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bdastous

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    Comment #45818859

    > He is freezing rents only for select controlled units 45% of apartments in NYC

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    Comment #40120041

    Please add a "reverse y-axis" option for mouselook!

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    Comment #40099230

    A land value tax would be a more efficient way to fairly distribute the benefits of land.

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    Comment #39742614

    Meanwhile, there are plenty of disciplines in which practitioners would never seriously consider posing this question.

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    Comment #36794038

    I wonder whether this applies to actual donors.

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    Comment #34825123

    They should rename it KSD.

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    Comment #32136505

    “It turned out there was value in putting a bunch of smart kids in the same room: They feel empowered to make each other smarter.” It’s too bad this is no longer in fashion with th…

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    Comment #31282297

    "I don’t have time or energy to study for and take the GRE right now." Good luck with compilers...

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    Comment #29375211

    100% yes for Chrome in iPadOS. It seems like it wants to register some type of selection event rather than a tap.

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    Comment #28964433

    This assumption strikes me as ageist.

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    Comment #28653740

    Do not taunt the happy fun laptop.

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    Comment #26358120

    One could just as easily say that the two classes of software engineer are those who care about business problems and those who don’t.

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    Comment #26175399

    If Facebook made it this hard to cancel, there would be a New York Times article about it.

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    Comment #25237249

    Before the advent of Windows XP, keeping your PC fast and reliable meant reinstalling Windows at least annually.

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    Comment #20293470

    It’s the New York Times. You don’t even need to read their Facebook-related stories to know what they will say.

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    Comment #18949233

    Yet more anti-tech hysteria from the New York Times.

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    Comment #16751117

    I concur on the MIT edX Probability course. I spent at least 15 hours a week on the exercises but it was well worth it.

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    Comment #15475447

    You mean the gentrification brought on by restrictive municipal zoning laws?

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    Comment #12287929

    Similar to your third example: "Without loss of generality, [ our argument can proceed with the following assumption... ]

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    Comment #9912310

    This seems analogous to a perpetual-motion machine.

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    Comment #9127195

    I recommend checking out NPR One if you haven't already: http://www.npr.org/about/products/npr-one/ Disclaimer: I work on the back end services for the app.