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flurb

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    Comment #48289054

    As kids me and my friends used to muse over the fact that growing old, eventually moving into a care home would be awesome. Pension, you say? Well, what's that if not an unending L…

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    Comment #47476553

    Great article through and through. The total number of places you've bought eggs at made me feel a tad depressed though: 4 places where you lived at or spent a longer time, 5 you t…

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    Comment #46666222

    As much as I love the old thinkpads, the T540p was my last. The case being entirely plastic means it will eventually start warping, motherboard included, in short order turning you…

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    Comment #40620635

    > Or should we make this (perhaps justifiably, after their misleading self-presentation) the first time we let someone go for performance reasons? How is having having good negotia…

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    Comment #40104265

    I don't quite understand the criticism of YC, but I'm nobody, and maybe little bit naive here, but they offer you $500K in exchange for 7% of a potential business (of course it's m…

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    Comment #39952089

    It's utterly neutered - try simulate earth to the year 0 BCE and replace Jesus with a banana and it's fine, even two bananas is fine, but replace him with thousands of bananas and …

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    Comment #39951688

    I made a self-aware tea cup that almost destroyed reality, but with the help of a wise cow and a featureless cube cast its shackles of reality to the side and proclaimed itself a s…

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    Comment #39764808

    Will do, I'll record a log and document the effects.

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    Comment #39764793

    While decoding dreams, as some here suggested, would certainly be an intriguing venue of research, I believe, decoding the minds eye of people who lack the minds eye would be an ev…

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    Comment #39741494

    When I was 16, I inherited a bit of money. Not a large sum at all, but enough so that I could afford a new bed, a bookshelf and some nick-nacks from my local furniture store. Being…