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by blatherard 4y ago
Is there a filter that automatically removed "The best" from the submission title?
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Masayuki Uemura, 78, Dies; Designed the First Nintendo Console(nytimes.com)
1 points by blatherard 5y ago|0 comments
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by blatherard 5y ago
Discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28132830
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by blatherard 6y ago
How do you handle returning books? Is there another charge for that, and how does pickup work?
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Hundreds of Google Employees Unionize(nytimes.com)
18 points by blatherard 6y ago|4 comments
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by blatherard 6y ago
You seem to be trying to say that each element in itself doesn't invoke the illegal drug use metaphor. Even if that were the case, my argument is that the three pieces bolster work together. Just like if I named a game "Alcohol&qu
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by blatherard 6y ago
I thought I should look at the App Store and see what this app is doing in comparison to similar apps. The logo is basically a big pill and the tagline "Powerful keep-awake utility" which is clearly alluding to the drug. https:&#
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by blatherard 6y ago
They stopped regular work and had a hack week and morale improved. Now they're back to the regular work and having standups again. What does this show other than taking a break is fun?
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by blatherard 6y ago
You might want to check out https://www.grasshopper.bank/ , which is a fairly new startup-focused bank based in NYC
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Widower Asks Jack Dorsey to Remove Trump’s False Tweets. Twitter Says No(nytimes.com)
7 points by blatherard 6y ago|0 comments
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How Saudi Arabia Infiltrated Twitter(buzzfeednews.com)
316 points by blatherard 7y ago|91 comments
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by blatherard 7y ago
I had the same label-saving problem in Firefox. Chrome seemed fine. It would be nice if there was an obvious way to report issues through the interface.
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Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Leaves Board, Severing Last Tie(nytimes.com)
9 points by blatherard 7y ago|0 comments
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What it’s like inside of WeWork(vice.com)
4 points by blatherard 7y ago|0 comments
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by blatherard 7y ago
These are fairly contrived examples, but in all of them the requestor is making a pretty clear statement of their feelings and what they want, even at risk of being verbose. The characteristic of true passive-aggressive responses is to avoi
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by blatherard 7y ago
That 90th percentile doesn't guarantee a slot in a G&T program. It's kind of an elaborate system, but depending on what district your child is in or what school you're considering, the effective cutoff can be much higher.
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by blatherard 7y ago
> So there is a cutoff before 1964. However, it's not at all clear to me how many times the copyright holders didn't renew their copyrights. I would be unsurprised if the big publishers did typically renew them. That doesn&#x27
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by blatherard 7y ago
The important point in this article is that the NYPL just recently digitized the relevant records, thereby making it possible to determine whether a copyright was renewed. The old rule of thumb (anything after 1923 is presumptively protecte
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by blatherard 7y ago
(2012)
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by blatherard 7y ago
I think the author should consider acquiring some facilitation skills, rather than rejecting any other model than him and someone else talking.
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by blatherard 7y ago
The Orchard | Software Engineers; DevOps Engineers; QA Automation Engineers | NYC or London | Onsite | https://www.theorchard.com/about/careers/ Hi, I'm an Engineering Director at The Orchard. We're hiri
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by blatherard 8y ago
Germ is a layman's term for "microorganism", or perhaps "pathogen", both of which most assuredly include all the little things that make people sick: viruses, bacteria, fungi, etc.
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by blatherard 8y ago
"We're taking a comprehensive, disciplined approach, and taking the time, to get the software update right." So what approach did they use the first time around?
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by blatherard 8y ago
There is zero chance they withdraw from gaming. Take a look at the latest earnings report which covers through Dec 2018. https://www.sony.net/SonyInfo/IR/library/presen/er/pdf/18q3_... Slide 11
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by blatherard 8y ago
As far as I can tell, no such tickets were ever sold [1]. There was a "First Moon Flights" Club that they ran that had about 100K members, but that was free. [1] https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/965
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by blatherard 8y ago
> The move will significantly reduce the risk of building on the Facebook platform. What's to stop them from reversing the policy change? Once bitten, twice shy.
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by blatherard 8y ago
Use this handy bookmarklet (which, ironically, uses facebook to circumvent the wsj paywall): javascript:window.location.href='https://m.facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(window.location.href);
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by blatherard 8y ago
Context for those unfamiliar with Andrew Torba: https://techcrunch.com/2016/11/12/pro-trump-ceo-gets-booted-...
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by blatherard 8y ago
Oy, thanks, fixed.
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by blatherard 8y ago
gab.com was founded as a safe space for the alt-right, going so far as to choose a frog as their mascot (a reference to "Pepe"). gab.com just got a heavy dose of bad publicity from the fact that the terrorist who murdered 11 peopl

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