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> STRIKING PARALLELS between the telephones envisioned by Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell are evident in their respective sketches of the instruments.

Didn't Bell have a friend at the patent office that allowed him to see the Gray patent and retrospectively alter his (Bells) patent application. This to increase the quality of evidence as to who had prior claim on the invention.

> Secret deliveries to a refinery in Uganda expose a global underground economy many suspect is helping Nicolás Maduro cling to power

How dare the government of Venezuela dispose of its own gold.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-31/store-your-gold-ba...

Does anyone figure this guy is connected and the third party contractors hired to program the kiosks were some student working from home in his off time?

> Hackers broke into an SEC database and made millions from inside info

Given the thirty minute window between copying the file to the server and the SEC posting the URL, I figure they guessed the URL from an easily predicted sequence.

This is the real ycombinator isn't it, I can't believe this is up on here, is it April first already?

@irishcoffee: “Instead of being dishearted, propose a solution to enable the ability to make a living. First thing that popped into my head was some sort of support model. CentOS vs RHEL. Give the farm away for free but consult how to run the farm...”

Seems perfectly reasonable to me, who down voted this and why?

“why kids are consumed with worry” .. too much social media?