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Comment · 3 years ago
Spam detection at Twitter is horrendous. Search results for many crypto and stock ticker symbols (or cashtags like $SOFI) are deluged with Discord links for shady trading groups endlessly trying to rope in paid subscribers. If you select "top" search results, you'll see much less spam but stale tweets. "Latest" yields tons of spam. They've been tweeting with the same phrases like "don't miss the next move in a few hours" and "top analyst price target" for years, presumably because it's never been a priority to get rid of them.
Comment · 7 years ago
Some ls man pages state the following about the -1 option: "This is the default when the output is not directed to a terminal."

I've never needed to use -1 when piping ls's output to another command.

Comment · 8 years ago
Re the title, "$" and "dollars" are redundant, and you might want to Google every day vs. everyday.
Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
"Divide the number 999,999,999,999,999,999,999,998,999,999,999,999,999,999,999,999 into 1"

Isn't this poor wording? The author is dividing 1 by the large number above, not the other way around.

Comment · 11 years ago
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Comment · 12 years ago
> made illegal by the UN

The UN is not a government.

Comment · 12 years ago
What is the purpose of this site?
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Comment · 13 years ago
It's another poorly-written blog post.

"The use of centralized exchanges remain a frustrating point-of-failure" should be remains.

"Chinese leaders have little issue exploiting as they look to crackdown on the once high-flying bitcoin" should be crack down (2 words).

"The flurry of companies to hop aboard the bandwagon and inflate this most recent bubble, including Baidu and China, were quick to fall in line" should be China Telecom.

That's where I stopped reading. Please have enough respect for your readers' time to do some proofreading before posting.

Comment · 13 years ago
>exactly the same as HN

One of the first noticeable aspects of the site is how much harsher on the eyes a pure white background is compared to the #f6f6ef used at HN.

Comment · 13 years ago
This is incorrect and misleading right off the bat. Ctrl+Z does not "send process to background." You will almost always need to use the bg command for that after suspending the running program.
Comment · 13 years ago
Please read http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and pay close attention to the 4th paragraph from the bottom.

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