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dudeinjapan
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Comment #48958153
I'd talk to your Amazon rep and see if you can get them to agree to $800 million as a compromise. They are usually pretty good at that stuff.
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Comment #48933412
> Inventing completely new mathematics There will be fewer good mathematicians, but more great mathematicians!
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Comment #48704683
Also, should we capitalize the "C" in "Capitalism"? One might think we should, because C is a capital letter. But capital itself is lowercase, and therein lies the paradox.
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Comment #48704669
I'm looking for the tablet that says "We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune..."
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Comment #48663040
You're forgetting about property taxes (adverse possession / squatter's rights.)
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Comment #48663028
In rare cases, yes. https://nypost.com/2009/04/16/small-tree-found-growing-insid...
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Comment #48662973
No, they are tax cheats. It has been notoriously hard to arrest them and send them to jail however.
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Comment #48662770
meh just put the head on the end of the tail, a lot less effort and no one will be any the wiser.
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Comment #48432553
> Splash colours can help you avoid decision paralysis when picking colours. It's an emotional tool that stops you fussing around— trying to pick the "perfect" colour. OK I missed …
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Comment #48426417
The site doesn't explain--what's the actual point of this? If we are seriously concerned about characters (which is generally silly in a gzipped CSS) why not just use 3-char hex li…
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Comment #48334637
Was recently discussing N64 games with friends in Japan. Nobody here knew Goldeneye.
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Comment #48333821
This is a game released in 1999. It's silly that source code isn't released for games this old.
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Comment #48164029
The elephant in the room is AI. The frontier LLMs seem to prefer Tailwind by default. And they do a good job with it--likely because coupling style definitions to your HTML documen…
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Comment #48163260
> The robot scarecrows are used to ward off bears in rural areas Two thoughts on this captioned image: (1) holy $&!# that is horrifying (2) if its designed to ward off bears, isn't…
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Comment #48151843
So corrupt even the reporting of corruption is corrupt?
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Comment #48094170
I think he means an owl that gets progressively angrier/sadder/more emotionally manipulative if you stop counting cards.
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Comment #47965353
I tried to replicate this but Claude was already down https://status.claude.com/
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Comment #47965330
The honest thing to do is to return the key you found to its owner Satoshi Nakamoto.
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Comment #47876936
Sure there are misbehaving companies. But the solution should not be to block PRs from employees at well-behaved companies like mine. Instead the govt should clamp down directly on…
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Comment #47876902
You mean immigration lawyer covering his ass? Possibly. It wouldn't be the staff member.
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Comment #47876892
No, I'm American. I was working as a quant trader in Tokyo (originally Lehman Brothers, then Nomura) and I was laid off from my job, and with nothing else do I decided to found a c…
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Comment #47876863
Yep, I've heard variants of all of those first-hand from people who work at my company.
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Comment #47797887
Company founder in Japan here. This is largely how I read this specific news--its narrowly scoped to prevent patterns of abuse, which there have indeed been isolated cases tantamou…
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Comment #47646246
It's an inclusive app.