asd | 2 months ago | on: Scott Adams has died
Is this the video? Scott Adams talks about losing friends, money, etc. around the 3:35 mark: https://youtu.be/HFUr6Px99aQ?t=215
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asd | 3 months ago | on: Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices
Looks like Dollar Tree just rolled out a feature where you can do a price check on items by using their App.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DollarTree/comments/1ndmniz/downloa...
asd | 1 year ago | on: Instagram tests forcing users to watch adverts
asd | 2 years ago | on: Evidence of the intentional use of black henbane in the Roman Netherlands
erowid entry for black henbane:
https://erowid.org/plants/henbane/
asd | 2 years ago | on: The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
(2019) Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29965110
asd | 2 years ago | on: Atari Video Music
The pixel music 3000 may be of interest.
asd | 3 years ago | on: From Ben Franklin, a Gift That's Worth Two Fights (1990)
asd | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: I want to be an expert in many things but my lifetime won't be enough
> knowing that life does not end when this mortal lifetime ends.
Citation needed.
asd | 3 years ago | on: Perfluorocubane is (as you would expect) weird
It shall live on in the archive.
https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecu...
asd | 4 years ago | on: I thought I’d have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35 (2020)
> It's not too late to find the truth.
What is the truth?
asd | 4 years ago | on: The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”
> Most PBS stations run infomercials promoting quack medicine.
Can you give details? I'm wondering if this was something that only a local affiliate did and not something that was PBS sanctioned.
asd | 4 years ago | on: Windows 96
I bet a sealed 38 floppy edition of Windows 98, in mint condition, would go for a million USD.
asd | 5 years ago | on: KFC restaurant that drives autonomously
What's stopping someone from swiping an extra bag of chicken tenders? This design has the same flaw as the newspaper vending machine box. Pay once, take a bunch. Perhaps people are more honest in Shanghai compared to Western countries.
asd | 5 years ago | on: A disturbing Twinkie that has, so far, defied science
Are you on the West coast of North America? I wonder if the black was from wild fire smoke/ash.
asd | 5 years ago | on: Endless Doom Scroller
Here are all 338 headlines if scrolling isn't your thing.
asd | 6 years ago | on: Why ElementaryOS Left Medium
Don't get me wrong, I'm on the Medium Hate Train along with many others here on HN, but aren't these stories getting a bit monotonous?
https://www.google.com/search?sxsrf=ACYBGNQoux3i-UEEDHgCPFks...
asd | 6 years ago | on: Amazon will pull the plug on dash buttons
Surely they will announce a Dash button recycling program. Right?
Edit: Read rest of article and have my answer. Sorry! Don’t spank me.
asd | 6 years ago | on: Retro 5″ Black and White TV as a computer monitor – A tale of pointlessness
> The TV watch is all-in-one?
The Seiko T001 does have an external tuner and routinely go for $400-500+ on eBay, depending on condition.
https://monochrome-watches.com/seiko-t001-mother-smart-watch...
asd | 6 years ago | on: Switch from Chrome to Firefox
Legacy Safari extensions will no longer be supported. Scroll down to "Safari Extensions".
https://webkit.org/blog/8825/release-notes-for-safari-techno...
asd | 7 years ago | on: Americans Agree: Social Media Is Divisive (But We Keep Using It)
Sounds like a BBS.
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