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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.