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captainzidgel

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    Comment #48263688

    > He's a good kid all in all, actively engaged in competitive rowing, with good grades etc. Plays chess also If he's actually passionate about rowing, it's unlikely he's going to d…

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    Comment #45447062

    Agreed. We must eliminate dangerous chemicals like dihydrogen monoxide from our food!

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    Comment #44572685

    i believe its patently bad when it comes to AI. 1) it could create an economic bubble if the only people interested in LLMs are LLM providers (unlikely scenario though) the real is…

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    Comment #44352744

    bottom right: "By signing in, you agree to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy" no button or apparent link to click to show these TOS/PP.

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    Comment #36452218

    Notably as well, this is more equivalent to a former housemate taking something of yours as they leave, instead of a burglary. The phrase "hacking back" in the title implied to me …

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    Comment #35633125

    > I'm looking to expand my consumption of content across the internet. Why would you ever want to do this ever

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    Comment #35574411

    Non clickbait title: Researcher recovers older translation erased underneath newer translation.

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    Comment #34599844

    yeah let the homeless die off some more so i can keep watering my lawn

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    Comment #34336142

    Not sure about the title but I can tell you that having a sense of smell is not a sign of being covid-negative. You can get 2 15-minute covid tests at walmart for 20 bucks

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    Comment #33278226

    The website calls it the Voys app but I think it's actually called Vialer: https://github.com/open-voip-alliance/vialer It's the only full app in their repo and it fits the descrip…

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    Comment #32841217

    rateyourmusic. It has a recommendation algorithm that is definitely better than Spotify's* (it's tweakable too!), but the real ticket is reading the endless user generated reviews …

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    Ask HN: The nitty gritty details of game matchmaking?

    I'm trying to research simple but realistic matchmaking. A lot of references to elo online are brief tutorials about finding the two players with the closest elo then throwing them…

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    Comment #32632998

    I may have been too snarky in my original response but my point is this: treatment before housing implies treatment on the street, which I cannot believe is productive. I don't car…

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    Comment #32632406

    If housing isn't the solution to homelessness, what is? Telling drug addicts to get clean before they get a home? I'm sure it's really easy for people with drug addictions and ment…

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    Comment #26011194

    > IF YOU’RE PAYING DUES… it will be RESTRICTIVE meaning it won’t be easy to be as helpful and social with each other. So be a DOER, stay friendly and get things done versus paying …

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    Comment #25924166

    Thank you for the caution. I will need to make sure my expectations on difficulty are appropriate or mental roadblocks will cause me to give up too easily.

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    Ask HN: What are your thoughts on the Syllabi of these online CS courses?

    Been out of school for 3 years, working at Walmart and they have a benefit that will basically pay for all my schooling for participating programs. I've narrowed it to these two pr…

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    Ask HN: How secure, is privacy protection for Google domains?

    Looking to purchase a domain. Google domains offers a WHOIS protection option where the domain is registered through some sort of shell corp or something, but you have to provide y…

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    Comment #24831240

    > The setup guide for servers isn't "run murmur.exe", it's "run openssl commands to generate a private key and generate a CSR" and the setup guide for clients is "if you lose your …

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    Comment #24830331

    I've had a lot of success telling people "just click next" for every button in the Mumble setup, but Mumble doesn't make things simple for the non-enthusiastic end user. The harder…

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    Comment #24709580

    "Father, why are we only allowed 2 portions of stew a day?" "Hush, my child. Econatron 1.3 Nightly 20310201 dictates it. It sees all. It knows all."

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    Comment #23160441

    Cookies are loaded on page load if you have them. If you wanted to for some reason, you could also reload them arbitrarily from a button in the footer, where I've left some technic…

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