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by grzm 6y ago
I just lazily copied and pasted the phonetics from the New Oxford American Dictionary :)
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> door hinge only works if you make it a compound word and make hinge unaccented Rhymes are often judged in the context of spoken language, under which conditions, dropping the h and having hinge be unaccented relative to the precedi
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by grzm 6y ago
In the dialect I speak (roughly North Central American), syringe has the stress on the second syllable, which makes the rhyme with orange (ˈôrənj, ˈärənj) a bit awkward. Looking it up, I was surprised that both stress on the first sylla
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cover your ass
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I Think Beethoven Encoded His Deafness in His Music(nytimes.com)
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Sysbench: Postgres vs. MySQL and the Impact of Regressions(smalldatum.blogspot.com)
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by grzm 6y ago
tptacek summarizes it succinctly elsewhere in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25786421
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Yeah, that tracks. It was kind of cool when people started being able to blog semi-professionally, paid for what they would do anyway. When people starting blogging to get paid, things did change. I’m surely oversimplifying, but the I haven
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Yeah, Zeldman and co are still around, and you’re right that they’re not quite what they used to be. Perhaps they’re just grown up? Kinda crazy: it was exciting to think back then that these people were making careers of this web stuff! And
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zeldman.com, alistapart.com. Oh, those heady standards-seeking days!
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According to two articles I perused, there were protestors at the Whitehouse and there were altercations with the police and security at and with the barriers, but no breach from what I read: - https://www.cnn.com/2020/
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It's shorthand for $5 billion of market cap. From the third sentence of the article: > "The decline erased $5 billion from Twitter’s market capitalization"
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That's a great example, isn't it? :)
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The most common criticism I'm aware of is that it leaks information about your system and its users. For example, you can gauge growth by how fast ids grow, and relative age of accounts. The former is potentially financially valuable.
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cover your ass.
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Sysbench: Postgres vs. MySQL and the Impact of Regressions(smalldatum.blogspot.com)
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There's always a risk of bad laws and bad regulations. And certainly we need to be vigilant and correct and improve them when they occur (and they most certainly do). Laws and regulation are not necessarily censorship. It's import
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What’s the difference? Business interests include mitigating legal and regulatory exposure.
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> "multiple politicians voiced this opinion at surprisingly similar time this seems like some coordinated PR thing" It's not "surprisingly similar" when a lot of people start putting on jackets when it gets col
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Appreciated! I’ll take a look.
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You’re looking right past the likely cause and jumping straight to the reaction. Ignoring the context is not useful. Twitter, Facebook, AWS, and others didn’t act ex nihilo. To flip it around, do you think Twitter, Facebook, and AWS would h
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by grzm 6y ago
Counterfactuals are hard, and I'm spitballing here, I think it's useful to consider a scenario where that would be true: for Republicans to have maintained control of the Senate would likely correspond to more public support for R
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by grzm 6y ago
I agree, if for no other reason than the repetition is boring. I don't see how members will stop submitting articles like this on their own: for some it seems to be a cottage industry to submit every piece they come across. How do you
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The firms are responding to the same events and pressures in similar ways. It doesn't require coordination or conspiracy to explain that. You're right that there's likely opportunity for some disruptive differentiation. That
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Short answer: someone came across the piece and submitted it. Speculation: people are paying a lot of attention to what's happening at the White House right now. From some of the comments, there's also some misunderstanding of whe
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When a hurricane hits the coast, you'll find that a lot of people happen to board up their windows as well. A common set of pressures can provoke the same response from different people working independently. No coordination needed.
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AWS laid out the timeline in their letter to Parler: > "Because Parler cannot comply with our terms of service and poses a very real risk to public safety, we plan to suspend Parler’s account effective Sunday, January 10th, at 11:5
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There are plenty of comments on HN in opposition to Visa and MasterCard stopping to work with Pornhub. Volume might not be the same, but that's hardly surprising. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25381920 - http
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They tend to do that. It's not hard to see the events of January 6 as a conflagration that caught a lot of attention and people looking for sources of water (to bend this analogy to well beyond usefulness). Edit to add: if you're

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