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by ablation 11y ago
While fairly engaging until the end, the characters in the book were pretty shallow and the story itself wasn't really that special. "Amazing" is extremely heavy praise for what is a decent airport sci-fi page turner.
452.
by ablation 11y ago
Dainese (and others) have made airbags for professional motorcycle racers for several years now too. It's quite interesting tech.
453.
by ablation 11y ago
Bizarre preoccupation with their beards in that QZ piece.
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by ablation 11y ago
>> In other words, you don't need to actually have consumed something to share it. Point taken. However - and entirely anecdotally - longform content has been discussed, shared and consumed by my immediate circle of colleagues an
455.
by ablation 11y ago
>> It's devastating that this is the kind of work that people deride now for its length and verbose cadence. Do they? Not being snarky, but longform journalism is incredibly popular at the moment, to the point where some claim th
456.
by ablation 11y ago
Fascinating. But the site damn near killed my Firefox.
457.
by ablation 11y ago
You found page after page of awkwardly written furniture fetish fascinating? Whatever blows your hair back, I guess.
458.
by ablation 11y ago
So angry about tea.
459.
by ablation 11y ago
"Entertaining" isn't a word I'd use to describe that overlong digression in an otherwise entertaining novel. I love Stephenson, but he sure could use a stern editor at times.
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Taking an inventory of all the water stored under ground(arstechnica.co.uk)
1 points by ablation 11y ago|0 comments
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by ablation 11y ago
Strange tone to your reply, especially in the second paragraph.
462.
by ablation 11y ago
It was written by a professional comedian, so I wasn't excatly expecting incisive social commentary.
463.
by ablation 11y ago
But is that stopping YOU from behaving like that if you know it's literally just a change of icon? And if the change of icon bothers people that much, just install Tweetdeck. It's still a star in there (much like other inconsisten
464.
by ablation 11y ago
Interesting piece. But did anyone else find the website screwed with their scrolling along the x axis?
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Medium turned off comments on Amazon's NYT response(recode.net)
4 points by ablation 11y ago|0 comments
466.
by ablation 11y ago
What a bizarre, at times completely inappropriate article to have posted. All it does is leave me amazed at - and a little embarrassed for - Amazon's PR department.
467.
by ablation 11y ago
Interesting point. Apropos of not much, a lot of them use paid advertising in some form to drive awareness of their products or services, though.
468.
by ablation 11y ago
It doesn't seem that strange, to be honest. I found it readable and engaging, and it was nice to have some local colour mixed in with the "actual information." There are no doubt countless academic papers and government repor
469.
by ablation 11y ago
How could anyone fail to see it? I still wanted to include it in my point. Not a lot of disarming to do.
470.
by ablation 11y ago
Great example of innovation from Vice. If only those starchy ol' newspapers could have thought of something like a 'letters to the editor' section... What? Oh. In all seriousness, it's probably a good move for Motherboar
471.
by ablation 11y ago
This. From my experiences, I've seen nothing but high regard for the military in Britain. Huge amounts of respect, even.
472.
by ablation 11y ago
Absolutley fascinating. Great reporting - I don't want to say an "enjoyable" read, but certainly very engaging and interesting.
473.
by ablation 11y ago
Judging by the spate of articles posted on HN recently, I would assume dolphins.
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by ablation 11y ago
In UK, anecdotally? Yeah I'd say so.[1][2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_dark_comedy [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_humour
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Many Companies That Went Public in Past Year Are Trading Below Offering Price(bloomberg.com)
3 points by ablation 11y ago|3 comments
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by ablation 11y ago
Some manufacturers are experimenting with added downforce with the addition of winglets. See Ducati's example here: http://www.bikesportnews.com/uploads/news_images/_G104079%28...
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by ablation 11y ago
Someone is getting a disproportionate amount of praise for what, in all likelihood, amounts to running a pre-existing sound through PaulStretch and posting it to SoundCloud. I realise they try and link to more information about both the pro
478.
by ablation 11y ago
Was it patronising? And was it an ad hominem? I didn't really read that into it at all. Just another opinion on one man's opinion.
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by ablation 11y ago
I can see what you're saying. But it doesn't make the reporting of it any less important, or at the very least informative. Nor does it take away the human tragedy even if it is only in microcosm.
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by ablation 11y ago
A good read but a terrible headline (not here on YC, I mean the Wired page itself). This trend of using third-person pronouns in article headlines is mildly annoying and feels like its come around as a result of this style of writing being

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