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dbalbright

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    Comment #24412514

    Yep. One such story is a podcast episode from Planet Money https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/04/03/709656642/epis...

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    Comment #20834823

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

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    Comment #20558244

    Which was brilliant (no pun) as it keeps up with inflation.

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    Comment #20362769

    > If a caller demanded to know the rep's HIV status What the hell are you talking about?

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    Comment #19304599

    >This email list is only open to accredited investors. By clicking "subscribe to this list," you are representing that you are an accredited investor. Is that for his own protectio…

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    Comment #16017213

    Reminds me a bit of Typora. https://typora.io/

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    Comment #15981896

    Negative. The status quo has been neoliberalism.

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    Comment #14850426

    ::waves:: It's generally from researching a topic while working on a project. It's a bit like a cache of bookmarks, you don't really know what you're going to need until you've mad…

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    Comment #14838758

    Speaking of puff pieces..

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    Comment #13811111

    Sounds like a part of what pushbullet does. That's a welcome function.

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    Comment #12467751

    While you can bookmark stories, it doesn't seem to be tied to the new(-ish) HN feature that allows one to favorite stories and comments.

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    Comment #12314790

    Anything that can work as well as Clearly. It's the best I've found at clipping articles for off-line archiving but it still makes me nervous having them on Evernote's platform whe…

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    Comment #11684569

    It doesn't support a procedurally generated world like you are asking but there was a game for Sega CD called Third World War that I loved to play that had a good balance of diplom…

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    Comment #11330891

    >Look at how Google has changed their hiring practices because hiring is close to impossible to get right How has Google changed their hiring practices?

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    Comment #11235188

    It's probably less for him and made for family. People will sacrifice a lot for their kids.

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    Comment #10520636

    Of course a friendly REPL is part of any good IDE, but I could not have learned Python as fast as I did without DreamPie[1]. It's basically an IDLE that separates the input from th…