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by egwynn 9y ago
I’d be in favor of two changes to the HN title: 1. s/This popular painkiller/Acetaminophen/ 2. (2016)
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by egwynn 9y ago
I’ve never been able to understand how the anti-weed interests have been able to rationalize the astronomical costs of enforcement and punishment for so long. Even if I went out on a limb and said, “well, it’d suck if TONS of people smoked
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by egwynn 9y ago
For those who are curious, the wifi board depicted in this project is the venerable ESP8266. It’s really been a hardware tinkerer’s dream to be able to add such a capable wifi radio to projects for so cheap ($2 on aliexpress if you don’t mi
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by egwynn 9y ago
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14602448 It was widely panned in the comments then, too. EDIT: looks like it was posted even earlier and nobody payed attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/i
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by egwynn 9y ago
I don’t know what you mean by ‘it’, but you don’t need to take the word of ‘the MSM’ for it that Russia was trying to influence the election. Basically everyone in any high-level intelligence role has said they think Russia spent a good dea
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by egwynn 9y ago
obligatory https://xkcd.com/1770/
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by egwynn 9y ago
These threads wouldn’t happen if there were enough information carried in the bar itself (e.g. text, linking, hovering, etc.). I feel weird that this thread is marked "[flagged]”. I’d read the post about Chuck’s passing yesterday, noti
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by egwynn 9y ago
Agreed. I think this is the same fundamental issue as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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by egwynn 9y ago
In this context, you want ‘sow’, not ‘sew’.
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by egwynn 9y ago
I’ve never heard of or used Vimium before. But based on the name, it stands to reason that some variant of the ‘v’ key should select text.
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by egwynn 9y ago
I’ve long wanted API access to a system’s cron “smarts”. Like I sort of wish /usr/sbin/cron was a “dumb shell” around a hypothetical "/usr/lib/libcron.so", so that I could write programs that could ju
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by egwynn 9y ago
One issue is the prevailing idea that all/most online interactions should be shared publicly. It would still have been ill-advised to make these jokes even in private, but I’d go so far as to say there’s a big concrete difference betwe
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by egwynn 9y ago
It’s tremendously important to realize that Vim comes from a VERY long line of text processing utilities that stretches back over a half a century. Vim is the result of constant iteration on a set of design ideas and conventions that predat
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by egwynn 9y ago
I think it’s rather generous of you to call them “screw ups” from big pharma.
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by egwynn 9y ago
I generally hear people saying two things: 1. “The gov't isn’t/wasn’t able to competently police big pharma, so addiction will only get worse if we legalize drugs.” 2. “The gov’t is policing citizens too much, so addicts’ lives wi
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by egwynn 9y ago
The article sort of addresses the consumer motivation for choosing prepaid cards over traditional banks: During Servon’s research working as a teller at a check casher and payday lender, consumers told her that the fee structu
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by egwynn 9y ago
One might be forgiven for expecting it to make heavy use of CouchDB.
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by egwynn 9y ago
People felt like UAL’s decision to get the police involved made them primarily responsible for letting the situation get out of hand. And then after it all blew up, they failed to take a compassionate position for the passenger, and instead
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by egwynn 9y ago
It seems like a central conceit of this article is that market forces may end up being substantial punishment for UAL’s recent bad press. Maybe it’ll make an impact for consumers, but what about business travel? I’d wager that it makes up a
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by egwynn 10y ago
File under “Diet of Worms”
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by egwynn 10y ago
Previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14079562
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by egwynn 10y ago
Tragically, I think a pure "appeal to emotions”[1] argument will lead to a fragile victory at best. Emotions are awesome at being irrational (by definition?). Perhaps you could start with emotions and then migration people over to a ra
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by egwynn 10y ago
> The reality is that most people don't follow any rules when it comes to arguments. They just follow what feels good, ie what they(we) have learned via social immersion. > I'd like to see more books about how people actuall
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by egwynn 10y ago
I love how on the "This tiny print serves no purpose” page it has: For more information, please contact JasperCollins Publishers, 99 St Marks Pl New York, NY 94105. I used to live on this exact block in nyc, and that is not
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by egwynn 10y ago
Your comment is a little broad; maybe that’s why you’ve gotten downvoted. But effectively I agree with you. I know for a fact people DO get this exact call. But the evidence for the endgame of the exploit is pretty weak.
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by egwynn 10y ago
Color me skeptical. I’ve never needed voice authorization for a CC transaction. Ever. And I don’t give my CC # to random people who call me from strange numbers. Seems like, if they already had my CC data, they wouldn’t need to call me. The
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by egwynn 10y ago
Super cool! But that's not knitting, and the circle isn't what most would consider to be a loom, either. EDIT: Ok, it's a knitting loom (not a weaving loom), but the artist still isn't "knitting" using it.
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by egwynn 10y ago
If only I knew for sure which of the entries on the wikipedia disambiguation page for ‘AST’[1] you were talking about! /s [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AST
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by egwynn 10y ago
Agreed. Such semantic fragility indicates a design flaw, IMO.
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by egwynn 10y ago
> In a sane world where everyone used the Oxford comma ... Serial commas can also create ambiguity when they resemble appositives[1]. There’s no single rule that always only ever eliminates ambiguity for these things besides treating Eng

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