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I see your point and perhaps my example was poorly chosen. A better one would've been "a bin by Frederik Bin" or something along those lines. Poubelle is an everyday item, a term that the average person uses daily (and withou
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6y ago
> Is there another pre-existing meaning for "poubelle" that makes this naming unexpected? I mean, it _is_ the French term for "trash can". It might be surprising to you, for example, if you'd suddenly find out th
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6y ago
> The medical community, from my experience, does not handle this type of diagnosis well. I've read some time ago that Stanford scientists developed a blood test. It'll be harder for docs to ignore once there's a proper di
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6y ago
Sorry but what are RF scars? Scars resulting from radiofrequencies? Do you have a picture at hand, perhaps?
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6y ago
You're just as screwed if you make a typo in your bank transaction, though.
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6y ago
> When breathing was obstructed, my blood oxygen dropped. The oxymeter beeped and woke me up. That's basically what your body already does natively, though.
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7y ago
That might just be the most uninformed comment I've ever read on HN.
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7y ago
I hate that I laughed.
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7y ago
It is revolting how terribly arrogant your comment is, really. They don't have a "wrong way of looking at things" simply because it is not your way. And your way is by no means the way.
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7y ago
> Yes, she is "all" Japanese. She grew up in Japan, with her Japanese mother, attending Japanese schools. This is the subtle bigotry toward people who are "half" (as they're called in Japan) rather than "dua
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8y ago
500 Euro per month? What is the name of your insurance provider? I have never heard of such outrageously priced healthcare plans (private providers excluded, of course).
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8y ago
> A 2000 Danish Sports Science Institute investigation reproduced the earlier study, giving a large group of Kalenjin boys three months of training and then comparing them to Thomas Nolan, a Danish track superstar. When the Kalenjin boys
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> This isn't "every single thing that you could possibly want to talk about". This is something that half of the world population experiences roughly monthly for some number of years. Morning wood emoji when?
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8y ago
A moving article. I had a similar experience, although on a different scale, as I had lost most of my hearing at age 12. It was liberating for me to converse with people by writing in the chat in World of Warcraft, whereas I dreaded convers
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8y ago
Perhaps you logged into Facebook unconsciously or through an app within that time frame? That is enough to stop the deletion process.
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> Deleted my account permanently two months ago. In the beginning it was interesting too see how it had become a habit to write the url almost without thinking, and for three weeks I found myself opening a new tab and writing the Faceboo
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8y ago
He probably merely deactivated it and thought deactivation equals deletion. It does not.
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8y ago
Ah, yes – holding journalism to the same standard as works of semi-fiction is indeed called for these days. An excellent comparison on your part. Other people, however, may hold journalism to higher standards than those of infotainment that
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8y ago
Authors nowadays have the tendency to (ab)use their own articles as vehicle to talk about themselves -- and it's ever too often either completely unrelated to the content or some superficial, forced connection. It's quite annoying
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> You could say that about any economic activity. Any unnecessary and polluting economic activity that is actively killing the planet, yes. > A greenhousing effect would also not be harmful to all or even most tourist sites. I doubt t
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> I won't argue about off topic issues, but I don't think mass tourism is killing any sights. One could argue that, by accounting for eight per cent of the world’s carbon emissions, tourism is killing the sights along with the
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> Quite honestly, most companies don't care about one's compiler theory knowledge or ability to build shell scripting interpreters, nor should they. Your reply, in the context of the comment you replied to, strikes me as a poin
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> Yet there's the exceptional young man from the local solid and dependable farm family, who got a philosophy degree at Auburn, first in his line to do so. Why do you associate farmer with lesser intellect? Change it to: > Yet th
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But US citizens, regardless of descent, aren't foreign nationals to the US. On top of that, Japanese weren't your average foreign national but rather enemy aliens – as the US was at war with Japan. I must have misunderstood your p
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8y ago
Were foreign nationals in Washington not allowed to leave or imprisoned when America invaded Afghanistan or Iraq? Sure, two different political systems but I don't see the reason why the average foreign national should be arrested in t
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> Can anyone shed some light on the motivation for these frauds? Money and prestige while it lasts? > Is there something in particular about the Japanese ecosystem that makes them more common? Well, the article states the following: &
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> Isn't this a misuse of Github? Surely there's a more suitable website for hosting a page with text and pictures than a source control system? If Github Pages wouldn't be a thing, I'd have been inclined to agree. Eve
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> But, under pressure from tax authorities, the organization had compiled paper receipts with names and passport numbers of those the project had reimbursed. > Bartl said those records have been compromised, putting the identities of
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> Why do I when I take for example mdma, a drug that just makes me feel happy and loved, become a criminal and can go to prison? Not arguing pro war on drugs here, but there's more to mdma: > Results show that oxytocin creates in
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> Possible downside: Providers become overly cautious and pro-actively delete more than necessary. Exactly what happened in Germany when the new social media hate speech law (Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz) was introduced. > He said that
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