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Re:Please consider supporting U.S. WeChat USERS ALLIANCE on Sunday September 20, 2020 @01:45PM (#24535681)
So you rather US govt using the same playbook as China govt? What a way to go... I'm glad the judiciary system doesn't think like you, sheep. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-20/trump-s-w...

Waymo vs. Uber

With Waymo pushing rapidly into self driving ride sharing, what's Ubers future look like? Uber's network of riders and drivers might not be a strong moat against Waymo as riders can and will easily switch to lower cost service that Waymo is going to offer. So it seems crazy that investors are still pouring billions of funds into Uber. Do they bank on Uber going to beat Waymo in self driving...

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Yep, I am thinking about getting data that way.
Well the reason I have this idea is that couple of my friends have asked me about naming (company and product) and the process of coming up with words is pretty tedious. I thought this tool would make it easier for that. So I guess that would be the first use case I have in mind :)

Ask HN: What do you think about this idea, Queryable Words

I have an idea for a side project for a month now, wanted to get some feedback before I set out to coding. I want to create a tool where you can query English words, so for example, if your query is: fruits that are 5 letters, then you'll get words like apple, mango, etc. I also imagine this tool would be crowd sourced so that database would be updated constantly.Other queryable features might...

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