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by avn2109 7y ago
>> "... kowtowing to fascists ..." "Fascists" is probably not a good description of the Chinese Communist Party, since Fascism is widely regarded as always and everywhere the diametric opposite/enemy of Commun
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by avn2109 7y ago
> I kind of fear my analogy of two different dimensions breaks down here because I'm left wondering what things would have a low "toolness" score ... Haute couture fashion?
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by avn2109 7y ago
Being addicted to nicotine isn't really a problem, it doesn't give you cancer or other diseases. The problem is all the other unpleasant things in cigarette smoke.
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by avn2109 7y ago
In your area, do taxi companies operate a service "Lift Line" or the uber equivalent, in which you share a taxis with strangers who are going in a similar direction? I have never seen a non-app taxi service do this, and it's
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by avn2109 7y ago
Also, Nabokov was an utter linguistic genius and extreme outlier all-around-literary-intellectual, so comparing to him is mostly unfair, period.
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by avn2109 7y ago
This is the best kind of internet pedantry and I appreciate that you took the time to inform us of this.
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by avn2109 7y ago
It is utterly baffling that anyone is surprised by this. Water is wet, fire is hot, Amazon changes their website in ways that make them more money.
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by avn2109 7y ago
This comment should be higher up in the thread.
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by avn2109 7y ago
A bunch of people have given well intentioned but super vague answers to your question, such as "watch videos on khan academy" or "read newspapers." These are Bad Answers and instead you just need to read and obey two bo
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by avn2109 7y ago
Oh I guess I don't understand what it means "to aerate" then.
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by avn2109 7y ago
Probably almost every wet-bench lab has a magnetic stir bar, as in [0]. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3BoXEWCF2E
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by avn2109 7y ago
The fundamental demand for dollars and euros is caused by the fact that every April, you need to have a bunch of them. And if you don't, eventually men with guns will take you to jail.
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by avn2109 7y ago
Another interpretation of your (insightful and valid) comment is that Twitter and Reddit are severely overvalued.
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by avn2109 7y ago
This is a (rambling) underrated pro comment and you should turn each of these little vignettes into blog posts.
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by avn2109 7y ago
You’re waiting for newspapers to investigate why their own primary revenue stream is unethical?
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by avn2109 7y ago
I think you just invented the 5-point racing harness.
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by avn2109 7y ago
New user "MichaelStaniek" has a grammatical, relevant, good-faith sibling comment to this which is (imho) inexplicably banned, almost certainly due to a mistake, and I hope somebody will unban him.
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by avn2109 7y ago
Not the OP, but obligatory and very relevant Popehat: Me: I don't want to take away dog owners' rights. But we need to do something about Rottweilers. You: So what do you propose? Me: I just think that there should
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by avn2109 7y ago
Race and geography covary more strongly than ~all other pairs of parameters, such that the one is a reliable proxy for the other.
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by avn2109 7y ago
I am not the author of the parent comment that you're replying to, but I appreciate your civil reply in a flamebait-y thread. That said, his point seems to be that FB is banning e.g. Farrakhan without making any effort at disproving
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by avn2109 7y ago
This just in! Fire is hot, water is wet! More at eleven.
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by avn2109 8y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "blackseed and garlic light deep - fried coconut oil concoction?"
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by avn2109 8y ago
This is not in the paper because of rich people. It's in the paper because the article's author lives near the jobsite and is self-interestedly complaining in print. "But along West 69th Street and stretches of West 68th Str
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by avn2109 8y ago
+1 for the idea that I (an American citizen) would much rather have Putin or the Chinese compromising my security than most American intelligence.
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by avn2109 8y ago
Shhhh stop giving away my trade secrets for hiring better than everyone else!
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by avn2109 8y ago
People named a computer HAL, and sent it to space??
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by avn2109 8y ago
This isn't a ref throwing games for kickbacks, but it's surprising that nowhere in this thread has anyone mentioned the most blatant game-fixing in league history, which was the 1984 Lakers-Celtics finals. In this series, the leag
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by avn2109 8y ago
I'm not the parent but I wrote a comment about this elsewhere in the thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19115219 and another similar comment previously https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1048
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by avn2109 8y ago
>> "Yes, they caused the surrender." Broadly speaking, this is widely regarded amongst historians as not true at all, though most American schoolchildren are still taught it. Mostly this is because American conventional airp
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by avn2109 8y ago
Does this organization have a published definition of "Fake News?" I suspect not, because in general, nobody can agree on a definition of it.

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