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by sp0rk 3y ago
It's just a Hacker News convention to include the year in parentheses if the article isn't freshly published. It doesn't have anything to do with the content of the article itself.
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by sp0rk 3y ago
It's my understanding that they still retain a lot of control over Mickey Mouse indefinitely because he is trademarked as the face of their company.
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by sp0rk 3y ago
I would say your comment is most definitely rude, especially the part where you reduce the reason for the text to two options, neither of which are very flattering. Incidentally, it seems like neither of your given reasons are accurate eith
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by sp0rk 3y ago
The individual example videos are nearly 1080p (1024 height) and they look pretty good to me. There is some glitchiness on the hands but it's very minor and could definitely be fixed easily in post-production or through further refinem
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by sp0rk 3y ago
Can you give any examples of somebody that was unjustly vilified by the public until top secret information was released that exonerated them?
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by sp0rk 3y ago
So what's the story with these seemingly unrelated, but very serious, bugs being found at the same time? Was this the result of a security audit or were three bugs of this magnitude really discovered spontaneously?
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by sp0rk 3y ago
> Could you enlighten us? How does one launder money through some iOS apps? You use stolen credit cards to purchase the app. It's a very common method of fraud and does not require a criminal mastermind or a group of people to perfo
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by sp0rk 3y ago
I check GitHub's Trending page for Python projects every day or so. I was a little confused why this repo was trending today, particularly because the note at the top indicates that a lot of the services patched the exploit long ago. I
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by sp0rk 3y ago
> The average number of tellers per branch went down. Why is the number of tellers per branch an important metric?
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by sp0rk 3y ago
Interesting, considering Winnie the Pooh is in the public domain now. I wonder how they determine the copyright status of a character.
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by sp0rk 3y ago
I don't think NSFW content is disallowed on Hacker News.
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by sp0rk 3y ago
Is the content of the article not exactly what the headline says?
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by sp0rk 3y ago
I really like this site. I also wanted to call out the smart UI decision to map the space bar to the "new window" button (which is itself long like a space bar.) I discovered this intuitively after going fullscreen just because of
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by sp0rk 3y ago
I tried the first site listed there (Bumper.com) and it played a (probably fake) progress bar animation for a full minute and then asked me for my e-mail before it would show me any data. In contrast, OP's site showed me the results wi
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by sp0rk 3y ago
What is the distinction you're making between calling something "a miss" and disagreeing with it?
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by sp0rk 3y ago
Maybe I'm missing something obvious here, but how would you handle situations where you are forced to change your password, like after a site is compromised or they force password rotation?
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by sp0rk 3y ago
> You’d think people carried around half a dozen devices and charging cables were like hose pipes the way people complain about carrying them. An extra cable in a bag is not a real problem anyone really has It's probably a real prob
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by sp0rk 3y ago
I think this has a bug in it, unless I'm misunderstanding something. I asked it if the movie was made in 1995 and I got the following: > Congratulations you guessed the movie! > Your score was 775 > Congratulations! It was mad
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by sp0rk 3y ago
> Hopefully they have a plan for a better mechanism to discourage frivolous ambulance calls and ER visits. Those resources are overloaded by casual abuse resulting in higher costs and wait times for those who truly need emergency care. D
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by sp0rk 3y ago
>I don't think I've ever once, not a single time, left clicked a Google Image Search result. It's like drinking from the dead. You just don't do it. You just don't do it according to whom? I would consider viewin
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by sp0rk 3y ago
> not to mention old >> 2 years ago How often do you expect a single purpose program that's less than 200 LoC needs to be updated?
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by sp0rk 3y ago
> I'm sorry for the harsh words. I wondered if I should keep silent or prevent other people from wasting their time with this. The low quality had me annoyed enough to opt for the latter. The harshness of your words don't reall
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by sp0rk 3y ago
This is such an egregious attempt at fraud that I actually feel bad enough to scroll past the ads, when I'm searching for a particular company or website by name, and always make sure to click the actual search result. I really should
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by sp0rk 3y ago
> It is also worth noting that the region hit hardest in Italy early on just so happens to be a huge textile manufacturing center with a huge Chinese population. If you're talking about Prato, your information is completely wrong.
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by sp0rk 3y ago
RO systems waste something like three gallons for every usable gallon they produce.
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by sp0rk 3y ago
> As an aside, my personal view is that making your own butter doesn't provide anywhere near the same return on investment as making your own bread - home made butter takes ages, doesn't really taste that much better, and can c
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by sp0rk 3y ago
Did you generate a bunch all at once before starting to get some idea of what the natural variance looks like? I would think it's important to verify some level of progression over time, because with the current four it seems entirely
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by sp0rk 4y ago
I'm especially intrigued by the prompts you have that direct you to reflect on the status of various aspects of your life. These questions reminded me a lot of a list that I started a while back of small inconveniences in my life that
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by sp0rk 4y ago
Can you share some examples?
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by sp0rk 4y ago
I don't think any big pharma companies would be interested in providing a potassium supplement, as they are already cheap, readily available, and not able to be patented.

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