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> GLP-1 agonists (such as Novo's Ozempic) are another example in healthcare. Despite their effectiveness, Pfizer rejected GLP-1s in the 1990s because they would eat into their other product lines. It took over a decade before anothe
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> GitHub followed a similar track to SourceForge Can you provide an example?
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Europe's seeds are being privatised by patents(euronews.com)
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Yep - in first IT is "profit center" and in the latter it's "cost center".
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Every now and then there's a HN discussion "how do you manage internal documentation" where most commenters write something like "there's no point writing documentation because it quickly becomes outdated". (Th
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I only use (free) ChatGPT sporadically, and it works best for me in areas where I'm familiar enough to call bullshit, but not familiar enough to write things myself quickly / confidently / without checking a lot of docs: - wr
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If you're around Bristol, UK, I recommend to visit Aerospace Bristol which has a Concorde museum and it explains the role of the flight engineers. Rebalancing fuel tanks was a major thing in Concorde indeed. I don't remember detai
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Your observation does not help with the majority of the points in the article. How do you find all usages of a parameter value literal ?
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TIL! https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
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Hah, this made me check it at YT and read comments: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pvy3M5gQ_cQ A reply to top comment explains: > @AdrienArnouxComedy, 4 years ago Sample clearance issue. The beat is entirely lifted from
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I wonder what kind of weird contractual stuff makes Spotify have a totally different version of Limp Bizkit's "Getcha Groove On" than the one I remember from album. The one I remember can be found on YouTube though.
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Whoa, I never noticed that, thanks! Given how bad yet time sucking the default wall became, I hope this will make me reduce my time in there.
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I once came across a similar bug in a popular JS lib, only in Russian timezones, only in some browsers, only on Windows. (It happened due to Russia changing their timezones). https://github.com/yui/yui2/pull/1
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In Poland, the default way for computer shops in 2000-2010s was to offer 2% discount when paying in cash. (The prices displayed were assuming cash, so if you paid by card, you'd pay more.) I didn't see this anywhere else though. I
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The music industry is engineering artist popularity(theguardian.com)
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You don't want to know what OS Sabre (backend for 30% of world's airlines) is using on their mainframes.
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https://blog.google/inside-google/infrastructure/safety-firs...
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> Driving there is tiring, the brain just gets tired from it. I moved away from Poland a decade ago, and each time I come back I get distracted like crazy as a passenger in a car. My brain doesn't know what's happening for the
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Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34165791 "How Southwest Airlines melted down" 283 points on Dec 28, 2022 | 318 comments
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Google tells me "Pre-market 295.00 −48.05 (14.01%)"
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Loading JS heavy pages like Twitter on Firefox Android is way slower than Chromium based. Very noticeable on 2019 hardware, less so but still on 2022 hardware.
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Recommended relevant book: "The culture map" which talks about this kind of miscommunications across a dozen of cultures. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36190015 https://erinmeyer.com/books&#
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Also, you may lose your bank card randomly any time (lost wallet etc). While waiting for the new card, having some cash at home and/or backup account with with a backup card at home can be useful.
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Not to mention that in many sports, you can literally be a world champion level and just barely affording to cover the necessary costs (best equipment, long training camps abroad etc.) to compete at the highest level. In my country we have
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From the original article in the thread: > Those “rich fucks” kept Johnny on the road, mind, as he offered a racket-stringing service to players. Johnny has claimed he’s the only player ever to make a consistent living on the Futures tou
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There's a few references specifically to Agassi a few times in this writeup > Andre Agassi was lonely but never alone, players on the Futures tour are both.
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Ask HN: Big traffic domains with non-ASCII characters?
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Mozilla top management did some stupid things in recent years, so your opinion is valid, but OTOH it's a bit sad to me that whatever Mozilla tries to do going forward (or really any software vendor), the top comments are always backlas
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Guessing, and not sure if this is relevant here, but some software (browsers like Chrome [1]) store filesystem metadata with the origin of the file download source. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments&#x
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It feels like MS has decided a few years ago there can only be one premium, quality vendor (Apple) and they give up and go the way of enshittification instead to get their $$$. Writing this as a die-hard anti-Apple person, and I was one of

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