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Show HN: PewDiePie Fans seem to have taken down wsj.com(wsj.com)
3 points by JBReefer 8y ago|1 comments
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Why?
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$10 you're talking about Germany
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by JBReefer 8y ago
You might not like it, but this is what peak HN looks like
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The Skytrain does in Vancouver.
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That's the Bang system
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I paid $1450 for a 1 bed that was >1000 sq feet in Jackson Heights and it was _beautiful_. It's just not the Village.
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Tumblr has been repeatedly valued at around $0, and I believe Yahoo did a huge write down at one point. I think they know this will kill the site and that's intentional. Tumblr has never been successfully monetized for various reasons,
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Far Right + Far Left !== somewhere good, you just get Reddit (or WW2). You need sane people to have sane conversations.
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by JBReefer 8y ago
In my experience, poorly - the number of default passwords, copied-because-i-don't-know-what-it-does configurations, weird setups, lack of backups, backups to a local disk, backups to a mounted locally disk, etc. I've seen is shoc
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by JBReefer 8y ago
People don't like to hear that, or that they shouldn't live places without natural water sources
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Canada is so weird to me - you have Trudeau, who is fairly left wing, you have the controversial C-16/speech stuff (I don't know enough to comment here, but progressives seem to like it), and then you have the Tar Sands, which are
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by JBReefer 8y ago
I don't know if the government does, but plenty of individual states have investment funds or pension funds that do VC work. Apprenda, my old employer, was partially backed by the a New York State pension fund
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Israel's war record also has to give Iran pause - Israel does not fuck around. The 6 day war embarrassed a ton of leaders in that part of the world.
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Sicilian is still spoken a bit in the New York Metro area - a lot of New Jersey Italians that speak fluent Italian have trouble communicating with people in Italy, because it's Sicilian!
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Isn't this just WCF reborn? Contracts, codegen no one will use, etc
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by JBReefer 8y ago
If someone can figure out how to make money to reverse climate change, that will be the end of climate change. The whole problem is that it's hugely expensive and only impacts each of us a tiny tiny bit _today_
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by JBReefer 8y ago
This doesn't sound relevant to carbon fixation: "Witches, Midwives, & Nurses, first published by the Feminist Press in 1973, is an essential book about the corruption of the medical establishment and its historic roots in witc
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by JBReefer 8y ago
If you told me 5 years ago that incels would commit repeated massacres and Pepe would have a controversial page on Hillary Clinton's campaign site, I would never have believed you. Of all the words of tongue and pen...
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by JBReefer 8y ago
They're smaller? Houses in the US are crazy large (Australia too, apparently) https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/fun-at-home/news/a765...
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Companies that do 1 thing tend to do that thing well. Companies like Facebook or Google that do dozens tend to be sloppy.
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War is Boring
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by JBReefer 8y ago
You're both right because you're talking about local laws and GP is talking about the post-war order, which is held together by American hegemony. It's not mentioned in the article, but people have argued that Nixon (who has
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by JBReefer 8y ago
People on HN seem to believe the default state of humanity is driving everywhere and living in the suburbs, when that's only true in particular parts of the US for the last 80 years or so. A frequent question I see about not owning a c
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by JBReefer 8y ago
The Book of Genesis is probably around 3000 years old - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Genesis#Composition
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Dark matter/energy always sounds like a restatement of aether - unknowable and unreachable, conceived to fill gaps in the knowledge of the period. I'm probably wrong, but the parallels are strong.
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by JBReefer 8y ago
*In San Francisco. My friend lives exactly the lift GP describes, but in the Hudson River Valley, in a beautiful Victorian house (with roommates). He's also incredibly jacked now. It's totally possible.
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by JBReefer 8y ago
Rogue ICMP packets performing a reflection attack on those schmucks on Mars
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Brendan Eich, for donating to the campaign for a (stupid) law that was later approved by voters.
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by JBReefer 8y ago
This is a good exercise that the other answers fail at the twist. Git is a blockchain, and sometimes a private one.

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