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anon84598

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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…