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throwawaycities

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  1. story
    Ask HN: Meta/IG deactivated my trademarked handle

    • in 2022 I submitted a TM complaint to IG. IG responded by verifying my trademark and giving me the trademarked handle. • Following a similar complaint/demand this year for the tr…

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    Comment #44384011

    Since 1970 testosterone has declined 1% per year and it’s well established higher testosterone is linked to impulsive and violent criminal behavior and in countries like the US cri…

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    Comment #44383268

    Why bother stopping at crime rates with that confidence? The 1st recorded cases of fatty liver disease and T2D in children were in the 1980’s are have continued growing since - lea…

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    Comment #43994540

    Besides GeoCities - the rest are being relaunched by SV VCs and PE groups. Napster was acquired and relaunched in crypto a few years ago and just resold for $100M+ to a metaverse c…

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    Comment #43994117

    Digg is being relaunched - with Alexis on board. A bunch of the early internet brands are being rebranded/relaunched which is collectively is being branded as the nostalgic interne…

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    Comment #43993902

    History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, internet lore passed out of all knowledge. Until, when chance came, the lore ensnared a new bearer…

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    Comment #43867284

    All courts have local rules or even standing orders governing filings and pleadings - from case styling formatting, font/size, spacing, max pages, ect… Federal district courts are …

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    Comment #42410438

    That’s exactly how I begin to put it into context and rationalize this kind of work - he was a mathematician so this the kind of thing he worked on, and he was also working on a bo…

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    Comment #42406350

    The Riemann hypothesis makes me feel dumb - not just because I can’t solve it, no great shame in that - I genuinely get lost in amazement and wonderment by the mind that develops a…

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    Comment #42402255

    No need to picture a cute hypothetical set of facts that are dissimilar to that actual set of facts. These are serious military protocols not a academic exercise in a vacuum. Unaut…

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    Comment #42396536

    >Have you ever seen anybody slip on a banana peel? There is actually a famous case everyone studies in law school torts class about negligence and duty of care where a woman slips …

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    Comment #42396437

    Yes, that is the protocol when aircraft enter restricted airspace like next to military bases - which has been reported. Besides training, intercepting aircraft is primarily what j…

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    Comment #42395840

    Almost no chance these are not US military. The drones have been appearing very consistently, if there were the slightest concern of foreign military drones, then military jets wou…

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    Comment #42332274

    Natural result of YouTube scholars learning “appeal to authority” logic fallacy - it somehow becomes reasonable to reject any and all authorities while simultaneously accepting any…

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    Comment #42330568

    I’ve attending 1,000’s of arraignments, motion calendars and pleas. In all my experience I’ve seen 2 pro se defendants pull the “I’m a sovereign” spiel. Credit to them they both tu…

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    Comment #42329403

    This will be great legal precedent for the courts to extend to implanting neuralink style chips in your brain - although a neuralink chip may facilitate a future search and seizure…

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    Comment #42283177

    That’s my experience as well, at least at my local store I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve gotten a mealy Fuji over many years. Also laughing because I perform the s…

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    Comment #42283153

    Way I’d explain it as Fuji and Gala are similar (on the sweet side). I agree with you on inconsistency of the Gala, which is why I have it below Fuji, and Fuji’s being consistently…

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    Comment #42282618

    I never particularly liked Honeycrisp apples and never understood the hype, but seeing this #1 on HN I feel like one of the cool kids ahead of the curve on a niche topic. Jokes asi…

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    Comment #42252471

    This is such a great response that perfectly reflects the moving of the moral goal posts that deflects the moral culpability. Thank you.

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    Comment #42250146

    Obviously some plants die and others don’t in harvesting. Mostly the “even broccoli screams when you rip it from the ground” is a joke more often than actual trolling. I think the …

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    Comment #42155714

    Yes I believe that is correct emojis are not IDNs; however, ICANN authorizes ccTLDs support emojis separately I think it’s just considered punycode. Only about a dozen ccTLDs have …