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etiam
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Comment #48437047
I can only assume that mob of fresh accounts is sockpuppets meant precisely for trying to stir up conflict and detract from discussion of the actual topics raised by a story like t…
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Comment #48436803
Perhaps. And seemingly also a bit even to short-term reactive adaptation?
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Comment #48436773
That's pretty much what I've been thinking. Maybe I'm underestimating how much more expensive, but it seems for most of those ships if they'd got going on an alternative route inst…
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Comment #48436718
Thanks for the insights. I'd say there are a fair bit of elements of that sort of gating for government jobs here as well actually, but here that's not so important for earning pro…
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Comment #48434081
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Comment #48432958
You've been here long enough to understand that would exceed the title character limit.
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Comment #48429954
Not denying they're getting great leverage from that. I still don't quite understand why the shortcut is supposedly so irreplaceable.
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Comment #48418637
> Sure. (?) Most of the universities I've been in have had well above the occasional one. I'm certainly not saying that has to be true everywhere, but for academic level studies it…
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Comment #48418361
Many people got something of a head start adapting though? Seems like it's been the proposition from "social" "media" companies since 2004 or so to stop talking to friends, talking…
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Comment #48410355
I can sort of appreciate these shenanigans as short-lived common room humor, but I find it obnoxious to put it in the official terminology. It's bad enough all the corporations try…
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Comment #48397878
Then you either really haven't tried very hard to notice them or have been in an academic environment with severe defects. Does college even work for future economic prospects, by …
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Comment #48397793
It's easy to fool oneself into thinking one knows the subject because somebody explained it well / demonstrated skills, and it made perfect sense. Unfortunately that, on its own, v…
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Comment #48375592
Three Ways to Get Paid (2018) (jasonzweig.com) is over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373054
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Comment #48276619
... at any given moment.
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Comment #48251561
Bundibugyo (as you are probably actually aware, but others might not be). It does sound like such a caricature I can see the temptation to be flippant about it though.
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Comment #48237045
He was presumably also not constructing a powered exoskeleton of from fictional materials or a physically implausible power source, but since you obviously caught the reference, ho…
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Comment #48179828
What do you find good about that?
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Comment #48172602
No, if it makes to a busy long distance travel hub, there is ample cause for global. Everywhere should contribute to containing this, out of pure self-interest if nothing else.
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Comment #48148269
Well put. Which goes to show maybe it's less about literal sovereignty than wanting to rely on parties less prone to exploit the reliance for stabbing you in the back. Considering …
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Comment #48121460
This should of course be obvious to most HN users, but it seems a nice anecdote that the realization is reaching mainstream media.
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Comment #48121384
Do you have any proof of that?
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Comment #48121306
Yep. Admittedly the post doesn't exactly claim it's due to biological aging, but it could be perceived as implied. It seems appropriate to also recognize that it's simply tiring to…
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Comment #48121238
Examples? I can't really think of any.