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by smcin 4mo ago
"association football" aka soccer aka football
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by smcin 4mo ago
You have to declare your affiliation with Spidra in your posts (are you an affiliate? marketing? employee?), to follow HN guidelines, and be neutral with criticisms. Otherwise your threads are getting killed. If you did that, your content l
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by smcin 4mo ago
If you mean Operation Spiderweb, the Ukrainian Osa drone only had a range of 5 miles/ 8km (one-way) and had to be launched from the roof of containers simultaneously transported unknowingly by Russian truckers and that was a covert ope
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by smcin 4mo ago
You don't understand the context: the issue was not that the pharmacy software somehow innocently can't (automatically) find a pharmacy farther than 25 miles away from the current location. It was specifically CVS prevented this s
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by smcin 4mo ago
"him wot worked on" is just British English slang for "the guy who worked on"
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by smcin 4mo ago
If you got to that point it's just a formality, and unless you somehow blow it the job is (probably) already yours, if you decide you still want it. You seem to have jumped to unwarranted assumptions about the company culture; quite po
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by smcin 4mo ago
No, Austria doesn't forbid using (or even having installed) a video camera in your car, in itself. But they do forbid RECORDING and PUBLISHING (e.g. on social media) videos where a SPECIFIC car (identifiable by the license plates) is v
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by smcin 4mo ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48249399
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by smcin 5mo ago
(From headline, I seriously thought this was a photo of the former US Defense Secretary/VP riding on public transit back in the day).
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by smcin 5mo ago
How long is your expectation that you can access that e-book, after you pay $10?
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by smcin 5mo ago
This isn't about hardware "lasting", it's about basic software functionality on older hardware intentionally being disabled. Somewhat similar to Apple's Batterygate.
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by smcin 5mo ago
Moreover, under Silver's deal with Disney for 2013-8 he "retained ownership of his proprietary models.... Disney owned the brand, the IP, and the archive" [0]. Then apparently in 2018 that arrangement expired and Silver dec
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by smcin 5mo ago
In the US Caller ID has been so hopelessly compromised (for almost two decades now, that's on Congress) that financial institutions almost never make outbound calls, and only ever use standardized published numbers; I wasn't aware
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by smcin 5mo ago
But it wasn't at all just about Bonin: Robert and Bonin repeatedly kept trying to override each other; Robert was giving Bonin some information with which he could have figured out he was stalling (although Robert was also trying to cl
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by smcin 5mo ago
Ask them their name/ last initial, employee ID or unique identifier for the conversation, direct phone number, job title and what location they're based at. Scammers will pretty much always refuse/argue/hang up on this (
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by smcin 5mo ago
What are your criteria for recognizing a useful insightful blog into a poster's previous business ventures? Few tellers are neutral and objective, many writers get accused of selectively editing things: Philip Greenspun's account
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by smcin 5mo ago
Stop being abusive. Your original double-negative comment lacks clarity, it can be read in two completely opposite senses. It would better for you simply to have clarified it (and next time be clearer in the first place). People here broug
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by smcin 5mo ago
That's a ripping yarn. Or a cautionary tale of what can happen if you don't bring an anchor. Previous mentions: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/106wp... https://new
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by smcin 5mo ago
Jim Simons, mathematician and hedge fund manager (1938–2024) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Simons
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by smcin 5mo ago
They mean comparatively noone takes long-distance (Amtrak), other than in the northeast, or at least east of KS/TX/OK. They're not talking about commuter rail, obviously lots of people take that. But if you wanted to travel L
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by smcin 5mo ago
What's your source for claiming "[the US] uses like 50% more healthcare services than a typical single-payer society" ? Personal take-home pay for physicians is 8-10% of total US healthcare spending ($5tr). (or 20%/$1.1
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How a self-proclaimed Swiss king's 'empire' is riling local authorities(france24.com)
2 points by smcin 5mo ago|2 comments
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by smcin 5mo ago
'A full-time job': How a self-proclaimed Swiss king's 'empire' is riling local authorities https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20260510-how-switzerland-... https://en.wikipedia
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by smcin 5mo ago
IEEE SWEBOK tried to and is generally considered not to have achieved what it set out to do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Engineering_Body_of_K... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41907412
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by smcin 5mo ago
> It's looking in apallment at... "looking on appalled at..."
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by smcin 5mo ago
Not really. The comment of yours that started the lack of clarity is this double-negative, and 0/2 of us who responded to you here found it useful: > Most graduates aren't really qualified to work anywhere that they couldn&#x2
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by smcin 5mo ago
(Graham Platner had the tattoo covered up 10/2025)
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by smcin 5mo ago
REI Co-op has an Annual Members Meeting in Seattle, where it announces the results of the board of directors election. The 2026 one happened Feb 5. Apparently the presentation is only 8m long, some saying it's pre-recorded and it'
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by smcin 5mo ago
I'm not confused. Your comment stated that college doesn't add much to a person's employability. (If you had wanted to be less obfuscatory, you could simply have said "a [HS] education is already adequate qualification f
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by smcin 5mo ago
I understood your comment perfectly fine. I'm asking which graduates of which colleges you were referring to. It looked like you were generalizing about US HS and colleges. If so, plenty of other countries' HS and college educatio

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