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Andrex

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    Comment #49226267

    The blind aspect (I would assume) is meant to cut down on favoritism and discrimination. With the US I understand how that would come about. Whether it succeeds in that goal is a s…

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    Comment #49198900

    https://youtu.be/HTpbpxNc6c0 The more things change...

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    Comment #49163139

    > Hollywood probably has less than three years to live. "Probably" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.

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    Comment #49086445

    Let the man dream (and possibly write interesting scifi about it).

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    Comment #49014085

    This is an extremely fair judgment. I should not be surprised but it is nice. I will turn down the snark a little more in the future. Sometimes it just sneaks in there. Sneaky snar…

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    Comment #49014076

    That's true, I meant more by Google themselves. It's their first-party data, the whole set available on-demand, no scraping needed.

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    Comment #48998832

    I disagree. It was relevant, succinct, and meant to inspire introspection leading to positive change.

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    Comment #48998798

    I spin a mental roulette on whether the reception on a new release will be "OMG best model by far, no one will be able to catch up for months!" or "OMG this is already outdated, RI…

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    Comment #48998773

    What's the current outlook on Antigravity IDE vs. 2.0? How long will they begrudgingly keep it going before kicking everyone to 2.0/3.0? (I actually use a mix of both for some offl…

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    Comment #48998750

    Knowledge Graph + automated transcriptions of almost every YouTube video = giant untapped moat of data

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    Comment #48998128

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48998118

    I had a similar thought but thinking it through, would probably lose the near-zero-lag stylus stuff. That's kinda rM's whole thing, not ebook reading.

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    Comment #48891909

    Yeah, whatever small amount of Koolaid I was excited to drink went out the window when they ditched the charity angle. A broken clock's right twice a day and Musk is right about th…

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    Comment #48891850

    It isn't, but it is also still (mostly) illegal too.

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    Comment #48884868

    It made sense for Facebook and Amazon back in the day, too. And they were some of the most laughed-at phones in tech for a long while. But I guess "the ChaCha" probably was never g…

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    Comment #48867153

    There's rumors they've been planning a phone. https://www.macrumors.com/2026/05/29/everything-we-know-abou...

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    Comment #48867122

    There's also the possibility it was a coincidence, and the stakeholders in the Gemini decision are breathing a heavy sigh of relief.

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    Comment #48867108

    2026 Wimpy would be an effective serial entrepreneur.

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    Comment #48831671

    Which ones are not?

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    Comment #48739150

    Yeah I'm kinda in the same position. I pay for both One and Workspace for myself and not sure which to use for some of this stuff. I mostly default to my personal account since it …

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    Comment #48737920

    The thing is, yes it will still happen, but at substantially decreased rate. Groups of people banding together to solve a problem or figure a solution will slowly stop forming. Eve…

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    Comment #48711769

    It's FOMO all the way down.

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    Comment #48702349

    > I don’t give a flying fuck what people think. So all your writings are private, then? Do you have a motivation to communicate or publish? You're posting here on HN, so I think so…

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    Comment #48631627

    > After all, it was worth no more than a hundred million other votes Not strictly true for presidential elections. My vote cast in CT literally matters more than someone else's vot…