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parsepect.com 9mo ago

Show HN: Trade simulation engine with realistic bid/ask fills

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news.ycombinator.com 7y ago

Ask HN: iPhone Helium Freeze – security backdoor?

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news.ycombinator.com 9y ago

Ask HN: Which Mobile Phone do you use?

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en.wikipedia.org 9y ago

Kola Superdeep Borehole

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www.google.co.uk 10y ago

You can search Google news by emoji

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Brexit – Should I vote in or out?

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www.independent.co.uk 10y ago

Universal cancer vaccine claim

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

My Twitter book recommend project

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news.ycombinator.com 13y ago

Show HN: grep through an entire mongo database

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github.com 13y ago

Mongodb - "grep" through a database

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Show HN: book recommender based on any user's tweets - iteration 2

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: how can a small book suggestion site make money?

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Foxblot.com - my saturday project: Twitter book recommender

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: What do you make of an NDA for a job interview with a startup?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

microsoft.com html title - signs of a company in decay?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Help me, I fuck around on the Internet too much

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Best way to milk a viral Facebook app?

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

What do i do with my web based Twitter client?

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twitexplode.com 15y ago

Twitter said no new clients, so i resurrected my old one. now what?

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twitterex.com 15y ago

Please review my part time project - Twitter meets wikipedia

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I think at best the linked article is attacking a strawman. Seems a lot of people did not read the article beyond the headline as it is paywalled.

Dawkins did not make the strong claim that Claude is conscious. He said he couldn't establish that it wasn't. He lists evolutionary speculations for the existence of consciousness - and wonders why consciousness is needed when a zombie can do the equivalent actions. (I like the speculation that pain is fundamentally needed for consciousness, as otherwise it would be easy to override).

This at least reflects my feelings about visiting anytime soon.

I mean if I was just put on a flight back (for a tweet they found on my phone or such), that'd be kind of bearable. At least one visitor from the UK got locked up in a facility for a week.

I really don't see the correlation with food shortages. Cabbage isn't nutritious at all. You'd need to eat 8 to 10 heads of cabbage to get 2000 Calories

I remember being taught that Bernoulli's principle causes lift. I was skeptical—how does the air on top know to reach the other end at the same time as the air at the bottom? I think I did ask, and I was just told this is how it works, and that's the correct answer for the exam. This was before the internet, and I couldn't just look up the correct explanation.

I parked it in my brain as something I didn't really understand and forgot about it. This was until not so many years ago when I found a satisfactory answer on YouTube. It was criminal to have been raised in an era without the internet.

Modi apologists seem to make similar attacks on the media and the west. They claim that the media is biased and out to get him, any criticism of him is anti-national and so on.

You're claiming that the Uighur women that got forcibly sterilized are terrorists? Modi similarly uses the terrorism bogeyman to suppress criticism. (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/10/how-terrorism-...)

And why isn't it easy for western journalists to report from Xinjiang, if it is as you describe it, a benign situation?

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It isn't true that airbnb rooms cost less than a hotel, at least in Central London. The reason they can appear cheaper is that you can cram 8 people into a small flat or even a room.

I was renting a room in a flat in Soho. The other floors slowly got converted to amateur hotels for airbnb/booking. Many a night, I'd see families stuck downstairs with luggage. They would then phone a capricious property manager who would tell them to walk about two miles to the key safe. Many a time, they didn't have a phone that worked in London, and I would lend them my phone. One angry customer checked in to the 5* boutique hotel next door after waiting for an hour. The hotel was about the same price. I wonder if he got his money back. I doubt it.

I don't book airbnbs. Hospitality is not for greedy unregulated amateurs. Of course, there might be some great hosts, but I like consistency.

I spent an entire night typing this into my Commodore 64. And it didn't work. I also messed up the save to tape, and never had the patience to type it all over again.

Real world software programming was hard, and it still is. It remains just as frustrating when it doesn't work.