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tmbon Show HN: Spider Pro – easy and cheap way to scrape the internet

Would love to see a blog post on building it some time, I think the last vaguely similar (but serious) rundown in this vein was “One process programming notes”.

https://crawshaw.io/blog/one-process-programming-notes

tmbon Alibaba to Stop Sales of E-Cigarettes to U.S. Buyers

Vaping just reopened generations of customers for business to a myriad of tobacco products, why would they choose to go back to their previous shrinking pool of poor or old cigarette buyers?

tmbon Journalist says CBP withheld passport until he agreed he writes ‘propaganda’

Just on the timeframe: there haven’t been any major changes to the CBP population over the last few years, the major reorganization, cultural... adjustments and hiring sprees that inflated and led to our current situation occurred after 9/11 and throughout the aughts.

BP specifically went from like 4K in the 90s to 20k by 2010, the damage was done a while ago.

tmbon Drone pilots could be experiencing 'sniper's syndrome'

Direct link to article https://books.google.com/books?id=ygoAAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA16&ots=...

tmbon Berlin Key

You should also take care not to light your house or person on fire, which is a bad idea and probably also illegal (regardless of will).

tmbon Serverless: slower and more expensive

Parse was a Firebase competitor that got bought by Facebook and later open sourced, I don’t know if it’s dead simple though.

https://parseplatform.org/

tmbon Increased sedentary behaviour alters metabolism and body composition (2018)

A full sized mirror that leaks onto your carpet if you’ve not walked enough could be a venture.

tmbon US takes 'richest nation on earth' crown from Switzerland

Napoleon never set foot within a thousand kilometers of a similar climate, the closest he came was in exile.

The humidity is the main attraction to the show and cares little for shade, peachtree, sycamore or otherwise.

tmbon Spouse of Ring exec among lawmakers trying to weaken California privacy law

She only won 95k out of 162k while spending an outrageous (if trends from 14 & 16 hold) amount against a poorly funded republican opponent, that’s quite embarrassing and open to another D from what I can see.

tmbon I Learned to Cycle Like a Dutchman

There are large portions of the world where you could walk your bike to work ~1km away and still arrive quite sweaty, cycling simply isn’t a viable option in a lot of cases if that’s the concern.

tmbon Introduction to Algorithms (2011)

Which isn’t functional in the least, especially given how it’s typically used in academia in my experience!

tmbon The ancient world teemed with birds

If there exists better evidence of our tendency to read the comments before the article, I’ve yet to see it.

Might need a headline change back to its original “Birds are ‘winged words’“, though I probably wouldn’t have read it then honestly.