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itsarnavb

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    Comment #42125028

    I'm thinking of making it easy to "teleport" to any location within the cage Imagine typing in coordinates or picking a location on a map, and then suddenly your phone or any other…

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    Comment #36959611

    And the techniques to produce the material are not too crazy, all within reach of sufficiently dedicated amateurs

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    Comment #36959578

    Now I'm imagining what history would have looked like if the alchemists had indeed stumbled upon a floating lead apatite sample a few centuries ago...

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    Ask HN: Why did Google keep Waze around after their acquisition?

    Why not just absorb it into Google maps?

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    Comment #31047281

    I like this description of the problem and the suggestion: > Today on Twitter, as on most social media, justice works in a roughly Stalinist style. The normal penalty is permanent …

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    Comment #27270343

    Here ya go! https://replit.com/@ArnavBansal/nixed-cobol

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    Comment #27234028

    Was your society any less market-driven during your parents' generation, when the factory worker could support a family with a single income? On the other hand, are societies like …

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    Comment #27212916

    wow, Taleb's Barbell strategy at play

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    Comment #25699557

    My sense for WhatsApp's dominance is peripheral contacts. I can convince close friends and family to move to Signal, but not distant friends, especially the large groups I'm in. I'…

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    Comment #23175108

    Congrats to the Deno team and community on reaching 1.0! We've launched Deno support on repl.it here (in beta): https://repl.it/languages/deno for folks to try out.

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    Comment #21132394

    There are controls. I believe they're selective about who they let in, and let present.

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    Comment #20981260

    Thanks! :D This made my day

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    Comment #20979912

    Just added it. Thanks. I'll try to import a larger set of symbols soon, to fix the gaps.

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    Comment #20979446

    Thanks! Added hats :D

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    Comment #20978938

    ...and done! :)

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    Comment #20978920

    Yep, I've used it. It's amazing! I'm also adding a link to it on my page, so people can find symbols they don't yet know how to describe with text I felt that 'type and hit enter t…

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    Comment #20978827

    Thanks! Adding them right now!

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    Comment #20978411

    Hello HN. I'm new to LaTeX. It was taking me a while to lookup common notation, so I took a lot longer ( https://xkcd.com/1205 ), and built a search for it. I'll be using LaTeX ove…

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    Comment #17952400

    This gif should explain: https://imgur.com/6BnAFjh

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    Comment #17873358

    It's probably using Google custom search. I think that's the only way you can actually get Google search results as an API. Perhaps custom search displays differing results?