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New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

hoppyhoppy2 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:53:30 +0000

My city's public parking lots, garages, and street parking use Parkmobile to collect payment, and AFAICT that kind of arrangement is not terribly unusual. I suppose anti-parkmobile drivers could stick to the few overpriced privately-owned lots in town, though.

If you're saying that you don't drive, then congrats, and I hope to catch up to you soon.

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

hoppyhoppy2 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:48:35 +0000

Parkmobile lets you call their customer service number to pay for parking, so (assuming that process actually works) you would indeed need a mobile phone, but not a smartphone.

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Polymarket gamblers betting millions on war"

hoppyhoppy2 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:12:09 +0000

Are users able to bet specifically on whether prisoners of war in Kostyantynivka will be killed? Or whether women and children will be raped? That kind of fine-grained war market could be groundbreaking

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

hoppyhoppy2 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:07:36 +0000

That's a stark difference between the U.S. and Canada!

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

hoppyhoppy2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:24:32 +0000

I concluded the opposite: how can those institutions function effectively when all their employees are getting such poor sleep?

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

hoppyhoppy2 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:11:51 +0000

Journals? The article says the article was uploaded to 2 preprint servers.

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "The most-disliked people in the publishing industry"

hoppyhoppy2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:24:05 +0000

Many teachers need a masters degree, which is much less true of the average worker.

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "The most-disliked people in the publishing industry"

hoppyhoppy2 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:15:27 +0000

That wouldn't be the case (if, in fact, it is true) if publishers hadn't cast their nets wide enough to include weird stories about hobbits and magic schools.

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

hoppyhoppy2 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:10:51 +0000

>Relaxed worker safety standards, weakened environmental protections, and generally moving as fast as possible.

These sorts of collective values (or lack thereof) make it more important that individuals focus on their own safety in day-to-day life, no?

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

hoppyhoppy2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:04:35 +0000

Should we explicitly subsidize the kitchen equipment restaurants need in order to comply with food-safety regulations instead of mandating it? How about the mandatory sinks in the bathrooms of businesses (or even the mandatory toilets) - subsidize those instead of mandating them e.g. through OSHA?

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History"

hoppyhoppy2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:01:30 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_Conservation_Corps

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Firefox Now Has Free VPN"

hoppyhoppy2 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:51:29 +0000

>Mozilla has partnered with Mullvad in order to utilize our global network of VPN servers for its own VPN application.

https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-partnerships-page-has-be...

(2019). Are you saying that has changed?

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Study: Workers who fall for 'corporate bullshit' may be worse at their jobs"

hoppyhoppy2 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:30:41 +0000

Discussed 17 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47274676

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "iBook Clamshell"

hoppyhoppy2 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:22:46 +0000

>d : a hinged container, case, or cover that opens like the shell of a clam

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/clamshell

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "A data center opened next door. Then came the high-pitched whine"

hoppyhoppy2 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:38:15 +0000

*Medicaid

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "U.S. Gov registers aliens.gov domain name"

hoppyhoppy2 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:26:42 +0000

dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47425680

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Kagi Small Web"

hoppyhoppy2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 14:09:28 +0000

That doesn't search the content of the pages you've browsed, though, right?

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

hoppyhoppy2 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:17:48 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

hoppyhoppy2 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 23:13:53 +0000

That movie was based on the stage musical, FWIW.

New comment by hoppyhoppy2 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

hoppyhoppy2 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:31:41 +0000

Moltbook