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I came here to complain about the same thing. I found the writing of the article to be terrible. So many tortured and silly phrases. That one in particular. Without paying taxes, a…

I think I'm missing something here. What did he have to gain from doing this? I understand that he was able to incur large amounts of debt under someone else's identity, but at tha…

I appreciate your response. I apologise if my initial response seemed too hostile. I've seen the claim made a handful of times on Hacker News that Tinder somehow games the results …

Your conviction is in contradiction with perhaps the most strongly held compulsion of everyone, everywhere, or that has ever existed. That alone should give reason to question it. …

No one hoards women. If the top 10% of men had sexual access to more than one woman at a time, without committing to any of them in a monogamous relationship, that alone would be e…

Social customs surrounding sex inside marriage, or even sex inside a relationship have changed over time. Successful men have sexual access to more than one woman (If that's what t…

Have you considered talking to a therapist about this?

> removing all incentive for the platform to function correctly in the user's interest, much like any big platform nowadays. People keep saying this, but it's just not true. Tinder…

Lots of tech people seem to dislike Tinder. I want to present an argument in favour of the 'swipe and match' model: If your personality is 'stronger' than your appearance, in terms…

Can anyone predict a potential benefit to society that might come from this research? I can only think of bad things coming from this. It's like a major step down the staircase tow…

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When I looked into who is actually hiring H1-Bs, I was shocked to see it was mostly bodyshops. See: https://www.mbacrystalball.com/blog/2022/02/07/h1b-visa-stat... The majority of …

Thank you for sharing that link, and your story. Your father led an extraordinary life.

> George Lucas didn’t have billions of merchandising revenue in mind... Doesn't copyright stop other people from making billions in merchandising revenue off of George Lucas' ideas…

I feel like this post is the truth of the matter finally coming out. What other outcome did you expect? You've just received a large sum of money, from an indeterminate source, for…

The first thing that springs to mind here is "Betteridge's law of headlines". As others have noted, the bank is just complying with governmental regulations. What I'm curious about…

Yes, they should be class compliant devices. When I mentioned drivers I was talking about the possibility of an alternate driver that would simulate the 'jiggling'. I was just thro…

I know. Some people have bought "Mouse Jigglers", and so on to do this. I cringe when I see people buy weird USB devices on eBay for this purpose. Who knows what lurks in the firmw…

> Wishing you were the one making six fixture for 2 - 6 hour days? I am one of these people. While I do earn a stupid amount of money in the financial sector, the reality for me is…

> For every oddball who found their community online... I felt very sympathetic to this point in the past. Now I'm wondering if this might actually be a bug, and not a feature.

> Good luck finding a furry community in the 50s. I don't think anyone needed to. My personal theory is that this kind of paraphilia is an indirect consequence of the kind of media…

> made hating Star Trek a part of their identity politics... ...The only reason anyone could dislike modern Star Trek: Because they want to . No, I actually want to like the new St…

Since we're discussing the economics of film/TV studios, and their weird decisions. I'd like to understand why the studios are still making Star Trek shows. Each one seems to be mo…

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