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reddytowns

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    Comment #14225167

    As thee declared so, it must be...

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    Comment #14223727

    The 97% claim is bullshit: https://www.google.com.tw/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/alexeps... I do believe that there is man made climate change, however, but this meme has to end.

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    Comment #14175430

    While Gentoo supports systemd, by default it will still use init scripts.

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    Comment #14156875

    I was thinking of another strategy could be a git plugin that had a config file of salted hashed secrets. If someone tried to commit something with a secret, it could then stop it …

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    Comment #14153364

    There is no jury in family court, and as the article shows, child support wasn't waived. It's always justified by whatever is "in the best interest of the chilllldrrreeeenn"

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    Comment #14147938

    If most people ends up investing in strictly index funds, it would end up badly foe them but I don't see it by itself causing a destabilization. Just a lot of people making sub mar…

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    Comment #14137284

    The people shorting Twitter got together to buy a new yacht? Cool!

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    Comment #14113075

    I don't follow.

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    Comment #14112854

    You've heard the song, "Dude looks like a lady", right? It would make the title a lot less impactful if this was generally accepted.

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    Comment #14105472

    In other words, religion trumps modern medicine for mental illness. I agree, but I don't see this tribe's beliefs having a special status or better probability of success above any…

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    Comment #14077834

    So? Human beings have the ability to make a huge impact on the environment, and therefore the value assigned by people to various outcomes and tradeoffs does matter.

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    Comment #14077771

    In both cases, the planet would carry on. It depends on your perspective as to which matters more, human intelligence and knowledge, or nature. I personally believe the former is m…

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    Comment #14059200

    You shouldn't care about magic internet points. I wish I would have been able to read your comment.

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    Comment #14059171

    How about open a wormhole in space time to travel back in time and fix things in the past? Both have about the same probability of happening.

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    Comment #14031689

    This isn't a scam. The author admits they had an actual reason for denying him. It was a mistake in his record and they charged an exorbitant processing fee, but there is nothing t…

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    Comment #14011596

    > Were you forced into having that child in the first place? The victim of a rape had to play child support. So, he was forced into having a child. In general, some men are forced …

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    Comment #14008106

    By complaining about WaPo, et al, you are guilty of "whataboutism" yourself. Is the standard so low that we can't even mention that a non profit(?) organization devoted to releasin…

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    Comment #13992179

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/09/02/statuto...

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    Comment #13991608

    For people paying alimony and child support, you must work or go to jail. And buying cheap stuff goes along with that.

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    Comment #13991287

    Sounds like taking a single step into the jungle would now be very dangerous.

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    Comment #13955231

    Oh, I'll get right on that, then! Right after I invent cold fusion and stop sarcasm on the internet! (Besides which, I do not believe anyone can know why secretive agencies in gove…

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    Comment #13954994

    There are some things which fighting against is not worth the effort. Concentrating on things which can create significant positive change is much more fruitful.

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    Comment #13954835

    You can't stop them, so any argument of whether it's right or not is mute.

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    Comment #13954552

    > Has he, for example, stopped assassinating random foreigners based on often iffy metadata? There is no way you or anyone else besides those within the agencies themselves would b…

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    Comment #13945222

    Our footprint is big enough without us burying plastic pipes underground. We really shouldn't be expanding the amount of artifacts humankind will leave in this world for those in t…