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damnstraight
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Comment #15343352
I mean this is fine, so long as you realize a lot of people prefer any other method of communication and you're likely missing out on feedback.
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Comment #15342405
Did you try using a local number? Many country codes only allow sending to local numbers. Example: Romania.
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Comment #15335169
It only really makes sense with browser-level cpu scheduling. Otherwise there's no real way to throttle the amount of cpu these bitcoin miners take from you. Without that, I think …
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Comment #15334823
Right. It's on the author to provide any means of communication that doesn't go through disqus—say, twitter, email, slack, github, keybase, etc etc. I can't think this would be one…
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Comment #15334473
You lose virtually nothing if you just block Disqus wholesale with an ad blocker. I'll admit it's quite nice for replying to comments on blogs, but there's no reason that a) needs …
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Comment #15334324
Addiction is just one view into impulse control; I don't see any reason to think the average human doesn't commonly have impulse control issues.
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Comment #15333603
Arguably Obamacare has been great for adding jobs to the healthcare industry. That said, I'm not entirely sure what the executive branch can be expected to do here aside from tweak…
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Comment #15333579
Southern, lower-middle to lower class, white southerners have voted against their own interests since the moment the Civil War ended.
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Comment #15333561
Maybe we should value humans beyond the labor they can fulfill.
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Comment #15333126
Actually (I got clothes there too) I wouldn't say the quality was much worse. The shirts, underwear, socks, etc were all fine for a kid. Nonetheless, I had those quality jeans—you'…
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Comment #15332516
> consumers (especially kids) didn't want "department store brand" clothing from Sears/JCPenney because they were "uncool" FWIW all my clothes were from Sears and JCPenney, my tast…
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Comment #15307816
Conveniently there are already C++ compilers bootstrappable with C.
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Comment #15307343
> Yeah, babies exhaling (and all people too) are producing CO2 which is a greenhouse gas. Compare this to the methane emissions of a single cow. You're being reductive to the point…
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Comment #15306609
> Why wouldn't they leak RF? Customers might value using bluetooth and wifi. Not all pressures are regulatory!