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eerwrq
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Comment #18009572
His problem isn't that he's hard to understand. His problem is he loses his point halfway through a chapter while he rants against eggheads, bureaucrats, and anyone else he doesn't…
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Comment #17886804
Good news. You can already put the band on the end. I just went to DDG, and searched "cats !gi" and it did a google image search. As for results - I find DDG has good results for m…
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Comment #17885613
>Silicon Valley will remain to the IT industry what Wall Street is for the commerce. Yes, it will remain a metonym. > I am not American, nor live in US and never been or worked in/…
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Comment #17880447
>Musk is currently claiming that he will not need public funds for this. I don't have any reason not to take him at his word. He just lied about having "funding secured" to take te…
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Comment #17879189
Maybe I'm just in a bad mood. I'm sorry for being a jerk today.
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Comment #17879173
I, too, love externalities when other's bear the cost, and hate them when I bear the cost.
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Comment #17879146
How is banning AirBnB detrimental to the housing problem if it's also contributing to the lack of housing supply?
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Comment #17879136
> To me privacy issue is better solved by radical transparency for everyone. Human societies don't work like this, and never had. People aren't meant to live in a world where every…
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Comment #17878926
> Cities can ban it if they want, but I'd rather they focused on allowing more housing to be built. Why not do both?
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Comment #17878883
Ok. So does that change the argument in any way? Or are you just being pedantic. [edit: yeah i'm being dumb. i felt the discussion was being derailed, but thats no reason to yell a…
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Comment #17878873
Globalization has nothing to do with this. The problem is that AirBnB reduces an already-tight housing supply by turning homes into hotels. This would be an problem regardless of w…
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Comment #17870670
This guy doesn't know what he's talking about. - Jazz didn't begin to die on Kind of Blue. That was a popular, well selling jazz record. Rather than setting Jazz on a path to irrel…
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Comment #17859516
> I doubt they have any legal standing to regulate search algorithms The first amendment would prevent them from regulating search results. The problem is, many authoritarian count…
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Comment #17859235
> I personally don't care because I don't use Venmo By that logic, you shouldn't care about Mozilla because you can just download another browser. But that's not true. Venmo and Fi…
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Comment #17859080
He doesn't just complain about Google. In the tweet, he threatens that the issue "will be addressed." This shouldn't happen in a country with a free press. We're (yet again) moving…
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Comment #17858933
No, they didn't miss your point. You missed their point. You're not criticizing the message, you're criticizing the messenger. Maybe Mozilla shouldn't be the one saying this. But a…
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Comment #17852926
The download link for each sample collection points to an entry on archive.org which lists the license of the samples.