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onpensionsterm

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    Comment #36149932

    Why would I think that?

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    Comment #35231609

    >- Immediately stopped having insomnia. Better feel overall; It's interesting you mention that. When I took up cycling to work in Manchester, I started struggling to fall fully asl…

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    Comment #34544674

    >you got cussed out by the high priest of IT because your backups were taking up more than 500KB of drive space. IT becoming upset when the things people need to do to get work don…

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    Comment #34354041

    So it can know where it is in that 6" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_localization_and_...

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    Comment #33968310

    Destroying value and market price are unrelated concepts. The eternal cognitohazard of discussing crypto online is that you are dealing with deeply invested people without any guar…

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    Comment #33466557

    Perhaps you should delete prod so you have to work harder, compete harder, learn faster just to save your job

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    Comment #33065670

    >we haven’t had to increase the capacity of our electric grid in decades Who's we? In China, generation has doubled in a decade. What a sad time to be alive if even existential fai…

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    Comment #33065597

    Vietnam's transport stats are skewed by insane import and luxury taxes.

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    Comment #32691891

    >They could have cherry picked other sample posts to demonstrate the exact opposite. They couldn't, because it's 'the algorithm' that does the picking & Facebook's algorithm optimi…

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    Comment #32276072

    The word 'racist' didn't appear until your post. It's a shame we can't discuss obvious language bias without you becoming defensive about imagined sleights.

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    Comment #32164042

    >Some people automate this: they have a process that runs every few minutes and commits the current working tree to a special branch that they look at only in case of disaster. Thi…

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    Comment #31861268

    Not including the racist discrimination example, I'm not sure that this is a bad problem. I believe there is a tendency for us to leave the schooling system and start viewing inter…

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    Comment #31849459

    Drivers are the wild-west

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    Comment #31849424

    You're describing something that happens regularly. Especially in music.

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    Comment #31848687

    If you accidentally recite someone else's work, it's still plagiarism.

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    Comment #31846698

    You're rarely going to find good basics in cheap shops because they have to differentiate on 'design'. The same goes for t-shirts, if you want a plain t-shirt you first have to avo…

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    Comment #31846637

    The only one making money here is github. Very few programmers are selling open source code. And programmers are (in)famous for not buying software.

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    Comment #31752236

    I'm not sure the qualifier 'in gaming' is necessary. Lots of us spend a our free time doing gardening, DIY, walking or cooking for entertainment.

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    Comment #31652761

    >let's find a way to build/experiment LHC++ less expensively. From the people who brought you compost fueled cars?

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    Comment #31355423

    Which is why non-localised US media can be so successful in other countries, even places where English isn't the first language.

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    Comment #31264200

    That turns the incentive away from creating shareholder value and towards hazing and navel gazing. There's also the issue of conflating the incentive/reward schemes with the need f…

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    Comment #31264123

    If it was about masculinity itself being irredeemable, the adjective wouldn't be there. Surely a website of programming enthusiasts can figure out parsing?

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    Comment #31155427

    Nit: it's 'tenet'.

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    Comment #31012613

    But how many films are essentially just Hamlet or The Taming of the Shrew?

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    Comment #30954996

    IP isn't free & ad spend doesn't scale with quality.