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Re:Google’s Latest Search: What Happened to Its Bikes?
on Friday January 05, 2018 @06:23PM (#16082669)
non-paywalled version: https://t.co/gRcNYuXTcg
Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up
on Friday September 29, 2017 @04:58PM (#15369154)
for the curious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13909365
Pharma companies disown Shkreli; Pissed, Shkreli airs their dirty laundry
Pitch Your Idea with the 'Star Wars' Method of Storytelling
How Tinder Co-founder Whitney Wolfe Hacked Metcalfe’s Law
Re:HFT in my backyard – II
on Friday September 26, 2014 @06:01AM (#8372041)
I wish I had something more relevant to add but, hello from a former Mahwah resident
Re:Inside the Dark, Lucrative World of Consumer Debt Collection
on Saturday August 16, 2014 @09:26AM (#8186124)
No one "paid" the loan, the debt was sold to a private creditor and OP's account was then considered settled in the eyes of the DOE. They can't delete the account in order to keep an audit trail, so the amount owed is adjusted to zero.
Re:How casinos get you to spend more money
on Friday August 08, 2014 @04:37AM (#8151964)
Even the "penny slots" with 1c initial bet get up to $2-5 per spin on max bet
Re:Zoopharmacognosy
on Thursday August 07, 2014 @04:40AM (#8146775)
The wikipedia has a section on birds but is missing this reference from 2012. City birds using the nicotine in cigarette butts to deter parasites.
http://www.nature.com/news/city-birds-use-cigarette-butts-to...
Re:Zoopharmacognosy
on Thursday August 07, 2014 @04:00AM (#8146701)
Or kangaroos and wallabies playing in the opium fields
Report: Coding School Graduates Boost Their Salaries By 44%
Re:A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture (2013)
on Friday August 01, 2014 @05:58AM (#8119022)
Also known as Flow - the mental state of operation in which a person performing an activity is fully immersed in a feeling of energized focus, full involvement, and enjoyment in the process of the activity.
Re:Nine Nations of North America 30 years Later
on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @07:18AM (#8107442)
large enough?
http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/infographic-the-...
Unfortunately it appears as if the original image was just stretched to a larger size, but if that's the case the resolution you're looking for just may not be available.
Re:The Suburbs Will Die: One Man's Fight to Fix the American Dream
on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @06:18AM (#8107250)
I also lived in Boston for 5 years without a car.
Re:I quit my job. Today is Day 16
on Thursday June 19, 2014 @12:23PM (#7916889)
you can also check out zen pencils, prints are usually available
http://zenpencils.com/comic/theodore-roosevelt-the-man-in-th...
Re:Show HN: Compare book prices across Amazon, Wordery, and the Book D...
on Monday May 05, 2014 @07:12AM (#7697846)
bigwords works for any book, simply search by ISBN
Re:Amazon, in Threat to UPS, Tries Its Own Deliveries
on Saturday April 26, 2014 @09:01AM (#7651226)
see previous discussion here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7641861
Re:Forensic Ballistics: How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteor...
on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @08:28AM (#7627204)
It's been said to be a second skydiver
Re:Show HN: Super Planet Crash
on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @06:23AM (#7596934)
How about half of the high scores? When watching their replays I can't seem to get a reproducible result. Sometimes their 400MM score is crashing out as early as 10y.
Re:Show HN: Super Planet Crash
on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @07:15AM (#7591219)
5 bodies, anyone have more?
http://www.stefanom.org/spc/?view=2825038
Re:Report: 44% of Twitter Accounts Have Never Sent a Tweet
on Friday April 11, 2014 @11:38AM (#7573514)
A common method to avoid interfering with the statement you're trying to make is to mash as many hashtags in as possible after the fact.
Re:Facebook to pull chat from iOS and Android apps in favour of Facebo...
on Thursday April 10, 2014 @07:16AM (#7565223)
I've actually done the opposite, ditching facebook exclusively for the messenger app. I've yet to see something adopted so universally by the people I talk to most.
Re:Why is speed at sea measured in knots?
on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @01:26PM (#7560761)
Re:Truecar.com is going public
on Friday April 04, 2014 @03:25PM (#7533717)
In which case the original comment should stay as on so anyone can see what happened, but use strike-through formatting