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topologistics

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    Comment #22656120

    If you're pooping two to three times per day, that's like three or four squares of TP per dump, which seems quite reasonable. (not wasteful) != frugal

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    Comment #22655204

    > if everyone on earth just sat still for a couple of weeks, this thing would just vanish. Actually that in itself would cripple economies, despite being a really good idea (sittin…

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    Comment #22654995

    > What’s the software equivalent to “Churnalism”? Basically anything consumer-facing from the past 15 years, especially if it's "mobile"

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    Comment #22628486

    Have you had bad experiences with Windows subsystem for Linux? In my experience it's useful, effective, and works out of the box with no configuration.

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    Comment #22026727

    Taking away somebody's right to make a living with their chosen profession or otherwise participate in commerce is economic violence. Say you have built up a following of people ov…

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    Comment #22011810

    > We are exclusively hiring engineers who use CLI email clients and browse the web using Lynx One major benefit: everyone at the company will be 10x

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    Comment #21990340

    Sometimes your right brain doesn't have to know what your left hand is doing.

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    Comment #21906317

    Kinda snarky way to show off those deductive skills Mr. Holmes

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    Comment #21836369

    Advocating for some minority group's interests (white knighting) is oppression, but opposing white knighting is also oppression? Seems like a no-win situation for the so-called "op…

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    Comment #21736412

    Is there any particular reason you are so snarky, rude, and dismissive? Is there any particular reason that people on Hacker News become so snarky, rude, and dismissive whenever th…

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    Comment #21736132

    >“No one thought of this,” she said. “We didn’t think of it. The astronomy community didn’t think of it.” That is absolutely ridiculous. The Iridium satellites were decommissioned …

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    Comment #21730948

    You are right, it comes down to the bargaining power of large corporations. The hourly rate of the tutoring gig was higher, but I would also have been paying a lot more for insuran…

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    Comment #21730893

    It seems like you're ignoring a lot of facts and making rash generalizations to justify your political position. In particular, this is stood out to me as blatantly wrong: >You can…

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    Comment #21730837

    I have had to choose between working at a fast food restaurant (crappy job) and working as a math tutor (awesome job), but the tutoring gig was a contract deal and as such they wer…

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    Comment #21730814

    Worst part about it is, when you get that yearly headache from dealing with insurance plan renewal, you have to pay full price for the headache medicine because your deductible and…

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    Comment #21722445

    I have toyed with the idea of making it illegal for companies to replace people with robots and not give those people some other job to do. On the other hand, I have pretty strong …

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    Comment #21722388

    You're going to get downvoted for saying something objectively true. I, on the other hand, desire social accolades. The emperor's new clothes are beautiful.

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    Comment #21722285

    >For the next four hours, I stand in one spot on a concrete floor working the tray line. It’s like a constant assembly line, putting food on trays for thousands of patients. I do m…

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    Comment #21700267

    I'm not familiar with Kenyan tax returns, do they have some law that is analogous to the Federal Insurance Contributions Act or are you just making stuff up?

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    Comment #21666858

    > Noise is a very well defined term in information theory. If political forecasting is throwing around the term without applying it correctly they’re gonna have a bad time. Class i…

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    Comment #21657476

    >total revenues for the oil and gas drilling sector came to $2 trillion in 2017. And all that money was immediately given to dirty evil fake scientists, right?

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    Comment #21628624

    I can't be certain how many degrees separated the two are, but I have established a lower bound on the answer Let d:(x,y)->n be the degrees of separation between x and y. Since d(x…

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    Comment #21503208

    Real Programmers (TM) use emacs -nw

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    Comment #21366856

    I don't know how much customizing my desktop environment is bikeshedding, I just like for things to look nice. Take some time to appreciate the aesthetic value in the little things…

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    Comment #21312742

    What is nutty? Is there anything in the comment you replied to that is untrue? Maybe you just don't like the big words.