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by acheron 5y ago
Or in 2002 or 2011 about coronaviruses or in 2015 about ebola or in 2009 about swine flu or or or... You don't get credit for predicting 10 of the last 1 pandemics.
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by acheron 5y ago
And yet when I see a site that asks you to use Chrome I know that the true spirit of IE lives on.
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by acheron 5y ago
From what I remember, the monolith part of 2001 came from Clarke’s earlier story The Sentinal , in which IIRC it was a transparent tetrahedron. Since the story and movie of 2001 were made simultaneously, I think Clarke/Kubrick ended u
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by acheron 5y ago
Late 90's joke: Yahoo and Netscape are going to merge and move their headquarters to Israel: Net'n'Yahoo
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by acheron 5y ago
"My name is AOL Time Warner, king of kings. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair." Nothing beside remains.
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by acheron 6y ago
The Dilbert Principle book from 1998 or whatever has a joke about it.
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by acheron 6y ago
These are the Daves I know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVzDIE0mr6A
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by acheron 6y ago
Same here as well, got it with a Gateway 2000. It was an interesting idea. I get the OP's point that a lot of the critics were not the target audience, but for the most part the target audience didn't take to it either. I guess I
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by acheron 6y ago
If you're boycotting something based on false rumors you read on an Internet forum, I'm not sure how you buy anything. Hey, I heard that Kim Jong-un bought out all the world's watermelon farms, so every time you buy a waterme
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by acheron 6y ago
Using any version of Chromium still contributes to Google’s attempts to destroy the web. If they actually cared they would use a different engine.
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by acheron 6y ago
Did you hear something? It sounded like a cash register opening and closing. Kinda like "ch-ching, ch-ching". No, no - I heard more like a slot machine jackpot. Sorta "Ding-a-ding, ling-ling-dong-ding-ding." https:&#x2F
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by acheron 6y ago
For some reason my friend bet on 26 last spin and won, that takes some skill.
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by acheron 6y ago
The Stockholm syndrome among the leetcode crowd is astonishing.
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by acheron 6y ago
Some ancient historians quoted him as saying something similar in Greek, though who knows if it actually happened — ancient historians were often “creative”. I think the source of the Latin phrase is Shakespeare though.
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by acheron 6y ago
This is a great blog, and if you find it interesting it's certainly worth reading regularly. I don't think each post needs to end up on the front page of HN every week.
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by acheron 6y ago
You are carrying: no tea
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by acheron 6y ago
Same (though "I moved to a new area" happened in 2004). At this point I've just blocked the entire old area code and neighboring ones, aside from existing contacts.
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by acheron 6y ago
I really wish Brave didn’t use Chromium. Is there some non-Mozilla Foundation fork of Firefox?
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by acheron 6y ago
So all those years of "the only place in the country that you can possibly start a company is in San Francisco" turned out to be nonsense?
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by acheron 6y ago
You're terrified that you might treat your employees so badly that you would need to pay a lot to resolve a situation? Seems like that's entirely within your control.
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by acheron 6y ago
Given how many Internet commenters think they’re experts on Chernobyl now, it’s not like he’s alone.
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by acheron 6y ago
Ha I saw that too. But there’s nothing European HN users love more than commenting with their super well-informed takes about the US, so it should have been expected.
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by acheron 6y ago
Same, I didn't know this existed. But I turned it on and it's nice.
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by acheron 6y ago
I don't think I've ever seen that attributed to Paul Newman. https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/09/poker-patsy/
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by acheron 6y ago
Had you ever heard of these six books before today? Have you ever read them? Um, yes, of course. Have you not?
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by acheron 6y ago
> Because now it is the only way many acquaintances and businesses can be contacted, it will remain entrenched even with this hostile new privacy policy. “Will we ever end the MySpace monopoly?” https://www.theguardian.com&#x2
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by acheron 6y ago
If you have gavelkind succession then each of your repos goes to a different heir.
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by acheron 6y ago
As far as I know it means “half in the bag”.
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by acheron 6y ago
“Are tests biased against students who don’t give a shit?” https://www.theonion.com/in-the-know-are-tests-biased-agains...
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by acheron 6y ago
Of course if the job sucks, then you're screening for luck the wrong way.

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