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by WalterGR 4y ago
That's a surprising amount of pictures and IMPORTANT BOLD TEXT. Though I guess the site is for intelligent people and doesn't specify anything about attention span. :)
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by WalterGR 4y ago
With huge caveats. Previously: Russian Ruble Is World’s Best Currency This Year (bloomberg.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31474649 Submitted by prostoalex | 27 days ago | 43 points | 35 comments
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Popcorn setting, right?
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Dupe of: Telegram celebrates 700M Users and introduces Telegram Premium (telegram.org) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31802245 Submitted by bathory | 1 hour ago | 41 points | 36 comments
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by WalterGR 4y ago
There have been about 8 submissions of this topic so far. These two have comments: Apple workers vote to join union, a first for the tech giant in US (theguardian.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31796319 Submitte
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Was there any evidence at that time to support the conspiracy theory?
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by WalterGR 4y ago
NSFW image above the fold. A heads up would have been nice for people browsing at work.
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by WalterGR 4y ago
> I once saw a video There have been several submissions of (various? or the same?) DIY air filters. The trick to finding them on hn.algolia.com appears to be to use 'air purifier' rather 'air filter' (which kind of
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by WalterGR 4y ago
> The “scare quotes” here are used to convey that the author does not subscribe to the underlying political position that the phrase communicates; rather, they’re quoting someone else’s usage. This is correct. No, it's not. Submitt
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by WalterGR 4y ago
What if it has a secret embedded cellular modem?
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by WalterGR 4y ago
I was reading a Wikipedia article, at it said something like "late 3rd century BC" or "BCE". I think that was the first time I'd seen early/late applied to times before year 0. It really threw my brain for a
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Thanks!
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Ah, thanks. I got it backwards.
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Wrong link?
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by WalterGR 4y ago
The article's title doesn't have scare quotes: "Minneapolis' YIMBY Success Story Halted by Environmentalist Lawsuit"
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by WalterGR 4y ago
> used by the original site *Used by the original submission. (I think that's what you meant... The article has a title closer to what you used.)
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by WalterGR 4y ago
I have no interest in getting into the larger story. But it's necessary to keep in mind: CEO Powell posted the company culture document because he knew the NYT article was coming and wanted to get ahead of it. This article literally
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by WalterGR 4y ago
There was a massive amount of excitement around Light Table when it was first demoed. I remember one or more pretty amazing videos. I don't have link(s) on-hand. Project: http://lighttable.com/ HN search: https:&#
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by WalterGR 4y ago
I'm quite looking forward to checking them out. Here's some discussion prior to the release (which was two days ago) of this new specialization (3 courses rather than Ng's original single course): Andrew Ng updates his Mach
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Is this something people can use immediately?
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by WalterGR 4y ago
I really wish YouTube titles had more context. Copy-paste (with emoji removed because I won't stand for that kind of levity): Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers by Kevlin Henney 9,032 views - Dec 22, 2016 Channel: Dev
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Translation: "A person called Rainbolt is very good at quickly guessing the location when shown a random Google Street View location" (There is, in fact, no "pro" Google Maps viewer product called Rainbolt.)
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by WalterGR 4y ago
People in medicine use "scrip" to mean "prescription" when speaking to others in the field.
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Thanks! LART? I'm not familiar with that one.
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by WalterGR 4y ago
The actual name is "The REAL Green New Deal" (capitalization theirs.) Hijacking the name of something that already exists by prefixing it with "REAL" activates my spidey-sense. As does, you know, this. Emphases mine.
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Article title is “The West just experienced an aspect of the climate crisis that scientists have warned of for years” Link to the article on the “lite” version of CNN is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Title says “… aspects of the climate crisis…” Emphasis is mine.
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Based on observation, continuously posting content from the same domain or domain+username pair (for some sites such as Twitter and GitHub) will get those posts shadowbanned. > What is a good way to deal with this? I’d obviously defer to
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by WalterGR 4y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31745117
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by WalterGR 4y ago
The solution is to kill the process called ‘bird’?

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