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your-nanny

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About your-nanny

HN commenting system sucks and is full of perverse incentives. You get what you measure. but it's pretty much bullshit

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    Comment #24323830

    I've only found two differences between a bookmark folder and a collection: 1. Collections show up on new tab 2. collection items are remarkably easy to accidentally deleted,with n…

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    Comment #24323699

    well I didn't know it was coming and my workflow went to hell.

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    Comment #24323668

    Because it's horrible in almost every way.

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    Comment #23333177

    I'm inclined to agree... but to play devil's advocate, it's the sensitive ones we remember and talk about.

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    Comment #21673066

    thank you for writing this history up. I am a regular but never really got involved in the effort to revive (except to announce it's return 10 months ago on HN)--I didn't really kn…

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    Comment #21673004

    Detect and xplay and yutru are there now. Still devastating the restof us paeons.

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    Comment #21541306

    dependency rot is a more general problem. in my work we deal with lots of seldomly used applications, and I've found that reducing external dependencies tends to keep life happier

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    Comment #21277110

    Here is the proposition: let's make an inherently deflationary currency suitable for black market transactions that will become even more polluting with every transaction. CryptoKi…

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    Comment #21276899

    if true Bitcoin needs to die, and eventually will under its own weight.

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    Comment #21225944

    People hate Word, Excel and Photoshop??? These are examples of wildly successful software used by consumers and in industry alike.

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    Comment #21183940

    Are questions against Hacker News guidelines!?!?!?!?!?

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    Comment #21183245

    why is that interesting?.

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    Comment #20963653

    Only context this makes sense in is research paid for from public purse.

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    Comment #20928634

    on ff mobile site"s scroll seriously lagged. nice visual appeal though

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    Comment #20922144

    well what if your best guess was that py2 would never actually be deprecated. Certainly in the early tens I had serious doubts.

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    Comment #20895349

    Dead malls should become foodie plazas with childcare for diners.

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    Comment #20877034

    Useful proxies like bitterness or stomach aches after consumption offer degrees that can covary with food preparation. If you cook it and it's less bitter, then cook it some more.

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    Comment #20798721

    apparently somebody feels compelled to defend abuses by California farmers of a critical resource held in common, for personal profit. It is a scandal.

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    Comment #20796968

    That California's farmers were watering crops (almonds, for petes sake) with ever deeper wells is a scandal.

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    Comment #20796447

    I've honestly never found a good reason to use brew instead of macports, aside from an annoying hipsterism. Welcome to try to convince me otherwise.

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    Comment #20786938

    asbestos was used to make a safer filter: oops

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    Comment #20772887

    First off, abide by HN guidelines please. Second its only your perception that it receives favoritism, because of your mistaken interpretive frame that sees electoral college elect…

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    Comment #20769446

    Then move to Wyoming. States are entities of political significance, regardless of how many people happen to live in them. This is a union of states, and states get a say. If you d…