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what were you doing in 2012?

It's like their prompt included "use as many em dashes as is physically possible to troll the person I'm replying to"

Heinz just sells diabetes & fatty liver disease and packages it as a staple of american cuisine.

People using Linux in 1992 would say something similar to people using any of the current flavours of Linux.

No they really didn't. $5000 is not really decent considering how much they would have gained without that agreement.

We had contractors come in to do a project for us once, they had a team of programmers in India as well as a team on the ground. The team in India would produce a bunch of code for…

> allows me to do things not only faster, but better, and across domains I do not hold expertise on. How would you know it's better when you have no expertise?

Southern border of Canada yeah.

Ours was a 1300 3b1b. It was $35 an hour, they finished everything in under 2 hours. I'm guessing(hoping!) they have to be there for more than 2 hours for $200?

Never met a Canadian who used yards, unless they're talking about the grass in front or back of their house.

> ballpark 5k/year How big is your house? When we had a cleaning lady it was $70 a go. Under $2000 for every second week.

How did wooden equipment not whither away in 7000 years?

I would think that would lead to a lot of inbred fish

Ah yes, I remember when they towed it into the New York Harbour in the early 70s, Richard Nixon was there to dedicate it.

> Why would a country act against its interest or just randomly? So why is the US supporting Russia again? > Having the British lose the US was a good thing for France This seems a…

China would just start buying oil again, and stop using it from their strategic reserve. Hello $200 barrels of oil.

> The job of a country is to do what is best for it. Countries aren't defined like corporations in the US. Why would countries have funds to help places like Haiti otherwise? Lots …

I wish my phone had FM radio.

"Good thing you're the majority of people, then." - samplatt [0] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002685

After they land, they usually sit around for a while. Not really super important to charge the battery on decent I wouldn't think. Would be interesting to get rid of the battery en…

Only AI stories show up now, so they had to call it an Ai craft I guess.

> a bad actor that leverages Ip theft wholesale. It's like they've read the history of the US and how it got to where it is in the first place.

I've never had a phone without one.

yeah, I read it. But what I remember is that they weren't doing the baby oyster thing, but just collecting the shells and putting them in cages so that they don't float away, and t…

did this start as just shells? Because I remember reading something a long time ago about this and they were just putting shells in the bay in metal cages. Amazing that they're act…