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nonethewiser • yesterday at 9:09 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

This is totally off topic, but how do people feel about generic names like Yogurt?

I've always sort of assumed it wasnt a good idea because there is collision everywhere (SEO, registries, domain, etc).


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airstrike • yesterday at 11:13 PM

How do you feel about Apple, Blackberry, Budget or Shell?

jonas21 • yesterday at 10:05 PM

My issue is that yogurt is a complement to granola, not a replacement.

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xXSLAYERXx • yesterday at 10:07 PM

As a consumer it doesn't bother me at all and probably the same if I were a provider.

Also somewhat off topic - I've been getting a ton of spam calls now that I've put my phone number on my google business profile. They are robo calls with essentially the same text: "Don't hang up" and "Please stay on the line".

My question is: Could we use these same technologies to build an app to detect certain strings and just hand up? Or on my behalf, press 1 and when the scammer - i mean operator - picks up say "Fuck off"????

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