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ch215

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    This reminds me of the 'Library of Mistakes' in Edinburgh, a free public library which promotes the study of financial history. https://www.libraryofmistakes.com/

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    Comment #32627339

    This is known in the craft as monologophobia. Theodore Bernstein, a NYT journalist, who coined the phrase, described a monologophobe as someone 'who would rather walk naked in fron…

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    Comment #16819645

    Though I don't think something must be hard to be worthwhile, I think there's something in what you say. 'Trust in what is difficult' is a theme in the works of one of my favourite…

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    After years of distro hopping, I settled with Elementary: https://elementary.io/

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    Comment #14177119

    The trade magazine, Press Gazette, recently launched a campaign to 'stop Google and Facebook destroying journalism' http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/press-gazette-launches-duopoly...

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    Comment #13186511

    The code for HN is available at http://www.arclanguage.org/arc3.1.tar .

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    Comment #13167660

    Field Notes get my vote. Expensive but unrivaled quality. You can leave one in your back pocket for a month and it won't fall to pieces. https://fieldnotesbrand.com

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    Comment #12517698

    To clarify, I want to shine a light on results wrongly removed: cases where freedom of expression, and the public interest in remembering, outweighs the right to be forgotten.

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    Comment #12517332

    The opening of the Dhammapada sticks in my mind: "All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

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    Ask HN: How to find results removed from Google under 'right to be forgotten'?

    Hello, I'm a journalist looking for a way to identify results removed under EU law. I'd like a big set of pages to search/analyse. I'm struggling to get my head around how to do th…

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    Comment #11818467

    This is more general writing advice, but you won't go far wrong by following George Orwell's rules: :: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to…

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    Comment #11157514

    That's right. The Welsh Government gives millions to big business. A few years back, for example, they handed Ford £10 million to keep one of its factories open. Taxpayers' money i…

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    I spent a fair while thinking about this one for my first job in journalism--after all, what good's a reporter without questions. In the end, I asked the interviewers how they got …

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