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by phnofive 3y ago
Vending Machine is getting adapted?! Awesome. ...yet, I think you're right about the parallel world escapism.
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by phnofive 3y ago
The legal system in the UK recognizes several rights against self-incrimination, but there is a carve-out for the per se crime of failing to disclose a key to encrypted information - punishable by years in prison. How is this different than
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by phnofive 3y ago
Perhaps the author should read up on code-switching before writing an article about it. This could be reworked as 'Dialects are Dumb' with a little bit of search and replace.
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by phnofive 3y ago
Well, your disclaimer seems to be a filter selecting for people who swear and are interested in stopping, so.
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by phnofive 4y ago
Contemporary discussion, nearly twelve years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2463762
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by phnofive 4y ago
This might well be titled 'Five ways to stop ruminating' (which of course would need to be edited down for submission here): 1: Anticipate rumination-triggering events and acknowledge rumination when it begins 2&3: Use logic a
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by phnofive 4y ago
Taking this at face value, I don't think so - but it has been linked with cervical and uterine cancers.
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by phnofive 4y ago
> Dorsey [...] told investors about the large number of songs named after Cash App and described how music had become a way to share with others how valuable the app is to them personally, providing them with “so much utility.” > A re
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by phnofive 4y ago
Always has been...
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by phnofive 4y ago
> The number of images partially blocked by satellites is still small, the team found, rising from nearly 3 percent of images taken between 2002 and 2005 to just over 4 percent between 2018 and 2021 for one of Hubble’s cameras. > “Sta
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by phnofive 4y ago
Yes, but a good excuse to dump them where unnecessary.
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by phnofive 4y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34830649 Doesn't totally answer the question, they had to update the packaging anyway. To Mr. Hedburg's point, I'm sure no one misses them.
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Allergic to Sesame? Food Labels Now Must List Sesame as an Allergen(fda.gov)
2 points by phnofive 4y ago|2 comments
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by phnofive 4y ago
Do you mean that daycare workers typically instill those things? Is that true?
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by phnofive 4y ago
The rest of the article is about how people's estimates of polls diverge from those same polls, but not why. Were people better at estimating polls or national sentiment thirty years ago?
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by phnofive 4y ago
> Here are a few things we all know are true: > Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016 thanks to a huge increase in anti-immigrant sentiment > Nobody was worried about climate change in the 1990s, but now lots of people are freaki
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by phnofive 4y ago
Do I need a coffee or is this just stilted: > In the alphabet recited by nineteenth-century schoolchildren, it followed Z. 'And per se and', they would say, 'and per se and'. A logogram masquerading as a letter, a let
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by phnofive 4y ago
So to demonstrate how a 'computer' works, you make your employees participate in a 'creative exercise' with vague instructions and non-deterministic results, thus proving you shouldn't be frustrated with the 'd
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by phnofive 4y ago
Great job sticking with it - it's not easy and it is lonely, but you did it.
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by phnofive 4y ago
High score: 2:44 to scroll down and realize what in the heck I was supposed to be doing
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by phnofive 4y ago
What?
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by phnofive 4y ago
Seems to be the only big change - this was added to a list of 'thou shalt not's: "use or access the Licensed Materials to create or attempt to create a substitute or similar service or product to the Twitter Applications&quot
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by phnofive 4y ago
Curiously, this tool was most recently submitted for a previous Twitter TOS change about eight months ago; it prompted a lively discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31351013
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by phnofive 4y ago
They have not 'begun' this, it's been happening for a some time, with the (perhaps uninformed) consent of whomever accepted the license.
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by phnofive 4y ago
I can't tell if this is a profile or satire: > But Hastings told me that she impressed him, during a business trip to Delhi early in her tenure, by insisting that they leave the grounds of the five-star Imperial Hotel to eat at a “h
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by phnofive 4y ago
I'm seeing the IDs as acct and pw.
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by phnofive 4y ago
Twitter is basically the only source for this, but is it true?
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by phnofive 4y ago
That's what I was looking for; starts with a popular conception, provides no evidence, then moves on to wish fulfillment.
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by phnofive 4y ago
Related discussion from a couple months ago, with forty-gour comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33620606 I'm still not getting why this can't 'launch' from LHR. It was built in Long Beach, Ca
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by phnofive 4y ago
Previously, with 132 points and 79 comments on Jan 26, 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16237568

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