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by omosubi 7y ago
Is there a non-paywall version anywhere?
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by omosubi 7y ago
Why is the mercurial interface better than git? They're pretty similar in most cases besides the branching thing and a couple different commands
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by omosubi 8y ago
Wasn't that the point all along? It's not like they were hiding it. They want french Basques to be proud of their heritage
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by omosubi 8y ago
Don't the traffic saturated cities have a better incentive to make public transportation as good as possible? Less people on the roads seems like it would benefit everyone in that case, whereas most american cities are too sparse to su
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by omosubi 8y ago
Capitalism itself isn't the problem it's our refusal to change market forces to force companies and individuals to pay for the disposal of the stuff when we no longer have a use for it. This could easily be done if we had the poli
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by omosubi 8y ago
Why would weekly deposits mitigate risk?
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by omosubi 8y ago
I've heard this a lot, especially when referring to both Mandarin and Cantonese, ie. Mando and canto
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by omosubi 8y ago
Hopefully this spurs more than a few people to move to Firefox. Im not looking forward to an all chrome/chromium future
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by omosubi 8y ago
Can we put a moratorium on articles about graphene until it can be produced at scale?
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by omosubi 8y ago
When I was a smaller human being I could find an empty row on a train and stretch out fully diagonally under the seats. no way could I do that now but it was nice while it lasted. took the south west chief a few times, the empire builder, t
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by omosubi 8y ago
As someone who has taken a 4.5 day trip from vancouver to toronto in coach, I would advise the same . I love trains, but that was too much.
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by omosubi 8y ago
Inbox.google.com - they also have separate apps
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by omosubi 8y ago
Not to rain on the parade, but is there any example of graphene being used at scale to do anything? I feel like I've heard about graphene for the last 20 years and how it's going to be a miracle material, but we have little to sho
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by omosubi 8y ago
It's funny he used the BMO website redesign as an example because I find that to be one of the best redesigns I have seen in a while, both from a UI and UX perspective. Their old one was absolutely awful
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by omosubi 8y ago
By definition, it's not really an impulse purchase if you plan it out
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by omosubi 8y ago
This is a really good idea - thanks
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by omosubi 8y ago
MasterCard sells your data to Google fyi, not sure if the same can be said of the other cc companies I just wish I didn't have two of them https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2018-08-30/googl
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by omosubi 8y ago
Prompts for newsletter, login (ala glass door), notifications, etc Banking sites that still use verification questions Landing pages that don't take you to the actual content (such as if you type drive.google.com into the url bar when
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by omosubi 8y ago
1. Learn Spanish. I have always been fascinated by people who speak multiple natural languages and have started learning spanish recently by talking with people on iTalki and doing various exercises around the internet. I would like to get
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by omosubi 8y ago
I worked on an organic farm this past year for two weeks (through WWOOF) and it was probably the best two weeks of the year for me. It really opened my eyes to how food is produced and just how much humans have changed the landscape of the
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Ask HN: How did you improve your conversational skills?
39 points by omosubi 8y ago|21 comments
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by omosubi 8y ago
put the name of the company in the initial message you send. I suppose there are people that are curious and will respond, but to me it just looks like you're embarrassed to be recruiting for them.
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by omosubi 8y ago
I find Memrise to be what duolingo ought to have been. I used it to learn about 800 words of portuguese which I then used to travel around parts of portugal where english was rare. I wasn't having in depth conversations but I could ask
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by omosubi 8y ago
Wow great story! Do you mind expanding on the problem you are trying to tackle?
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by omosubi 8y ago
What are good countries/societies that have good mental health systems? What does that even look like? Is this a uniquely American problem?
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by omosubi 8y ago
This really resonated with me. I think it'll be very difficult to move away from the Milton Friedman "businesses only exist to generate profits for their shareholders" model, but if there's one thing that millennials see
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by omosubi 8y ago
there's plenty to discuss whenever you've read something someone else has read. just think about book clubs that get together and talk about books that everyone has just read based on questions that they might have shared before h
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by omosubi 8y ago
To the amount of wealth they are generating for the place they work perhaps?
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by omosubi 8y ago
Here's an example of re-introducing a single species to an ecosystem https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolf-restoration.htm No imagine halving the number of species in yellowstone
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by omosubi 8y ago
Losing 50% of species _is_ the loss of biodiversity by definition. Just about every species plays a vital role in maintaining a habitat and losing 1 or several has consequences that are hard to predict and could mean a drastic reduction in

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