camouflage it so that nobody else will find it?

tcmb··on Open Terms Archive – Follow changes to terms of service
I was trying to add a service that wasn't included yet and the preview of the ToS document was overlaid by huge versions of the graphic assets found on the original URL, so that the document was unreadable and it was impossible for me to mark the salient parts.

Edit: opened an issue on their Github, adding another document from a different site worked very well

tcmb··on EU plans to make Bitcoin transfers more traceable
There's plenty of things that cannot be completely prevented, and we don't take that to mean that all counter measures are futile and should be dropped.

Examples are basically any kind of crime and violence, traffic accidents, all kinds of things that harm people and societies.

tcmb··on Why we're blind to the color blue
HN is so funny. 'I have no astigmatism.' -- 'Sure you do!'
tcmb··on Dropbox Engineering Career Framework
Small self-organized teams, a la Frederic Laloux's 'Reinventing Organizations'. https://www.reinventingorganizations.com/
tcmb··on Why have there been so many own goals at the Euros?
I agree with what you say, but the question that TFA asks is still relevant, since 'own goals' have always been counted the way they are. So the number of own goals is still higher than usual.
tcmb··on Show HN: GraphCDN – GraphQL CDN with edge caching and analytics
Sounds cool! I‘d be interested in the caching and analytics part, but without the CDN, i.e. for an internal GraphQL server. Is there a way to do that?
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