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by user2426679 8y ago
I like how your parent comment has positive karma for saying that "it's fake; who cares," but I'm downvoted into negative for saying "it's fake; I care" : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by user2426679 8y ago
> Most new US production is higher cost (fracking), so the drop in market share is at least met with a stronger price floor for all. Not to be rude, but this is really off the mark. The only reason that we're not still in a cartel m
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by user2426679 8y ago
This was pretty obvious imo, based on a cursory viewing of the original video when it came out. I immediately blocked the dude's Twitter account as I only use it for following fintwits. People wanted to believe it was true for whatever
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by user2426679 8y ago
The fraudster was named CNN Journalist of the Year in 2014 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/19/top-der-spiege...
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by user2426679 8y ago
This is completely off subject, but as a personal rule of thumb, 99% of articles that include the first person, such as "Why I [did xyz]..." or "How we can...", are clickbait. Ime, the best case scenario is Acme Tech Co.
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by user2426679 8y ago
I tend to side with your opinion (obviously, based on the above code), but detaro does have a point, which is that the progress message will "overflow" onto a new/next line in the console if the message has more characters th
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by user2426679 8y ago
Please be honest and admit that this is solely about yourself; your kids having nothing to do with this except with respect to your own benefit. Even Walter White "did everything for his family."
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by user2426679 8y ago
edit: how the hell does markdown/code-snippet work on hackernews?! Nicely formatted pic of the below text soup: https://i.imgur.com/fvEeaJA.png My library function is: import sys def writeToTerminal(txt, line_len=79)
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by user2426679 8y ago
I've always just used `sys.stdout.write("\r%i/%i" %(c, n)); sys.stdout.flush()` That is exactly what this library does: "tqdm does not require any dependencies (not even curses!), just Python and an environment supp
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by user2426679 8y ago
Agreed that this is a great example by Gallagher of all-too-rare "real" journalism. The unfortunate thing is that the headline of this article should probably be "Google's Secret China Project Now Even More Secret."
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by user2426679 8y ago
> Relational databases are brilliant, but SQL is terrible and I don't understand how it hasn't gone the way of COBOL yet. Having written extensive amounts of SQL and greater than zero lines of COBOL (f. you, Lawson), this reall
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by user2426679 8y ago
The author whines about all the problems of the modern world, enlightens us with the emotional turmoil endured when watching a movie, and then concludes with a "won't someone please think of the children?!" In this diatribe,
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by user2426679 8y ago
Have you watched the documentary "Boxes?" https://imdb.com/title/tt1263704/ I think you really knock Kubrick without giving proper respect to his work ethic. And sure, luck is when preparation meets oppo
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by user2426679 8y ago
Thanks for the link... enjoyable and educational :) Wonder where Immortal Technique would fit within that chart.
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by user2426679 8y ago
Would like to see a similar analysis that instead looks at the number of syllables, specifically vocabulary that has greater than 2 syllables. In addition to being of personal interest (I think it's much more difficult and impressive t
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by user2426679 8y ago
They're not mutually exclusive. There is a popular private tracker that uses IPFS to host screenshot previews, while serving the actual videos via torrent.
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by user2426679 8y ago
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed; everything else is public relations.” - popularly attributed to Orwell (As you may already know), Swartz was heavily influenced by Chomsky, and Aaron definitely had that pessi
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by user2426679 8y ago
Where do you place Jeffrey Epstein in relation to pizza extremism?