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GendingMachine

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    Comment #41506959

    By what metric are you evaluating corruption here, other than selected news anecdotes that support your ideological intuition. We watched videos of the horrors of the American heal…

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    Comment #41484208

    Christ, reading Americans declare that the issue with American healthcare is "too much government" always completely floors me. The system did not work well before the ACA, the sys…

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    Comment #40555729

    Not having cars doesn't mean not having motorized transport, it just means restructuring our priorities around much more efficient forms of mass transportation, ranging from increa…

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    Comment #40008076

    As a programmer with likely less experience than most of these commenters, the main question that always feels under addressed in these kinds of posts is that of code deduplication…

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    Comment #39984101

    Safety has 100% been a factor in many of my tool purchases, mistakes happen, especially to amateurs, and most people would rather not lose fingers to a hobby.

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    Comment #34075675

    What exactly would the opposition have to have done for you to not say they made no effort to explain?

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    Comment #34075390

    This is an inane and deliberately obtuse response to this policy. There is a vast difference between terms used by marginalised groups to refer to dominant ones, and terms used by …

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    Comment #32744989

    "Don't get so hung up on precise numbers", uh, 90% isn't just imprecise, it's so catastrophically wrong that it undermines your entire argument

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    Comment #32701988

    This doesn't really make any sense, just because you still need to put in the effort doesn't mean it isn't highly affective at making it much easier for an individual to direct tha…

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    Comment #32701965

    Well, if the reason Heroin doesn't help depression is because the body quickly adjusts to it and then you end up needing to use it just to maintain your previous baseline. If it di…

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    Comment #27967071

    I'm stealing this idea.

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    Comment #27598998

    Honestly the main reason I ended up abandoning DDG is because you can't see the publish date on search results. I know it's a fairly minor feature and one manipulated often by some…

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    Comment #26790377

    I wouldn't be surprised if it had something to do with trying to trick speed tests into reading higher speeds before it slows down.

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    Comment #26780653

    I mean you could easily weight it to ensure Pokémon and Big Data come up the same amount even with 800 Pokémon