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My coffee is not for pretentious people. https://onlinestore.smucker.com/display_product.cfm?prod_id=... $8.99 180 cups $0.04994 per cup

I'm sorry! Was that an attack? I figured if you are into telling others how they should spend their money or live their lives or be taxed by government in freedom-restricting ways,…

A latte is $3.65. If you made your own cup at home, you would spend $0.05. Starbucks is 73x. I believe you need to stop buying lattes from Starbucks and start making your own coffe…

If you are fabulously wealthy that you can [have a latte each morning], let alone [buy it at Starbucks], you can afford [an additional tax on your latte for the peasant that got th…

For those interested, the longest baseball game in history: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest_professional_basebal... (From a baseball player who once attempted to play crick…

What did you mean by "the interpretive value of language"?

Watch the movie "Meet the Parents" ("dinner scene"). It's funny, but you can skip to 2:30. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pctsr5jf0Pw

Evidently I am ignorant based on comments from people who are obviously better informed than me. What is the field that is going to revolutionize curing diseases through genetics e…

If only citizens would show up to vote for their presumed slam-dunk candidates!

I thought biomedical engineering still has a lot of potential to offer?

But the counter protesters are free to organize their own speaker engagement. They ARE allowed to speak about their position. My point was that there is lack of civility in discour…

"The community is better at self defense than the individual." - Not sure what this means. My own experience comes from someone abusing someone at a bus. Nobody intervenes. Just a …

Bingo! Think Antifa or the students protesting someone at school and not letting them speak.

CNN, MSNBC, mainly

The country was founded on the notion that all you have is the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. So I rather defend myself. If you want to “happily pay for” you…

I think most hackers are concerned with public safety. The problem is subgroups of hackers differ on how to achieve it. Some hackers want to remove the rights of people not involve…

Sorry. Yeah, that was “trolly.” Will tone it down now. Apologies.

I am a snowflake: you should have seen me after I got killed in Fortnite. Could barely breath!

You must be a lawyer. Dude, can we keep the laws simple? I mean, I wish I could sue manufacturers of jeans (hate seeing someone’s crack when they bend), I hate toothpicks (super us…

It’s the same thing coming from anti-freedom folks trying to take guns away from law-abiding Americans. “Assume we make it illegal to have guns, then there will be no crime or scho…

"I think we should offer ... cheap transportation" How many tickets do you want to purchase? I am collecting donations. Unless you are just talking...

And yet, here we are discussing what happens when we see Dad Government saving for me. sigh We give all of our info to Facebook, then complain when "privacy". We give all of our mo…

Or better, give the money to the people and let them take care of their own retirement.

This is the sort of article that I keep coming back to HN for. It's not politics. It's pure and simple technical advice with reasonable back and forth opinions from the community (…