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meritganset
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Comment #24887236
To be fair, you made a claim that "mental health treatment has come an incredibly long way". And the only evidence you have offered to back that up is a vague personal anecdote. Th…
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Comment #24865088
I did something similar, but in reverse. Rather than give myself an arbitrary "death day", as the author did, I instead chose to make a life clock. It's just a display of my age in…
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Comment #24668299
To answer your first two questions: yes and yes.
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Comment #24668280
Modifying something that _you own_ should never, ever be a crime. It saddens me that indictments like this are the direction everything is headed.
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Comment #24665933
So long as it worked out for you, the costs everyone else bears is irrelevant?
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Comment #24665926
Let's take this idea to the extreme for a moment and see if you agree that it's a problem. A new device is created that alerts 50% of the US population that they have a condition t…
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Comment #23978843
It sounds like you're the type of person to blame external factors for your own issues. Nothing you're saying counters the original advice. Additionally, in the guitar example, you…
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Comment #23967542
I can't tell if this is serious or not. You realize that not all vibrations are visible by eye, right? In fact, the vast majority aren't.
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Comment #23930001
You _can_ omit it, but why would you? And it absolutely introduces ambiguity for those who don't happen to know where these scales are equal.
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Comment #23849919
> You don't have much freedom if your lungs don't work. Freedom and safety may not be polar opposites, but there's certainly tension between them. Many believe that you should have…
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Comment #23755124
Alert me on the web page the first time I log into my account after the policy goes live.
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Comment #23755095
You're one of those people actively driving away otherwise decent people from a worthy cause. Congratulations.
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Comment #23673987
As far as low quality HN submissions go, this is pretty low quality
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Comment #23379946
You honestly couldn't make the inference based on the scale of the numbers? What was the point of your comment?
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Comment #23379894
No, you're not. And did you expect asking this question here on HN to get you a real answer to your question? Or did you just feel like getting a quick internet ego massage?
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Comment #23379884
Which part of it was historic? The part that we'd already done before, or all of the other parts that we'd already done before? I guess if you consider funding coming from a source…
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Comment #23379844
You're right. If I remember correctly, we've never made it to space with physical controls. They probably weigh too much.
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Comment #23379834
Do you even understand the statement you're making? By your account, the astronauts to knowing the controls of the spacecraft by heart is a negative. You honestly believe that a CH…