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34,548karma·5,422submissions·July 2, 2018
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See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22802087 posted earlier.
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That's hopeful, at least. I'd not read anywhere about the initiative by the New York Blood Center, either. Here's their press release from April 3: https://www.nybloodcenter.…
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Ha! I think that you've just saved me the trouble of reading the article, and in a concise five words, too! Thanks.
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I think it's more a sort of message ID than its content.
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I wonder whether WhatsApp has mulled over restrictions on user behaviour rather than on number of recipients/forwarded content. So, a user might be limited to forwarding only a dozen or so messag…
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It reminds me of a catchline for 7-Up, spoken by the cartoon character Fido Dido (late-80s?): "More a can of drink than a way of life."
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This sort of speculation is not helpful in any way. We are where we are, and it is counterproductive while so many unknowns remain to finger-point and fuel conspiracy theories; Zerohedge has been doin…
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This has been on HN a fair bit over the past couple of days. This thread has extensive commenting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22782097 …
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What has that article got to do with atheism, or religion?
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> "... about one in every three people being tested could be getting the wrong result. You can’t build any kind of public-health response on top of information that faulty." Grim truth.…
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De-paywalled: https://archive.is/53b25
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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792370
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Hear, hear. Nicely put, too.
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Nicely presented resource.
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Scathing review in The Guardian. Ouch! https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/apr/06/quibi-s... …
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> Writers who sign on have to follow a rule of Mr. Katzenberg’s: They must end each installment with a cliffhanger. Oh, that would really annoy me
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Caveat - "if the numbers of cases and deaths from the new coronavirus remain stable."
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De-paywalled: https://archive.is/2KDWf
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I saw this posted on HN yesterday. I know nothing about it (and I try to avoid anything that mentions blockchain), but it might be of interest for a self-contained project. https://news.yco…
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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22792119
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It should be noted that Reach does not own the Daily Mail, despite what the article states. The Daily Mail and General Trust still owns that title.
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Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22779918
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You might be interested in this chap's work. He came to prominence after his construction of a home was covered on a TV programme here in the UK. The link here is about that house - and the TV pr…