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devdas

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    Comment #36304376

    There are a lot more people who upvote zero effort memes though.

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    Comment #35115555

    That's normal. Fibre slows down the absorption of everything.

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    Comment #29620248

    And then you get the managerial types who demand your presence for morning meetings.

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    Comment #29620233

    "Cancel culture" is better known as "actions have consequences".

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    Comment #29606598

    Software development isn't a production problem, it's a design problem. Software manufacturing is the bit after you compile the code.

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    Comment #28845434

    An actual debate on population control would be looking at reducing the number of children in the developed world even more, and discouraging suburban housing.

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    Comment #28820413

    Ah yes, I misread the parent as desiring to cancel the people demanding cancellation of the intolerant.

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    Comment #28818084

    Ah yes, cancel those who want to cancel the intolerant. It does help to think of tolerance as a peace treaty.

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    Comment #28816727

    So the developed world could also enable cheap, clean energy production in the third world.

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    Comment #28428048

    There are apartments, but construction in the desirable areas is limited.

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    Comment #28427557

    Nothing that a wealth tax on the current value of land won't fix. Make property taxes to the value of the number of people that land should support in a highrise configuration, and…

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    Comment #27978890

    The groups participating in organised crime generally aren't the immigrants though. A major cultural shift needed in Europe is acceptance, not tolerance.

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    Comment #27496713

    That was about two decades ago. Anything worse is going to be pushing humanity towards extinction.

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    Comment #27420832

    Rockets were publicly funded research. A lot of airplane research was publicly funded.

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    Comment #27413264

    The major economies are also large sources of these loopholes.

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    Comment #27246628

    There's a context implied, but not explicitly stated here. Being "blind to race" means that the context in which the other person exists is being ignored. Seeing things like race a…

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    Comment #27100997

    Or a compromised system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)

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    Comment #27060743

    Her pronouns are she/her.

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    Comment #26970227

    Heh, I find it uncomfortable under 25C.

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    Comment #26964182

    This is not a linear system.

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    Comment #26923524

    Only if such a community exists and is welcoming to outsiders.

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    Comment #26896072

    It was advertised like that. The mask deniers were louder.

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    Comment #26895913

    Shipping vaccines and materials needed for vaccine manufacture would be a good start. Reversing this would be good too. https://www.democracynow.org/2021/3/11/rich_countries_block_…

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    Comment #26850514

    There was a fair amount of non-propaganda literature published in the USSR as well.

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    Comment #26602965

    In an open bag in the corner of a kitchen. You usually only buy for a few days, so storage isn't a huge issue.