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pduszakon Anne Frank Center asks Facebook to remove Holocaust denial pages

The authors of the page clearly have an agenda. We all know the Holocaust occurred, so why let a page challenging or attempting to rewrite history exist? You're delusional if you don't think there are people who get all their news from their filter bubbled Facebook timeline.

pduszakon Inventor Claims to Have Solved Floating Point Error Problem

It's a dog eat dog world.

pduszakon Tesla Roadster

This video shows how a battery can be recycled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpSrHZnCi-A

pduszakon Thanks for Submitting Your Résumé to This Black Hole

What kind of background check costs $30k? Were they looking at past finances?

pduszakon Lyft donates $1M to the ACLU, condemns Trump’s immigration actions

"A strikebreaker (sometimes derogatorily called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike."

pduszakon DHS will continue to enforce all of President Trump’s Executive Orders

The very first line implies that the injunction will be ignored. If they didn't want that interpreted that way, then they should have definitely written it differently.

pduszakon DHS will continue to enforce all of President Trump’s Executive Orders

And his point is that the president doesn't have the right to override judicial ruling? He's a president, not an emperor.

pduszakon Show HN: I redesigned the USPS package delivery slip

> It took me nearly ten minutes of flipping the card back and forth and back again to tentatively figure out how to get it redelivered.

It took me carefully looking at both sides for 10 seconds..

pduszakon Gaming the H-1B system for good

Test

pduszakon New Hacker News Guideline: Avoid Gratuitous Negativity

Sam Altman's response to all the criticism received on his article "Bubble talk."

pduszakon Can a simple algebra test predict programming aptitude?

No.

pduszakon Netflix Pulls Plug on Public API

> People saying they'll meet you to buy the item and then being an hour late or just completely flaking.

Clearly a problem with the front-end.

pduszakon Belkin Explains Why Its Routers Stopped Working

http://www.dd-wrt.com/site/index

Problem solved.

pduszakon How GoG.com is growing beyond a back catalog

And yet, it works.

pduszakon Rap Genius Raises $40M, Changes Name To Genius

So basically this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sidewiki

pduszakon Bit.ly's shady business model

But... why can't they just give me free things? I don't see a problem with building my business atop the back of another and sharing 0% of the profit. /s

pduszakon Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background

You should be banned for this comment.

pduszakon Amazon granted patent for taking photos against a white background

Can you be the first asshole on the list? It's not like these people operated without consent of Amazon. If anyone is an asshole here, it's Amazon.

pduszakon Programming Is a Dead End Job

Click bait. You're saying if I'm a programmer I might not be a millionaire someday? Oh no! That's the only reason I wanted to be a programmer in the first place. Better reevaluate my life decisions. /s

pduszakon Passwords are obsolete

Sensationalism at its best. It's "passwordless authentication" except for the fact that you still have to somehow login to your email account.