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Comment #23661909
>Can you explain the fact the net worth of a typical white family is $171,000 and the typical net worth of a Black family is $17,150? White people have higher IQ, can therefore tak…
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Comment #23649990
m43 is a strategic mistake. There's not enough differentiation from smartphones.
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Comment #23649939
Sony is the new king for enthusiasts who spend their time watching youtube videos of pixel peepers trying to see which lens has the highest resolution or which sensor works best at…
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Comment #23649785
or any standard at all?
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Comment #23623570
>You would tell them "How would you feel if one day you woke up black and people were biased against you due to your skin color?" They are not biased against you because of your sk…
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Comment #23623493
Water is wet, study finds.
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Comment #23616186
If that is the case, then why are people in the same culture not equally fat?
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Comment #23616170
>I don't agree with Most of our behaviour is based on instinct. We allow perfect strangers into our homes to fix the plumbing. And we stay in the house to keep watch on them. >A ba…
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Comment #23616006
> Selenium came out as a side-project for another internal system we needed. What kind of system? I had thought that selenium was created to TDD web development front-end.
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Comment #23583019
Except in this analogy doesn't account for the fact that a mindful person can simply wait for the tiger to disappear.
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Comment #23573032
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Comment #23457367
>In a society truth is less important than relationships Then he should have create a relationship of honesty. it's good to know that somebody wont lie to you, even to make you hap…
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Comment #23400901
So why shouldn't grubhub get the fee for making it easier for restaurants to sell food?
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Comment #23368551
>It turns out to build a solid solution that is largely overwhelming to individuals, and I yet to found You need to proof your post.
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Comment #23361115
He was 82.
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Comment #23359586
I don't see how that could work. Clearly some mosquitoes are going to be resistant to the modification and will survive.
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Comment #23349603
Releasing sterile mosquitoes wouldn't eliminate the ones that carry disease. that's basically the opposite of natural selection.
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Comment #23349589
I cant click singapore.
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Comment #23348303
>You could say that none of it was "wasted", people earned their salary there (I assume) and learned something, ah, the good ole broken windows fallacy strikes again. Not like if w…
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Comment #23348225
>we could drive the mosquitoes that cause malaria/yellow fever/dengue/etc to extinction. How?
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Comment #23348162
>Furthermore, while accidents are rare, they have enduring impact in the locations where they occur. And coal emission, gas spill, oil spill, dam burst, dam construction dont? >but…
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Comment #22979385
there would be if some people had their way
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Comment #22979377
>and the victor could have forgiven the debt. That would be equivalent to burning $500,000. >I wouldn’t even make my friend pay me back for lunch if they forgot their wallet — let …
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Comment #22979365
unfortunately, humans cannot play one million hands simulataneously and must experience each hand individually.
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Comment #22979357
>but betting half a million dollars on three hand gestures qualifies as excessive imho. vegans think meat eating is excessive. let's ban meat eating, then?