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occitan

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    Comment #20867240

    I live in SF and can get door-to-door to a friend's house in San Diego in 3 hours. Assuming both you and your friend live in the actual, respective airport terminals. Otherwise, yo…

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    Comment #20867195

    If climate change is truly the harbinger of the apocalypse, If you start your argument with an extremified and overly emotional premise, then sure, you can make just about any poin…

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    Comment #20843119

    Doesn't mean it's a good idea.

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    Comment #20842772

    Actually there are no guidelines about voting whatsoever. However arguably it's a bit rude to ding people simply for being (mildly) misinformed. And the guidelines do ask us not to…

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    Comment #20842429

    The above comment is misinformed, but in no way obnoxious. There was no reason to downvote it.

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    Comment #20842043

    It seems what they really forget to tell you was "if you don't like Math - you don't have to study it."

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    Comment #20830137

    "We help them build a modern surveillance state, the like of which the world has never seen. And they give us shit tons of money for it. All while retaining the image of a cool, ed…

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    Comment #20828291

    "The most surprising thing, indeed -- despite always -- being repulsed by articles with click-baity titles, in the past -- suddenly I found myself overcome by an irresistible urge …

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    Comment #20813422

    Actually, there's plenty of information to inform such a decision: While the other students were allowed to leave, Ajjawi alleges an immigration officer continued to question him a…

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    Comment #20809577

    What was the conflict of interest? Dunno - whatever was running through the HR people's heads. The whole point is - it wasn't simply for "having a YouTube channel".

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    Comment #20808740

    Wow, his wife left him too. Might have had something to do with the 80-hour work weeks.

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    Comment #20808736

    No - not for having a YT channel (per se) but for engaging in communications that FB considered to be a conflict of interest. And probably (as with most firings), a whole whole bun…