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ZoomerCretin

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    Comment #41467276

    > it's a power-play to make people create accounts and stay logged in so they can track you better Github doesn't even serve ads. What exactly are you worried about? Your throwaway…

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    Comment #41404060

    > First there was the beta amyloid theory First? Isn't the beta-amyloid cabal still blocking all Alzheimer's research unless the researchers find a way to even tangentially support…

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    Comment #41376229

    There's a nasal flu vaccine as well. Theoretically, it's supposed to induce immunity in mucous membranes and prevent infections in the first place, rather than merely reducing symp…

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    Comment #41335623

    I so badly wish they'd open-source Windows. It wasn't bad enough that they refuse to fix obviously bad code, but they also don't allow the very many talented performance engineers …

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    Comment #41333239

    Found it: https://eml.berkeley.edu/~moretti/growth.pdf If New York and the Bay Area alone relaxed their zoning, their GDP would be 33% higher, and US GDP would be 3.7% higher (as o…

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    Comment #41332575

    >I support price regulation when called for. Your hyperbole is...not congruent with reality, considering the incredible agriculture subsidies provided and automobile tariffs. The o…

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    Comment #41332016

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    Comment #41331976

    Zoning restrictions in just three cities (San Francisco, San Jose, and New York) are responsible for all of the United States' GDP being lower by double-digit percentage. It is in …

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    Comment #41312371

    That's a feature, not a bug. The government reaction to the 2021 economic circumstances was to counter the hot job market, not inflation. It is explicitly and legally the mandate o…

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    Comment #41294966

    I sincerely hope the antitrust suit ends this practice soon. This is so obviously anticompetitive.

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    Comment #41285360

    We're talking past each other. You're talking about retaining people already hired or simply rehiring people. I'm talking about the ability to get a job in the first place. Employe…

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    Comment #41285338

    What city is this in? What's the pay rate? What does a bedroom go for on Craigslist in the area?

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    Comment #41277926

    Is there any good reason for Microsoft to not open-source Windows? They are dangerously close to creating the Year of the Linux Desktop if they continue proving Wirth right.

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    Comment #41277902

    His experiences are completely alien now and not reproducible today. How is it possible to get any blue collar job at all without extensive training and certifications on your own …

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    Comment #41277713

    > 8. All of local politics in the muni I live in takes place in a forum like this, on Facebook[.] The electeds in our muni post on it; I've gotten two different local laws done by …

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    Comment #41240019

    Watch Squidgame's English dubs and tell me that couldn't be improved. If for no other reason, this tool is a net-positive because it may raise the bar on the quality of dubs expect…

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    Comment #41240002

    Calling something a fallacy does not mean it truly is one. I have not seen strong evidence that there is not a "lump of labor" in extremely high-rent countries like the US. For a s…

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    Comment #41229691

    American-manufactured automobiles bring in the majority of money to drive-thru restaurants too. Should they get a cut of drive-thru restaurants' revenue?

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    Comment #41219328

    Finding and fixing the one and only source of poor performance is a minority of optimizations. The more common case is a lot of suboptimal code creating poor performance.

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    Comment #41214002

    Who drives more than 200 miles in a day?

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    Comment #41213986

    And suburban. At least in Texas, the road noise is inescapable, even in the early hours of the morning. It's never really silent.

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    Comment #41199035

    Incredible! Any plans to support SASS instructions for Nvidia GPUs, or only PTX?

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    Comment #41198947

    This sounds like a good use case for Zig: great interoperability with C, and support for generics.

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    Comment #41196587

    Efficient for what metric? Carbon emissions? Time? Money?

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    Comment #41161932

    On mobile, it appears to open regardless of where you tap. This appears to be the culprit: ```const n = document.getElementById('nav-header'); document.addEventListener( 'click', s…