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by personlurking 6y ago
When I look at the Archives on Project Euler, the same general idea is there but the site I miss wasn't programming focused. I seem to recall a giant red, blue or green background and the puzzles weren't just text-based, but visua
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by personlurking 6y ago
There was one site that had something like 100(?) brain teaser exercises - I suppose you could also call them puzzles - which became successively more difficult as you moved on (ie, hours to figure out just one of them). Each was distinct a
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by personlurking 7y ago
After how Airbnb dealt with my reservation in regards to their Coronavirus policy, I have the feeling they're not only bleeding cash but that they'll be losing tons of customers. I had to wait two weeks to speak to someone, yet ha
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by personlurking 7y ago
I tried a single lesson of the trial version of Frantastique, and enjoyed it, however their monthly subscription is too expensive ($20-50 range). Can't say much else since I didn't finish the trial. https://www.gymglish
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by personlurking 7y ago
Plus - some version of asking for a recommendation (ie, "what's good here?") - in a social event, try "Hi, we haven't met yet, I'm ______"
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by personlurking 7y ago
The actual sound file, which is just a vowel sound ("ehh"), is below. https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1038%2Fs415...
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Synthesis of a Vocal Sound from a 3,000 year old Mummy(nature.com)
1 points by personlurking 7y ago|1 comments
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by personlurking 7y ago
I looked into Lingq, watched a few short videos on it, and saw an interview with the founder, but I'm still not sure I get it. The site is mainly a text-based vocabulary acquisition tool, right?
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by personlurking 7y ago
Not exactly the same thing, but the following is happening now, in Spain. Citizens can opt-out by either turning off their phones or putting them in airplane mode during the dates mentioned. "Spain’s National Statistical Institute (INE
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by personlurking 7y ago
HN discussion of the WSJ book review: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18908728 The talk is 29 minutes total. I'd suggest watching from the 9m40s mark when the author starts talking about smart homes.
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The Age of Surveillance Capitalism [video](iai.tv)
84 points by personlurking 7y ago|15 comments
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by personlurking 7y ago
And here [1] you can see what the region would look like with rising coastlines, based on a Climate Central interactive map (which can be used for any global coastal city). 1 - https://ss2.climatecentral.org/index.html#8&#x2
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by personlurking 7y ago
This also strikes me as odd. I've recently been seeing extremely short reviews for places. That is, 10+ reviews per place that are basically "was great, would recommend!" or "the host was responsive, I'll come back!
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by personlurking 7y ago
For which this was the HN post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21408178 The service AirBnB offers is rife with problems, as can be gleaned from reading the comments.
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by personlurking 7y ago
>The main downside for me concerning AirBnb is it takes a long time to analyze the listings to find quality accommodations. I just spent 7 days (20h total) trying to make one booking. Tons of reading between the lines and analyzing invol
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by personlurking 7y ago
Peter Robinson (of the Hoover Institution) is a good example of a master interviewer, with his Uncommon Knowledge series. Here's one of the last ones I saw: Peter Thiel on “The Straussian Moment” (Sept 2019) https://www.yout
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by personlurking 7y ago
Also, from another article (by Axios): "SoftBank will pay former WeWork CEO and current non-executive chairman Adam Neumann around $200 million to leave the board of directors, give up his voting shares and support SoftBank's take
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by personlurking 7y ago
Genuine question: Is there a name for saying "past evidence hasn't shown this to be true, thus it's likely to remain untrue"? I was debating a different technology with a friend and he made such a comment, but my respons
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by personlurking 7y ago
If you copy the URL fast enough after clicking, you can check Archive (.is) to see if it's been archived. In this case, it was. http://archive.is/NLqpE There's also Outline. Not sure if one service is better than
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by personlurking 7y ago
I've touch-typed for 20 years and sometimes a random friend (whose job isn't related to computers) catches me doing it and is either amazed or thinks I'm showing off. To me, I'm just typing. Like other commenters, I also
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by personlurking 7y ago
In Puerto Rico it sure does a lot of butchering, after having taken Ubers there
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by personlurking 7y ago
>You talk about governments as if they were an alien sentient life form ("governments ... feel entitled"). They're not. They are groups of people who serve constituencies. Lately, I've been thinking about what's
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by personlurking 7y ago
In case anyone is interested Great Big Story: The Vultureman of Spain (3m14s) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQKaYUEknCU "Manuel Aguilera wants you to know there’s no reason to fear vultures. The ornithological guide
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by personlurking 7y ago
Sometimes it's through reading comments on how others use the apps that I discover a new way to use it. I thought Maps was restricted to looking at a map and zooming in and out.
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by personlurking 7y ago
>Consider how willing you would be to hold your wrist up in front of you for 30+ seconds. I'm likely an outlier as I keep it in front of my face for 2-3 minutes at a time when playing games, but I admit that it's a limited use
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Ask HN: Where are all the Apple Watch apps?
10 points by personlurking 7y ago|12 comments
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by personlurking 7y ago
>I see it in my youngest daughter as well, and I do worry for her It's good that you worry. As children of staunch loners, my siblings and I all turned into loners as adults. Edit: We don't even talk to each other.
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by personlurking 7y ago
A simple form of this was done in Prague recently, to see what tourists were throwing away (5 min video). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5Vj8wb5jAs
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by personlurking 7y ago
Though unrealistic, all things considered, there needs to be a single site for everything (akin to pirated tv/film sites, incidentally). The user would go to a central place where all streaming options are available to be browsed and w
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by personlurking 7y ago
Youtube comments are the worst for written memes. The smaller or more niche the channel, the less it seems to occur. It's always a breath of fresh air to see informational/interesting comments on the smaller channels (and to have

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