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EricBerglund

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    Comment #3587253

    Reddit and r/politics are not the same thing. Subreddits are user-created forums moderated as those creators see fit. Each subreddit chooses what it wants to see, how it wants to b…

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    Comment #3564575

    The issue I have with framing it as spending vs investing is that the main issue with capital gains revolves around the super rich, not people making $200k a year. Sure, a tax rate…

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    Comment #3045543

    As someone who's actually making an analogous opposite switch (learning vim rather than using Sublime), I'd love to hear your reasons for preferring Textmate over vim (I haven't us…

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    Comment #2761205

    Really I think her point is best summed up by "It’s never about the technology or impact it’s having, it’s about the game of entrepreneurship; getting users, funding and exiting as…

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    Comment #2561868

    What do "software" and "hardware" even mean in the context of the brain? All of what you call "software" is just the result of combinations of neuron patterns and chemicals, all of…

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    Comment #2557309

    As mentioned elsewhere in this thread it's likely because a significant portion of that $37B is overseas and cannot be brought back into the US without paying US taxes on it. It's …

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    Comment #2490540

    True, but Open/Libre Office is freely available and can save to Word formats.

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    Comment #2415951

    It might be because a movie reference that's relevant to the conversation at hand can be humorous, but a movie reference in response to another movie reference is just regurgitatin…

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    Comment #2350922

    This is true in a market with few existing regulations and a low barrier to entry, in other words the complete opposite of the mobile market.

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    Comment #2224519

    The thing is that people think of browsers as a single market with all browsers competing directly with each other. In reality, I think we're starting to get to a point where brows…