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Well, it’s HN so both are equally likely. Edit: it’s like y’all’re allergic to satire.

Once we figure out how to keep minorities in prison easily, marijuana will become completely legal in the US.

You do realize that borders are totally arbitrary and that with the stroke of a pen any of these rules could be changed, right? What makes you so convinced that we are completely p…

It boggles my mind that companies don’t expect frontend devs to be able to transfer knowledge between frameworks. Do they just not have that skill or do companies really not believ…

In a broad sense, 40-hour weeks can be pretty draining, but welcome to modern work in the US. ;) (We meet at the pub at 6:00.) But more specifically, it’s not eight solid hours of …

> At what point does it start to approximate reality? When you can cram a few billion pixels onto the head of a pin.

Sounds like they just learned a good lesson about not trusting marketing. ;)

Oh, I know plenty of people who do IT at a local big (US) university and promoting someone downward (i.e. into a role designed to be so boring they quit) is absolutely a thing.

I argue that having children is 100% a conscious decision (well, unprotected sex is) and if you can’t afford to actually raise your children, you are not in a position to have them…

Whatever your therapy bill is plus $100 for a good bottle of scotch.

Did I say I didn’t have kids?

Not sure why you’re being downvoted. It’s definitely possible to just not let your kids use YouTube unsupervised.. or curate content for them.

Referring to salt as sodium is a commonly understood shorthand in the US. If you look at nutrition facts, you’ll see they don’t say “salt”, they say “sodium”. And technically, ther…

> Meanwhile anyone who espouses common sense ideas such as reforming our immigration policy gets called a racist and ‘anti-immigrant’. Federal policy is hardly ever “common sense”.…

Don’t worry, I’m exactly the same way. disk fills up Me: Dammit, which command is which again? angry Googling It’s like the syntax for creating a symlink: I could live to be 100 an…

> I can't imagine many places in the western world allow eviction from an actual residence over something like this. Then you’ve never experienced the true freedom we have in the U…

A rising tide doesn’t necessarily lift all ships.

I distinctly remember a high school gym class where they made all the kids without glasses wear safety goggles during some sport. My friend and I were the only ones who didn’t look…

Heh, I do this too. It’s great after I’ve been staring at a screen for hours, although I also take my glasses off when using a computer because I really only need them For distance…

That will happen as soon as natural language isn’t incredibly painful to use with computers (or other humans, for that matter).

Sane zoning laws would be much easier and do a lot more to ease the burden on people (I currently live in an “OMG no high rises! Won’t someone think of the neighborhood character!?…

I don’t think Wisconsin is in the EU.

To be totally fair, and I know I’m a data point of one, I bought some crypto currency on my credit card (about $75 worth) because I don’t really trust any of these exchanges not to…