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AliAdams
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Comment #24282886
That would be a better link, but that isn't the one that is opened automatically in a new tab when you open Firefox after an update.
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Comment #22097352
What about ferromagnetic fluid? You can still spin it if you are aiming to push it 'centrifugally' into the features of the vacuum boundary, but you shouldn't lose a lot during the…
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Comment #21914198
Oh dear - I didn't realise it was posting. I was getting a 500 error on attempting submission and assumed I was falling foul of some ban / filter. Will see if I can prune the dupli…
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Ask HN: What is your ideal personal email setup?
I still am working with a central Gmail account (forwarders and aliases from different addresses) and am thinking with the new year coming it is a fitting time to make a move to im…
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Ask HN: What is your ideal personal email setup?
I still am working with a central Gmail account (forwarders and aliases from different addresses) and am thinking with the new year coming it is a fitting time to make a move to im…
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Ask HN: What is your ideal personal email setup?
I still am working with a central Gmail account (forwarders and aliases from different addresses) and am thinking with the new year coming it is a fitting time to make a move to im…
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Ask HN: What is your ideal personal email setup?
I still am working with a central Gmail account (forwarders and aliases from different addresses) and am thinking with the new year coming it is a fitting time to make a move to im…
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Ask HN: What is your ideal personal email setup?
I still am working with a central Gmail account (forwarders and aliases from different addresses) and am thinking with the new year coming it is a fitting time to make a move to im…
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Ask HN: What is your ideal personal email setup?
I still am working with a central Gmail account (forwarders and aliases from different addresses) and am thinking with the new year coming it is a fitting time to make a move to im…
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Comment #21533589
For those wondering what this is about before jumping into the PDF. It is an article from the captain's perspective of a flight in 1977, where a Lockheed L-1011's left elevator jam…
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Comment #21461659
Apologies for the tangent, but I'm interested; Are there problems with over-doing insulation?
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Comment #21114989
Maybe "Trusted" could be be a better alternative to "Verified".
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Comment #20674322
I'm not sure if the US is the same as the UK, but here there are tax incentives [1] to classify, or interpret as much engineering time as possible as R&D. [1] https://www.gov.uk/gu…
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Comment #20563954
What is your proposal for an alternative to Facebook, Twitter, etc? Thousands of small independently-owned networks? How would that work when you need to send data from/to arbitrar…
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Comment #20344520
If you are getting a 404 trying to view the main Svelte site ( https://svelte.dev/ ), there seems to be an intermittent issue with Google Cloud Run. You can view the site directly …
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Comment #20335052
Link to the relevant incident: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/tx4pgxs6zxdr "This incident affects: North America (Ashburn, VA, United States - (IAD), Atlanta, GA, Unite…
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Comment #19831621
> I consider vision to be a drug -- an addiction. People can get into the horrible habbit of depending on their vision instead of on their brain. IMHO looking at things is a tool o…
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Comment #16993013
We are trending towards a world where individuals are becoming more omniscient and more omnipotent. Where any motivated US citizen can purchase a drone, look up how to build a bomb…
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Comment #16992530
You are going to have to do a better job of backing that claim up. It certainly seems to be an obvious breach of intellectual property law at the very least. Citing that some lawye…
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Comment #16273874
It seems like not accepting any user interaction within the first 500ms for popup dialogues / notifications like this would be a better solution than crushing the notification into…
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Comment #15806897
It will be a hard road to walk, but if something like this can be pulled off in the way that Wales envisions, it could be a great resource. My major concern is how you prevent a mo…
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Comment #15722803
'Slippery slope' arguments are not inherently invalid.
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Comment #15669605
Don't ask people to prove a negative.