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burmer
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Comment #44252690
Naw, they'll get run over by a car and it'll be your fault.
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Comment #38524811
A walkman costs like what, $20? A cell phone is hundreds. Do you, as a teacher really want thousands and thousands of dollars of students' electronics stashed in your drawer?
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Comment #36745492
My circle is 90.6% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/ Edit: Wow! My circle is 96.5% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/
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Comment #36745477
Also got 90
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Comment #33780686
you just have to get the pee into the urinal first...
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Comment #32816095
There are already too many problems with cars using roads as cars. Cars have monopolized public space in an unprecedented way that needs to be vastly scaled back.
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Comment #32015899
This is already not always the case, depending on which bridge they use.
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Comment #32005660
So strange there's no notch in the main picture on the announcement. The top bezel does not look the same as on the product page either, even aside from the notch, it's too thick. …
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Comment #31770986
hm, interesting. Even better: potentially, instead of negotiating prices one on one, we could form some sort of large collective enterprise that was beholden to us so that it could…
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Comment #30252796
If musicians want to pull their music off of spotify in protest, they should. If spotify wants to keep Joe Rogan on their platform, they should. I think think spotify owes Joe a pl…
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Comment #30186776
I dunno. The boat is being built behind the bridge by a local company. I'd be pissed if it was just Bezos sailing through for fun.
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Comment #29420929
Ironically, people do kind of do this, with discussions about traffic, except that nobody benefits. Everyone wants to drive, and no one wants to be stuck in traffic. Restrictions o…
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Comment #28803545
Yeah, that's why so many ships are registered to specific countries too, so they can operate with looser restrictions. It's basically "offshoring" but for the regulations. When I w…
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Comment #28513454
People often conflate technological progress and some sort of overall bettering of society. Science/Technology have nothing, inherently, to do with morality, and people have not ch…
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Comment #27227143
A big part of the jokes I seemingly missed reading it in English, according to a friend of mine who read it in Russian, is that some of the landowners and other characters' names a…
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Comment #27105871
Yeah, I’ve seen some plants, when looking to buy, where they are described as annuals, or perennials if in the right climate.
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Comment #26362514
Homebrewers use them, for yeast culturing or making starters. I guess that's fairly lab-like, but they do it in kitchens.
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Comment #26195558
The article mentions fake or duplicate accounts but not those that exist for dead people either [1] which would seem to become more and more important over time. 1. https://metro.c…
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Comment #25960186
Yeah, lying is probably on the lower end of bad things HSBC has done... https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hsbc-usa-idUSKBN1E50YA
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Comment #25960088
> What about professional designers if they were able to work without commercial constraints, like hobbyists? Exactly, they should look at indy developers like Nate Hayden, Holland…
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Comment #25665227
Well that doesn't make sense. The sacredness of the capitol should demand that it be protected. Images of law enforcement preventing a mob from disrupting the act of signing off on…
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Comment #25470891
How long does the account last? Are there any limitations?
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Comment #24925247
Vassal isn't a physics simulator like TTS, but it's a widely used board game engine.
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Comment #24622354
These bangs have honestly changed the way I browse. With Ctrl+T, Ctrl+L, Ctrl+W, and tab-switching, the browser feels like vim in a small way. Without my mouse, I can open a new ta…