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HN Front Page on September 29, 2008(news.ycombinator.com)
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It has always been this way. “Americans love conspiracy theories. Conspiratorial rhetoric in presidential campaigns and its distracting impact on the body politic have been a fixture in American elections from the beginning, but conspiracie
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When was this “golden age of truth” era that we are now after? There have always been conspiracies, mystics, cults and anti science sentiments. Do you have any evidence to show it’s worse than it ever was?
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I have an account that is from 2013, and they are ending March 1 for us.
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Does this union cover a global workforce?
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Are you talking about the US? There is neither good cycling infrastructure nor enough schools. Also, are you expecting kids to walk or bike to school in inclement weather? Also, many children are simply too young to ride a bike to school o
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Is it really true that collecting only anonymous, stateless data has the same value as stateful, identifiable data? What kind of insights do we lose? Is it simply just advertisers who lose, or will we also lose other things? For example, i
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Running made things much much worse for my back. Be cautious about this advice.
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Not all users have the same privacy desires. Many (most?) are happy to provide their personal information "by default" in exchange for better ad targeting, lower prices, etc.
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Why is this company called HuggingFace?
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The knobs in the car represent a local maxima and your muscle memory is a sunk cost. Why should I have to do most of the things that those knobs do? I’d prefer to let Tesla write the automotive software instead of trying to embed it in my
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You can run your own hosted web-based VSCode. https://github.com/cdr/code-server
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I found it on her Twitter https://twitter.com/briannekimmel
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It’s worth mentioning that this VC is an investor in Webflow, one of the companies mentioned that is “unbundling LinkedIn”.
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Cell phone use is a small percentage of "distracted driving". We should be careful not to conflate the two things. In 2017, 3,166 fatalities (of 37,133 total) were attributed to "distracted driving". Of those, 434 fata
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It is not secure though.
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The thesis seems to “build enterprise software” because those people have a budget. I enjoy reading people’s startup ideas. But this is a pretty uninspired list - (“Better Google Groups”, “Better Zendesk”, etc) There are thousands of solu
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I love this account: https://twitter.com/justsaysinmice/status/119661435015448576...
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This would upset me if I was one of the remaining employees.
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This is great. Intercom’s pricing is outrageous for small startups so I could this getting traction.
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Wonder what’s going to happen tomorrow ... “Further, Mr. Liebowitz is hereby ORDERED to appear before this Court in person on November 13, 2019 at 10 a.m., and there and then SHOW CAUSE why he should not be incarcerated until such time as
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> Despite the sharp wrangling that the National School Lunch Program often stirs up, the meals coming out of it are more nutritious — and a lot more adventurous — than they were 10 years ago. “It absolutely is a brighter day for school f
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The military has been doing this for a long time. Google “drone defense systems”
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“It didn’t used to be this way” because of the internet. Not because the way COBOL programs were developed were inherently superior. Once these cobol powered servers were accessible to hacking, “not changing anything” no longer worked. ht
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Ryze was a big deal before LinkedIn.
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Maybe not... https://www.sfgate.com/travel/burningman/amp/Burning-Man-gar...
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> They tend to carry baggage from the past. This comes in various flavors, such as biases one has regarding the path of their careers, their interpersonal relationships (social and official), technology choices etc. this happens as soon
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Also from avc.com: "the 40% rule" [0] "I have never seen growth and profitability so nicely tied together in a simple rule like this. I’ve always felt intuitively that it’s OK to lose money if you are growing fast, and you mu
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It does appear that people have attempted to create such an experiment. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114878/
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I suppose a refutable claim that could be made by this post is “People who regularly journal gain more self awareness than those who do not”

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