ptbello

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by ptbello 5y ago
And then of course there's "Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN75im_us4k
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by ptbello 5y ago
Yes, but only in the form of carbonate tablets
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by ptbello 6y ago
This is probably the root cause. e.g. Mozilla shut down the "firefox send" service because of their inability to stop inadvertently hosting malware
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British American Tobacco wins approval to test Covid vaccine on humans(theguardian.com)
1 points by ptbello 6y ago|0 comments
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Severe brain injury and paralysis temporarily reversed with a sleeping pill(sciencedirect.com)
313 points by ptbello 6y ago|179 comments
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by ptbello 6y ago
Paypal's crappiness was definitely the leading reason for Stripe. I wonder what is Strope's stance towards blockchain? Will they now also move into blockchain like PayPal, but properly?
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Ultrapotent human antibodies protect against SARS-CoV-2(science.sciencemag.org)
2 points by ptbello 6y ago|0 comments
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Facebook Needs Trump Even More Than Trump Needs Facebook(bloomberg.com)
7 points by ptbello 6y ago|0 comments
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by ptbello 6y ago
I see this behaviour every day. There is even a Neapolitan expression for this: "chiagni e fotti" [1], which could be translated as "cry and screw (others)". [1] https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiagni
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by ptbello 6y ago
> I recently analyzed the trading activity of Senators [0] How is this relevant? Surely any senator knowingly engaging in insider trading wouldn't do so directly. They would get someone else to profit from the info and give back to
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Facebook apologises for Xi Jinping offensive name translation gaffe(theguardian.com)
4 points by ptbello 7y ago|0 comments
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Experience: My face became a meme [as told by Harold himself](theguardian.com)
130 points by ptbello 7y ago|7 comments
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by ptbello 7y ago
This must have been a strong ispiration for the aptly named "The Wave" (2008), although I couldn't find any reference either side. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1063669/
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by ptbello 8y ago
Mandatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgF1p29_MZM ("Laundry Man" by australian comedy collective The Peloton)
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Nassim Taleb on IQ(threadreaderapp.com)
44 points by ptbello 8y ago|35 comments
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by ptbello 8y ago
+1 for the clever naming, got me grinning
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by ptbello 8y ago
Interesting how the top comments are about Microsoft products discontinued years ago. Nowadays google's the one shutting down products people love (reader, inbox...). Looks like an inevitable phase in the unicorn lifecycle.
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Excess heat from Bitcoin mining to warm buildings(fastcompany.com)
2 points by ptbello 8y ago|0 comments
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by ptbello 8y ago
This. I just made the exact same comment[1] before I saw yours [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18121684
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by ptbello 8y ago
Call me cynical, but it could also be that AMZN will be automating all those lower paid jobs - as in: soon they won't even need 7.25$/H employees because they'll have machines. In this scenario, 15$/H would just be their
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by ptbello 8y ago
"How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk". Check this review of sorts by Jeff Atwood: https://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-talk-to-human-beings/
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Archive of Extreme Global Weather and Climate from the WMO(wmo.asu.edu)
2 points by ptbello 10y ago|0 comments
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by ptbello 10y ago
true, but this kind of information will eventually leak; job title and basic insider knowledge can take you quite far already
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by ptbello 10y ago
Let the poaching begin. BMW, Porsche and friends will better come up with solid retainers, lest lose their top talent.
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How the internet was invented (it all started in a California beer garden)(theguardian.com)
3 points by ptbello 10y ago|0 comments
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by ptbello 11y ago
Does anyone have insights on how a game between two Alpha-Gos would play out?
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BrewDog’s open-source revolution is at the vanguard of postcapitalism(theguardian.com)
1 points by ptbello 11y ago|0 comments
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by ptbello 11y ago
I spend quite a lot of time in Parma. If you happen to go there, know that the best pesto di cavallo shop is the one at the beginning of Via Emilia Est, just off the square to the right. It's a tiny place, always choc full - you would
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Tech blog idea: Journalistic accountability(ma.tt)
1 points by ptbello 11y ago|0 comments
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The reckless plot to overthrow Africa's most absurd dictator(theguardian.com)
54 points by ptbello 11y ago|11 comments

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