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sctbon Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models

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sctbon Libra White Paper

We've asked you countless times to please stop posting unsubstantive or flamebait comments, so we've banned the account.

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sctbon LA landlords rip out escalators, walls to attract tenants like Google, Netflix

I think you're probably right that the domain is too subtle for this point—we've added an “LA”.

sctbon LA landlords rip out escalators, walls to attract tenants like Google, Netflix

Thanks, we've updated it from the submitted “Google and Netflix Turning Real Estate Market in LA into the Bay Area” to the original (edited for length).

sctbon The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (2017)

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sctbon Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370: Where Is It?

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sctbon There is no general AI: Why Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test

> Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

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sctbon Ukrainian Billionaires Allegedly Laundered Money in the US

Thanks, we've updated the link from https://boingboing.net/2019/06/14/kyivland.html.

sctbon My Personal Journey from MIT to GPL

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sctbon The New York Times course to teach its reporters data skills is now open-source

OK! We've updated the link from https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/the-new-york-times-has-a-c....

sctbon What’s New in Apple Filesystems [pdf]

Added. Thank you!

sctbon I rode all the e-scooters, and most of them are awful except two

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sctbon Canada to ban keeping whales, dolphins in captivity

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sctbon RISC-V Bitmanip Extension [pdf]

We've reverted the title to the original, which the guidelines ask us to use.

sctbon Hong Kong protesters demonstrate against extradition bill

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sctbon DailyMail: fifty percent drop in traffic after Google update

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.

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sctbon Ebola cases pass 2k as crisis escalates

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sctbon California is cracking down on the gig economy

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sctbon Gab will become a Mastodon fork

> ...since you have this thing all figured out.

This is a personal attack. Further, you've put words in the other person's mouth and that's a battle thing not a discussion thing. It breaks this guideline:

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sctbon Gab will become a Mastodon fork

Please stop the battle. If you can't comment without attacking other community members then don't.

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sctbon Gab will become a Mastodon fork

No, let's please not douse ourselves with gasoline and try to relitigate this one.

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sctbon Gab will become a Mastodon fork

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sctbon 0x Launch Kit – Launch your own cryptocurrency exchange or marketplace

OK, added. Thanks! We could also try “token”, which seems more precise in context although more ambiguous on its own.

sctbon Open-sourcing the Lightning Web Components framework

Updated from “Lightning Web Components Open Source”. Thanks!

sctbon An exoplanet has been found in the ‘Neptunian Desert’

OK, we've updated it from “An exoplanet smaller than Neptune with its own atmosphere has been discovered”. In either case I think users will be able to decide whether or not their Neptune-related exoplanet curiosity is aroused enough to click through to the article.

sctbon Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users

Thanks! We've updated the link from https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-exte... which was less clear.

sctbon Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users

Does someone have a source we can use that spells this out? It does not follow from the quoted text that “Only enterprise Chrome installs will have full ad-blocking”.

One reason for the title policy on Hacker News is that original titles have actual articles attached to them. Editorialized claims do not pass muster for quality of information here (this isn't a “what can you say in 80-characters” website). If the original title is misleading or clickbait, then we still have a chance of using representative language directly from the source. We could also do that here if someone can suggest it.