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jonex

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    Comment #48348076

    Did you dissolve it in hot water before consumption?

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    Comment #47707234

    For my master thesis I did a lot of digging into the research on success factors for startups. And at least based on what I found back then, you're right. The correlation is weak b…

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    Comment #47671485

    Looks like https://clackernews.com/ is leaking!

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    Comment #47543212

    Feature request: Make it default behavior on phones that you can have multiple passwords, connected to different profiles. With no way to determine how many profiles a phone have. …

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    Comment #47296567

    Didn't it start with asm.js, a subset of javascript serving as a way to compile C code to be run in a browser? Then browser makers figured that it'd be better to have a dedicated t…

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    Comment #45387970

    It's the difference between proportional voting vs winner takes it all. In the latter case you can't really hold politicians accountable, as you will have to choose between effecti…

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    Comment #44772475

    Good to be aware: Full face helmets restrict your view more, so there is a safety trade-off to be made.

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    Comment #44772327

    Maybe he's actually wearing protective gear? Jeans with slide tolerant layers and padding are pretty common as warm weather gear and there are jeans style jackets as well. If you d…

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    Comment #44772165

    This isn't just about perception. If you: * Have a license * Wear appropriate gear * Follow speed limits * Don't drink and ride * Aged somewhere 30-50 * Have more than a few months…

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    Comment #44335422

    I find that annoying too. In case you haven't seen, there's the sponsor block extension for that, which is not limited by anti-adblock measures.

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    Comment #42869403

    It takes away the ability to know what it does though, which is also often considered an important aspect. By not publishing details on how to train the model, there's no way to kn…

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    Comment #41961031

    To me it sounded like click bait. So I checked comments and concluded that it was indeed about the very visible RDS signal and not some hidden channel used by some secretive agency…

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    Comment #41419223

    I sure hope this does not mean a reduction in quality, one of Legos big benefits has been the longevity, lego pieces from the 70s are still in my family's rotation. Reuse should al…

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    Comment #40843678

    They didn't specify what they qualified as a multivitamin, my guess is that the definition is rather loose due to the scale of the study. There's a lot of different mixes of multiv…

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    Comment #40474184

    tsan will catch a bunch of potential race conditions for you, under the condition that you run it somehow. How to make sure it's run? Well, add a test for the relevant code and add…

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    Comment #40474138

    I like the idea of focusing on the key notion of wether the task will succeed or not. A challenge in these things are to design things such that users understand what is communicat…

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    Comment #39034783

    It's clearly not properly designed to be for swedish, this is noted in the reply, apart from some letters being off, it lacks åäö. But it's still not clear why they would use "u-bo…

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    Ask HN: What new technology or tech startups inspire you?

    What new startups or technology developments of late has inspired you? It doesn't have to be world-changing, just something you found interesting or cool on its own.

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    Comment #38651778

    Weight gain does often happen a few years post treatment. Even then it's beneficial compared to no intervention, which would most likely have them be even worse off five years late…

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    Comment #38150521

    The dichotomy is relevant if you are of the opinion that some of the foundational design choices of Carbon makes it less viable as a C++ successor based on the similarity of those …

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    Comment #38144015

    It's not at all hard to build a sane codebase in C++ if you are a group of experienced C++ devs with an eye for detail. Not saying mistakes never happen, but most of the time the t…

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    Comment #37026316

    If Kagi were as popular as Google, you'd quickly see pages appear "without ads", that looks suspiciously like what an ad would say. The problem is SEO, and it affects the mainstrea…

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    Comment #36744410

    There's certainly a lot of ways food substances can interact with bodily systems. However it can be hard to discern the exact source as different substances are correlated. Like yo…

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    Comment #36280705

    The problem with the typical CT isn't that they call out bad things. The problem is that they tend to use the rumours of bad stuff and build complex narratives around it that ends …