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ishouldstayaway

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    Comment #48947836

    a) This was probably just a typo for "being". b) Hey but at least you can learn something today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitual_be

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    Comment #48896650

    This hasn't been the case for years.

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    Comment #48896609

    Apple Messages.

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    Comment #48727585

    > Why do these systems hold onto user's data post verification? Depending on the company, you could rate the reasons on a scale from "incompetence/naivete" to "revenue stream".

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    Comment #48384863

    If you don't want to use ~~social media~~ any website that could contain content deemed as "adult". And what's "adult"? Hardcore pornography? Sex ed material? Otherwise-G-rated con…

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    Comment #48285541

    Far be it from me to defend Uber of all things, but pre-rideshares, the taxi companies were - and still are - much, much worse. I've begun to realize we now live in a time where th…

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    Comment #48285503

    Surely this is a dark joke. People need to eat, dude.

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    Comment #48253429

    The same thing you do now when you can't sell a piece of land: you lower the price. In addition to what others said, in this case the land is obviously not worth very much, and thu…

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    Comment #48238305

    The point of LVT is right there in the name: it is the land that has value. "Location, location, location" is an old cliche for a reason. If you let your property go empty and crum…

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    Comment #48228795

    And the part you didn't understand is that all the marketing in the world won't matter if the audience barely - or doesn't - exist.

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    Comment #48228091

    You're telling me.

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    Comment #48228068

    > ...he said, shovelling orphans into the crushing machine

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    Comment #48228002

    > The problem is not writing - the problem is finding an audience. You are literally responding to > I really don't know if it'll have an audience

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    Comment #48150466

    > he doesn't (or rather the events related to his companies that make it to the front page don't) seem very popular around here to me. This is a more recent turn, and one that happ…

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    Comment #48109227

    (3) here was always just a fantasy. It never actually worked that way.

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    Comment #48109169

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48057672

    Let me guess: you're also the kind of insufferable (and similarly incorrect) pedant who insists that "decimate" still means "reduce by one tenth"?

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    Comment #48056865

    2: one who is heartily interested in good food and drink https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gourmand Been a long time since it was purely about quantity.

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    Comment #48055802

    We bringing back Something Awful, now?

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    Comment #48055773

    > since we are slamming on Reddit anyways without realizing how fucked HN is by the same petard Same as it ever was.

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    Comment #48055759

    > allowing users to hide their history from public view Yeah it's become my default assumption that any user who does this is either a bot or a bad-faith troll.

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    Comment #48055719

    Do you sincerely believe that that's how grey-area's comment was meant to be read?

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    Comment #47977271

    > there is some new cooking sub where it's just women posting food pictures and complaining about their significant others If you are referring to /r/girldinnerdiaries, that is not…