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oh_fiddlesticks

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    Comment #49223669

    A bit of an unconstructive, unwarranted jab, if I may say so.

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    Comment #48388800

    Gib probably has a handful of servers scraping, but the place is so small, it almost it eclipses normal traffic

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    Comment #48299285

    Go nad or go home

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    Comment #48249194

    We've never seen randon mutation and selective pressure ever really build anything, only trigger and exploit existing adaptive rulesets... pushed to extremes mutations may often yi…

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    Comment #48150000

    If you're interested in poly phasic sleep, the book "Life Time" by Professor (of circadian neuroscience) Russell Foster goes further.

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    Comment #47867609

    It doesn't really matter, because their target audience does not care about that.

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    Comment #47862413

    "This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"

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    Comment #47730184

    Its a nice start, but there is a certain irritation in that the popup text is directly over the puck. I felt like I was losing more because I couldn't see the puck under the combo …

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    Comment #47508627

    > Fortnite "Usage" I like this choice of word, it seems fitting.

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    Comment #47380720

    This is just advocating being lazy in communication. Which is entirely expected and in harmony with our time starved work environments.

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    Comment #47330430

    So a company decided to send cold outbound to a targeted audience from a dataset they gathered from a public social network... so what? > "Scandalous behaviour" really? In the same…

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    Comment #47109545

    My favourite was a search result based ai digest suggesting that during storms large cargo ships could survive for days until eventually 'disappearing'; Perplexed (intended), I fol…

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    Comment #47026690

    Seems like Ecclesiastes 5:12 playing out, once again: "Sweet is the sleep of the one serving, whether he eats little or much, but the plenty belonging to the rich one does not perm…

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    Comment #46848656

    After almost a decade of upheaval and change in the world around us, it's almost of comfort to see that the use of weasel words on OoL science headlines remains a reliable and perm…

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    Comment #46816466

    Reading this, it's exceptionally confusing as to how many family members you're talking about exactly; Your use of they, them, their is causing me to imagine some microbiome obsess…

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    Comment #46710748

    > 1. One is building the index, which is a lot harder without a google offering its own API to boot. If other tech companies really wanted to break this monopoly, why can't they ju…

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    Comment #46684041

    https://roc.camera/ This was on hn this year, and it was, in classic HN fashion, dismissed as a problem in search of a solution. Well, perhaps people in this thread will think diff…

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    Comment #46470583

    In my case, as you said it may not have exacerbated it, but for me it certainly perpetuated it. A retreat into the online world seems like a comfort in difficult times but it is a …

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    Comment #46391330

    Yeah but I'm glad you don't consider the ipad a toy. It's not a toy, i predict that we're going to look back at this time of 'ipad + headphone kids' and roll our eyes as much as we…

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    Comment #46364676

    > "liberation" It's more like inviting the troops besieging your walls inside and celebrating because "we have less enemies outside the walls to deal with now!" It's the thin end o…

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    Comment #46364553

    256 million rows, nice coincidence.

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    Comment #46106631

    The government's where the offices of a software company are physically located exert control over them. To follow this logic to its end and apply it even handedly results in natio…

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    Comment #45475652

    Really disappointed it's not the mammals being discussed here.

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    Comment #45475504

    >technological advances are permanent that have long term impacts That's not necessarily true, look at the clockwork cylinder fished up from the ancient Greeks that was apparently …