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srk_hn

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    Comment #33309511

    This is a lie that often gets repeated over and over, but I have firsthand anecdotal experience of how this is not true. My mother has no formal education and when she was given an…

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    Comment #33229368

    GPA, letters of rec, honors, and personal essays are all subject to the inherent privilege richer students and students in stable households have. Got to do something cool over the…

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    Comment #32870943

    That's an ostensibly incorrect POV to take. This is government doing what it does best: legislating things they don't understand to score cheap votes, not to solve actual problems.…

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    Comment #32854134

    How is that any different from the relationships between AirBnB/Uber and the respective authorities?

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    Comment #32853835

    Real question: Strictly speaking from a software engineering perspective, who cares? Why does a framework of taxes created by people who don't understand technology get to decide w…

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    Comment #32794842

    So India is a population of over 1B, and the US+UK is about 400m. Why should I assume I know better what the solution is for the problems plaguing a country in a completely differe…

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    Comment #32768850

    I use MacOS / Linux all the time. I still use Windows for gaming because nothing comes close.

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    Comment #32768797

    I too am privacy conscious. I run adblockers, I use a VPN, I use a MacOS firewall and every connection has to be explicitly allowed. I teach my partner how to do the same. That's a…

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    Comment #32768583

    I've tried Fedora, Arch Linux, Ubuntu, CentOS, and Linux Mint. They all have issues you won't discover in the initial honeymoon stages but will randomly discover issues like sleep …

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    Comment #32768537

    I would cal it valuing my time. I don't want to spend an hour or two a day learning something new when I've already invested in learning something that solves my problems good enou…

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    Comment #32768468

    That's a discussion because by and large those two choices are equal with minute differences in perceived social status and comfort, but the fundamental function is the same. On th…

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    Comment #32768100

    Linux has been around for 30 years and still has not acquired any significant consumer share. Yet you've decided that the best solution for her is an OS that requires debugging mis…

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    Comment #32555838

    That's really not a fair comparison. There are plenty of people who are elderly or dealing with disc injuries where they are prone to losing their grip or slipping a phone when mov…

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    Comment #32488316

    Can someone tell me why this page needs 13MB of resources to display?

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