South Korea got to it: https://www.hyundai.com/worldwide/en/brand-journal/mobility-...
Too bad Hyundai is betting on hydrogen... Thats basically dead in the water.
Readit Newspineaux commented on US Intel stratechery.com/2025/u-s-... · Posted by u/maguay
So on one hand you wouldn't use it as-is for anything professional, because of the artwork, but on the other, you'd be unwilling to pay to use it -- for something professional -- because removing the artwork is the paid feature?
Unbelievable.
Yeah this is a very weird logic. I would love some kind explanation of mpalmer.
With the calm, respectful understanding that everything is subjective and there's no accounting for taste -
and in my personal capacity -
I do not understand how cutesy anime characters have been deemed sufficiently tasteful/professional/anodyne enough to be displayed to literally every single person who visits my site.
With apologies to fans of the art style, it is a negative signal to me. I do not prefer to use Cloudflare for things like this, but I would not use Anubis unless I could disable the imagery, and every time I see it on another site, I think: "hm. weird. whose branding is this?"
Its the cool kids doing it. It's the same kind of h4x0r esthetics as the nyan cat or unicorns and beavers everywhere.
pineaux commented on 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015) mashable.com/archive/sovi... · Posted by u/us-merul
pineaux commented on 1976 Soviet edition of 'The Hobbit' (2015) mashable.com/archive/sovi... · Posted by u/us-merul
>Most books are, sadly, quite worthless nowadays (monetary value).
I am not sure I understand. Aren't books "worthless" because they are readily available? Books are only expensive if they are rare (out of print, special limited edition, hand made or labor intensive, author signed, etc.). I don't think I would want "most" books to be rare and difficult to obtain.
This is only partly true. The fact that the OP is referring to is the fact that books aren't sought after. Many books that have been bought for a 100 dollars in 1980 are worth only a few dollars nowadays even if they are relevant. Not many people look for used books.
Yes, and now we have come full circle back to capitalism. As soon as a gap forms between capital and untapped resources, the capitalist engine keeps running: the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. It is difficult or impossible to break out of this on a large scale.
The poor dont necessarily get poorer. That is not a given in capitalism. But at some point capitalism will converge to feudalism, at that point, the poor will become slaves.
And if not needed, culled. For being "unproductive" or "unattractive" or generally "worthless".
That's my cynical take.
As long as the rich can be reigned in in a way, the poor will not necessarily become poorer.
I agree.
For example, electric cars were around already in the mid 1800s. But some people believe Elon Musk is the original inventor.
Some people believe the earth is flat. I doubt that the invention of the electric car will be attributed to musk. The invention of the car is not attributed to Ford either...
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The longest run up until now... But you shouldnt be so sure that it is still a democracy and you shouldnt be so sure that the fact it was kept a democracy for so long was because of free speech absolutisme. I for one, think that the US of A has lost a lot of its narrative in the last 20 years. I think its the narrative that kept it a democracy until now.
pineaux commented on Show HN: I Got Tired of Calculator Sites, So I Built My Own · Posted by u/calculatehow
The UI is still wrong.
The perfect calculator is an LLM that calculates it for you.
/Jk (but really tho, like a nice Wolfram alpha)
No but I want to see a normal calculator immediately. Maybe some tabs that allow me to change functions.