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Comment #28847725
> it isn't American culture to be that overweight > hispanics and blacks are considerably more overweight than whites Are these people not American?
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Comment #27161695
This is not an actual consideration in Taiwan -- the three options are "independence", "becoming a part of China" and "status quo". I think the mentioned preference for joining the…
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Comment #24972910
I assume it should have been "per hour" but autocorrect got creative
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Comment #24851908
If that's it, you could just save it as a bookmark: javascript:alert(performance.getEntriesByType("navigation")[0].nextHopProtocol)
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Comment #24370593
It's ironic given that one of the services they apparently offer is website development
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Comment #24337590
Murdoch already has his news distribution systems in place in Australia -- the less other outlets can gain visibility the better as far as he is concerned
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Comment #23851793
For a small company it matters, but for a FAANG interview the person rescheduling your interview is completely disconnected from the people making the hiring decision so it would l…
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Comment #23461390
"schizo" seems like a pretty rough term here -- makes sense if you replace it with "conspiracy theorist"
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Comment #22894784
Sweden isn't performing a lot of tests for one: https://www.thelocal.se/20200414/understanding-swedens-figur...
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Comment #22508554
I've taken to calling this phenomenon (for a lack of a better word) "Popaganda" -- beliefs that are spread and mutually reinforced throughout popular media and the general populati…
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Comment #21207730
Agreed -- what kind of psychopath overrides default scroll behavior? As mentioned above, there is a better article that covers this: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/12/science/sola…
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Comment #21132427
They're called "half dollars" (which follows the US mentality of defaulting to fractions where possible): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half_dollar_(United_States_coi...
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Comment #20760784
But actually, anyone who held a large amount of debt would benefit since the value of their debt would shrink
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Comment #18394808
This is interesting, but I feel like it isn't as thorough as I would like. Men and women speak differently in ways that can't be masked by voice modulation and I suspect that phras…
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Comment #17803904
I agree and I think this is why OP said to be careful -- there are so many engineers out there who do not separate the ideas of code and functionality. When these people write unit…
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Comment #17785620
I think most people would agree with your reasoning here, but there is a difference between a country voluntarily gifting their artifacts / artwork to other countries as opposed to…
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Comment #17342900
Just to totally nitpick your last point, it's worth noting that the BART cost probably includes the entire infrastructure maintenance cost whereas Uber essentially has infrastructu…
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Comment #16936088
It's worth noting that most Australian mortgages use variable (i.e., non-fixed) interest rates, so when rates go up, everyone's payment increases. High interest rates in the US are…