Pick-A-Hill2019

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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Pretty close tbh. A street-sweeper is left alone to do their job and - as long as its done well - is left alone to just get on with it :)
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Wow, so much to pack in and respond to so I will start with a TLDR of a +1 annectoda of ‘it can be done’. Did I make the right choice? Yes and No. Did it work out ok/well? Yes... And No. Would I do the same again? Yes. Note: I consider
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
I think the lede is this ... * " began testing a system to use artificial intelligence to recognize secret words and messages for drug trafficking efficiently in order to ask Twitter to delete them. * As is almost always the case - the
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29457530 "Quickly create and run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux desktop VMs" submitted four hours ago which points to the GitHub repo (TFA links to it at top of a
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Quote from the article Screw It, Time for Nukes Perfect Friday night reading before a quick bit of on-line gaming!
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
" ... and to legally prevent anyone doing it from calling it eco-friendly." Ok, that bit I can agree with. Buuuttt, what I have a problem with is this - if Sweden / EU wants to ban crypto mining then simply create a specific
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Germany to force ISPs to give discounts for slow Internet speeds(bleepingcomputer.com)
3 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago|0 comments
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
One of the criticisms of this device as per the article is that the critics feel that it might entrap marine life. That sounds like a reasonable criticism and is one that is refuted by the inventor saying that the ‘net’ is towed at low enou
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Thanks for posting this - I almost posted a slightly better / different link to a Betty Crocker Effect page [1] but checked the comments first and TIL, Snopes (FWIW) agrees that your are correct (see [2]). [1] https://medi
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Autonomous-System Contest Offers $2M Bounty for Finding a Ship(maritime-executive.com)
1 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago|0 comments
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Why not be the change you want to see? Submitting articles is free and really easy.
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HexChat IRC Client Developer Reaches Out for Help(soylentnews.org)
1 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago|0 comments
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Personal opinion only based on a life-times worth of collecting grey hairs. Stick with your studies. A certificate is much more valuable in the long run compared to 'worked at startup xyz for 2 months before it folded/leveraged&#x
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
IKEA and Costco (amongst others) have chartered entire ships in order to secure shipping slots. A few weeks back there was a "Ask HN" posted about how to set up a shipping company. Shipyards are back-logged with orders for contain
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
There is also a shortage of tanker delivery drivers which means that it is impossible to increase the number of deliveries which leads to outages which are then amplified via social media and news outlets (anything that gets clicks/eng
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
There exists a world beyond your experience. A world in which people on low incomes have to chose between heating and eating. Sure - there are those that fly to meetings but there is also a world less represented/vocal here on HN for w
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Unless the Intercept changed the page the submission also breaks the guidelines about editorializing submission titles. TFA headline reads: Leaked Grant Proposal Details High-Risk Coronavirus Research (I didn't flag it, just voicing a
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
It [ExpressVPN] said it had not known of the federal investigation or the details of Gericke's work in UAE Seriously? So either he lied or they are lying. I'm not an expert in American employment laws but would have assumed that
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
I would love it if somebody from either Europe or California did a Data Subject Request for their own data and blogged/posted about it, it would make for interesting reading and while they may shrug at a GDPR Data Subject Request I&#x2
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
I know that it is frowned on here at HN to ask 'did you read the article' however - The Mainichi daily said the bus automatically stopped but the operators pressed the start button as they did not think he would walk out on to t
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
T.I.L on HN. I though that the Big Bang Theory was exactly that - a Theory - yet the NYT assures me that it was (past tense) Just a Theory. Full (obvious) Disclaimer - IAMNAC (I am not a cosmologist)
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Have a submission upvote simply for the nostalgia. Thanks :)
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
There was someone (died in 2019) who experienced and survived both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombs (which I guess is pretty much one of the most definitive versions of having a shit week) " The Man Who Survived Two Atomic Bombs&q
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Firstly - Make sure you thank them for their honesty. Secondly - Make sure they see a copy of their review in which you praise their abilities within the team. That will help to reassure them that there are no penalties for not wanting to &
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Mozilla tests if 'Firefox/100.0' user agent breaks websites(bleepingcomputer.com)
70 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago|40 comments
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
{chuckles} to coin an internet meme - I see what you did there
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
The Ars Technica link in the article has a much less click-baity take on it. For those specs and at that price point if I had the money at the moment I definitely would get one. I mean sure .... it is called the Mi Pad 5 Pro but what the
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They fought for clean air.They didn’t know they were part of a gas ind. campaign(theguardian.com)
3 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago|0 comments
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Wow. I'm not sure if he has been selectively quoted or not but he certainly did say those exact words so (smh). Weeds grow fastest in the shade of others. Ignoring the three major shipping choke-points (and not even mentioning the uppe
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Flaws in John Deere Systems Show Agriculture's Cyber Risk(bankinfosecurity.com)
17 points by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago|0 comments

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