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by scoot 4y ago
He did. It's what the linked post describes.
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by scoot 4y ago
Shut down
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by scoot 4y ago
Similar to another recent post: "I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30869427
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by scoot 4y ago
I don't think that we can assume that even if submitted on the day of purchase, that a change of registration would be processed immediately.
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by scoot 4y ago
Affiliate link, not a sponsor. It's a common ruse by YouTubers to refer to them as sponsors to suggest that there's a negotiated commercial relationship when there isn't.
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by scoot 4y ago
I read that it was sold as scrap, so may have cost considerably less.
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by scoot 4y ago
It wasn't the OP who replied
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by scoot 4y ago
> this account has come to my attention a couple of times by now As yours has mine. > and I'm considering pinging a higher power. Delusions of grandeur.
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by scoot 4y ago
> "you have excellent eyes" "good eyes" or "well spotted" would be more idiomatic, I think.
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by scoot 4y ago
Unlikely. What most YouTubers call "sponsors" they have instead signed up to be an affiliate for using an online form. He likely broke the conditions for which the affiliate link/code could be used, which could have been the
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by scoot 4y ago
> That fish looks alive until you know it isn’t. Schrodinger's fish.
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by scoot 4y ago
I'm sorry, but that just isn't true. No doubt some wines cross over, but the tannins present in much red wine are notable by their absence from pretty much all white wine.
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by scoot 5y ago
Some of us read every post, top to bottom, end to end, including those missing from the chronology. You decided to refute any criticism, clearly without taking the time to read even one of the original posts. You didn't even bother to
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by scoot 5y ago
You're salty? I bought Aperture a couple of months before they killed it! In hindsight I probably should have contacted my credit card provider, but I guess I naively thought Apple would do the right thing. No such luck.
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by scoot 5y ago
If there's one thing that seems the be much more forgiving in the US, it's car insurance. How has his premium and excess not become unmanageably expensive? Or not to have been denied insurance? UK car insurance feels more like US
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by scoot 5y ago
I was struck more by other inconsistencies; I can believe the changing prognosis. She talks about losing her hair and getting a wig (although something about that wig selfie looks off), but then can be seen in the last post in multiple phot
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by scoot 5y ago
You might be missing a couple of posts: 5a: https://imgur.com/gallery/2CCOhv6 5b: https://imgur.com/gallery/4lDUI2f Not sure why they weren't part of the numbered sequence.
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by scoot 5y ago
> This is a completely reasonable response. Lol, no, you specifically called out the response that referenced AI, but now you're saying you didn't understand any of them? Sounds like you need to take a breath, relax, and stop s
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by scoot 5y ago
I use 33mail.com (33m.co) which does the same thing (it has a link on the email to disable the address). You can use a subdomain or custom domain. It has a generous free tier, and ridiculously cheap paid tier. (Paid is required if you want
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by scoot 5y ago
It was generated using AI as a criticism of a comment that they didn't understand, and suggesting that AI would be more coherent, before giving an example. But the comment that they were criticizing was perfectly reasonable if the fact
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by scoot 5y ago
Not Google deep, that's for sure. Many of these fonts aren't Google's, so by not including a valid license file, they aren't honouring the terms of the original license. It could theoretically also be Google whose door i
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Ask HN: Google fonts don't have a valid license. Unsafe for commercial use?
3 points by scoot 5y ago|2 comments
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by scoot 5y ago
It did read more like an abridged version of the book than an actual review. It definitely felt like it would be in the wrong side of "fair use" laws if challenged.
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by scoot 5y ago
And Charles Darwin (about 600 years late): https://extendedevolutionarysynthesis.com/resources/timeline...
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by scoot 5y ago
Claudia.js is an absolute godsend when it comes to writing and deploying Lambda functions. Can't recommend it highly enough: https://www.claudiajs.com/
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by scoot 5y ago
Okay, I see the issue, it describes London as "City of London", which is not the same thing. That's a bug. (The City of London is a square mile near the centre of London [0].) It's also frustrating not being able to see
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by scoot 5y ago
> You can select any airport or the city - which should grab them all Not everyone lives equidistant to all airports. Heathrow and Gatwick are close to me; Luton, Stansted and City are not. I'd want to see options for both of the fo
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by scoot 5y ago
Maybe not people his age, but I suspect he was simply too young to be aware of the burgeoning home computer scene, as made apparent but the bizarre suggestion that the only people playing computer games were computer professionals. As I s
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by scoot 5y ago
> When I was a youngster in the early 90s [...] most homes didn't have a computer "Most homes" might be technically correct, but home computers were a thing since the late 70s, and really taking off in the early 1980s with
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by scoot 5y ago
What seems to be the problem?

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