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vgeek

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About vgeek

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    Comment #48953966

    Updated version with more artists: https://pudding.cool/projects/vocabulary/

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    Comment #48761024

    Hence the congruent capitalization in my post. :D

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    Comment #48760008

    Maybe call it Yet another Bulletin Board?

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    Comment #48313354

    Pretty sure this is Sam Altman's Worldcoin's objective?

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    Comment #47871672

    The American Sign Museum in Cincinnati ( https://www.americansignmuseum.org/ ) is good if you like neon and advertising. They have an on site shop where you can view repairs being …

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    Comment #47211278

    This same story made it to #1 on HN like a year ago and got featured on Forbes/CNBC type sites. I think the author created a new account to argue with people in the comments if tha…

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    Comment #46997038

    Spiderman pointing at Spiderman?

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    Comment #46984388

    There are many other considerations, too. Years ago I scraped Craigslist and Autotrader, grouping cars by generation/make/model/drivetrain to be able to predict longevity based on …

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    Comment #46978919

    An easily visible one is air intakes. Many manufacturers have shifted to plastic. Peteo-engineering has advanced a lot, but they will still get brittle and break. Interior wise, yo…

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    Comment #46904513

    Flock (YC17)

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    Comment #46818755

    They're even here. Lots of very suspicious comments from accounts created <90 days and many accounts created after 2024ish tend to also align similarly, but with farmed karma.

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    Comment #46740417

    https://archive.ph/3Dmao

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    Comment #46457537

    Gavin Belson would never suggest scrubbing negative mentions of Hooli from the internet.

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    Comment #46441581

    The educational and informational queries were always the least valuable from a monetization standpoint. Chegg Answers could rank for these low competition (also low commercial int…

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    Comment #46397501

    Top searched term is Gemini and Deepseek is also in top 10, but no GPT or Claude?

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    Comment #46340367

    Look at where Fanduel/Draftking/Caesars type sportsbooks make their most margin-- it is parlays. Probably 95% of people wagering on these sites don't have even a tenuous grasp on b…

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    Comment #46239882

    Depends if they were using Lightning network or having to buy Solana OrangeCoin?

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    Comment #46149477

    Users are broken into two separate buckets: industry and consumers. Industry users keep using the site, based on the number of visitors with 50+ visits coming in directly every wee…

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    Comment #46142553

    The Modified LAR product is what you may want to look at, then. Yes, it is annual, but if you aren't against modeling data, look at the rate spread value, segment then project vs c…

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    Comment #46142469

    Good idea. A few years back I built https://originationdata.com that compares mortgage lenders (both FDIC & FCUA members) using HMDA data. I modeled rates by lender, product type a…

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    Comment #45682124

    Check out the floating double DIN receivers like Alpine's Halo11 or search eBay for dozens of cheap no-name ones-- not sure about their SQ, though.