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benjaminbrodie

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    Comment #20687650

    If you are going to have icing why not make it sweet lol

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    Comment #20687538

    Wow! Damn!

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    Comment #20651224

    You shouldn't just mention her full name like that lol bruh

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    Comment #20651213

    This is a good point. Many people on this website have learnt to "dog-whistle" as an adaptation strategy. It doesn't change the substance.

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    Comment #20551361

    Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN? You've been doing it a ton, and we ban accounts that do that. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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    Comment #20548354

    He must have hawt wife. I envy him so much lol. If only I could be a CEO. Just think of it from the girls angle lol. Damn my life is such a disappointment lol. May as well eh whate…

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    Comment #20548339

    Stop mentioning this effect. Every time I see it I get a big headache. Maybe I'll write a userscript (some kind of monkey whatever lol) one of these days to regex replace lol.

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    Comment #20548324

    You're just bragging lol. Stop it (said flirtatiously)

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    Comment #20548319

    It really is lol. People have too much of a sense of dignity to admit this lol. But isn't maturing just a matter of losing all sense of dignity lol.

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    Comment #20548196

    all I get to eat today is milk lol that's supposed to be used with coffee (kwa-fee lol lol) but I just drink it lol lol, not super ethical but life is too short lol. Hope you enjoy…

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    Comment #20547686

    if, instead of saying "is, however, wrong" you say "is wrong, however" you can save a comma. Just some LFP offered in a kindly spirit.

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    Comment #20547664

    Isn't life too short for spending several hours to make pasta lol lol

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    Comment #20545202

    dang you are right lol

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    Comment #20545136

    This is not dang's business lol lol

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    Comment #20545000

    Even if this is true, each of us has a moral obligation to believe the very opposite re: ourselves.

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    Comment #20543791

    He who collapses, must relax, for otherwise he's doomed to relapse.

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    Comment #20542149

    lol why tho

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    Comment #20487839

    So was Kafka, but in the opposite direction. Results about Apache Kafka have seriously polluted the search results making it a lot harder to filter out pages not related to the nov…

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    Comment #20481180

    It's a good question and even if the text approach is superior we need a better reason than typically given. I mean think about it. Suppose you want to communicate a JSON object to…

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    Comment #20480694

    It's certainly very search engine friendly. You essentially get a curated list of all and ONLY items of potential interest to you.

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    Comment #20479636

    I mean, there's no way to turn off Windows 10 update either. The motivation is presumably the same in both cases, i.e. to reduce need for tech support

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    Comment #20475325

    That's why he used the word "misleading". You are pointing out the title is strictly speaking true. But it can still mislead, especially by generating false expectations about the …

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    Comment #20461724

    Your entire speech pattern is positively comical. This is the thing with democracy: it produces individuals who like to "shine" in conversation, rewards rhetoric and theatrics at t…

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    Comment #20459033

    It's also an option to stay out in the elements. It's honestly not that hard to make it work.

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    Comment #20444561

    There's a legitimate point to view according to which democracy and the right to vote don't really matter that much. At the end of the day people want to live meaningful, fulfillin…