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New comment by anotheruser13 in "Ex-Google Exec Says "The Idea That AI Will Create New Jobs Is 100% Crap""

anotheruser13 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:28:36 +0000

Reminds me of someone else promising "full self driving" any day now.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "What went wrong inside recalled Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks?"

anotheruser13 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:53:17 +0000

I had one of the affected models. I filled out the recall form yesterday, and they emailed me this morning to let me know the replacement has been sent. They are pretty good about standing behind their products

New comment by anotheruser13 in "Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated"

anotheruser13 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 01:31:09 +0000

Make that three! I'd vote for a modern equivalent, too.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "The cultural decline of literary fiction"

anotheruser13 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:59:01 +0000

It's not hard copy, but you might like The Autopian (ex-Jalopniks David Tracy and Jason Torchinsky are among the editors/writers/founders).

New comment by anotheruser13 in "The cultural decline of literary fiction"

anotheruser13 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:48:16 +0000

I would love to see the Chicago Symphony Orchestra play the classical music in "What's Opera, Doc?" and other Looney Tunes classics. Saw them do that with The Godfather and a couple other full-length films which was great.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "E-COM: The $40M USPS project to send email on paper"

anotheruser13 — Thu, 15 May 2025 17:54:55 +0000

This reminds me of the old FedEx Zapmail service they had in the 80s. They didn't get much traction and the service was shut down after 2 years at great expense.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "Belief of Aliens Derailed This Internet Pioneer's Career. Now He's Facing Prison"

anotheruser13 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 23:14:25 +0000

Worked for Whittman-Hart, which merged with USWeb. Heard Firmage wasn't part of it because of his belief in space aliens. Good to finally get the whole story.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

anotheruser13 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 01:11:36 +0000

Take a look at Scorpion Capital.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "Wends of Texas"

anotheruser13 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 14:44:29 +0000

I'm Polish-Irish-Czech, and my dad used to make poppyseed coffee cake. When I lived in Chicago, I'd often get poppyseed rolls made by local Polish bakeries. I miss those, that kind of food is hard to find around here, but at least I can get locally-made pierogi.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew"

anotheruser13 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:36:21 +0000

STIR/SHAKEN isn't helping much either. The carriers are all about that sweet, sweet revenue...

New comment by anotheruser13 in "A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew"

anotheruser13 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:35:11 +0000

Voice phishers are looking for people to say "yes" and read numbers. Just say no!

New comment by anotheruser13 in "A day in the life of a prolific voice phishing crew"

anotheruser13 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:33:35 +0000

Any time you get a message purporting to be from the USPS saying there's a delivery problem and you need to pay a small fee to fix it, it's a scam. Block and report.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "Who killed the rave? Late-night dancing falls into global decline"

anotheruser13 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 21:15:15 +0000

At the time, I was a punk working in a great record store in the Western suburbs of Chicago (shout out to Johnny B Goode Records & Stuff!). I sent a number of promo disco records we'd received to Disco Demolition Night. I still laugh about how it turned out... Those were the days.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "A $1k Wheelchair"

anotheruser13 — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 23:11:23 +0000

Elecom makes a nice left handed trackball. Employers don't often provide ThinkPads, so I usually use a standard mouse on the left side without swapping the buttons.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "Who Took the Cocaine Out of Coca-Cola?"

anotheruser13 — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 23:53:33 +0000

They use it for tonsillectomies. It was the second entry on the itemized bill.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach"

anotheruser13 — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 23:14:13 +0000

This is not the AT&T Judge Harry Greene broke up. This AT&T is a roll up of most of the RBOCs the breakup created.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "California approves final high-speed rail link connecting San Francisco to LA"

anotheruser13 — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 02:00:55 +0000

JR Central is partnering with the people that want to build a bullet train from Dallas to Houston. We'll see if it ever happens. I'm hoping so!

New comment by anotheruser13 in "Asian groceries like H Mart and Patel Brothers are reshaping America"

anotheruser13 — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 23:10:50 +0000

You can get the powdered Pocari Sweat mix (2 x 10L bags) from Amazon.

New comment by anotheruser13 in "'Washington Post' publisher tried to kill a story about allegations against him"

anotheruser13 — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 21:47:00 +0000

I wonder what Bezos's rationale was behind hiring all these British right wingers. Does anyone believe taking the Post in that direction is really going to steer that crowd away from Fox "News"?

New comment by anotheruser13 in "Show HN: I'm a doctor and built a responsive breathing app for anxiety and sleep"

anotheruser13 — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 04:45:34 +0000

Same here.