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why15characters

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    Comment #15849134

    Nobody said anything about anyone's nose though. He said "you didn't write them". This absolutely has relevance to the problem of them not being written. Writing emails does not so…

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    Comment #15848122

    >He's worried about compile times? Fix the compiler. If it were that simple, the compiler wouldn't be slow in the first place. Rustc and ghc have both been too slow to be usable th…

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    Comment #15848081

    Your comic is a really poor analogy. /r/programming is not your house. You are saying you want to be able to publicly denigrate other people, and have those people be prohibited fr…

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    Comment #15833864

    >School girls from Afghanistan built a solar powered robot. No they didn't. They pitched it. There is nothing built, it is just an idea. An idea which other people already made yea…

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    Comment #15824609

    >As a German, I'm a bit puzzled as to why Latin languages like Spanish and Romanian, are more "similar to English" than German is. They aren't, that's a poor assumption being made …

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    Comment #15778593

    I would say harmful, not just useless. What does popularity have to do with anything? The question was useful, not popular.

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    Comment #15778518

    No, the egg yolk is food for the embryo. It is the equivalent of the placenta in a mammal. An egg only contains a single cell (unless there's a blood clot in it), but contains a si…

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    Comment #15776677

    >Justin Rhodes 75 acres is not a smallholding. And he makes his living selling "how to do the farming I pretend to do on youtube" courses, not farming. >Joel Salatin 550 acres is r…

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    Comment #15776675

    > Now try to get yourself one of these in North America. No, don't. They are massively overpriced and underpowered even as the cheap crummy chinese imports, nevermind BCS. This is …

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    Comment #15775867

    The ones that actually sell produce bring people to their "farms" as unpaid interns to do all their labor for free. People do this work for free because they are told it will give …

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    Comment #15775860

    >Science isn't whatever meets your expectations. That's what I am telling you. I didn't say anything about my expectations. You made a claim, I told you to provide evidence. >While…

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    Comment #15774532

    >At those scales you want machinery, but you can use a Garden Tiller instead of a disk plow behind a tractor etc This whole thing is like those cheesy TV shows portraying "hacking"…

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    Comment #15774280

    Yes, three acres is a farm. In fact, in much of the world 3-4 acres is the average size of a farm. It doesn't need to be a 1200 acre corn field to be a farm. There was and is nothi…

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    Comment #15773869

    > then please explain how milking a cow is worse than a human woman getting (well, being forced into) a job as a milk producer? It isn't about the cow, it is about the babies those…

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    Comment #15773724

    Canada is an extreme example though, we don't even come close to being a free country.

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    Comment #15773689

    >There's a massive difference in taste You feel that way, but all evidence says otherwise. >and an objective measure that correlates well with this - namely, the thickness of the c…

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    Comment #15773543

    >I really admire that you made something "useful" with Haskell! Why? What did you think everyone did with it? I'd be more impressed is someone ever makes something useful in PHP.

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    Comment #15773506

    > It's easy to talk about how awesome it is when you basically are selling insanely overpriced boutique goods (organic, free-range, etc) to yuppies who are willing to pay triple fo…