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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
Does any one else find the site design frustrating? Constant top/bottom bars and a full window height of low-quality content before the article begins.
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
Straightforward and discreet, maybe.
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
That is interesting, thank you.
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
The piano outro played in the last few seconds was the Close Encounters of the Third Kind note sequence[0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4PYI6TzqYk
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
Very interesting, thank you.
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
> They have a ton of insider information that nobody else does Are you willing and able to elaborate?
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
They may not directly sell user data, but their revenue derives from leasing targeted access to end-users filtered by insights drawn from said data.
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
> ps. also you're not being very helpful with "No, that's not what he's saying" without telling me what he is saying. > If anyone believes individual cashiers asking for maternity leave is a good way to get it
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
Your last sentence was straightforward, correct? (No sarcasm in the 'bias' section.) I ask because that fits with my reading of both the report and the rest of your comment, but a few replies seem to interpret it as cynical.
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
Architect of China’s ‘Great Firewall’ Bumps Into It https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/world/asia/china-internet...
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
Excellent comment, thank you for phrasing this so clearly.
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
> the loss of meaning of a word spoken one too many times https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_satiation
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How Motherhood Changes the Brain(bostonglobe.com)
2 points by C7H8N4O2 8y ago|0 comments
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
> And how many mountain ultramarathons are on flat ground? None, I bet. Seems like a safe bet.
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
> In the case of maps, there weren't many great alternatives for a long time, due to Google sucking all the oxygen/profit potential out of the field with their excellent free offerings. There was a related discussion[0] on HN
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
Amazon's brand registry enables a verified brand to take control of a listing page (edit photos/text/title). That's pretty much it – no power to limit other sellers.
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
"In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partitioning of a plane into regions based on distance to points in a specific subset of the plane." [0] Here, the points are airports. There was a related discussion yesterday about a sim
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
> We're a nonsensical investment for a standard VC, sure. Maybe there's a venture investment philosophy for non-unicorns. [0] [0] https://sparktoro.com/blog/raised-a-very-unusual-round-of-fu...
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
> What we've yet to see in history is a corporation that directly and openly challenges a state for sovereignty. I think you're correct, but the East India Company came pretty close, didn't they? https://en.wiki
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
> Rate limiting on a specific username will prevent brute forcing but exposes you to DOS. Why?
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/m/morillo/public/fitzgerald... [PDF]
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
"Why spend a short life in the real world of sadness and absurdity when you could live forever in paradise?" https://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3183
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
> There needs to be some reason to do it. Some idea that the source material does that hasn't already been done to death in film. Or some capability of the new format. Pulling standalone creative works forward into modernity is inte
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by C7H8N4O2 8y ago
" How has this affected open source efforts? " can be read as either Why is it possible for [situation] to affect open source efforts? or In what way(s) has [situation] affected open source efforts?
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by C7H8N4O2 9y ago
Lyft started as an offshoot of Zimride[0], a long-distance ridesharing platform. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimride
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by C7H8N4O2 9y ago
> But all of this was only part of the Amazon recipe for customer experience. The other half was lower prices, which, for a long time, Amazon mostly maintained through ruthless willpower. (An example: the “no-more-free-Ibuprofen” story.)
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Ask HN: Where do you get your news?
2 points by C7H8N4O2 9y ago|0 comments
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by C7H8N4O2 9y ago
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." -Michael Pollan