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ClosedPistachio

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    Comment #49222597

    Actual title is "BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments"

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    Comment #45710216

    Our Fake History did a segment on a William McKinley recently and concluded with the bombshell that, despite being a "Tariff man", by the start of his second term did a full 180 on…

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    Comment #43711885

    I'm not defending it, but I'm pretty sure it's using the expression "truth to power", tweaked - "truth to billionaires". It's not meant to be literal 'truth' in the dictionary sens…

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    Comment #43617632

    >"There is still a 96.2% chance that the asteroid will miss the moon," NASA said in a statement on Thursday. Isn't this completely divorced from the article title? Shouldn't it be …

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    Comment #42675037

    Nitpick - the point of parentheses, as used in the article title, are to add optional extra context without being required to make the sentence complete. The sentence "Reflections …

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    Comment #40757956

    A popular topic here: Deep Aphantasia: a visual brain with minimal influence from priors? [ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39951990 ] 105 points|negativelambda|3 months ago|1…

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    Comment #40679098

    Similarly, I purchased a copy of "Bosch Automotive Handbook" [1]. For $65 it will literally walk you through every component of a vehicle, from the metals required, the fuel, to th…

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    Comment #40627135

    I personally believe there's something to this, but sadly this one is "in mice".

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    Comment #39934521

    https://cslincoln.ytmnd.com/

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    Comment #37282438

    Was expecting many things, like a listicle, but it's actually titled like a Jeopardy! question

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    Comment #37230123

    Original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37213020

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    Comment #36860624

    Samin Nosrat's "Salt Fat Acid Heat" [0] really helped me understand cooking with salt (and balancing it with fats and acids). Also this LifeHacker article [1]! [0] https://www.salt…

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    Comment #36738044

    Funny, Meta just went through the same trouble with the name 'Meta'.