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alexschnapp
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Comment #39447641
Wait this doesn’t make sense. They own the code I wrote for them. The ‘subscription’ is for future updates of that code. They can keep the version and never update. If I quit they …
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Comment #39045198
Working out of cafes, anywhere not at home, short trips, airports, anywhere you don’t want to be looking for an outlet or bring a charger. If it needs to be plugged in all the time…
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Comment #38920343
The definition of having children varies by species. For humans, it requires parenting and care, for salmon, just the act of reproduction works.
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Comment #38920309
This is just assuming that the offspring survives just like the parent and reproduces. If the offspring requires parenting, the parent, once an offspring, also required parenting a…
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Comment #38920060
If your offspring does not survive to reproduce, your genetic lineage disappears, therefore ‘failed’. Others who do not kill their offspring will survive and the species will there…
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Comment #38919869
Edited to past tense ‘could not’
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Comment #38919708
The idea for eternal life is to live with your 18 year old body at 200 years old, not like your 90 year old body now. I don’t see why we shouldn’t work towards being healthier and …
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Comment #38919591
There is no more evolutionary pressure on lifespan after you have children since you have successfully passed on the ‘aging’ gene. We used to live much shorter lives, being able to…
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Comment #35972302
You realize that you are a creditor to your bank right? This just means all savings at a bank will be taxed.
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Comment #35944738
These are mostly federal taxes. Not city/state. So public good as in the 800 billion defense spending, wars, etc?
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Comment #35613779
It’s like saying we should tax how stuff is transported based on how fast a human walks and how many humans it takes to transport that kind of size and weight. We can set this metr…
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Comment #33847500
I never said that. What do you mean by they don't know? What are they going to do even if they did know? It's not like they can (short of an armed rebellion) demand to have another…
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Comment #33842521
"Broad public support" There is absolutely no basis to this claim unless there's an alternative party to compare to
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Comment #33259506
No, my phone plan in the US was unlimited call and text. So it was either imessage with everyone or text.
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Comment #32803448
I haven’t been able to understand the problem behind sea level rise. Amsterdam and a lot of the Netherlands are below sea level (for centuries) and the dikes do its job, why can’t …
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Comment #15918885
Anyone with a brain would know it's illegal, just like anyone would know selling weed is illegal unless you own a dispensary, and can get a really harsh sentence.
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Comment #15918743
Yeah he hacked minecraft services to generate a profit when he was 19 or 20, I wish I could do that when I was 19. I dont think I would have known better at the time either. He's a…
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Comment #15918576
I personally know Paras. Brilliant guy, really fun to hang out with, and learned a lot of technical knowledge from him. He was my go-to guy (like a lot of other people in the class…