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our industry has existed on the cutting edge doing what's hard since its inception. it's just that there was a time when sending a piece of text across a wire was hard. Now that's …

if you're LOOKing for a MOVIE or a tv show 2 download and you don't want to mess with DOT TOrrent files then there are plenty of options but it's generally considered uncouth to li…

what about everyone who uses Brady's system and also isn't the best? Does that refute Brady's system? Why choose the arbitrary cutoff point of top 5? Why focus on being the best wh…

This doesn't preclude that though. Maybe it's because I'm a weightlifter and while we compete with one another we really don't, but my own numbers can be my rival. In fact, they're…

thesis: every champion needs a rival to draw out the best in them antithesis: there is nothing about the existence of any other person that changes what my best is or whether I del…

capitalists have rivals, but capitalism does not

We compare QBs because QBs are comparable. It's really difficult to build a narrative around the number of passes one person completes vs the number of tackles a different person d…

I agree, but hackernews is evidently taking his side because any time I try to reply I get told I'm posting too often, even when its been hours since my last post.

well yeah if you claim a war is justified because there have been wars between people in that area then every war is justified because warfare has been happening everywhere there h…

wild cuz it was sorta the rest of the world that started the "Semitic tribal warfare"

we're precedenting it in the united states. our government is deeply ideologically aligned with the people committing the vast majority of domestic terrorism in this country.

That's where I first learned about them. NO SMOKING. NO SPITTING. MGMT

Then it makes an awful lot of sense to get that service for free/at a one-time cost until their marketing team sobers up, doesn't it? It's only a bait and switch if they switch bef…

steamed bread has been a thing for centuries but this is a neat trick

I already avoid devices that require subscription rather than allowing ownership. If someone decides to change the terms of the deal after I bought the device to gate previously ac…

interviews should be about determining whether you can use the tools available to deliver the desired product, not some sort of purity test to determine whether you can build witho…

yeah, we're getting wartime government when it comes to AI. we're getting government of endless special cases, "here's why the law shouldn't apply this time" every time

>It definitely feels like a "too big to fail" scenario at this stage The courts are just reading the room. If you're a judge appointed by a guy who wants it to be illegal to regula…

This might not be the right way to highlight it but I personally am very interested in the ways in which the proscribed penalties for breaking the law greatly diverge from the actu…

I've been told that my rainbow flag lapel pin is anti-Christian hate. This opinion seems to be gaining in popularity. If society decides this is the case, which some elements of so…

What is hate? Who gets to decide? What if someone decides that what you're saying is hate?

>There's really no way to know so it's silly to ask for a source. Well then its even sillier to make the claim in the first place, isn't it?

I can't speak for all of western civilization but one of my favorite facts is that violent crime has been plummeting in the US and the trend started with the release of Doom

I know several intersections in America that do this. They go to a flashing red light because we do have an occasional problem with citizens who don't know that a traffic light tha…

idk, in the age of social media I'd argue that most of the money being made on the internet is being made inducing diseases of the many