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by alxndr 4y ago
Maybe the distribution is relative to the company's Eng org?
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by alxndr 4y ago
How much effort/development have they put in to the spam detection on Gmail?
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by alxndr 4y ago
So then it's accurate to say that no one uses TypeScript in production??
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by alxndr 4y ago
Maybe they are trying to solve too many problems with one piece of software.
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by alxndr 4y ago
"Realtor" is a trademarked term which indicates that a person is a member of the National Association of Realtors. This is the org which the parent commenter is calling a monopoly. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki&#x
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by alxndr 4y ago
(explaining the joke: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_of_translation )
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by alxndr 4y ago
The original words aren't recognizable at first glance, but they do serve as potential mnemonics for remembering the terms/definitions for any learners who speak one of those source languages (English, Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, R
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by alxndr 5y ago
The email-based create-an-account link is 404ing for me, using an iPhone and Brave browser.
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by alxndr 5y ago
The link to follow 404s for me… perhaps because I put a plus sign in my email?
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by alxndr 5y ago
Short answer? Yes. Long answer probably involves value systems and what individuals are actually doing on that day…
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by alxndr 5y ago
Did the Board of Directors approve all of that?
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by alxndr 5y ago
That sounds like they are expecting a predictable relationship between literacy rates and once-in-a-lifetime geniuses being born…
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by alxndr 5y ago
> You’ll find that your abstinence did not result in any worse cabinet appointments than were already being made, and that disaster relief efforts carried on without your involvement, just as they always do. As it turns out, your hobby o
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DIY mechanical keyboard switch lets you set its actuation point(arstechnica.com)
2 points by alxndr 5y ago|0 comments
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by alxndr 5y ago
> In terms of evolutionary biology, all forms of life develop memory first. Only once sufficiently resilient, an organism can begin to learn to forget things. Interesting, can you link to more info on this?
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by alxndr 5y ago
> No one starts cults any more. The lack of drug cults is proof! Um... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Church_of_Cann... https://www.thedivineassembly.org/ https://en.m.wiki
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by alxndr 5y ago
> "tag every... file I create ... with some spur-of-the-moment searchword" isn't that kind of what we are already doing with the names used in the directory hierarchy + the filename?
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by alxndr 5y ago
A) it is; "The grant, totaling nearly $4 million, is funded by NIH’s National Institute on Drug Abuse." B) your first link is 404ing
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by alxndr 5y ago
Not in my experience.
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by alxndr 5y ago
Was responding to the idea that the Green party doesn't put up candidates for local elections... I think I've seen them on smaller races than Governor as well, but this was a recent example that came to mind easily.
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by alxndr 5y ago
Depends where you are: In the recent California governor recall, there were two Green Party candidates and one Libertarian.
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by alxndr 5y ago
More of a euphemism than a dog-whistle... https://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/eggplant-emoji/
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by alxndr 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
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by alxndr 5y ago
I wish there were FLAC (or other lossless) recordings, seems that the site only links to YT videos.
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Google Voice will soon stop forwarding text messages to other phone numbers(9to5google.com)
8 points by alxndr 5y ago|0 comments
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by alxndr 6y ago
the real world is messy, games are a way of identifying the messiness (and then provoking one user to be upset at how the developers chose to model the messy world)
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by alxndr 6y ago
A) he didn’t give up what he already had, and B) “fortune” is being pretty generous
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by alxndr 6y ago
discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25919235
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by alxndr 6y ago
Growth hacking.
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by alxndr 6y ago
Short answer: hiding questionable (not necessarily illegal) activities.

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