your-nanny

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by your-nanny 6y ago
I've only found two differences between a bookmark folder and a collection: 1. Collections show up on new tab 2. collection items are remarkably easy to accidentally deleted,with no confirmation or undo functionality. Reminds me of Fir
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by your-nanny 6y ago
well I didn't know it was coming and my workflow went to hell.
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by your-nanny 6y ago
Because it's horrible in almost every way.
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by your-nanny 6y ago
I'm inclined to agree... but to play devil's advocate, it's the sensitive ones we remember and talk about.
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Google deleting mentions of Wumao within seconds(mobile.twitter.com)
19 points by your-nanny 6y ago|5 comments
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by your-nanny 7y ago
thank you for writing this history up. I am a regular but never really got involved in the effort to revive (except to announce it's return 10 months ago on HN)--I didn't really know the story.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
Detect and xplay and yutru are there now. Still devastating the restof us paeons.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
dependency rot is a more general problem. in my work we deal with lots of seldomly used applications, and I've found that reducing external dependencies tends to keep life happier
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by your-nanny 7y ago
Here is the proposition: let's make an inherently deflationary currency suitable for black market transactions that will become even more polluting with every transaction. CryptoKidz: I'm in! But haters gonna hate, and downvoterz
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by your-nanny 7y ago
if true Bitcoin needs to die, and eventually will under its own weight.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
People hate Word, Excel and Photoshop??? These are examples of wildly successful software used by consumers and in industry alike.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
Are questions against Hacker News guidelines!?!?!?!?!?
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by your-nanny 7y ago
why is that interesting?.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
Only context this makes sense in is research paid for from public purse.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
on ff mobile site"s scroll seriously lagged. nice visual appeal though
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by your-nanny 7y ago
well what if your best guess was that py2 would never actually be deprecated. Certainly in the early tens I had serious doubts.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
Dead malls should become foodie plazas with childcare for diners.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
Useful proxies like bitterness or stomach aches after consumption offer degrees that can covary with food preparation. If you cook it and it's less bitter, then cook it some more.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
apparently somebody feels compelled to defend abuses by California farmers of a critical resource held in common, for personal profit. It is a scandal.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
That California's farmers were watering crops (almonds, for petes sake) with ever deeper wells is a scandal.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
I've honestly never found a good reason to use brew instead of macports, aside from an annoying hipsterism. Welcome to try to convince me otherwise.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
asbestos was used to make a safer filter: oops
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by your-nanny 7y ago
First off, abide by HN guidelines please. Second its only your perception that it receives favoritism, because of your mistaken interpretive frame that sees electoral college electors as being about individual citizens instead of as a compr
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by your-nanny 7y ago
Then move to Wyoming. States are entities of political significance, regardless of how many people happen to live in them. This is a union of states, and states get a say. If you don't believe that consider advocating for the replaceme
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by your-nanny 7y ago
states, not geographical units.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
because it's representing the states themselves in addition to the population that happen to live in them. if you don't like all this you really should ask: why have states at all?
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by your-nanny 7y ago
yes. state governments elected Presidents, and that is a good way to avoid populists.
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by your-nanny 7y ago
Wyoming is a state and this country is a union of states, not acres, or arbitrary units of population. We've failed to communicate the actual point of all this, which is to make sure each state--and not population districts--get repres
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by your-nanny 7y ago
because the US is a union of quasi independent states. US government is built around that fact. The Senate, for example, represents each state equally Originally and by intent these were chosen by state legislatures. Similarly, originally
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by your-nanny 7y ago
My first inkling that I had no clue about the reals was when I first thought hard about the fact that you can have a bijection between intervals of different length, eg (0, 1) and (0, 10).

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