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721.
by acheron 5y ago
If there's anything you enjoy, there's a journalist out there ready to lecture you about it.
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by acheron 5y ago
That seems soon. Other estimates say that won’t be true until the year 4545. https://genius.com/Zager-and-evans-in-the-year-2525-lyrics
723.
by acheron 5y ago
Same, though it was about 20 years ago for me. I remember a guy withdrawing $25k in cash one day. That was unusual, which is why I remember it, but it wasn’t a problem either. (We gave it to him in a big sack, and I was disappointed that th
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by acheron 5y ago
“Please” and “mandate” are contradictions. Which is it? I would recommend that people get themselves vaccinated, yes. Any politician who advocates for a mandate should be voted out of office and blacklisted from ever being elected again.
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by acheron 5y ago
What’s yellow and dangerous?
726.
by acheron 5y ago
He worked at a Venetian convent and directed a girls’ choir.
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by acheron 5y ago
I guess if you're interested in the opinions of college students and 23 year olds. The real trick is finding an obscure forum on your topic. That keeps off the kids and the astroturf.
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by acheron 5y ago
I still can't believe people actually click on affiliate/tracking links. I get things based on Wirecutter reviews occasionally, but I always go to the product separately so it's not tracked.
729.
by acheron 5y ago
> banks check your credit/banking history Those are not the same thing. Banks will deny you an account based on your history with bank accounts, sure. But not “credit history”, which is entirely separate.
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by acheron 5y ago
Ah yes. Another one I remember well that apparently was more obscure than I realized is ISLAND.MID. It's the last one in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ome3vfadYvs&t=586s
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by acheron 5y ago
I like the Amazon reviews of, say, a salad spinner that are something like “the delivery van ran into my mailbox! 1 star!” I miss worthwhile reviews.
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by acheron 5y ago
Obviously this is absurd, but the Treasury doing absurd things with loopholes is not new. Example: the $100 United States Notes. Before all paper money became Federal Reserve Notes, some was legally required to be "United States Notes&
733.
by acheron 5y ago
Or Eley.
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by acheron 5y ago
I would guess the downvotes are because talking about how you and your friends “ironically” praise one of the worst mass murderers in history is not as cute as you apparently think it is.
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by acheron 5y ago
To be clear, this is nonsense and nobody actually does it. It’s the same kind of bullshit as saying the “ok” symbol is racist or whatever. I don’t know how many people honestly believe it or if they’re all just trolling, but if people do ho
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by acheron 5y ago
The difference is that being maximally charitable is the right way to approach normal communication from normal people, but the people who write “CoCs” are known bad actors. You don’t assume good faith from the person that’s assaulting you.
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by acheron 5y ago
Depends where you live I suppose. My daughter and two of her friends were in the woods with one of the moms a month or so ago, and one of the girls was bit by a presumably rabid raccoon. She went to the hospital, got treated, was released t
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by acheron 5y ago
See also the CGW Museum: http://www.cgwmuseum.org Scans of every issue of Computer Gaming World, ads and all.
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by acheron 5y ago
I switched to using HACK I think when you first came out with the iOS version, and I still use it now. It works great, thanks!
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by acheron 5y ago
“Oxide” is French “oxygène” + “acide”, it doesn’t have a separate root than oxygen. https://www.etymonline.com/word/oxide
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by acheron 5y ago
Nobody goes to journalism school because they were good at science (or math).
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by acheron 5y ago
He was just trolling and drew some people in. Downvote and move on.
743.
by acheron 5y ago
> as Æ is not a letter in the modern English alphabet Someone tell the Encyclopædia Britannica.
744.
by acheron 5y ago
Probably my favorite comedian. No wonder we hadn't seen much of him for awhile, e.g. when Conan O'Brien's show was ending.
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by acheron 5y ago
Tons of HN readers work at Google, which is much worse than whatever this dumb thing on the Starbucks website is. Ethics is in short supply.
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by acheron 5y ago
Unlikely that anyone intelligent rejects the actual science part of it, which is not controversial. What they reject is the media-politician complex’s version, which then gets reported — by the same media — as “rejecting the science”.
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by acheron 5y ago
DNS isn’t that hard. It’s just a mix of cache invalidation and naming things.
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by acheron 5y ago
The friendly article.
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by acheron 5y ago
Where “this” in “solve stupid shit like this” is “hide you from police with a legally authorized warrant”? If you were relying on Protonmail to conceal evidence of criminal activity for you, you may not have thought that all the way through
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by acheron 5y ago
INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER

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