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modells

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About modells

Fresh dressed. Deep in Brooklyn, I ride the L.

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    Comment #17937655

    That's too bad because it's my opinion, not yours. The purpose is that people in hard times need to focus on getting one's life in order before bringing anyone else into theirs, no…

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    Comment #17937639

    smh. READ. Generics. There are overpriced generics which make absolutely no sense other than a lack of competition.

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    Comment #17937613

    Given that the raw materials are incredibly cheap compared to the resulting medications, charging often $10+ per pill for what costs a fraction of a cent with all costs included, p…

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    Comment #17930876

    Crossfire, Alex Jones and Gordon Ramsay need their own shouting as a service platform. It sucks for free speech that he got banned because it gives him notoriety and "credibility" …

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    Comment #17930823

    Google may not be the best model to aid researchers, or the most useful and profitable. An AWS meets Coursera meets helpful tech and engineering consulting/support shop seems like …

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    Comment #17923131

    Google... fuck you very much.

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    Comment #17914184

    Smh. Zero tolerance is zero thinking is zero humanity. Common-sense by discretion must prevail where 8+ million are locked-up, the most overcriminalized country with the most priso…

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    Comment #17914135

    That's an understatement. Locking people away simply because others don't like them sounds a lot like, I don't know, a non-Godwin's law exception. It's disturbing when people even …

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    Comment #17914114

    Wow, simply wow... you're rationalizing and normalizing taking away people's freedom to exist. Take your worship of Kafkaesque fascism and don't let the door hit you in the posteri…

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    Comment #17914098

    Nuance, thank you. Black & white thinking makes me suspect a person maybe either fresh off the turnip truck, tending towards dramatic narcissistic or never slept rough. The world i…

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    Comment #17914075

    The rich corrupt government and steal from medicaid, literally killing people for another yacht... so don't give us that pseudo-mertiocratic tripe.

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    Comment #17895703

    Lenovo Thinkpad T series laptops are built like tanks, have proper keyboards, some have water-resistance, most have easily-removable batteries. The T480 has a 30 hour runtime with …

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    Comment #17895499

    I find fasting for a week easier than for 12-16 hours.. eating makes me hungrier; whereas fasting for a few days, the extreme hunger goes away after 3-4 days. Ironically, a friend …

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    Comment #17894541

    On bare-metal or base VPS servers, it's a Good Idea™ to set swappiness to 1 and have only a tiny amount of swap (say 512 MiB) in order to measure memory utilization pressure and OO…

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    Comment #17872261

    A boy named Sue Drop Database Null. Johnny Cash strums

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    Ask HN: Have you read Sir Richard Branson's autobio?

    What did you think? Is it a worthwhile read? Did you get new value out of it?

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    Comment #17871918

    News media dramatize situations for views. There is, in life and in business, always a current problem(s) of one sort or another... it's when existential emergencies are vigilantly…

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    Comment #17871890

    Yes and these days it's mostly s/book/wikipedia/

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    Comment #17871865

    Turn off some notifications. Limit motion effects / animation. Enable grayscale filter. Don't whip out the phone every 10 seconds or around other people. ^- problem (somewhat) solv…

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    Comment #17866954

    Physicians and psychiatrists often omit or forget to disclose the long-term permanent damage medications can cause... such medications can literallly age your brain with cognitive …

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    Comment #17863287

    Embedded systems engineer of the sharpie resist era. If you're in Shenzhen, don't bother making your own... you can even get prototype flex PCBs in a couple of hours. The chemicals…

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    Comment #17857584

    Ah yes, also a GTD rule, IIRC. Longer = defer, delegate, don't.