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The comparison to TV/cable is a good one. I don't think people who feel this way would say the same about telephones or the postal service.
Re:Remove United from your flight results on Thursday April 13, 2017 @12:01AM (#14104069)
It's possible that this situation will cause all the other airlines to try improve their staff and bureaucracy out of fear of being next.
The iMac G4 could be described as half of a globe.
I own a 4 year old Nexus 4 that I got for $200. Almost everyone I encounter thinks it's an iPhone initially. Many people (especially the older ones) still think it's an iPhone after I tell them it isn't.
Re:Google featured snippets are worse than fake news on Monday March 06, 2017 @01:16AM (#13801001)
I suspect most of those history questions are answered via Wikipedia. From what I've seen if the snippet isn't using Wikipedia it's not useful and/or accurate.
There used to be a feature on Twitter for viewing other people's feeds[1], but was removed[2].

I made something to replicate that via Twitter Lists[3][4], but it seems like making one for Facebook is much more important.

[1] https://twitter.com/twitter/status/73833309163110400

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12117218

[3] https://otherside.site/

[4] https://gist.github.com/0x263b/7b391a1617fcbbabc57fb1e705884...

This sounds more like gross incompetence than anything
Freenode #startups and #dn
I wrote about my own implementation for something like this for a web irc client, which may be helpful.

https://gist.github.com/0x263b/2bdd90886c2036a1ad5bcf06d6e6f...

Re:The Macaroni in ‘Yankee Doodle’ Is Not What You Think on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @11:03PM (#12356730)
I don't know about the Romans, but here's an example from 1627 https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0020217.html
Re:Show HN: Read someone else's Twitter timeline on Monday July 18, 2016 @08:21AM (#12114612)
Author here: In developing this I discovered that Twitter really doesn't care about lists. The limits on API usage and aggressive following are well documented, but anything about lists is minor.

Also, if anyone from Twitter is reading: it would be nice if Twitter implemented a way to subscribe to someone's timeline instead of having to resort to this method.

You might be interested in reading this (assuming it isn't what you're referencing): http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/10/does-this-r...

>“[Nippon Kaigi] have worked steadily and stealthily with local politicians and political lobbies to oppose things like gender equality, recognition of war crimes and the comfort women [sex slaves during WWII], women using their maiden names after marriage etc. It’s anti-this and anti-that but has no vision of the future.”

>[T]heir goal may be to alter radically the parts of the constitution which define marriage and the rights of wives, thus, “rolling back sexual equality and making Japan a country pleasant for cranky old men, like themselves.”

Re:Email Address Disclosures, Preliminary Report on Friday June 10, 2016 @11:49PM (#11881953)
Mine starts with 'ab' and is ~7200 on the list
Re:Emoji: how do you render U+1F355? on Friday May 20, 2016 @11:26PM (#11743051)
The author works for Google on Polymer.
Re:Tell HN: Winners of Apply HN for YC Fellowship 3 on Thursday May 05, 2016 @02:06AM (#11634273)
>when we dug into the data we found that the votes for Pinboard look dramatically different from the votes for the other startups.

What do the totals look like if you filter out new accounts, or accounts with little karma?

Re:Chrome is the new IE on Saturday March 26, 2016 @03:59PM (#11367188)
>Mobile Safari can easily handle, say, a Photos.app-like interface with a translucent navigation bar, native-like swipe gestures and smooth animations. Chrome handles none of this. No position:sticky, no backdrop-filter, no scroll-snap-type

It's interesting that the things he lists as Safari having only work via a -webkit vendor prefix.

Can't be worse than when they hired Kevin Rose.
Re:Show HN: The best way to mindlessly browse viral gifs on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @04:03PM (#11022573)
>It opens videos im fullscreen automaticaly, forcing me close each video on iPhone

Unfortunately this is how Safari works and there is no way to get around it.

Re:Have FTDI kicked-off round 2 of the clone wars? on Monday February 01, 2016 @11:25AM (#11012707)
I've seen this one used on 4chan a lot https://i.imgur.com/mqLdyzE.jpg
Re:Accidental Renaissance Photos on Friday December 18, 2015 @02:19PM (#10760350)
The subreddit was made after the guardian piece was published.

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