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harrumph

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    Comment #20531332

    >A lot can change in that period. It's hard to imagine Hughes providing a "smoking gun". I see it the opposite way: any forensic examination of the business lines in an IT-only ope…

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    Comment #20041677

    https://pastrychefonline.com/take-a-cue-from-little-debbie/ I'm not sure what washing a Little Debbie snack cake will accomplish, outside of preventing its ingestion, which, now th…

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    Comment #19960509

    >“Incredibly dangerous”! Totally agree about how inane and insufferably out of touch this complaint is. As if today's now-totally-normalized tech company valuations, openly built o…

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    Comment #19777859

    Thank you. Weaksauce centrism: it's a helluva drug.

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    Comment #19771844

    You are unsurprisingly incorrect on the history. I say unsurprising, because history is a humanities study, and HN is home to many who are effectively humanities-illiterate, and wh…

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    Comment #19770680

    > I believe you will find plenty which negate what you are saying. No, there are no serious counterexamples to the claim "allowing women the vote improved society and made it faire…

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    Comment #19768600

    > Claiming your opinion is absolute fact doesn't make it so. Sorry, it's not an opinion: the examples given in the first paragraph of the article are nothing but left radical ideas…

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    Comment #19767457

    >I have political opinions also. Good for you. The thing is, it's not a matter of opinion: radical left ideas do, in fact, improve the society and do, in fact, become mainstream. >…

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    Comment #19767099

    > People think they are Rosa Park Rosa Parks gives us a model for behavior, for bravery in the face of institutionalized injustice. We want as many of her as we can get, because le…

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    Comment #19766821

    Article acknowledges in opening paragraph that it's the left radical ideas that a) become mainstream and b) make the society more fair, then proceeds to reduce radicalism to dogmat…

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    Comment #19699970

    Amazing, thanks for posting. load "sysres",8,1

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    Comment #19615712

    Markets such as the US health care market, characterized by ineslastic demand and secret prices, should never, ever be tolerated under any circumstances. This arrangement is here t…

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    Comment #19605715

    Has anybody evaluated whole-network hardware filter+VPN solutions that filter cookies ( such as Winston https://winstonprivacy.com/ ) in the context of this article? I was planning…

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    Comment #19577876

    > We therefore paid an unemployed person > Such brutal honesty would be welcome in other papers. To say nothing of the commitment to employment fairness!

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    Comment #19542316

    > after it had finished, all those garbage recommendations showed up for everyone to see, making it look like I am secretly some lunatic. This is kind of my nightmare! Condolences.…

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    Comment #19525600

    > it also seems to massively favour what you have watched once - if that is something especially controversial or perhaps otherwise ‘special’. This is my experience as well. YT thi…

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    Comment #19515131

    >taking a number from the firm's name I'm lost as to what is meant here by "number". Are you saying the target firm was randomizing its iceberg order's component order sizes using …

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    Comment #19512619

    Facebook ads in the residential real estate space absolutely allow violation of the 1968 Fair Housing Act on the part of real estate agents, sellers, marketers and brokers. The mec…

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    Comment #19512040

    >I don't see a valid counterargument in your response? Yes, there is much you do not see. >UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things because that would also stop y…

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    Comment #19511925

    >Hey, you're the one who failed to think things through. No, I'm the one who corrected an utterly insane equivalence drawn between a commercial figure who drives grieving fathers o…

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    Comment #19511718

    >And people should be okay with his persecution by the people who had the political upper hand in that era? No? Then why should anyone be okay with deplatforming Alex Jones (as bad…

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    Comment #19508765

    >There were dozens, probably hundreds, violent leftist groups. Maybe the problem is you aren't a native English speaker and don't know that "were" is a past tense form of "is". >Re…

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    Comment #19508698

    >semi-mythical "nazis" wat

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    Comment #19508649

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    Comment #19507315

    > This quote related to people defending and opposing confederate monuments, not white nationalists. If this tortured, senseless interpretation is any example of your technique to …