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velcro

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    Comment #43929861

    You're probably talking about Peter's Pence collection contribution which is just pocket change (a few millions). Dioclesian revenue, lease income, Vatican's wealth fund generate b…

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    Comment #42424725

    Sure - and Plato once said: "Quotation marks are always a sign of absolute truth."

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    Comment #42423439

    Comments so far are sort of singling out the "negatives" i.e. make it seem like 40yo just don't want to put in the time anymore (for one reason or another) but the article also men…

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    Comment #41748774

    I thought it was already encoded with SynthID? could that not be used to detect it?

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    Ask HN: Setting up a tablet for a baby/kids?

    Lockdowns, working at home and not enough new quality Netflix content all let to me trying out this fatherhood thing everyone is raving about :) with a beautiful 1-year old boy yay…

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    Comment #31365324

    congratulations on the launch! how does this compare to Gumroad?

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    Comment #30599666

    This will very likely end by both parties pronouncing they are the victors here. For Ukraine the victory might be that Russia will most likely be unable to take Kiev and need to "w…

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    Comment #26236467

    Exactly - especially given that BTC is -13% today.

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    Comment #25591322

    My experience with Flash is completely opposite to yours - I'd say we're for the most part pretending that by letting Flash die we're better off today. My fans spinning up every ti…

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    Comment #25044657

    Not defending them in any way - but don't think security was the primary reason for Zoom taking off. It was stability - it just worked and at the same time competitors didn't. Ever…

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    Comment #24988097

    Yes of course there are synonyms in all languages - but I specified "a lot more words". If you look at the link I included in my first reply under "vocabulary comparison" you'll se…

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    Comment #24984799

    Thats only partly true on a very broad macro level - for example someone mentioned Kajkavian, which is dialect of Croatian but sounds a lot more Slovenian :) In fact its the dialec…

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    Comment #23492367

    Yikes - just compared the latest map with the one in January - what a difference!

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    Comment #23359744

    Not unlike what Slack is doing with data residency controls - only available for Plus and Enterprise plans.

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    Comment #22397387

    At the risk of going full doomsday mode (and besides stockpiling on food and masks) - lets say pandemic happens and some useful meds/vitamins do go out of stock - is there any advi…

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    Comment #22292986

    https://handshake.org/

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    Comment #21605508

    Not really a fan of the design - too rough for this world and too fragile to survive Mad Max ;) Plenty of Tesla design concepts online that were way better: https://www.behance.net…

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    Comment #20163070

    https://www.shiftnrg.org/ might be interesting here too - IPFS-based project targeting web hosting specifically (includes a custom DNS + working on serving dynamic content, CMS, et…

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