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bjl

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    Comment #32013445

    So it's not available, then. 1080p isn't even close to on par with 4k HDR, not sure why you bothered mentioning them.

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    Comment #28741351

    > The average person is simply unable to evaluate competence, especially from news clips and "debates". The median voter is not a highly competitive white collar knowledge worker w…

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    Comment #27333606

    So you're incentivizing being racist on the internet to make it harder to fire somebody.

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    Comment #27040346

    Not even a little bit...

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    Comment #26686105

    > Search HN threads on the topic, read people who agree and people who disagree then make your own opinion I honestly cant tell if this is parody or not.

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    Comment #24463022

    Well, if I was black I'd probably like to know if my psychiatrist associated with HBD cranks. Or if I was a woman, I'd want to know if my psychiatrist wrote apologia for incels. An…

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    Comment #24462967

    Shorting serves a valuable purpose. It removes capital from the hands of people stupid enough to believe fraudsters, and reallocates it to people who dont. The whole purpose of mar…

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    Comment #24310236

    > 5) [It's a wild west...] Respectfully, this is an unkind or perhaps bigoted statement. I have many friends in crypto who are thoughtful, kind people. They think deeply about the …

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    Comment #24307114

    > Why they felt the need to ban discusions of marxism or a general strike is beyond me. Because it was built to be a fascist recruitment channel, and the talk of 'free speech' is j…

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    Comment #24274645

    Damn what a shitstain. He should be in prison.

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    Comment #23899169

    > That leads me to the question: can anyone here recommend a good Indian author from the same era as Kipling? (Yes I know Kipling was born in India). While not a direct answer to y…

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    Comment #23714320

    What a terrible look for Datacamp.

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    Comment #23573895

    It's hard to imagine a more boring place than a city full of only techies.

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    Comment #23503740

    Economics doesn't have anything to do with these. - Eat Right - actually cheaper than eating unhealthy - Exercise Often - possible to do free - Groom regularly - very cheap, the co…

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    Comment #23503513

    Heartily disagree. If you have time to play video games and endlessly post on reddit, then you have time to get in shape and take a shower. Willpower's even easier barring mental i…

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    Comment #23503369

    None of the things listed are difficult at all. They take willpower and time, of course, but they aren't rocket science.

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    Comment #23503125

    Because the men that are willing to put in the effort are still having sex. Its not hard for a man to become attractive: eat right, exercise often, groom regularly, dress well, dev…

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    Comment #23353008

    Disneyland with the death penalty. No thanks. I prefer to live in a society that doesn't execute non-violent drug dealers.

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    Comment #23170744

    Yep, because harassing interracial couples is so hilarious \s.

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    Comment #23146189

    I mean, yeah? I think you were trying to give an example of a hard to understand notation, but that page is relatively straightforward and concise. In fact, I can't think of a more…

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    Comment #23146155

    Vernacular English isn't capable of describing some concepts succinctly enough to be useful to mathematicians. If English was superior people would be using it. This 'argument' alw…

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    Comment #22064775

    It seems a bit rich to claim that Brave cares about privacy when just one year ago they were spoofing identities to commit charity fraud. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18734…

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    Comment #20120346

    JP Morgan and Goldman were completely solvent during the entire financial crisis, they were forced to take bailout money by the government (to disguise which banks were actually in…

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    Comment #20098077

    > BAT If one of your examples is a charity fraud scheme masquerading as a crypto-currency start-up [0], I'm not sure you have a very good argument. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com…

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    Comment #19807004

    We have absolutely no evidence that AP is safer than human drivers because Tesla (tellingly) refuses to release information comparing AP miles to comparable miles driven by other l…